The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover

[soupbrick@pawb.social]

Use 12ft.io if you are getting paywalled.

[seven_phone@lemmy.world]

'So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world', they call that a coup.

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

Was Elon even sworn in into any departament head role? Sorry for possibly stupid question but everyone else is being interrogated and voted on during confirmation hearings, right?

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

Yeah but the rules don't matter any more.

[joshuabrusque@lemmy.world]

They are fucking losers, saved you a click.

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

Traditionally joining a gang or mafia requires you to commit crime that can be used to control you later on. There are rules, some unwritten and unspoken ones are now brought to the light, that’s all. This also means this overstepping of boundaries can be used against Musk once he falls out of favour.

[captdust@sh.itjust.works]

He's basically going around telling people what is happening, and to take it up with Trump if it's a problem. Then those people are dismissed. That's the extent of his authority.

[baggachipz@sh.itjust.works]

And he WILL fall out of favor. Just a matter of when.

[briantheebiscuiteer@lemmy.world]

"Merit-based" hiring.

[lazycog@sopuli.xyz]

Or if you use firefox: use reading mode and refresh once in reading mode

[return2ozma@lemmy.world]

Hopefully it's before he does irreversible damage.

[dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works]

As long as he runs the country like he played path of exile 2. Meaning he payed someone at the top to make him the best account in the world and then said look how good i am at the game XD

[dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works]

Dude don't tell them!!

[obinice@lemmy.world]

I think the term is Nazi Collaborator.

[nuxcom_90percent@lemmy.zip]

That is the beautiful part of it. It is a fundamental brain block in like 99.999999% of "The Children".

In an old life I had to deal with this. Maybe one in every hundred interns we had realized how similar matlab and fortran were. The rest just immediately locked down because it wasn't python or, in rare cases, C++.

[baggachipz@sh.itjust.works]

On the off chance he doesn’t, somebody else will.

[towerful@programming.dev]

It will come back as an electron react app that uses web sockets to synchronise embedded sqlite databases

[mcasq_qsacj_234@lemmy.zip]

They will be the scapegoat if a controversy related to Elon arises.

[badeendje@lemmy.world]

Doesn't matter. In the situation trump where to ever leave office he will make a blanket pardon so broad anyone is free to do anything in his name till then.

[mcasq_qsacj_234@lemmy.zip]

COBOL the hard language to die for