Won't happen functionally, as it's designed to. I feel for the US citizens, they'll break it all. From Canada where they had a new system, Phoenix or something for payroll I think, it caused a lot of hassle and was probably well intentioned, unlike this, but I never read much on it.

Putin loves this but I suspect he's not directly planning every dumb thing the trump team is behind. Trying to get Musk and Trump to follow instructions is challenging

When I started at my workplace a few years back, I had to login to lotus notes to obtain some sort of ID code. I'd never heard or seen the software before, but after opening it, I let out an audible "what the fuck is this shit". Luckily they got rid of it completely a couple of years ago.

Just determining the requirements would be a nightmare.

Therapist: Stop being silly, you can't hear emojis.

^ the emojis

The reason is that it takes a lot of emotional intelligence and strength to admit that you have been scammed. These people will find it less emotionally painful to deny reality then admit their mistakes.

To be fair. We assume "months" means less than 2 years. But 10 years can also be "months", and is probably a more realistic timeline.

Yes. They need to move quickly. Public opinion is already shifting against Trump and Musk, and right now they are vulnerable.

I wish them luck. I hope they can. Make a good system and that it works how they want it to. Failure is a no go

Nobody is referring to 10 years as "months".

When you're talking about multiples of years, it's going to be called years, not months. They were obviously talking about a short timeline, less than 2 years, likely less than 1 year.

They have no idea what they're talking about.

Like I said, months is a joke.

As long as Big Ballz is running things, I’m sure it will all be fine!

/s

AI is going to write it.

By rebuild I don't think they mean it's going to function the same. ...just torn apart and replaced.

I'm on SSDI (and Medicaid and HUD housing) and have been having insane anxiety the last month and a half to the point that I'm wondering if I'll even get paid in April. I regularly check my SSA account online to make sure my direct deposit is still freaking scheduled. Missing a payment could mess up all of my other benefits as well.

I know the fuck up is coming, but I don't know if I can handle another few months hoping they don't fuck up the migration if they don't fuck up just paying people first with all that's been going on.

I'm pretty sure Im not the only one in this situation who can't handle the stress of this bullshit.

I mean this is a great example of what happens when you put conservative men in power who think they know what they are doing but are just going to loudly, incompetently and incorrectly re-invent the wheel while everyone else suffers from not having an actual practical solution.

Sooo only gonna blow up the test databases?

Lotus Notes ??!? So expensive. I'm keeping my Notepad from Windows 2000.

It has to function the same. It has to follow the same laws as before.

Bur more likely, they know this and it's all part of privatizing social security.

1000% percent. If they can't even figure out how dates work in COBOL we are getting a vibe coded SSA. Let's hope they trained LLMs on COBOL or we are cooked.

So was what I said. I was presenting a hypothetical way they justify their ridiculous claims by doing something else ridiculous.

But conveying tone in text is difficult, so I'm not surprised you missed what I was going for.