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Should be a wild four years.

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They still get paid on admin leave dont they?
Yes, but it's usually the first, required, step towards layoffs / termination -- especially if a Union is skulking around.

So they're all kicked out except for a few "essential officials."
How the turn tables.
I'm guessing the essential officials will be the IT guys helping DOGE investigate everything.
 
While I'm in here, it absolutely astounds me how partisan thinking can wipe out all brain cells. My leftie buddies have spent years griping about how the problem in society is that rich fucks steal away the earnings of the poor for themselves, if only we could stop it, if only we could distribute wealth more equally... And yet they're losing their minds in outrage over DOGE. I want to shake them and yell "I agree! And look! There they are! We found them! We found how they're stealing the money! We're stopping it! You should be celebrating!"

But they can't see it. They don't get it. They just spout "Musk is evil! Raise minimum wage to $30/hr!" like a wind-up toy.

Insane.
Here's Bernie yelling about the "coup". I only got to the part where he says that USAID was created by congress and therefore can only be disbanded by congress (this is false; JFK created it with his own EO). Although it was too retarded for me to tolerate, if anybody wants to know what he thinks, for some reason, here it is:

 
Get those people out of your life if you can. Especially if they're just online losers. I'm not for cutting off real friends and family over things like this. Lately I've done a lot of soul searching in who I want to interact with when it comes to online for sure.
I have a number of super liberal friends who don't know I'm conservative. They never talk politics in-person; their politisperging is always on social media. In-person, we talk about regular stuff. They say stuff on Facebook or whatever about how they've curated their friends list so all the pro-Trump people were found and removed, and I'm sitting there feeling like fucking James Bond or something.
 
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Old programming languages aren't really that hard to learn. Autists learn obsolete videogame assembly languages for fun. Give them an incentive and they'll be fine.

COBOL was designed to be a human readable language that could be used by people with business degrees to develop programs (which is part of the reason that it's so prevalent in financial systems even to this day) without needing to literally understand how a CPU works. If you're moderately intelligent you can probably read and understand some parts of a COBOL program even if you're not a programmer. Here's some example COBOL code from an article about it.

Code:
COMPUTE-GROSS-PAY.
           IF HOURS-WORKED > 40 THEN
               MULTIPLY PAY-RATE BY 1.5 GIVING OVERTIME-RATE
               MOVE 40 TO REGULAR-HOURS
               SUBTRACT 40 FROM HOURS-WORKED GIVING OVERTIME-HOURS
               MULTIPLY REGULAR-HOURS BY PAY-RATE GIVING REGULAR-PAY
               MULTIPLY OVERTIME-HOURS BY OVERTIME-RATE GIVING OVERTIME-PAY
               ADD REGULAR-PAY TO OVERTIME-PAY GIVING GROSS-PAY
           ELSE
               MULTIPLY HOURS-WORKED BY PAY-RATE GIVING GROSS-PAY
           END-IF
           .

The hard part for a large COBOL program isn't understanding the code, but rather all of the business logic behind the code, which is likely not documented well. This example is easy enough to anyone who has worked an hourly job, or at least it makes sense to me and I've never looked at COBOL code before in my life.

Meanwhile here's some example code for an NES game that someone made. Maybe without enough time I could come to understand what the fuck any of that does, but I have a newfound appreciation for the poor Japanese bastards that made Super Mario and why it's probably impossible for anyone to make a game that even more autistic speed runners can't find ways to exploit.

Code:
play_a220:
    pha
    lda #%10011111
    sta SQ1_VOL
    lda #%11111011
    sta SQ1_LO

    lda #%11111001
    sta SQ1_HI

    pla
    rts
 
But they can't see it. They don't get it. They just spout "Musk is evil! Raise minimum wage to $30/hr!" like a wind-up toy.

Insane.
Minimum wage should be raised to 1 Elon Musk. Whatever his current wealth is, that is minimum wage for 1 hour of work. Just think, we could all be as wealthy as Elon Musk after working only 1 hour. This is a perfect plan and the only people who disagree simply love the rich and don't want us to be as wealthy as them.
 
Get those people out of your life if you can. Especially if they're just online losers. I'm not for cutting off real friends and family over things like this. Lately I've done a lot of soul searching in who I want to interact with when it comes to online for sure.
Definitely good advice to choose groups wisely. It's absolutely soul-draining to sit quietly in a friend/gaming group that loudly yaps about social justice/orange man bad all the time, knowing any friendship you had built with them would mean nothing if they learned about your political views. There are worse things than the fear of being alone.
 
Definitely good advice to choose groups wisely. It's absolutely soul-draining to sit quietly in a friend/gaming group that loudly yaps about social justice/orange man bad all the time, knowing any friendship you had built with them would mean nothing if they learned about your political views. There are worse things than the fear of being alone.
I've come to a personal rule where I only talk politics with individuals, not mobs. If a friend or family member wants to talk politics one on one, fine. But trying to be the lone descenting voice against a group of often conflicting arguments is a fool's errand.
 
If the incoming President is staging a "coup", that necessarily means Sanders sees the hordes of unelected career bureaucrats as our legitimate rulers. If there's a more charitable explanation for using that language, I can't think of what it would be.
He might not have used that specific language, not gonna check because I'll just get trolled and mati again
 
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