Remember kids, tell Grandma and Grandpa that only fraudsters complain about missing a check so that when DOGE fucks this up, it’s the victims’ fault.

This saves you the hassle of helping your grandparents trying to log in to their account because they are fraudsters for having problems.

Her disloyalty was accidentally telling the truth. What a fool.

Totally tracks with Project 2025 and the Buttery Revolution.

That’s only if you are assuming they are expected to do anything other than be a placeholder whole it gets shut down. They are a loyal signature authority, full stop.

Realistically, between this and the FBI, what we’re going to discover over the next year or two is how well the Three-letters have actually been keeping terrorism at bay over the years.

Literally the farthest the conspiracy theories went in 2012 is where we’re headed. Martial law, false flags, posse comitatus, seizing guns.

Yeah, I think that seeking simple meaning is the inevitably of growing up in the mess of being online. Being offline and finding meaning in life is the purest form of rebellion to the status quo.

The number of them fully embracing and aspiring to things like tradwive life is terrifying. Their motivations are different, but the result is very similar.

It’s literally one of the Signal texts to blame Biden.

Looking forward to floating my life savings out of the market and into silver coins and AUS Dollars to avoid this mess.

I should set up a head of lettuce on a turntable and see if this journalist ends up in Gitmo for other peoples’ oopsies before the lettuce rots.

JFC on a stick. Here’s a few reasons why this is assenine.

10 years ago implementers tried to stick blockchain into everything. It flopped over and over again. It’s simply not practical for 99% of what humanitarian assistance does.

USAID programs and budget and spending was all FOIAable and heavily audited public record. Do you want to see the invoices submitted for all programs in Malawi from 2018? You used to be able to get that. Annual reports showed detailed budgets. Presentations to Congress presented detailed budget documents. Top to bottom this was already more detailed than a blockchain can realistically provide. They broke a system because they couldn’t understand the difference between dense and detailed but visible, and impractical EILI5 level simplicity.

So you put the transactions on a chain. Great. How does that turn into a salary payment for Malawian staff who only have Malawian bank accounts? It doesn’t. So now you have 2 systems. Meaning twice as much opportunity for error and chance for fraud to go unrecognized.

Most developing world fraud is things that look like perfectly reasonable procurements where the terms of the tender are overly specific as to limit who can win a bid (see Oklahoma school bible solicicitation). Blockchains don’t correct for that. That’s all public information in most places, which is why the fraud has to be so clever.

The data is based on a sample, so unless your relatives collected a phial of spit from you and didn’t tell you why, there’s not a lot they would really have. Maybe name and DOB based on a family member adding it to a family tree, but you can likely just ask your family of they did that. IIRC, that’s a premium feature anyway.

That’s not how any of this works. The contracts are with the individual people, listed by name. They assumed they could do what you said, and the law proved them, and you, wrong.

Welcome to a core aspect of the lawsuits so far and under whose legal authority contracts can be canceled.

It’s not a liability issue, it’s about details of under what legal authority based on job roles things can happen, and who is or isn’t around to exercise those authorities.

A contracting officer doesn’t spring from the head of Zeus fully grown and convered in the armor of niche personal liability insurance. They are legally required to take specific trainings before they can have signing authority. That’s the law… Today at least. And the GOP has struggled with it because thinking and details are hard for them.

Sure, I’m just a lot more pessimistic about how bad things get between now and 8 years from now.

It’ll take until 2034. Don’t use her up early.

To some degree, it slows them down. The top layer of management that has day to day authority for things like approving accounts for system access, having signing authority for anything, knowing how to find the things they want to kill, etc.

Appointees can often legally do these things as well, but for many things involving money, it takes extra steps that appointees don’t usually do to avoid liability.

The most terrifying thing about this moment in time is that simply being the victim of something shitty means that predators will descend upon your weakened body and fling it about for political points until nothing is left in your wrinked husk but shame and the empty hole of fake opportunities to further whore yourself out just a liiiiiiiitle more for one more pay day, one more event, one more podcast, one more YT video, one more hot take, one more anything before the news cycle finally slam dunks you into the trash forever.