[computerthings]

Same as me? Speak for yourself, I don't care about what might or might not happen, to avoid honestly dealing with what is happening. That they started doing this on a Friday night should tell you they know what they're doing, that is, that it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. That it "might be bad".

> It might be bad as well, but at least the news will be interesting.

For those who read nothing about the first half of the 20th century, sure. For them this is surely "interesting". But since you wouldn't like your harm to be someone else's entertainment either, that's not an argument for anything.

[XajniN]

Who is being harmed?

[dekhn]

time for obtuse edge lord is over, what is currently happening due to musk and trump is a serious threat to the stability of the US

[XajniN]

He’s a threat to the unsupervised government institutions. If measured by the amount of money being stolen, the US government is the most corrupted in the world.

[computerthings]

just making stuff up isn't "measuring" anything

[entropicdrifter]

That is objectively untrue

[computerthings]

In context, that question would not about the present, but the future:

> It might be bad as well, but at least the news will be interesting.

Of course this doesn't mean "this might suck for me, but at least it will be interesting news for others". Why pretend otherwise?

> Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lhcyirig6k...

You don't receive such aid, correct? So why care. Just a bunch of dudes soaking up highly sensitive information to do whatever with.

Trump spoke plenty of times of his desire of purging all sorts of things including the "deep state". It's amazing to me that all it takes is to tack on some vague claims about "efficiency" from a guy who lies like a child about the dumbest things, for some Americans to say "but what IF it saves a bit of money?" and just ignore the whole "using a very flimsy excuse to purge political opposition" thing.