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[–] frunch 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

These are some grade-A dolts running things over at the Department. It's worth reading each instance where they lied, miscounted, misinterpreted, or all of the above. One of my faves:

A $232 million cut at the Social Security Administration. Here, Mr. Musk’s organization appeared to have mistakenly believed that the agency had canceled a huge information technology contract with the defense contracting giant Leidos. Instead, as reported by The Intercept, it had canceled only a tiny piece of it: a $560,000 project to let users mark their gender as “X.” The DOGE site now shows that small cut instead.

He/him she/her they/them x/x? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Someone please add the option to mark my gender as "the gender previously known as Twitter" since I cant mark it as X.

[–] jaybone 1 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Honestly though, why does adding a single option to a form cost half a million dollars?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Potentially a bunch of follow up logic processes need to be modified as well. Gender is probably not one of the things that would have been dynamically processed in the past.

[–] frunch 1 points 4 days ago

I don't know! Maybe we should open a department that monitors the efficiency of the governments expenditures 🤔