The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
So she gets sent back to the tenth floor french windows.
I don’t think she’s likely to be on anyone’s radar as a dissident.
Having been poisoned in front of the world that's possibly what Navalny thought when he boarded the plane from Berlin.
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
So she gets sent back to the tenth floor french windows.
I don’t think she’s likely to be on anyone’s radar as a dissident.
Having been poisoned in front of the world that's possibly what Navalny thought when he boarded the plane from Berlin.
He wasn’t an obscure scientist but a high-profile thorn in Putin’s side.
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
So she gets sent back to the tenth floor french windows.
I don’t think she’s likely to be on anyone’s radar as a dissident.
Having been poisoned in front of the world that's possibly what Navalny thought when he boarded the plane from Berlin.
He wasn’t an obscure scientist but a high-profile thorn in Putin’s side.
I suppose we shall just have to wait and see if she winds up in jail or on the sidewalk.
(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten · 4h Just 6% of Greenlanders want to join the United States. There are more people who think we faked the moon landing (~10%).
85% of Greenlanders are opposed.
Meanwhile, less than 30% of Americans want Greenland to join the U.S.
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
So she gets sent back to the tenth floor french windows.
I don’t think she’s likely to be on anyone’s radar as a dissident.
Having been poisoned in front of the world that's possibly what Navalny thought when he boarded the plane from Berlin.
He wasn’t an obscure scientist but a high-profile thorn in Putin’s side.
There are plenty of obscure Russians in Siberian jails for far less high profile expressions of opposition to the war. You’re either being naive or obtuse.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
Well, that is because they are boring. Court is where the action is and we are way sexier than office based bureaucrats (sorry, my wife's laughter is distracting me).
Suits with the Duchess of Sussex had its lawyers going to court pretty rarely. Of course law stuff is just backdrop for personal drama in those kind of shows, so not really legal dramas really.
I quite enjoyed Suits although the premise underlying it was fairly absurd.
LA Law was the best lawyer program ever. Susan Dey. Oh my word.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
That is just fucking LOL in a demented kind of way.
More chance of Elvis being found alive on the moon by Yemen astronauts than that being done in a few months.
Food riots incoming.
Probably what Project 2025 want.
The Twitter rewrite, Musk claimed it was necessary, still doesn't seem to have delivered anything of note. Messing with the SSA is on a completey different scale.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
if done in the right way it could be done. feed the code into an LLM AI algorithm and it could produce something quite quickly that resembled the existing system.
It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
So she gets sent back to the tenth floor french windows.
I don’t think she’s likely to be on anyone’s radar as a dissident.
Having been poisoned in front of the world that's possibly what Navalny thought when he boarded the plane from Berlin.
He wasn’t an obscure scientist but a high-profile thorn in Putin’s side.
There are plenty of obscure Russians in Siberian jails for far less high profile expressions of opposition to the war. You’re either being naive or obtuse.
Or secretly delighted. She is everything adherents to strongman politics hate - a brave, intelligent woman who stood up to the bully.
She has been betrayed by the country that offered her sanctuary, to MAGA schadenfraude. Very Handmaid's tale.
Twenty (20) members of parliament have called for Britain to help build an INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT in Pakistan to help closen our ties with the Mirpuri community.
‘The Kashmiri diaspora in the UK […] have concerns regarding the journey times by road’
A letter explaining how we did it, starting with the Roskill Commission from 1968, and from there taking exactly 57 years and continuing to not start building one, might give them a steer as to why we are the 'go to' nation for that sort of help.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
For 'charismatic founder' read 'obvious bullshitter'. Not enough of these people are caught, though admittedly many are not as brazen. People and institutions are desperate to find the next disruptor.
Charlie Javice, the charismatic founder of a startup company that claimed to be revolutionizing the way college students apply for financial aid, was convicted on Friday of defrauding one of the largest U.S. banks, JPMorgan Chase, out of $175 million by exaggerating her customer base by 10 times...
NBC News confirms: In the unsecured Signal group chat, national security advisor Michael Waltz referred to a Houthi militant targeted in U.S. air strike.
Israel provided the sensitive intelligence on that Houthi militant, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter. @MSNBC
For 'charismatic founder' read 'obvious bullshitter'. Not enough of these people are caught, though admittedly many are not as brazen. People and institutions are desperate to find the next disruptor.
Charlie Javice, the charismatic founder of a startup company that claimed to be revolutionizing the way college students apply for financial aid, was convicted on Friday of defrauding one of the largest U.S. banks, JPMorgan Chase, out of $175 million by exaggerating her customer base by 10 times...
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
That is just fucking LOL in a demented kind of way.
More chance of Elvis being found alive on the moon by Yemen astronauts than that being done in a few months.
Food riots incoming.
Probably what Project 2025 want.
The Twitter rewrite, Musk claimed it was necessary, still doesn't seem to have delivered anything of note. Messing with the SSA is on a completey different scale.
Whatever they did to it, it’s feeding me way more shitty videos, no matter how often I block them.
Paul Chiang, the Liberal candidate seeking re-election in Markham-Unionville, has apologized for “deplorable” comments he says he made at an ethnic media gathering in January, where he told a Chinese-language news outlet how to claim a bounty on a Conservative candidate in Toronto.
In comments made to Ming Sheng Bao, the Canadian subsidiary of Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao, Chiang referenced a $1 million (HKD) bounty Hong Kong police had placed on Tay — about $184,000 — and said that if anyone present at the event brought him to the Chinese consulate general in Toronto, they could obtain the reward.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
That is just fucking LOL in a demented kind of way.
More chance of Elvis being found alive on the moon by Yemen astronauts than that being done in a few months.
Food riots incoming.
Probably what Project 2025 want.
The Twitter rewrite, Musk claimed it was necessary, still doesn't seem to have delivered anything of note. Messing with the SSA is on a completey different scale.
The basic idea, if one can believe there is actual some kind of thought or idea behind all this shite, is that the massive federal government dealing with millions of people, can be destroyed and then rebooted as if is just another code rewrite hack by a five man agile team in a silicon valley gaming startup.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
That is just fucking LOL in a demented kind of way.
More chance of Elvis being found alive on the moon by Yemen astronauts than that being done in a few months.
Food riots incoming.
Probably what Project 2025 want.
The Twitter rewrite, Musk claimed it was necessary, still doesn't seem to have delivered anything of note. Messing with the SSA is on a completey different scale.
Whatever they did to it, it’s feeding me way more shitty videos, no matter how often I block them.
That's just the regular monkeying around with the codebase and service parameters. Musk said they were going to do a complete rewrite years ago, so that Twitter could become an "app for everything" like WeChat, which is his model for what Twitter should be.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
That is just fucking LOL in a demented kind of way.
More chance of Elvis being found alive on the moon by Yemen astronauts than that being done in a few months.
Food riots incoming.
Probably what Project 2025 want.
The Twitter rewrite, Musk claimed it was necessary, still doesn't seem to have delivered anything of note. Messing with the SSA is on a completey different scale.
Whatever they did to it, it’s feeding me way more shitty videos, no matter how often I block them.
That's just the regular monkeying around with the codebase and service parameters. Musk said they were going to do a complete rewrite years ago, so that Twitter could become an "app for everything" like WeChat, which is his model for what Twitter should be.
I'm sure it is, but are people really suffering from not being able to do everything through twitter? It feels like a hard sell even before he went comic book villain on everyone.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
That is just fucking LOL in a demented kind of way.
More chance of Elvis being found alive on the moon by Yemen astronauts than that being done in a few months.
Food riots incoming.
Probably what Project 2025 want.
The Twitter rewrite, Musk claimed it was necessary, still doesn't seem to have delivered anything of note. Messing with the SSA is on a completey different scale.
The basic idea, if one can believe there is actual some kind of thought or idea behind all this shite, is that the massive federal government dealing with millions of people, can be destroyed and then rebooted as if is just another code rewrite hack by a five man agile team in a silicon valley gaming startup.
It's insane.
I doubt they’ll be doing much close to the mid-terms so if it drags on then I expect they’ll delay it .
"[Hannah] Davis is one of an estimated 20 million Americans and 400 million people worldwide who have had long covid, in which symptoms persist or newly develop more than three months after a coronavirus infection.
Neurocognitive symptoms of long covid are among the most common, affecting 18 to 36 percent of patients — and among the most devastating. Many people have reported cognitive disabilities, with some having to stop working."
Four Seasons Total Landscaping throws in the towel.
OK guys, we’ve had a good run but we know when we’re beaten. We held onto the title for 4 years, 4 months, and 20 days, but JD Vance & the Pituffik USAF base are now worthy holders of the saddest, most pathetic, cringiest press conference of all time. https://x.com/TotalSeasons/status/1905733832307089678
Somehow appropriate that Rudy next to the dildo store is finally dethroned by JD at the Pitiffuk.
I'm sure it is, but are people really suffering from not being able to do everything through twitter? It feels like a hard sell even before he went comic book villain on everyone.
No I don't think so. Some people who know more about this than me think it's a bad idea anyway, as they believe the different cultures in the West and Asia make Westerners prefer single or limited focus services, and Asians prefer more integrated broader services. So if that's true, a lot of people wouldn't want or use the "app for everything" bits.
The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".
Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
There's a Ben Affleck flick where he plays an accountant. It appears to be a far more violent trade than my careers advisor led me to believe.
My wife is in the sequel. So going to see it is mandatory for you all 😁
The Ben Affleck flick is nonsense. What kind of a CPA would use 0.5 BMG, when Lapua .338 offers nearly the same performance in a cheaper, smaller platform with a much lower impact on the shooter?
Four Seasons Total Landscaping throws in the towel.
OK guys, we’ve had a good run but we know when we’re beaten. We held onto the title for 4 years, 4 months, and 20 days, but JD Vance & the Pituffik USAF base are now worthy holders of the saddest, most pathetic, cringiest press conference of all time. https://x.com/TotalSeasons/status/1905733832307089678
Somehow appropriate that Rudy next to the dildo store is finally dethroned by JD at the Pitiffuk.
Woman sacked by DOGE's Big Balls team from a revenue department, who voted for Trump, now gets death threats for voicing her concerns that he has let her down.
CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism · 1h JUST NOW: A self identified “MAGA junkie” says she regrets her vote and has taken down her Trump sign after she was fired by DOGE.
The firing took her completely by surprise because she had the highest job performance rating.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
If they pull it off I will be very impressed. COBOL is one of the oldest languages on my CV and I get quite nostalgic about it. But it is a very big ask.
Incidentally isn't Java around 30yrs old now? Hardly modern.
I'm sure it is, but are people really suffering from not being able to do everything through twitter? It feels like a hard sell even before he went comic book villain on everyone.
No I don't think so. Some people who know more about this than me think it's a bad idea anyway, as they believe the different cultures in the West and Asia make Westerners prefer single or limited focus services, and Asians prefer more integrated broader services. So if that's true, a lot of people wouldn't want or use the "app for everything" bits.
The argument I've seen is not a west-vs-east culture distinction, but instead a market structure one: that either "each use case has a big company dominant in that niche" (like the current western market) or "each big company has an app that runs horizontally across many use cases" (like the current Chinese market) is stable, but once there's an existing set of big companies then trying to be a company that's the "wrong shape" doesn't work, because consumers don't expect it and don't see the benefit and you're trying to compete with the dominant incumbents.
The celebrated American theorist, Francis Fukuyama, in his book 'The End of History and the Last Man' argued that US-style liberalism was the ultimate destination for all mankind, 'the final form of human government'.
John Gray explains why he believes his prophecy has been turned on its head.
'As in the past, many human beings will live under tyrannies, theocracies, and empires of various kinds,' John writes. 'Failed states and zones of anarchy will be common. Democratic nations are likely to be rare, and often short-lived.'"
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
If they pull it off I will be very impressed. COBOL is one of the oldest languages on my CV and I get quite nostalgic about it. But it is a very big ask.
Incidentally isn't Java around 30yrs old now? Hardly modern.
Java won the back end wars. Used for a lot of stuff, server side. Plus easy to convert to other modern languages.
Current project I’m working in - we got rid of COBOL and replaced it with Java.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
If they pull it off I will be very impressed. COBOL is one of the oldest languages on my CV and I get quite nostalgic about it. But it is a very big ask.
Incidentally isn't Java around 30yrs old now? Hardly modern.
Java won the back end wars. Used for a lot of stuff, server side. Plus easy to convert to other modern languages.
Current project I’m working in - we got rid of COBOL and replaced it with Java.
oh ffs no one who uses java if they can help it....mostly c# now
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
If they pull it off I will be very impressed. COBOL is one of the oldest languages on my CV and I get quite nostalgic about it. But it is a very big ask.
Incidentally isn't Java around 30yrs old now? Hardly modern.
Java won the back end wars. Used for a lot of stuff, server side. Plus easy to convert to other modern languages.
Current project I’m working in - we got rid of COBOL and replaced it with Java.
oh ffs no one who uses java if they can help it....mostly c# now
Most of the banks are Java shops. C# seems to have died there.
The celebrated American theorist, Francis Fukuyama, in his book 'The End of History and the Last Man' argued that US-style liberalism was the ultimate destination for all mankind, 'the final form of human government'.
John Gray explains why he believes his prophecy has been turned on its head.
'As in the past, many human beings will live under tyrannies, theocracies, and empires of various kinds,' John writes. 'Failed states and zones of anarchy will be common. Democratic nations are likely to be rare, and often short-lived.'"
Woman sacked by DOGE's Big Balls team from a revenue department, who voted for Trump, now gets death threats for voicing her concerns that he has let her down.
CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism · 1h JUST NOW: A self identified “MAGA junkie” says she regrets her vote and has taken down her Trump sign after she was fired by DOGE.
The firing took her completely by surprise because she had the highest job performance rating.
She was happy to vote for him thinking all the bad things would happen to other people and now she’s got buyers remorse . Trump voters who are now being screwed are getting their just desserts . She can cut the whining and own her moronic vote !
Jennifer Bendery @jbendery · 21m NEW YORK (AP) — Judge blocks Trump administration from firing staff of Voice of America, the U.S. government’s global news service.
"Reform will Fix It" seems to be the new slogan for local elections.
Their mailer to me doesn't seem to suggest anything to fix local government, unless stopping the boats will fix everything.
(Assuming for sake of argument it would fix some things, I don't think it'll have any immediate positive impact on soaring cost of SEND transport or social care for example, and even if it could, voting for them at the locals won't help get to stopping boats directly).
But they do seem to be making an actual concerted effort at the locals this year, so I have to applaud them for that.
The celebrated American theorist, Francis Fukuyama, in his book 'The End of History and the Last Man' argued that US-style liberalism was the ultimate destination for all mankind, 'the final form of human government'.
John Gray explains why he believes his prophecy has been turned on its head.
'As in the past, many human beings will live under tyrannies, theocracies, and empires of various kinds,' John writes. 'Failed states and zones of anarchy will be common. Democratic nations are likely to be rare, and often short-lived.'"
I've just watched JD Vance speak to the Greenlanders. Can anyone think of a more ignorant and rude senior politician in recent years with the possible exception of Farage?
Creepy. Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"Creepy" Yeah. That's the word.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
'Farage has set out Reform’s stance on the US trade deal - he wants to import 'chlorine washed chicken', prioritising US farmers and undercutting our British farmers who produce food to high welfare standards. Just like Labour, he’s not on your side.'
Starmer's doing a pretty good job at the moment imo but the best thing he could do next would be to pass legislation to force the Sentencing Council to drop their new recommendations. If he does that Labour's support could go back up to 30% in the polls.
Starmer's doing a pretty good job at the moment imo but the best thing he could do next would be to pass legislation to force the Sentencing Council to drop their new recommendations. If he does that Labour's support could go back up to 30% in the polls.
The people complaining about that likely aren’t going to vote Labour anyway. I doubt there’d be much reaction if he did do anything on it.
"Mark Carney accused of plagiarism in Oxford thesis Canadian prime minister forced to deny allegations he copied 10 passages of text for 1995 doctorate" (£)
Have we done Darren Grimes, Reform UK candidate for Tanfield Plain and Anfield? He probably doesn't mean the Overton Window. I'm not quite sure on the spellings.
I’ve never been in a window before – so that’s a first. I walked away from a well-paid job, a cosy number in tellyland, to come back home and stick my neck out for the people, the places – and yes, even the pothole-riddled, bin-missed, crime-plagued paradise that is my beloved county. Some say I’m mad. My bank manager certainly does. But me? Not a flicker of regret. This is principled madness – which makes it all the more hilarious when the oat-milk Marxists screech ‘far-right grifter’ from their London postcodes and subsidised smugness. If this is a grift, I’m doing it wrong – we pay £444 more in council tax up here than Buckingham bloody Palace. My media work will speak for my people. My political work will aim to DO for them. That’s what really terrifies the lefty lot who’ve had it all their own way for far too long.
Twenty (20) members of parliament have called for Britain to help build an INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT in Pakistan to help closen our ties with the Mirpuri community.
‘The Kashmiri diaspora in the UK […] have concerns regarding the journey times by road’
Nope - it's standard twitter twattery. The claim made is garbage. I have no idea whether tweeter is a lazy wazzock or a deliberate mouth breathing shit-stirrer. I wonder if any PBers will jump on this?
It's a letter from 20 UK MPs to the PM of Pakistan asking him to progress an airport used by their constituents who travel there to visit family. No proposal for UK involvement whatsoever - but gullibles will fall for it.
It's worth noting that the writer who tweeted the letter himself says that there is no call for UK finding.
Woman sacked by DOGE's Big Balls team from a revenue department, who voted for Trump, now gets death threats for voicing her concerns that he has let her down.
CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism · 1h JUST NOW: A self identified “MAGA junkie” says she regrets her vote and has taken down her Trump sign after she was fired by DOGE.
The firing took her completely by surprise because she had the highest job performance rating.
She was happy to vote for him thinking all the bad things would happen to other people and now she’s got buyers remorse . Trump voters who are now being screwed are getting their just desserts . She can cut the whining and own her moronic vote !
Once again, she messed up. She knows that she messed up and she regrets it.
You need to make it easy for people in her position to join you rather than gleefully calling them morons.
Otherwise you will for ever caper on the sidelines confident in your moral superiority as Trump and his acolytes destroy the world that we know
Footage taken on board whilst the submarine sank. Also footage of one burnt out ship that was in the collision outside Hull a couple of weeks ago arriving in Aberdeen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tScDGKMgIOs&t=10s
Twenty (20) members of parliament have called for Britain to help build an INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT in Pakistan to help closen our ties with the Mirpuri community.
‘The Kashmiri diaspora in the UK […] have concerns regarding the journey times by road’
Nope - it's standard twitter twattery. The claim made is garbage. I have no idea whether tweeter is a lazy wazzock or a deliberate mouth breathing shit-stirrer. I wonder if any PBers will jump on this?
It's a letter from 20 UK MPs to the PM of Pakistan asking him to progress an airport used by their constituents who travel there to visit family. No proposal for UK involvement whatsoever - but gullibles will fall for it.
It's worth noting that the writer who tweeted the letter himself says that there is no call for UK finding.
It should be remembered that the UK (and UK construction companies) did rather well out of the construction of the Hong Kong international airport in the early 1990s, along with the associated (massive) bridge and other related infrastructure. So much so, in fact that the Chinese government complained the whole thing was just an attempt to get money out of the HK economy before the handover.
The airport was built in a *very* short timespan. It can be done, by us. So if the Pakistani government would like to pay us to make the airport: I'm all in favour...
Creepy. Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"Creepy" Yeah. That's the word.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
I think you're wrong; we'll see.
And no one is going to tell them to leave; they have a treaty right to the base - and several more, if they want
Creepy. Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"Creepy" Yeah. That's the word.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
"It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe "
It's quite simple. It's spending money now to avoid a wider, and more expensive, war later.
You'd quite like a wider war. Or for Russia to gain all of Eastern Europe.
Creepy. Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"Creepy" Yeah. That's the word.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
I think you're wrong; we'll see.
And no one is going to tell them to leave; they have a treaty right to the base - and several more, if they want
That’s what I don’t understand
Why not reopen 3-4 other bases there and call it a win?
Creepy. Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"Creepy" Yeah. That's the word.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
I think you're wrong; we'll see.
And no one is going to tell them to leave; they have a treaty right to the base - and several more, if they want
That’s what I don’t understand
Why not reopen 3-4 other bases there and call it a win?
My *guess* is that that's not a big enough win. For Trump and the MAGA shitheads. For them, making America great involves expanding it - which is the same mindset Putin has with Russia. Although Putin is trying to do it 'diplomatically' by subverting target democracies as well as by force of arms, whereas Trump and MAGA are happily destroying many of their existing friendly diplomatic ties.
Creepy. Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"Creepy" Yeah. That's the word.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
I think you're wrong; we'll see.
And no one is going to tell them to leave; they have a treaty right to the base - and several more, if they want
That’s what I don’t understand
Why not reopen 3-4 other bases there and call it a win?
All Trump remembers from school history lessons is the names of the presidents who added territory to the early days of the US, and he wants to be similarly remembered. That’s really all there is to it.
Creepy. Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"Creepy" Yeah. That's the word.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
I think you're wrong; we'll see.
And no one is going to tell them to leave; they have a treaty right to the base - and several more, if they want
That’s what I don’t understand
Why not reopen 3-4 other bases there and call it a win?
Why not force Putin into a peace agreement, and let Europe police it ? That's very probably within the capacity of the US at this point, if they were prepared to commit the resources, and the political will.
Instead, they appear to want to force some sort of capitulation from Ukraine, which Ukraine isn't going to accept, and which gives Putin a reason to keep going.
I don't think either policy is particularly rational. It's just not very smart people trying to be a tough guys and get one over on everyone else.
Creepy. Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"Creepy" Yeah. That's the word.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
That's what happened after the war. The USA said no.
After liberation, Denmark ratified the Kauffmann treaty but began efforts to take over US installations. Nonetheless, in summer 1946, the radio and weather station was enhanced with a gravel airstrip and an upper-air (balloon) observatory. This was part of an American-Canadian initiative to construct joint weather stations in the High Arctic. This station was under joint US-Danish operation. The location changed from the civilian village at Thule (Dundas) to mainland Pituffik. In 1946–1951, the airstrip played an important role in Arctic resupply, aerial mapping, research, and search-and rescue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituffik_Space_Base
Creepy. Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"Creepy" Yeah. That's the word.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
It's quite impressive writing so much ill-informed crap in one short post.
I'm no fan of the dismal Starmer, but a ten second Google showed that he HAS spoken up against Trump's land grab in Greenland:
He is cutting social spending in the UK, not to prolong the war in Ukraine, but because his disastrous economic policies have kicked the economy in the balls.
He's helping the Ukrainians, inadequately in my view, not spend money but to save it - if Russia advanced further, we'd have to spend even more on defence, not less.
And the US doesn't have Greenland de facto or de jure - it is an independent kingdom under the King of Denmark de jure, and Denmark's de facto. If the Greenlanders or the Danes wanted the American base gone, the Americans would have to leave. But they don't, so it's a pointless hypothetical.
Anyway, enough of correcting rubbish - I'm going to do something less painful like stick a needle in my eye.
Starmer's doing a pretty good job at the moment imo but the best thing he could do next would be to pass legislation to force the Sentencing Council to drop their new recommendations. If he does that Labour's support could go back up to 30% in the polls.
You are in a social media bubble. This is not an issue exercising the public at large.
Creepy. Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"Creepy" Yeah. That's the word.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
I think you're wrong; we'll see.
And no one is going to tell them to leave; they have a treaty right to the base - and several more, if they want
That’s what I don’t understand
Why not reopen 3-4 other bases there and call it a win?
My *guess* is that that's not a big enough win. For Trump and the MAGA shitheads. For them, making America great involves expanding it - which is the same mindset Putin has with Russia. Although Putin is trying to do it 'diplomatically' by subverting target democracies as well as by force of arms, whereas Trump and MAGA are happily destroying many of their existing friendly diplomatic ties.
Open up 3 more bases
Tweet : Victory! Denmark concedes! American troops will be stationed in Greenland to protect our nations security! Biden couldn’t do this - he left our great country at risk!
"If an enemy fired a missile on the U.S., it would be the American soldiers at the Greenland base who would alert their countrymen".
Really?
Thule (now called Pituffik) is one of the places (others in Canada, Norway I think) which has radar looking for incoming Soviet missiles.
So Vance is correct on this (particular) point.
Well he probably isn't, as all manner of routes are available to current ICBMs - and launches would anyway very likely be detected first by satellite, but that's quibbling.
It was of more strategic importance in the bombed era, pre ICBMs, which is why it's such an enormous base. Still pretty important as part of the radar chain, though, and it also provides a satellite control and communications base.
Has Leon surfaced after his sojourn to Spoons in T4? Anyway I’m now in Tim Hortons in the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. Very busy in a multi polar world sort of way.
Perhaps Putin is correct in claiming the world is multipolar and he does hold all the cards. The implication is that the strong can grasp what they want. Ukraine for the Russians, Gaza for the Israelis, Taiwan for the Chinese or whatever whim takes them. Perhaps we should all get more.
Creepy. Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"Creepy" Yeah. That's the word.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
I think you're wrong; we'll see.
And no one is going to tell them to leave; they have a treaty right to the base - and several more, if they want
That’s what I don’t understand
Why not reopen 3-4 other bases there and call it a win?
All Trump remembers from school history lessons is the names of the presidents who added territory to the early days of the US, and he wants to be similarly remembered. That’s really all there is to it.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.
The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found.
Creepy. Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"Creepy" Yeah. That's the word.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
It's quite impressive writing so much ill-informed crap in one short post.
I'm no fan of the dismal Starmer, but a ten second Google showed that he HAS spoken up against Trump's land grab in Greenland:
He is cutting social spending in the UK, not to prolong the war in Ukraine, but because his disastrous economic policies have kicked the economy in the balls.
He's helping the Ukrainians, inadequately in my view, not spend money but to save it - if Russia advanced further, we'd have to spend even more on defence, not less.
And the US doesn't have Greenland de facto or de jure - it is an independent kingdom under the King of Denmark de jure, and Denmark's de facto. If the Greenlanders or the Danes wanted the American base gone, the Americans would have to leave. But they don't, so it's a pointless hypothetical...
I'm not sure that's true, and no one (with the possible exception of the Trump administration) wants to put that to the test, as finding out might be very costly.
The longstanding attitude of the US towards Greenland sovereignty is illustrated by the fact that they planned to build a massive ICBM complex there, back in the late 50s, without telling anyone (Project Iceworm).
They built a nuclear reactor below the ice, but then discovered ice instability made the whole plan impractical.
Creepy. Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"Creepy" Yeah. That's the word.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
I think you're wrong; we'll see.
And no one is going to tell them to leave; they have a treaty right to the base - and several more, if they want
That’s what I don’t understand
Why not reopen 3-4 other bases there and call it a win?
All Trump remembers from school history lessons is the names of the presidents who added territory to the early days of the US, and he wants to be similarly remembered. That’s really all there is to it.
Puerto Rico is there, all he has to do is ask.
Somebody mentioned McKinley and what happened to him upthread.
Worryingly, McKinley was succeeded upon his assassination by Theodore Roosevelt, who was essentially an empire builder.
I can see the parallels. Although I can't imagine Vance being so blasé about being shot before a major speech.
Creepy. Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"Creepy" Yeah. That's the word.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
What's interesting about the statement is that Vance is dropping Trump in it there. He's able to turn a phrase, so he could easily have said "The President has stessed that Greenland is of vital strategic importance to the US" which wraps the whole thing in a mantle of statesmanship, but he's basically said that Trump is a nutter. Perhaps tired of batting for Trump all the time, but perhaps starting planning to get rid?
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The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
But delaying the budget was a poor show.
Ein bloke, Ein Pint, Ein Furher
Surely they’d have done a better job ?
You’re either being naive or obtuse.
More chance of Elvis being found alive on the moon by Yemen astronauts than that being done in a few months.
Food riots incoming.
Probably what Project 2025 want.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5x5OXfe9KY
would I do it? god no. too much can go wrong
She has been betrayed by the country that offered her sanctuary, to MAGA schadenfraude. Very Handmaid's tale.
Charlie Javice, the charismatic founder of a startup company that claimed to be revolutionizing the way college students apply for financial aid, was convicted on Friday of defrauding one of the largest U.S. banks, JPMorgan Chase, out of $175 million by exaggerating her customer base by 10 times...
Javice is among a number of young tech executives who vaulted to fame and media accolades with supposedly disruptive or transformative companies, only to see their businesses collapse amid questions about whether they had engaged in puffery and fraud while dealing with investors
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/charlie-javice-convicted-of-defrauding-jpmorgan-during-175-million-sale-of-financial-aid-startup/ar-AA1BRJ3O?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=d85d2e57f8d34867e3772f5416388ea3&ei=7
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
NBC News confirms: In the unsecured Signal group chat, national security advisor Michael Waltz referred to a Houthi militant targeted in U.S. air strike.
Israel provided the sensitive intelligence on that Houthi militant, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter. @MSNBC
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1905732904887755076
Paul Chiang, the Liberal candidate seeking re-election in Markham-Unionville, has apologized for “deplorable” comments he says he made at an ethnic media gathering in January, where he told a Chinese-language news outlet how to claim a bounty on a Conservative candidate in Toronto.
In comments made to Ming Sheng Bao, the Canadian subsidiary of Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao, Chiang referenced a $1 million (HKD) bounty Hong Kong police had placed on Tay — about $184,000 — and said that if anyone present at the event brought him to the Chinese consulate general in Toronto, they could obtain the reward.
“The comments I made were deplorable and a complete lapse of judgment on the seriousness of the matter. As a former police officer, I should have known better. I sincerely apologize and deeply regret my comments,” Chiang wrote on X Friday afternoon.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/liberal-candidate-in-markham-apologizes-for-deplorable-comments-about-former-conservative-rival/article_2d0ecc7b-81e1-4aa1-9e49-dd47461c1322.html
It's insane.
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1905692360052539710
Creepy.
Especially as he’s addressing the military.
"[Hannah] Davis is one of an estimated 20 million Americans and 400 million people worldwide who have had long covid, in which symptoms persist or newly develop more than three months after a coronavirus infection.
Neurocognitive symptoms of long covid are among the most common, affecting 18 to 36 percent of patients — and among the most devastating. Many people have reported cognitive disabilities, with some having to stop working."
(Links omitted.)
source$: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/03/27/long-covid-brain-cognition/
https://x.com/politlcsuk/status/1905731528421966063
OK guys, we’ve had a good run but we know when we’re beaten. We held onto the title for 4 years, 4 months, and 20 days, but JD Vance & the Pituffik USAF base are now worthy holders of the saddest, most pathetic, cringiest press conference of all time.
https://x.com/TotalSeasons/status/1905733832307089678
Somehow appropriate that Rudy next to the dildo store is finally dethroned by JD at the Pitiffuk.
@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt).
Just LOL
Britain Trump.
He'll have Musk gutting the bones of the entire UK government given a sniff of power.
CALL TO ACTIVISM
@CalltoActivism
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1h
JUST NOW: A self identified “MAGA junkie” says she regrets her vote and has taken down her Trump sign after she was fired by DOGE.
The firing took her completely by surprise because she had the highest job performance rating.
Do you think she deserves it?
https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1905727976723120381
Incidentally isn't Java around 30yrs old now? Hardly modern.
Current project I’m working in - we got rid of COBOL and replaced it with Java.
Separately there was a story earlier this week on why so more women work in mortuaries compared to men - don't know what the 2 things have in common..
Jennifer Bendery
@jbendery
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NEW YORK (AP) — Judge blocks Trump administration from firing staff of Voice of America, the U.S. government’s global news service.
(Assuming for sake of argument it would fix some things, I don't think it'll have any immediate positive impact on soaring cost of SEND transport or social care for example, and even if it could, voting for them at the locals won't help get to stopping boats directly).
But they do seem to be making an actual concerted effort at the locals this year, so I have to applaud them for that.
It's telling how the UK government will cut benefits and social spending in order to prolong a stalemated war Eastern Europe but won't say one word in defence of an ally who is having their territorial integrity credibly threatened.
I expect the US will get Greenland sooner or later. They already have it de facto because if Denmark told the US to clear out of Moonbase Alpha they wouldn't leave. Then what?
https://x.com/VictoriaAtkins/status/1905597087510622240
Canadian prime minister forced to deny allegations he copied 10 passages of text for 1995 doctorate" (£)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/03/28/mark-carney-accused-of-plagiarising-oxford-thesis/
It's a letter from 20 UK MPs to the PM of Pakistan asking him to progress an airport used by their constituents who travel there to visit family. No proposal for UK involvement whatsoever - but gullibles will fall for it.
It's worth noting that the writer who tweeted the letter himself says that there is no call for UK finding.
Page 1. Page 2 and sigs are at the link:
https://x.com/khalid4pb/status/1905675847475802135
You need to make it easy for people in her position to join you rather than gleefully calling them morons.
Otherwise you will for ever caper on the sidelines confident in your moral superiority as Trump and his acolytes destroy the world that we know
Report. It sank whilst still tied to its boarding platform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsOnzA-SQWI
Footage taken on board whilst the submarine sank. Also footage of one burnt out ship that was in the collision outside Hull a couple of weeks ago arriving in Aberdeen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tScDGKMgIOs&t=10s
The airport was built in a *very* short timespan. It can be done, by us. So if the Pakistani government would like to pay us to make the airport: I'm all in favour...
And no one is going to tell them to leave; they have a treaty right to the base - and several more, if they want
It's quite simple. It's spending money now to avoid a wider, and more expensive, war later.
You'd quite like a wider war. Or for Russia to gain all of Eastern Europe.
Why not reopen 3-4 other bases there and call it a win?
That's very probably within the capacity of the US at this point, if they were prepared to commit the resources, and the political will.
Instead, they appear to want to force some sort of capitulation from Ukraine, which Ukraine isn't going to accept, and which gives Putin a reason to keep going.
I don't think either policy is particularly rational. It's just not very smart people trying to be a tough guys and get one over on everyone else.
"On Sunday night, I will give a talk in Wisconsin.
To clarify a previous post, entrance is limited to those who have signed the petition in opposition to activist judges.
I will also hand over checks for a million dollars to 2 people to be spokesmen for the petition."
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1905673297439666486
So Vance is correct on this (particular) point.
After liberation, Denmark ratified the Kauffmann treaty but began efforts to take over US installations. Nonetheless, in summer 1946, the radio and weather station was enhanced with a gravel airstrip and an upper-air (balloon) observatory. This was part of an American-Canadian initiative to construct joint weather stations in the High Arctic. This station was under joint US-Danish operation. The location changed from the civilian village at Thule (Dundas) to mainland Pituffik. In 1946–1951, the airstrip played an important role in Arctic resupply, aerial mapping, research, and search-and rescue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituffik_Space_Base
I'm no fan of the dismal Starmer, but a ten second Google showed that he HAS spoken up against Trump's land grab in Greenland:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-trump-greenland-denmark-nato-b2691967.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14362889/Keir-Starmer-Danish-PM-unity-Greenland-security-Donald-Trump-demands-annex-Arctic-territory.html
He is cutting social spending in the UK, not to prolong the war in Ukraine, but because his disastrous economic policies have kicked the economy in the balls.
He's helping the Ukrainians, inadequately in my view, not spend money but to save it - if Russia advanced further, we'd have to spend even more on defence, not less.
And the US doesn't have Greenland de facto or de jure - it is an independent kingdom under the King of Denmark de jure, and Denmark's de facto. If the Greenlanders or the Danes wanted the American base gone, the Americans would have to leave. But they don't, so it's a pointless hypothetical.
Anyway, enough of correcting rubbish - I'm going to do something less painful like stick a needle in my eye.
Tweet : Victory! Denmark concedes! American troops will be stationed in Greenland to protect our nations security! Biden couldn’t do this - he left our great country at risk!
That gets him what he needs. Everyone else shrugs
She isn't even mentioned in the thread header, and is behind Ed Davey!
It was of more strategic importance in the bombed era, pre ICBMs, which is why it's such an enormous base.
Still pretty important as part of the radar chain, though, and it also provides a satellite control and communications base.
And with whom?
Perhaps Putin is correct in claiming the world is multipolar and he does hold all the cards. The implication is that the strong can grasp what they want. Ukraine for the Russians, Gaza for the Israelis, Taiwan for the Chinese or whatever whim takes them. Perhaps we should all get more.
Today’s pic
The longstanding attitude of the US towards Greenland sovereignty is illustrated by the fact that they planned to build a massive ICBM complex there, back in the late 50s, without telling anyone (Project Iceworm).
They built a nuclear reactor below the ice, but then discovered ice instability made the whole plan impractical.
It didn't become public until the 90s.
Worryingly, McKinley was succeeded upon his assassination by Theodore Roosevelt, who was essentially an empire builder.
I can see the parallels. Although I can't imagine Vance being so blasé about being shot before a major speech.
https://youtu.be/1spzFgcvu-w?t=284