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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by mc32 on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:20PM (#42922474)
Stop unaudited government spending? Ukraine says it’s received only about half of what the Biden admin said it gave it.

It's looking like this was at least larping as a 40+ billion dollar slush fund. There may have been some legitimate (useful) spending, and they will find out after auditing the system, but it also looks like there was lots of waste and once-removed (one degree of separation) self-dealing.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by skywhopper on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:24PM (#42922539)
How exactly is this approach an improvement over the status quo? Elon is not auditing spending. He’s pursuing political grudges and generating chaos for its own sake. The outcome will not be less government waste and fraud.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by empyrrhicist on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:14PM (#42954478)
Read the rest of their replies in the thread - they're fully living in a full on fantasy land concerning what's actually happening.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by selimthegrim on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:24PM (#42922523)
This doesn’t mean what you think.
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