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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by PhunkyPhil on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:34PM (#42922682)
I guess Elon believes that long wait times for government services is because of an O(n^3) function somewhere...

> Where are the Democrats on all this? There is hardly any opposition

I think because this is so unprecedented the structures to oversee simply don't exist. The article mentions that congress has no mechanisms for oversight, and Elon is moving too quickly in this area for any checks to take place.

Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by lukev on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:57PM (#42922992)
The courts are just now beginning to order injuctions and restraining orders, for the stuff that happened last week. The process seems to lag by 2-3 business days. So hopefully we'll be seeing a lot more this week.

How the administration responds to those is going to define how this constitutional crisis unfolds. And it is a constitutional crisis: congress unambiguously has the power of the purse, not the executive.

If Trump gets away with this, it isn't clear that Congress has any power at all.

Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by bagels on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:05AM (#42929509)
The executive is just going to ignore any court orders.
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by SamBam on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:42PM (#42925016)
It's utterly wrong to give Elon any benefit of the doubt in terms of his motives right now.

He's helping destroy the Federal government because doing so aligns with his interests as a billionaire.

Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by nomdep on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:18AM (#42928335)
You seem to be projecting what you would do in his place
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by steve_adams_86 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:50AM (#42929872)
I think they’re describing what the evidence presents, unfortunately
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by computerthings on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:30AM (#42928424)
You can't just prefix any random BS with "you seem to be". No, there is zero indication for that. You're just going "I know you are, but what is Elon?"