Re:Grok3 Launch
by JackYoustra on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:28PM
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Will you go on the record and say that $4.7T in a year is fraudulent or misspent? I want to be crystal clear with what you're insinuating, because that's a massive amount of money, easily the biggest fraud of all time by a factor of almost 30.
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That's not what he said. He said the accounting is bad making it impossible to know how much is misspent.
Re:Grok3 Launch
by JackYoustra on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:44PM
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I don't understand what this means though, almost all of our money passes an audit which necessarily has a paper trail. The few agencies which don't usually have very idiosyncratic audit misses which are, in any event, overseen by inspectors general (or were until trump fired all of them) which have been very zealous to jump on this.
Re:Grok3 Launch
by joshuamcginnis on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:56PM
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That's not accurate. The Pentagon, for example, has not passed its annual financial audit since it was first required to undergo them in 2018.
Re:Grok3 Launch
by programmerpass on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:26PM
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This is definitely not accurate.
Re:Grok3 Launch
by braincat31415 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:56PM
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"insinuate -- suggest or hint (something bad or reprehensible) in an indirect and unpleasant way."
I am not "insinuating" but saying that I would like to know where my money goes. If you pay taxes, would not you?
Re:Grok3 Launch
by JackYoustra on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @05:14PM
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Can you not find it? I can find basically any spending data I want at the tip of my fingers (well, less so now that it's unclear what's being paid) - anything specific that you feel is missing that you want to see?
Re:Grok3 Launch
by braincat31415 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @05:25PM
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If you know where the 4.7T went, please reach out to Elon.
Re:Grok3 Launch
by JackYoustra on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @03:21PM
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I. don't. know. what he's talking about. that's the problem. If I tell you "I'm thiking of $5T, tell me where it is" where does that leave you?
Re:Grok3 Launch
by benjaminwootton on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:31PM
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The poster or the headline doesn’t say they are all fraudulent. It says the payments are nearly impossible to trace.
Re:Grok3 Launch
by JackYoustra on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:33PM
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so then misspent? Must be, because if it's not misspent than impossible to trace is a little irrelevant. It can't be unaudited, because every department passes an audit every year (except the DoD, but they basically pass an audit and the reasons they currently don't are mostly technical)
Re:Grok3 Launch
by programmerpass on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:30PM
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Well, it’s going to have to pass the Elon Misk audit now. Bless his efforts.