

Japan hiring old people to do nothing has the right idea … an idea
Japan hiring old people to do nothing has the right idea … an idea
Could’ve just been his “Open for Business” hat. With “yours to discover” scribbled out
That’s the thing – governments have a lot more requirements than corporations. They’ve also got a whole lot more riding on them, so the stakes are higher.
You have to pay for consultants since you need to get the best talent, but you can’t afford (and don’t need) them to be on the payroll forever.
You have to pay for auditors because you’re under more financial scrutiny.
You have to take things more slowly because you can’t make risky decisions and there are layers upon layers of bureaucracy regarding decisions.
So what do we cut out?
Get rid of the consultants? Well, you either hire them (whose salaries you can’t afford – top talent will leave), or you don’t bring on consultants at all (which means you can’t do the things you need to do). Or you pay your staff for training, which might work, but then those staff might leave and the investment is gone before anything new is built. And it might cost as much as the consultants, plus take longer.
Get rid of the auditors? But we want more financial scrutiny.
Get rid of the bureaucracy? Sure, everyone would love that. Except when the reason for each strip of red tape is revealed when something goes wrong.
Like you said, there are no easy answers. And when these costs have justifications for existing, I think that’s when they turn from “waste” to “necessary (yet unfortunate) expenses”.
Organizational waste in general seems like an inevitability. Corporations have waste too – this isn’t unique to governments
I pronounce it like doge. You know, like dog but with a long o, since that’s normally what happens when you add an e at the end of a word.
Con, cone.
Dog, doge!
Lmao…“status”?
“trauma”???
This is ridiculous
Not to start a rumour, but is it illegal to ask if Musk might be a pedophile?
Have anyone though about this?
Yes.
Am I just being over paranoid? Perhaps I watch too much movies…
Yes.
Most people’s thoughts are absolutely boring and unimportant to the governments of the world.
Yeah, not voting really helped keep the baddies out of the White House!
I’m usually a big proponent of reasonable expectations, and certainty can be a funny thing…
But launching should be the bare minimum, and this sounds terrible as an official announcement…
I’m not some anti-censorship SovCit nut or anything…but any platform that doesn’t let me say “kill” is not a platform I want to be on.
Hell…suicide, abortion, murder, rape…we need to talk about these things sometimes. If users want to opt-in to trigger word filters, by all means. It should be up to the user if “Rape” and “Musk” are in the same category and shouldn’t show up on their screens.
Even as recently as last week, I had people telling me that Trump is better for Palestine than Harris would’ve been.
People are so deep into denial. I wonder if they’ll ever come out and admit they were wrong for not voting.
This isn’t a democracy where a company can win if it only has a single buyer.
If the company in question doesn’t get your money, you’ve “voted against them with your wallet”.
You might be getting caught up in the literal semantics of the metaphor.
That’s a very different problem than the one in the OP
Oh, I didn’t realize that, thanks for the knowledge!
From a linguistic perspective, this is why I am impressed by (or at least, astonished by) LLMs!
As for accuracy, you review what it gives you, you don’t just copy and send it without review.
Yeah, I don’t get why so many people seem to not get that.
It’s like people who were against Intellisense in IDEs because “What if it suggests the wrong function?”…you still need to know what the functions do. If you find something you’re unfamiliar with, you check the documentation. You don’t just blindly accept it as truth.
Just because it can’t replace a person’s job doesn’t mean it’s worthless as a tool.
Yeah, I agree! I rarely see people talk about CvS2, though!
It’s looking like no one who knows is finding this post. Sorry about that.
Do give the Linux community a try though – I feel like you’re more likely to get an answer there. It doesn’t matter what you’re using the disc drive for, it just needs to work with Linux.
There’s a reel of a dad watching a sport game on TV with his infant son. The kid keeps looking at his dad for how to react, and seems to understand what’s happening on the TV. When the team scores a point, the kid throws his hands up into the air and cheers, having seen his dad do that behaviour before.
Then he looks to his dad, who’s got his hands on his head, saying “NO!”. It was the wrong team that scored.
The kid puts his head into his hands, and collapses on the couch in his best imitation of his father.
You have years, perhaps decades, of watching people in your culture do this. So it feels natural for you to do.