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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: Today at 06:37:21 PM »
I do not think sharing a potential hack of a .gov website is a good idea.
Potential?
No no no.  This IS a hack.  And, from what I read, a very easy one to do.

It's quite simple: Musk skimped on security and anyone with basic SQL injection scripts can insert anything they want.
Why would you share an actual hack of a government website on the forum?

How do you know this isn't a spoof?

Uhhh... A spoof?
Of the government website.
>_>
You can read the url yourself.  Or type it yourself.

As for sharing.
I'm sharing a government website.
It's not my fault the data the website uses has been easily compromised.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: Today at 06:01:40 PM »
I do not think sharing a potential hack of a .gov website is a good idea.
Potential?
No no no.  This IS a hack.  And, from what I read, a very easy one to do.

It's quite simple: Musk skimped on security and anyone with basic SQL injection scripts can insert anything they want.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: Today at 04:37:29 PM »
https://doge.gov/workforce?orgId=7cd300eb-cf3f-47f5-90f1-9e66a8bc8d07&ref=404media.co

Yep, the people in charge of the nation's payment system have their website database wide open.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: Today at 01:18:39 PM »
Ooh, you got me.

Well played.

Take two cannolis from the kitty.

Just make sure you leave a receipt for their removal, so Musk can keep accurate track.

So what you SHOULD write is...

"I only follow their recommendations for  the things I want to follow."

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: Today at 11:32:35 AM »
My parents taught me to wash my hands and neither have ever worked for the CDC or the NIH in their entire lives.

These organizations have only existed (officially) since 1946 and 1930, respectively.

The practice of hand washing for the mitigation of disease dates to the mid-19th century, but has been around since ancient times.
Yes, but they recommend hand washing.  And you said you wouldn't do anything they recommend.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: Today at 08:50:59 AM »
I have not and will not until changes are made.

So you don't even wash your hands?  Eeewwww.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: Today at 05:12:50 AM »
I think the NIH and the CDC have both been proven to be frauds in their handling of issues relating to health.

Then I request that you not utilize anything they've approved or any recommendations they've made.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: February 13, 2025, 10:43:55 PM »
Sure, I'm willing to sacrifice hypothetical lives who are saved from a hypothetical working future drug to get fraud out of government. Some of them may die, but it is a sacrifice I am willing to make.

Has any fraud been found?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: February 13, 2025, 04:41:25 PM »
Yes, gary, continue your quite evident concern for people dying! [/sarcasm]

The NIH is a complete waste of taxpayer dollars in its current form, as are most other government agencies.

The audits will continue, the bureaucrats responsible for fraud will be removed and held responsible, and order will be the goal.

You are better off taking this shitshow of posts to AR or CN.
Has anyone found fraud?  Or is it just a list of things the right doesn't like?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: February 12, 2025, 09:43:13 PM »
Conflict of interest?

Where? Out in left field? Out of the park?

Come on, man!

Nobody gives a fuck about whataboutism.

I will write that Musk provides regular updates about his activities on X. He was also responsible for filing the appropriate documents covering issues relating to conflict of interest and reports all of his activities directly to the president.

Hunter was too busy grifting for Hairy Legs and misplacing his coke in the White House.
SpaceX does alot of business with the government and who owns SpaceX?


Yes, I am aware.  Musk is performing an audit with a gotcha by gotcha on social media.  Certainly not for likes or publicity. >_>


Yes, reporting all his activities to his "friend" and the person he spent alot of money on.  He financed Trump's campaign, ya know.  Kinda like he bought Trump....and oh hey, now he has full access to the department computer systems to do with as he pleases.  And has thus far used $7 million on a database query which seems to only find things during Biden's administration.  Or things that sound bad until you realize it's normal shit like coffee or NYT subscriptions for resale.  But the details, somehow, are never mentioned.
He didn't even say that Sesame Street in Iraq cost $1.5 million over 3 years. Just the $1.5 million.  Why?


And for fun here's the link to the project page from Sesame Workshop
https://sesameworkshop.org/our-work/middle-east-and-north-africa/

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: February 12, 2025, 02:35:13 PM »
Why not?

If I was a newly appointed director and somebody had cleaned a bunch of shit out of the operations of the agency prior to my arrival, I would be grateful.

Political bias and conflict of interest.


Let's put it this way:
What if Biden asked Hunter to do this back in 2021.  Would you have trusted the results?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: February 12, 2025, 12:45:12 PM »
NIH says cuts to 'administrative overhead' will save taxpayers billions
“Government work is inherently not mission-focused,” Early said. “There are cases where it is, but it is inherently not. So, that's like a big strategic change. And associated with that, the budgeting needs to change, too. There's some 28 different agencies within NIH, and each of them has their own little budget. And each of them has their little justifications for it. ... There are a couple cases where we've got strategic objectives. One’s around reducing cancer, and the other is around reducing AIDS. But the one on cancer in particular is very poorly articulated. And they have absolutely no plans for how they're going to execute it, because they are just going to do research, and it will happen. There is no strategic plan on how to get there. And the plans that are there are totally misdirected, because they're invested in such things as diversity, inclusion and that sort of nonsense that doesn't actually contribute to the outcomes.”

I have applied for grants.

I always had to justify why I needed the money, what I was going to do with the money, how long it would be before anything tangible was accomplished, and file documentation concerning steps taken along the way.

I think the NIH has failed these steps numerous times.

And Trump needed Elon musk to find this out, why?
This is shit the director, who Trump appointed should be doing.  Just removing things that don't fit Trump's adgenda.  And that's fine.  That's normal.  But why have Musk do it?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: February 12, 2025, 08:40:56 AM »
So the reason it didn't give out grants is because it's not suppose to.  It wasn't made to give out grants.

I understand that they have a disclaimer that they don't actually use the money for cancer research, but this is at odds with their mission statement:

Quote from: NY Post
The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 by the former vice president and his wife, Jill Biden, to “develop and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research and care and to reduce disparities in cancer outcomes,” according to its IRS mission statement. But it gave out no grants in its first two years, and spent millions on the salaries of former Washington, DC, aides it hired.

Apparently "develop and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research and care" means paying themselves and their friends hundreds of thousands of dollars each to hold some conferences and suggest that other organizations do better.

The organization was open for about two years and then siddenly closed to avoid the appearance of impropriety.

https://fortune.com/2019/07/15/joe-biden-cancer-initiative/

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The Vermont-based institute said it would stop accepting donations and suspend all operations by the end of May “so there could not even be an appearance of impropriety,” Jane Sanders said.

It is rather odd that a totally legitimate organization would just close its doors like that and interrupt such important progress.

What's so confusing?
It's goal is to organize with other groups so they can work better, together. 

As for closing: makes sense.  Don't want your president to have his name on a business or charity while president.  Right?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: February 12, 2025, 04:14:50 AM »
I'm not sure why you think that everyone should unquestioningly agree with all medical research. Big Pharma is not interested in treating or even investigating the root of the issue, only treating the symptoms, meaning that you pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for an extra few years of suffering instead of doing something that actually fixes the root issue.

But aside from that major concern, I don't see a problem with cancer organizations being shuttered if they are defrauding the public. See this one, for instance.

https://nypost.com/2020/11/14/biden-cancer-initiative-spent-millions-on-payroll-zero-on-research-report/



https://cancerletter.com/news-analysis/20201116_1/

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“The initiative will focus on improving data standards, and giving patients some mechanism to share their data so they can help many other patients going through the same fight, so researchers can use data to find new patterns and new answers, working with community care organizations help improve access to quality care so outcomes aren’t wholly dictated by the patient’s ZIP code, convening a national conversation with the pharmaceutical companies, insurers, biotech companies and others to ensure patients can actually access the treatments that become available and as are needed,” Biden said at the time (The Cancer Letter, April 7, 2017).

So the reason it didn't give out grants is because it's not suppose to.  It wasn't made to give out grants.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: February 09, 2025, 06:47:03 PM »
The Hur report is available and people can read it, you know.

As usual, your characterization of the events is bullshit.

Why in the fuck the OMB outrage of speculation regarding, "OMG, what upgrades could be taking place!?!?!?"

Jesus F christ, if you are really concerned (you're not) write and ask if they'll let you know.

LMMFAO!!!

Haven't seen age related disease in the Executive summary detailing why they aren't charging him.  Maybe you should read it?

The summary was that the evidence didn't show beyond a reasonable doubt and that his memory wasnm severely limited in 2017 and 2023.

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In addition. Mr. Biden's memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023. And his cooperation with our investigation, including by reporting to the government that the Afghanistan documents were in his Delaware garage, will likely convince some jurors that he made an innocent mistake, rather than acting willfully-that is, with intent to break the law-as the statute requires.

That's about the closest passage to age related disease.  So... Yeah.


And you know, I think I will!

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: February 09, 2025, 04:56:39 PM »
Joe Biden is not deserving of any consideration as a human being, let alone to be trusted with a child and classified information.
Most of the time the former president keeps security clearances so they can advise the current president on things after their tenure.
Hur already ruled Biden had stored classified documents in his garage, but charges were not brought because of onset of age-related disease. Not to mention, Biden did the same thing to Trump. The entire issue of whether former persons serving as president having access to records post-presidency is up for debate.
Couple of things.
Biden wasn't charged because he cooperated and no evidence of anything more than forgetfulness you as found.  Trump liked twice about giving back all the documents and then had to have the FBI raid his home to get them back.  His private country club home.

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LD, that money was already apportioned to the old agency (the United States Digital Service) that DOGE replaced. No lost or new money.
Yes, it was.  Then spent faster than it was originally intended.  Try to keep up.
DOGE is in operation for SIX months.

No surprise they have access to the entire kitty at this point.

The upgrades used in digital processing will remain once DOGE is dissolved.

Try to keep up.

And what upgrades are they?  Special X social media servers and software so Musk can have full access to the secure data anytime?  Maybe a rootkit in the OS?  Compromised BIOS?

And why?  What's the point of upgrading the system? 

Also, FYI: system upgrades can take YEARS depending on the system size and complexity.  I do this shit for a living, I know.  And if you have old systems from say... 20 years ago, moving the whole operation to a new system is very time consuming or very dangerous. 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: February 09, 2025, 01:49:04 PM »
Joe Biden is not deserving of any consideration as a human being, let alone to be trusted with a child and classified information.
Most of the time the former president keeps security clearances so they can advise the current president on things after their tenure. 

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LD, that money was already apportioned to the old agency (the United States Digital Service) that DOGE replaced. No lost or new money.
Yes, it was.  Then spent faster than it was originally intended.  Try to keep up.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: February 09, 2025, 09:25:52 AM »
https://rollcall.com/2025/02/04/white-house-opens-funding-spigot-for-doge-expenses/

Nothing says efficiency and cutting costs like $7 million spent in a week looking at data and, for some reason, upgrading systems. 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: February 08, 2025, 09:48:52 PM »
The pendulum is beyond its apex and is definitely swinging to the other direction now. The Left may never fully recover.


Yes... funding.  Certainly not buying subscirptions so they can keep up with the news as it comes.  NOPE!  Certainly not!  Its probably their entire revenue stream, right?
>_>

https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=6fb504a42ad5472536896e5dbda7d58f

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA805223P0052_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-

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DIGITAL NEWSPAPER AND PERIODICALS SUBSCRIPTION
The DoD's subscription to the NYT for a 1-3 years.

And yes, that includes Donald Trump.
https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/fd33cfb3-0790-a2e1-3397-7403d807fc2e-P/all
$727,218 from 2008-2013

Trump Ventures LLC
https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/e7b7488a-c7c4-e6c8-e549-88335ed8bf5a-P/all
$19,371 in 2019.
For example!
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_W9136419F0009_9700_W9136419A0001_9700
$16,926 in 2018 for food.  FOOD. From the DoD.  Paid to Trump's company ... while Trump's is president.

Oh and..
https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/4f3c1e89-218e-a6ec-1fea-e7eae6e9e139-P/all
$206,869 between 2011 and 2018.

https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/d49be868-20ca-7e33-2025-c8980a7a576c-P/all
$1.0 million between 2009 and 2016

Sounds like alot of waste to me.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: February 07, 2025, 10:14:36 AM »
While a sperm is smaller than an egg, an egg is not "big".  Not even sure it's a cell, by definition.
Is a human egg a cell?

"Although an egg can give rise to every cell type in the adult organism, it is itself a highly specialized cell, uniquely equipped for the single function of generating a new individual."

Welp, that answers that.

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