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Hormone therapy and puberty blockers.

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Fox News host Jesse Watters made an on-air plea that the Trump administration be “less callous” when implementing when laying off federal employees after a military veteran friend was “DOGE’d” in Elon Musk’s Pentagon cuts.

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On Sunday, White House adviser Elon Musk claimed his “Department of Government Efficiency” found that more than 20 million Americans over the age of 100 have been receiving checks from the Social Security Administration. He alleged the figure included people who were born in 1875. The billionaire shared a screenshot of a spreadsheet he said was from the SSA’s database.

Speaking at a conference of investors in Miami on Wednesday, the president reiterated Musk’s baseless claims about Social Security and appeared to add some embellishments of his own.

“But listen to this – 3.6 million people are on Social Security rolls from the age of 110 years old to 119,” he said. “Do you think there are really that many? Those people are seriously old. But it gets worse – 3.4 7 million people are on Social Security from the age of 120 years old to 129 years old, 3.9 million people are on Social Security from 130 years old to 139 years old.”

Trump later added that there are “3.5 million people from the age 140 to 149 years old” on Social Security, and that “1.3 million people are on Social Security from age 150-159. And over 130,000 people are on Social Security over the age of 160 years old, ok? Including 1,039 people. Think of it. Over 1000 people, between the ages of 220-229. And one person of 240 years old and 249. And the record topper, there is one person on Social Security who is 360 years old, which is approximately 110 years older than our country.”

Also, the 1337 hackers at DOGE don't know anything about COBOL, apparently.

The challenge with COBOL is that it doesn’t have a standardized way to store and work with dates — unlike most modern programming languages. Instead, many dates in COBOL must be coded to a reference number, often using an international standard, Rege explained.

The most common reference date number is May 20, 1875, under an international standard known as ISO 8601. That means if someone applies for Social Security without a birth date, they may be recorded as 150 years old in the database depending on how a programmer troubleshoots the issue.

Programmers can overcome these limitations in COBOL’s functionality, but they may also opt to use 1875 as a placeholder for unknown dates if it aligns with the database’s purpose… For example, when the federal government began issuing regular monthly Social Security payments in January 1940, recipients needed to be at least 65 to qualify, meaning they needed to be born in 1875 or before.

Those who crafted the Social Security database may have, therefore, set 1875 as the default birth year for anyone who lacked that information at the time.

You'd think at least Big Balls would know some COBOL.

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I'm staying in an apartment temporarily and I have absolutely no idea how it is heated. It's a two-bedroom apartment. There is no thermostat. There are no vents. There is one radiator in the apartment's living room, at the front and down the hall from the bedrooms, and one radiator in the bathroom.

I have felt every wall in my bedroom. All of them are cool. The floor is also a normal temperature.

And yet, despite it being at or below freezing most nights in the past month, I can be in my bedroom without a shirt on and be comfortable. It might be nice to be a little warmer, but I don't feel cold or anything.

I am mystified. How is it being heated?

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And to those MPs, I have only one thing to say, "ok, boomer."

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 376 points 8 months ago

Translation: "give me enough money and I'll promote whatever you want."

Most presidents at least pretended they couldn't be bought.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 302 points 8 months ago

Incidentally, there's a bunch of people on Lemmy really mad that they can't tell everyone not to vote for Biden anymore. They'll tell us not to vote for whoever is going to be his replacement though.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 573 points 8 months ago

Any moment now, the 'don't vote for Biden' group will be in here telling us not to vote for Harris. And if it isn't Harris, they'll tell us not to vote for whoever it is.

Anything but stop the dictator and his plan to commit genocide against Latinos and queer people.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 313 points 8 months ago

These fuckers are finding out how many queer people are very good with computers.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 381 points 10 months ago

So the people who screamed about the scary, scary BLM protesters rioting due to what they (rightly) viewed as a miscarriage of justice now think rioting should happen because of what they (wrongly) view as a miscarriage of justice.

As usual, it's okay with they do it.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 400 points 1 year ago

That's a longer sentence than many of the January 6th traitors.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 395 points 1 year ago

How dare Green Day do the exact thing you would expect Green Day to do if you knew the first thing about Green Day!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 318 points 1 year ago

It's almost like teens see something like a genocide being committed, think it's wrong and say something about it.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 397 points 2 years ago

Arrest him for fomenting insurrection.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 310 points 2 years ago

The reason why they say this was murder:

Two weeks before the crash, she allegedly threatened to crash her vehicle when she was driving with Russo because she was upset over a disagreement they had. Russo called his mother and asked to be picked up, and a friend ended up retrieving him. In a phone call with Russo, the friend allegedly overheard Shirilla say, “I will crash this car right now,” prosecutors said in court documents.

This isn't a drunk driver, or a thrillseeker, this is someone with murderous intent.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 359 points 2 years ago

I agree 100%. If they are going to make an announcement about lemmy.world, they need to do it on lemmy.world. We're not all on the Discord. I, for one, don't want to be.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 305 points 2 years ago

Let me get this straight- they want mods to have live business meetings with them? As if they're employees?

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