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Cake day: September 24th, 2023

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  • I saw patients this past week. Like I do every week. That is my one bullet point. I still need 4 more bullet points??? This is ridiculous. I’m doing my job, that I have been asked to do. He doesn’t know what my job is. The AI they are going to feed my answer through doesn’t know what my job is. The people who do know what my job is know that I am doing it just fine. We already have an evaluation system that I have to sign every 6 months and submit bullet points with.

    My supervisor, and their supervisors, are now going to have meetings about us responding. Then we are going to be told in meetings about how to respond. Then I spend some arbitrary amount of time responding. Do you have any idea how much combined time across the entire government is being waisted on this? This is literally millions of dollars in total time waisted just for the whims of a mad man. This is a prime example of wasting tax dollars.




  • It’s worse than you think. Last week we got an email that looked like strait up fishing spam demanding that we were to email back “yes” confirming that we got the email. So many people even reported it as spam that we had supervisors have to directly tell us that it was legit. Then they sent out a second email with a warning that is was in fact legit and to respond to that email with “yes” if we got that one.

    On the back end at OPM: Musk forced his way in and demanded to redo the email servers. The IT told him it wasn’t possible for what he was asking. So he brought in his own goons to install a non government server with unknown software and unknown security configurations and they plugged it into the OPM network to spoof it as an official OPM server, then sent out those emails.

    And sure enough, the idiot didn’t didn’t configure the security correctly or let official government IT people touch it, it ended up backdooring into the entire government HR system, and it had every active government email that responded “yes” to his stupid email that we were required to. And now we know it was compromised. There is no telling what foreign governments now have all of that info as well as what other backdoors they have installed.


  • This is a double edged sword. You are protecting homeowners from predatory behavior, sure. But also delaying those who simply want to cash out and say fuck this.

    This is also LA’s chance to go into these areas and build high density, high efficiency housing with fire resistant materials and prevent future issues like this while also providing some relief to the housing issues in the area and showing how energy efficiency is the future of construction. Unfortunately these homes are going to be rebuilt as fast as possible for the families to move back in as fast as possible and they will use whatever is the cheapest and most accessible materials to make it happen. And this protection does nothing to stop that, and if anything encourages it by blocking the sales and pushing for individual rebuilds.

    With climate change pushing these fire to happen more often, this disaster that could be at least mitigated. Policy like this will only push for a future cycle of rebuild the same way followed by burning down the same way. And it is the poor and middle class footing the bill to the insurance companies charging whatever they want, knowing it is going to keep happening.