Comment

Comment by derangedHorse

> DOGE wasn't an audit. It was an excuse to exfiltrate mountains of your sensitive data into their secret models and into places like Palantir

Do you have any actual evidence of this?

> I recommend anyone presume the best of actual people and the worst of our corporations and governments

Corporations and governments are made of actual people.

> Then presumably the game is finding the best way to turn you into a human slave of the state.

"the state" doesn't have one grand agenda for enslavement. I've met people who work for the state at various levels and the policies they support that might lead towards that end result are usually not intentionally doing so.

"Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence"

parent derangedHorse 11 months ago

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton