• Kirp123@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Didn’t we know this was the case like right as they posted it? I remember they even had to change shit on the website because people were pointing it out how unrealistic it was.

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      7 days ago

      Yes, for sure. Immediately.

      I was on a $9M research contract that was cancelled by DOGE. Their website listed that contract as $9M saved. The problem? We were nearly done with the work. We had spent $8M.

      The remaining $1M of work was data review, publishing findings, and preparing public datasets and documentation.

      So they only “saved” $1M. But really, they lost $8M because at contract end we were instructed to destroy all the collected data and the government ended up with basically nothing. So that work and those findings will never see the light of day.

      Cancelling that contract at that point was the work of fucking idiots.

      That’s just one story. The DOGE website has thousands of cancelled contracts listed.

      • Spot@startrek.website
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        6 days ago

        I know why the news is running stories likes this… but, Why isn’t the new running stories like this?!! It’s scandalous but in a sfw way you can gossip around the water cooler about, and easy to understand.

        Ugh. I hate this reality.

    • gibmiser@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Well to be fair to the pieces of shit, they didn’t write anything and probably only read half of what their Ai shat out.

    • TheFogan@programming.dev
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      7 days ago

      Not even just unrealistic, if I recall it regularly was posting the same handful of things multiple times