Can we skip the ones where he was just a sperm donor with no intention to be a father?

At least those ones don’t have a “father” and it was intentional from before conception…

Cory makes a secret hand signal…

Senator: I have ONE question for you Cory - makes long question so he can take a piss

or

Senator: I have TWO questions for you Cory - now he can go take a shit

You don’t even need this to have happened given what he’s done with DOGE and his buying an election. People would have still hated him, just not as many.

Craziness aside, what would be a good language to redo a critical system like this in?

Lots of hype around rust lately, but not sure if that’s appropriate?

Is this one of the things where no one was fired because they were all laid off and it’s word games?

That would be interesting ya. I don’t think there would be any way to recoup the cost for the person calling is sick on Friday semi frequently or similar things, but for the people who are gaming the system and didn’t work for a year, if they found a way to abuse it, it’d probably make sense if you truly were that suspicious.

The Tesla show rooms / delivery centers aren’t dealerships in the traditional sense. It’s all Tesla. Tesla could have just dumped paperwork on a less busy area and said file all this shit.

Edit: and I agree, it’s fishy and should be investigated, but all the calls that it IS fraud are really premature.

Or as I said in my OP, a backlog they were forced to deal with when they were advised it was about to run out.

Saying it’s fraud doesn’t make it fraud. The investigation will tell us if it was fraud.

They can’t. The server is in the basement of a friend’s house (not a government employee) because they got a really good deal on it!

The story explains what their mistake was that others pointed out to them.

Well clearly there’s something that’s allowed to be done as that article is about a guy that has a business determining if its legit or not?

But that’s an investigator, not the employer, so maybe that makes a difference?

I don’t think I’d ever call behemoth corporations efficient.

I imagine they probably don’t want to release the information that would prove it if they could, and if they did it’d be redacted enough that no one would believe it anyway. It also costs money to fight endless things like this.

Ultimately, if the government comes back and says its legit, then people will believe it. If it’s fraud, there should be punishment.

That whole 1.5 billion accounting fraud story last week, I don’t think Tesla said anything official about it or done anything at least to specifically disprove it, but the FT has now retracted the story saying they made a mistake.

Option 1: Tesla fraudulently filed rebates

Option 2: Tesla filed a backlog of rebates when they realized they had to

Both are possible, but everyone is jumping to conclusion that it’s option 1, while option 2 is the easier answer.

Also the government said they’re going to let all the other rebates that this pushed out at the last minute get the rebate regardless of if these were legit or not.

I don’t know if it was all the sick workers, but a lot of those workers hadn’t been to work all year (around September at the time).

Apparently it’s not abnormal for people to abuse the system there and do things like this.

There was some stuff about patterns of a subset of workers taking Fridays off sick as well.

So it doesn’t actually seem as outright bad if they were investigating abuse. However, if it was just a random person being sick, that would be very bad.

Edit: This is a terrible source I’m sure, but just an example that its a prevalent problem and there’s even a business up about finding out if people are cheating the system - https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2024/12/30/germanys-sick-leave-detectives-are-on-the-case-as-absenteeism-hits-records-and-company-pocketbooks/161436

He said he would do all he can.

We know what his best is now.

Oh wow, proof it also has disappearing messages enabled.

I don’t know the legality of the messages being able to disappear, but the fact it’s enabled is a clear cut violation of the law.

Has there ever been a finished civ game on launch since DLC existed?

They’ll just find cash jobs instead of the risk of being deported for paying taxes.

We know USDT doesn’t actually hold a dollar for a dollar. Assuming they even pass an audit, it includes things such as but maybe not specifically real estate that don’t have relatively fixed values.

AFAIK usdc is actually better pegged. Dollars, bonds etc.

The only buyer you need for USDC would be circle or coinbase, you don’t need anyone else.

Edit: I don’t know what the status of the reserves would be should they go bankrupt though. E.g would a non usdc holder have any claim over the billions in usdc in a bankruptcy proceeding.