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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste.  Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week.   They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work.   [b]You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!. [/b]

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission.   stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful. [/quote]

You can look at Twitter and see that this statement is false.  [/quote]

factually wrong.

Twitter makes less money because Elon has alienated advertisers, yes.

But the site itself works better, is stable, is being upgraded consistently will little negatives, and is a great example that there was a lot of waste at that company. [/quote]

The site itself is unreliable, overrun by bots, and hardly works at all anymore.  [/quote]

+1, the interface is less functional and it doesn't actually provide people with the useful features we used to want. No one really uses it anymore. Musk also didn't alienate advertisers. He alienated users, including the people who created the content people most wanted to see and read. He didn't seem to understand -- that *was* the product. The platform mattered, but not as much as the content, which people were providing for free! And when those creators stopped using Twitter or left altogether, so too did their followers.

I used to go on Twitter 10-20x a day. Actually didn't use it for political content much except maybe right around an election. I read it for local news and events, to follow writers I liked, to discuss my main hobbies and to connect to people with similar passions to mine in the arts. If I was a young person joining "X" today, I couldn't do any of that. Those people aren't even on the platform or if they are, they don't post much. And when they do post, the odds of me seeing their posts are slim because the interface is not designed to show me what I want, it's designed to show me what Musk wants me to see. And he doesn't care about my interest in Dutch painting, knitting, or road trip photography.

Musk is completely detached from his humanity. That might make it easier for him to figure out to more efficiently build an electric vehicle or a rocket. But by being less human, less connected to his fellow humans, by being totally lacking in empathy, he misunderstands why something like Twitter, or the US federal government, exists in the first place. These are not efficient machines. Twitter was a community. The United States is a country, a culture, a society. You can make aspects of these things more efficient. There is always room for improvement. But the Silicon Valley ethos of breaking it so you can rebuild it better doesn't work with something that is, in its nature, a form of humanity. You cannot break humanity and then rebuild it better. A human is not a machine.[/quote]

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