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Elon Puts Kid Who Just Graduated From High School in Charge of Disemboweling the US Government (futurism.com)

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What's the federal budget for sippy cups?

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

From TFA:

"One, a senior adviser to the director, is a 21-year-old whose online resume touts his work for Palantir," per Wired, while another "who reports directly to Scales, graduated from high school in 2024." A copy of the latter's resume include his summer internship with Musk's Neuralink, alongside jobs as — we assure you that we are not joking — a camp counselor and bike mechanic.

Can you imagine the damage to those kids' careers when the dust settles after the collapse of the American reich, when their resume reads:

2021-2024: high school
Summer of 2024: camp counselor
Autumn of 2024: bike mechanic
2025 -: destruction of the United States

Kinda hard to find a jobs with a resume like that...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 16 hours ago

I started working on bicycles at 5 years old.

Apparently I'm qualified to do [redacted] things...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

Did Nestle also go under?