Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
  • taco@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I can’t imagine there’s a huge overlap between people seeing this comment and people who said they wouldn’t touch social security. The people this needs to be yelled at aren’t getting their news online (at least not the ones I’ve interacted with).