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Making Lemons Into Lemonade

Robert Rackley
Robert Rackley
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In the making lemons into lemonade department, I’ve got something to teach my son nearly every day about what happens when you elect immoral, incompetant people to run your government. My son is a sysadmin for a Minecraft server with an interest in technology. On Friday, I was able to use a very visually demonstrative example of how your cybersecurity is impacted when people who don’t know the slightest thing about what they are doing take over.

I’m not suprised that a government agency named after a memecoin and its juvenile employees can’t secure a basic website, but it’s definitely concerning when those people illegally gain access to the Treasure Department systems.

Today comes news that the memecoin infantilists fired critical nuclear weapons workers and are quickly trying to bring them back. I keep hearing what a genius this Elon Musk guy is and apparently people want him to do to the government what he did to Xitter. Xitter lost 80% of its market value in just two years after the guy took over. It does take quite a magician to make value disappear so quickly. Alakazam, baby!

I almost forgot about Musk spreading the false rumor that the Social Security Administration was giving benefits to 150-year-olds because his crew didn't understand the COBOL systems.

There will be lots of teachable moments for my son. I just hope the country he lives in won’t have collapsed by the time he is old enough to put them into use.

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Robert Rackley

Robert Rackley

Mere Christian, aspiring minimalist, inveterate notetaker, budget audiophile and paper airplane mechanic. Self-publishing since 1994. Fan of the open web.

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