• Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
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    I know I’ve wanted younger people in government, but I was hoping for people in their 30’s or 40’s. These kids can’t even rent a car legally. I’ve got a feeling that they’re just puppets.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    Holy shit, I had to check whether this was the onion or not on this one.

    I susppect that billionaires prefer young people in certain roles because many young people lack the experience to recognize evil instructions.

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    “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.

    Although both these tykes are ostensibly poised to rip and tear through America’s federal agencies, Wired declined to name them “because of their ages” — a somewhat baffling choice given that both appear to be of legal age. (And if they’re not, well, that’s a much bigger problem.)

    At least the 5th article shitting on wired for not naming them…

    But no one else has the names besides Wired?

    Like, I agree they should disclose the names, but I don’t understand why no one else can find out who these “kids” are.

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      Most “news” sites don’t partake in actual journalism, they just shit out news from other sites. It’s kind of like the human centipede, it’s all shit beyond a single, original source.

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      High school in the US goes up until you are 20? Or was he behind a couple of years