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just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months ago

DOGE employee accidentally set his Google Calendar to 'public' — here’s what’s on it

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DOGE employee accidentally set his Google Calendar to 'public' — here’s what’s on it

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just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months ago
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The people behind centibillionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are largely unknown to the public. However, two journalists recently found a public Google Calendar for one DOGE staffer that sheds light on how the quasi-agency operates.Business Insider's...
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    Aren’t these guys supposed to be…clever?

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      No, they’re supposed to be fall guys.

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        Only the best people…

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        Sycophants

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    deleted by creator

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    Completely competent geniuses.

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      So stable too

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    So, I’ve seen this “centibillionaire” title a few times, but I believe it should be hecto(a?)billionaire if I have my metric prefixes correct.

    E.g. a centimeter is a hundredth of a meter, so a hundredth of a billion is 10mil.

    Shout-out to [email protected]

    Or maybe I’m out of the loop on the joke.

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      I totally would agree, except we’re using “billion [dollar]” and not “gigadollar”, so I think we’re already not using a metric term in the first place. It sounds to me like “billion” comes from Latin, and “cent-” as a Latin prefix would mean 100x, so my layman’s understanding is still satisfied with “centbillionaire”. Totally interested if I’m missing something, though.

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        Centi is divided by 100. Hecto is multiplied by 100.

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          Century, centennial, centipede, etc.

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            https://images.app.goo.gl/PpoMdsfakk26179w7

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              Yes, that’s how the Metric prefixes work, that’s already established. This is about other contexts where it can go either way.

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          That’s how it’s used with metric prefixes, but in other contexts you have to take into account the original meaning of the latin word. Centum means a hundred.

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            Centi still means one hundredth. https://images.app.goo.gl/PpoMdsfakk26179w7 You don’t know latin.

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              Centi is used in different ways, see centipeda, which means hundred-footed, not one hundredth of feet.

              I do admit I’m not a native speaker.

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            In the roman context, a single centurion would be 1/100 of an army grouping.

            But since we aren’t living in roman times, one cent is 1/100 of a dollar.

            Language is inconsistent in it’s usage of cent, so at best the term centibillionaire is confusing. Hectobillionaire has only one possible meaning, so if we’re inventing new words, probably should go with the option that’s more precise.

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          But 1 percent is 1 per 100.

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      Decitrillionaire

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      But 1 percent is 1 per 100.

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    DOGE is not yet an official federal agency authorized by Congress.

    not yet? could we fucking not?

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    So what was in the calendar? Can’t see the article with an addblocker.

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    look at this quasimodo lookin ass troglodyte. his body is even more fucked up. white supremacists who think they are pure and worthy of preservation are always the fugliest, most rendering error looking types ever.

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    What a dumb story, there’s nothing of interest on the calendar.

    In January, Sennott attended a 15-minute meeting on DOGE recruiting. Less than two weeks later, he attended a meeting instructing “special government employees” (Musk’s official designation) about the federal ethics rules that applied to them.

    That’s it.

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      sounds like they couldn’t come up with 5 bullet points

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    Only commenting on the picture: this guy always looks like he wants to give me candy from his van.

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