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Musk threatens to fire federal employees who leak information during DOGE purge
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Why the fuck do they still write like this? DOGE isn't a department of the government, it's just Elon with a Carte Blanche. And there's nothing controversial about this, it's a coup in plain sight.
It actually is. They took a Obama-era department and rebranded it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_DOGE_Service
Which means it's full expanded name is "United States Department of Government Efficiency Service". Which is super efficient, isn't it?
The name may have already existed. But what Elon is doing in its name isn't what a governmental department does.
It is now. Elon Musk says so, and he bought a President.
Should be with the salute
Yes, but…a meme about an evil aspiring emperor manipulating those with the actual power behind the scenes in order to actually obtain that power is entirely appropriate.
And DOGE is pretty much the mirror of RAGE (Remove All Government Employees), which a pretty infamous techbro came up with.
And wasn't it originally going to have him and Ramaswamy or however the fuck you spell it as co-heads? Like, the top position was redundant out of the gate, and we're supposed to take its idea of "efficiency" seriously?
No, you're supposed to wonder what exactly its purpose is, who leads it, on what legal basis, and what the limits of its power are.
While 20-something year old unelected goons who won't say their names dismantle the government in a week.
It also bugs me how the O is stylized as a capital. In acronyms, isn't it proper to make it lowercase if it's a filler word like "of"?
And should he know this as an elite PoE (path of exile) player?
Don't you know why he did this in the first place?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin#Elon_Musk_and_Dogecoin
Omg makes sense now. I never followed that blatant meme coin.
Everything he ever does is a grift. I can't even imagine a life like that.
Depends, AOA is angle of attack. I'm sure there are more examples if I sit and think. The lowercase 'o' strikes me as more of a tech/internet thing, not traditional.
No I'm pretty sure lower case was always the case.
No, they just normally leave them out or capitalize. It really isn't common outside of computer-related stuff as far as I can think. I would be happy to be proven wrong if you have some examples.
Got a few more where 'of' gets a capital letter for you to ponder on.
TOEFL - Test of English as a Foreign Language
DOE - Department of Energy
Also other departments, DOD, DOJ, etc.
OOO -Out of office
MOA - Minute of Angle
I've always seen OoO for out of office. 🤷🏻
3 pages in, and haven't seen that, but okay.
https://www.google.com/search?q=out+of+office+abbreviation
🤷🏻 seen it all through my career
Returning to your initial complaint, I can't think of any government 'Department of' which is stylized like you would prefer. DOL, DOT, DOI, it just is the way they have always written them, so certainly not improper.
Yeah I guess you're right
It could also be straight-up omitted, such as with “United States of America” being U.S.A.
Ya this is also a good point.