this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 147 points 1 day ago (4 children)

LMAO watch the US be saved by an inability of Muskys frat bois to understand COBOL

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 84 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dont even program and i could've told them it was probably a placeholder or default value lol "durrrrrr lot of people in this database were born at the exact same time on the same day in the same year that predates electronic databases, gotta be fraud!!1!1!11"

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 day ago

Also predates social security. It's the long con for sure.

[–] Souroak@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 1 day ago

2016-2020 was the age of too stupid to break everything. Now we're staring down the barrel of "The files are in the computer?" But the entire US government is the computer.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 day ago

More likely they nuke it due to that lack of understanding.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

They'd probably just delete the Cobol code since "nobody would use that old stuff anyway".