"use their personal card for work travel and then file paperwork for reimbursement"
Oh no, you mean like 80% of businesses do?

THE HORROR that someone is actually checking this shit off and signing for it.

Oh, and then the person themselves gets the rewards for their travel which is pretty awesome, instead of the organization using some GSG9's ff miles so Hegseth can pinch the stewardii in first class.

Tell me you don't do actual work without outright saying it.

The kind of people who are wanting/trying/thinking about killing excel are, in my view the same people who believe the same thing about email, and think you can do useful ongoing work communication on teams or other shit-chat platforms.

In May DOGE deactivated more than a HALF MILLION credit cards that were just floating around in Gov't slush drawers that couldn't be attributed to a specific employee, and this was noted as "nearly 10% of all the official credit cards held by the federal govt"...meaning the gov't had 5 MILLION open cc accounts.

I guess I'm not seeing the problem here.

In a "standard" investigation the police might get an eyewitness account of a crime where the suspect is described in detail.

At what point do they need a warrant?

According to your logic, a warrant would be required before they knock on the eyewitness's door and ask if he's seen anything suspicious.

Oh shut the fuck up with your tiresome bullshit.

I honestly don't give the slightest fuck if a family member is convicted of a crime because of my DNA sample. In fact I'd be delighted.

DNA is pretty low error.

US imports are up 10%?

That's funny, all the Internet experts here on slashdot insisted, INSISTED that the widespread application of tariffs was going to ruin our economy.

That's curious, didn't you think?

It might stop him from increasing the number of victims.

"I'm not crying over this news."

The relatives and victims of the killers/rapists/whatever who will now get away with their crimes will be the ones who do the crying.

I guess I'm a grumpy old codger, but I simply don't understand how people get sucked into stuff like that.

I buy what I need, and replace it when it breaks beyond repair. I try to get stuff of good quality, even when it costs a bit more, and I'll try to fix it if it quits. I'll buy "cheap junk" if it's something like a paint brush that I'm going to use once and throw out.

I don't know why schools don't teach financial literacy. Parents used to do that with their kids, starting with "Here's your allowance, this is what you get for the week". But now it seems the parents themselves don't have any understanding of money management either.

Feels like a simple thing to audit: snap inspection and see the average ages of currently in use equipment.
If it's what they're claiming, give them a refund.

So the various state attorneys general got huge settlement for these.

As long as we are bitching about harming the poor... Shall we ask what % of those settlement ended up in, say, the actual hands of poor customers?

Just wondering.

Ironically the only streaming service I know of that doesn't interrupt with ads is.... Netflix.

Yes, I believe there are several others that if you pay enough (generally a LOT more) you can avoid them.

I'm not defending the system, because I too think it's broken... But please let me know a society where the rich don't get more of what they want?

And before you reply with something like "but in my country they can't buy their way out of a parking ticket" note that I'm not defining "rich" either. Generally assertions of virtue in this context merely means the price is higher and/or indirect, ie hiring better lawyers, funding the right politician in the next election, or donating to the right thing.

Well....

shucky darn.

John Deere remotely disabled a bunch of tractors that Russians stole from Ukraine in 2022.

Now Porsche can do the same thing to all of their vehicles in Russia.