Maybe it’s just me, but I think there is room for improvement here

X ^ | 2/11/25 | Elon Musk

[hardspunned]

Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months.

[hardspunned]

The catacombs for the dead (still being paid) retired shadow staters. Elon needs to show respect for the undead federal workers wandering this purgatory.

[Jonty30]

That is so advanced. It’s so futuristic that it looks primitive.

[cgbg]

Yup—it looks like Elon found the retirement system.

His description is totally accurate—takes more than a month to process the paperwork—and yeah it is literally paperwork sent by snail mail.

[Sequoyah101]

Just saving money. /s

[FreedomPoster]

Wow. Just damn.

[Col Frank Slade]

Look for JFK info there.

[BenLurkin]

Well, they’re not worried about an EMP.

[TornadoAlley3]

https://youtu.be/j4WB6TJW0lU

Muskrat Love

[PGalt]

HOORAY Elon!

[bigbob]

Iron Mountain:

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/01/inside-iron-mountain.html

[Lockbox]

0.65 papers per worker done per work day! Wow! Words escape me…

[Apparatchik]

[Dan Zachary]

Dang, thought this was the Bee or something. Getting difficult to tell what is true and what is satire anymore.

[MinorityRepublican]

Even in 1950s-1960s, we were starting to use mainframe computers. Or at least, that's what the corporations used.

So we are still doing what we did during WWII.

Almost 100 years ago.

[MinorityRepublican]

Look for JFK info there.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Now imagine Elon’s entourage matching those records against voter rolls.

[Jane Long]

h/t Lakeside Granny ...

[desertsolitaire]

I learned my first computer language Fortran, on a Univac computer at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, MI. The U.P. The mainframe Computer occupied two air-conditioned floors of the EERC building. We programmed with punch cards. It was a wild time. Anyone remember Byte magazine?

[desertsolitaire]

1977

[Rio]

But they have proper fire suppression system.