GloriousGbola: it was the same case with the BBC story
like i said before - all these 'exposes' are noise for the barely literate. the court of public opinion.
the Doge team are computer programmers barely out of school. they are inexperienced. they are mid twenties
this is a feature not a bug
Elon wants impressionable inexperienced zealots who will take instructions without question. kids who will follow instructions without question because they have complete faith in the dear leader.
you will note there are no reports of actual supervisors
most importantly, as i have seen noted elsewhere - if you want to uncover fraud, you get actual experienced forensic accountants, not wet behind the ears computer programmers
the irony is some of those cheering for this actually know this is all BS because they actually have an audit background.
is this how audits are run in professional organisations?
incidentally, this is also how Sanusi was embarrassed as CBN governor when conducting an investigation and announcing figures that had to be amended.
this is the type of shit we get from EFCC - the court of public opinion - going around half cocked announcing results of barely started investigations
this is what Musk is unleashing on the federal government - literal children with no work experience given the duty of evaluating senior employees.
even worse from what is coming out - the team are a bunch of racist, edgelord - its just a joke bro trolls
Why in your opinion would you call 19-24 year olds impressionable and 'a bunch of kids' when the same children can be drafted for war at 18. Democrats have been the ones calling for youth in govt but it looks like that works only for Democrats themselves. The fact that even lawmakers have now turned to lying to the public(which thinking about it is not new) to escape from audits. DOGE is not just 20 year old engineers- they have been calling for recruits since November and have almost 112 staffs working hours a week on this- the media just want you to think that🤷🏾♂️.
I've been reading comments here about Elon Musk, DOGE and USAID and it's quite puzzling how there's a lot of misinformation about the whole issue especially from Democrats here. There're significant amounts of information directly from the Treasury Department on X and the official websites but nobody has time for real information but information about what factors their side 🤷🏾♂️. That's such a shame.
I have relatives and friends who worked for USAID and I can tell it's a fact that it's a corrupt organisation - 37% of its budget of 40 billion goes directly back to officials in DC- the fact that Democrats are complaining about Elon Musk DOGE and not even giving any thought about the waste is quite strange and the fact that Sen. Elizabeth Warren literally said 'ordinary citizens shouldn't know what's happening with their tax dollars' is so stupid.
The fact the New York judge not only stated that the head of the Treasury Department should not have access to his own files but also to destroy evidence, documents of what DOGE found out should make you actually sit back and think.
They're saying Elon Musk is trying to make money off of tax payers is laughable 😂😂# the Dems are so disjointed that they don't even know who to fight back or complain about😂. Man this is a really entertaining timeline in the US😂😂
can someone tell me why Invincible animation sucks ass! This is like the worst kind of animation I've ever seen! No wind no fire no action back-drawings or effects. I was watching solo leveling and I was comparing😭 at least there are great action sequences and people's hair blow in the wind in the latter- in invincible it's like they just keyframe character's position and call it animation
OhBritannia: The Substance is a solid 8.5/10 for me.
This movie would have easily be a 10/10 for me but the ending ruined everything. All the great work and storyline all ruined with that childish ending, looking like a low budget horror scene from the 80s. Apart from the childish ending, the movie is a great movie, perhaps one of the best movies made in the last decade.
These people keep trying to tell the world something through their movies and only few people keep getting it. This is more than a movie, this is a revelation and i hope few people get what they are trying to reveal to us.
abduleez1: Despite the franchise power I can assure you if you put a weaker actor in a well known IP it'll underperform.
And REBIRTH is the perfect movie to test this my theory. Since all movies in the last trilogy all grossed $1bn+.
I can tell you for free, BARBIE wouldn't have crossed a billion if it wasn't for Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig. And a good movie. Put in an Anya Taylor-Joy & Chloe Zhao and the results will be different.
Chris Pratt name doesn't bring money?? Lmao... No talk this thing for outside make dem no slap you. 😤😅 Have you checked that guy's movie list...you want a franchise to do really well at the BO, Chris Pratt is your go-to. And it works every damn time...is it animation or live action, he delivers. Someone that was being casted too much in movies I was seeing people crying why he's in everything. He's easily one of the most popular male actors presently.
In fact, Chris Pratt is a meme for a studio's easy cash grab franchise movie.
There're a lot of billion dollar movies without actor's star power tho. I get your point but sometimes only franchise name power is needed to make a lot of money
BlackManta: Jurassic World Rebirth is the clear winner of July box office.
Most of the July movie tickets will be going to the Dinosaurs first, it is a guaranteed billion dollar movie.
Superman and F4 will compete for whatever's left
It doesn't help that both Superman and F4 have similar vibes. Hence this is not another Barbernheimer situation.
One of them is bound to underperform.
I'm just glad Superman is coming out first with a 2 weeks headstart.
I sincerely hope Superman performs sincerely because DC needs this. There're a lot of cool stories in DC that have not been tapped at all - we have just seen only the tip of the iceberg
abduleez1: I still don't buy this new Jurassic movie hitting $1bn. I might come back to eat my words but my intuition strongly doesn't see it, even if the previous movies were box office juggernauts. I felt same way for WICKED and MUFASA despite all the online rave and shouts. And my guts didn't fail me.
Yeah, Superman and F4 both have similar vibes and that's why I don't like their proximity.
Either way, I feel Superman would pull huge crowds. It's between it and Jurassic World that would win July box office. Rebirth looks like a $750-850mn+ movie to me....not a billion.
Has new stars nowhere near No Chris Pratt or the former legacy actors to boost this one. New story.
Maybe but Chris Pratt name doesn't bring money nor the actors themselves - it's the franchise. I can almost guarantee a billion esp if the movie is actually good. It's a Jurassic movie - nostalgia bait plus children here lovers dinosaurs so children equals family equals money. That's the reason the Minecraft movie will hit 900m minimum
BlackManta: I don't get the hype around Fantastic Four.
My first introduction to this group was the 2005 movie and nothing about them felt remarkable to me. I can't remember anything from those movies, it was average and forgettable.
I watched Spiderman 1 and 2 for the first time around that same period and I instantly became a fan.
There was a 2015 movie that I have not seen to this day.
I think people find this one interesting because it's a new MCU team. Eternals got plenty of hype too when the trailer came out. I don't think anybody remembers the previous F4 movies.
That's because you're a marvel movie fan - every fantastic 4 movie has been shit mostly because of the direction and because the rights aren't owned by Disney but 20th century Fox. But in the comics- they're one of or even the most significant team in Marvel studios - they're the first comics ever in superhero Comics history - first ever drawn up heroes by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. They're the ones who fight of the worst the greatest villains in Marvel - Doctor Doom and Galactus so they're pretty very significant - they were just in the wrong hands in terms of movies that's why
abduleez1: Yeah. I believe both will do well. I'm not scared at all about anyone failing at the box office. It's just that they'd both cannibalise money off each other, seeing as they're both the same genre and somehow have similar style.
Ultimately, I think SUPERMAN would fare better. Just that F4 gives Marvel lovers alternatives during that time. And the fact that there's also Jurassic World in that timeframe is why I don't like their proximity.
Anyways, let the best man win. It's an interesting month to gauge audience interest and patterns.
F4 will probably do better esp if Superman is not fun to watch for kids and comic fans
GloriousGbola: honestly 90% of the time, it is those that pay for software that get shafted
and they are all getting out of control with enshittification where even premium users still get hit with ads
or adobe charges you to end your subscription.
the only downside of piracy where software is concerned is you provide your own support and you may have to wait for crack updates to be released when the game gets a major update
obligatory meme
Exactly 😭 no significant downside to pirating. Plus the amount of data and personal information this companies get and sell to others also😩 Is insane. It's when I even got to this country I knew piracy was actually a crime - I didn't even know downloading films were bad and windows was not free 😂. The popularity of movies and games will not be anything if not for piracy in my opinion so they should give us our flowers
GloriousGbola: youtube premium does not work with any of my cards spotify works with my zenith. and it was abduleez1's post that made me remember i have a spotify subscription i am not using. i am on a family plan .it is mostly my kids who use spotify
for the past two years, most dollar denominated online purchases have been hit and miss some are even a case of works today, not working tomorrow
i like video games the following are platforms that you can buy vieo games licenses from
steam - the best but no regional pricing. used to be able to buy from there until sometime last year epic games - not as goos as stem, but they had regional pricing - and i used to be able to buy from there microsoft store - hit and miss and games you but from there are configured differently - however, they have regional pricing and IN NAIRA
summary even though games bought from ms store can be wonky, i usually buy games from them - because they are available and tehy are cheaper - though they also come with their own k-leg.
You cannot be more right sir🔥🔥. This is not just about Spotify - the amount of subscriptions you have to use esp if you're a gamer, a designer and work with computers. Just a year ago, I was paying for Adobe Creative Suites Spotify Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus. Spending like approximately $100 a month and I was not even getting what I need and I was not even using them much. I later discovered that ACS restrictions were worse than the cracked version because of the many restrictions it came with, you had to keep signing up and using the internet to keep access to tools you'd never use - the same with the movie streaming services - I watch only like 5 movies in a month for each when I can just download clearer 1080p and even 4k versions of every movie and show that comes out of the streaming i.e. I'm paying for lesser quality 😭.
Also I play a lot of video games too and I can tell you- paying for a video game esp when it's on PC and not on PS5 or XBox is absolute burning of money 😩- you're not even buying the game but a licence to the game. If the game doesn't have enough players, they could end your pass 🤦🏾♂️.
And you're getting an even worse version of the game sometimes, for example Red Dead Redemption 2 I once bought after playing the pirated version because I loved the game and wanted to support the company. I realised the game was running on 40-53fps and laggy when cracked versions were giving 60-100fps reason because of the insane restrictions in the game code to stop piracy thereby slowing down the game 🤦🏾♂️. Why pay for worse
DieRich5: many adapted series from book, game or anime mostly ended as disappointment like this night Agent or maybe the book itself is not that nice too
The book being bad doesn’t mean the end of S1 was a finished product tho. There’re still a lot of things to uncover. There’ll definitely be a s3
oyaskii: Only Zoe Saldana deserves to walk out of all these unscathed, her performance deserves it, but i fear, all these noise envelopes it all. I am wholly in support of quite frankly, one of the worst films in recent memory failing at the biggest stage after been propped up there by misguided critics nonsense propagandist agenda...see it's failure will bring me untold respite ngl 👌🏿.
Am I the only one that thinks Zoe Saldana's acting in the movie sucked ass and the only reason people are rooting for her is just because they like her as a person and not the performance. Ariana Grande did a totally better job with the other nominees. Are we going to forget Saldana gave the cringiest musical performance in musicals history. Please guys watch this and tell me how the Oscars looked at this and gave director nomination over Denis Villeneuve
IngeniousLeez: Overly racist and annoying comments over the years you just begin to wonder who's safe from his Ire.
The Oscars is now in a conundrum, to drop this shït and lose credibility or stick with their atrocious propaganda to save face.
Netflix got themselves in a royal shitstorm.
The fact that a little digging could have solved all the problems. Bro was using Twitter as his moodboard😂 Twitter seriously has demons. 90% of Oscar controversies would be solved is people keep their thoughts to themselves and not on Twitter
oyaskii: These sequence of events that has unravelled, this past week, couldn't have happened to a more disgusting and hypocritical movie such as this dirtbag of a flick.
The Oscars should feel real stupid now, ignoring valid calls before those nominations came out, and going ahead to make this one of the highest nominated flick ever as per the Academy awards. Now they are in a pickle, If this trash goes on to win any of the big 5 awards, literally everyone is gonna eat the oscars up for been tone deaf to a movie that has pulled one of the greatest gaslight in modern cinema, but then again, if after 13 nominations, it ends up winning nothing because of the ongoing debacle, it further exposes how fraudulent and hypocritical the charade of the Academy awards has become...real ones know they hold zero credibility at this point anyways.
Only Zoe Saldana deserves to walk out of all these unscathed, her performance deserves it, but i fear, all these noise envelopes it all. I am wholly in support of quite frankly, one of the worst films in recent memory failing at the biggest stage after been propped up there by misguided critics nonsense propagandist agenda...see it's failure will bring me untold respite ngl 👌🏿.
I was literally the happiest person ever when the story unfolded on Twitter. The fact that the Oscars already had a big announcement and speech planned to honour his nomination as the first trans person to get it is hilarious plus former nominees have to come on stage to stay great things about the 2025 nominees😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 bonkers! This just shows their nominations are always political not merit based!