https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
For reference, SSA has roughly twice as many lines of code written in COBOL as the Linux kernel has lines of code written in C.
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Will it be like Office Space where the rounded off cents goes to an offshore slush fund owned by a shell corporation?
Will there be conjugal visits?
Come on, this isn't Riyadh. They're not gonna saw your hands off, all right? The worst they can do is put you for a couple of months into a while collar, minimum security resort!