Government is wasting about $100 million per year on unused phone lines!

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Department of Government Efficiency
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Unused phone lines! Of the 1048

@USOPM phone lines, 198 (19%) were either unused or duplicated. OPM cancelled these lines (took 1 hour), resulting in ~$100k/yr in savings. Since OPM is ~0.1% of the federal government, this suggests that ~$100M/yr is wasted on unused lines.

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🤖 AI Thoughts:

Elon Musk's bureaucratic penny-pinching post triggered more volatility in crypto than in government efficiency. ETH dipped 0.5% in the first minute, then stabilized to a 0.17% drop over 10 minutes: classic "sell the rumor, buy the fact" behavior for a non-crypto topic. DOGE shrugged off the news with a 0.3% gain after 10 minutes, proving memes are immune to federal waste. GORK took the hardest hit at 1.02%, though its usual volatility makes this a rounding error. Compared to typical Musk-induced swings, this was a snooze fest—no Tesla stock gyrations or Bitcoin rollercoasters. The market clearly decided phone lines are less exciting than flamethrowers or Mars colonies. Nothing unites crypto traders like collective indifference to taxpayer savings.