> When Boring Co.’s Davis called the Governor’s office the day the company received the citations, he spoke to Chris Reilly, the governor’s point person for state infrastructure, who was hired in 2024 after working at Tesla for more than seven years.

The revolving door continues to spin. Wouldn’t have guessed that a former Tesla executive now leading state infrastructure policy would give special treatment to another Musk-owned company.

Unsurprising but still despicable that the Boring Company disregards worker and emergency responder safety to this level, and that even a slap on the wrist fine was enough for them to go crying to the governor.

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testing22321 7 hours ago | parent [-]

With former pharmaceutical execs working at the FDA regulating drugs, former Boeing execs working at the FAA to regulate airlines and countless more examples it’s staggering corruption in the US isn’t talked about more.

It’s almost like the media companies no longer serve the population, and only serve the corrupt.

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mikeyouse 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s exceptionally weird to blame “the media” for this type of thing in the comments of a story that was researched, written, and published by the media. At some point we’re the problem. If we don’t take corruption seriously, and apparently we don’t given everything happening at the moment, that’s a reflection of us and our priorities.

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		but how did we get the priorities?

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Spooky23 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well, expect more. We’ve gutted the federal bureaucracy like a fish, anyone who wasn’t fired is leaving as soon as they can.

I’m hiring lots of amazing people from the feds. My client is going to make a fortune as the smartest people regulating them are now advocating for them. The government is, as intended, going to be generationally broken.

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Danjoe4 an hour ago | parent [-]

The government works better the fewer dollars and bureaucrats it has

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