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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 103 points 1 day ago (5 children)

And why couldn’t they have done that to the student loans system?

Like JFC, they could have instantly made themselves immune from trial-by-jury anywhere in America by doing that one tiny thing.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago

Oh for something important like that we have backups.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Student loans are loans from third party lenders which are cosigned by the federal government for collateral.

Even if every government record of it were destroyed, the loan servicers would have perfect multiple ledger copies of it all.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Fight Clubs HATE this one simple trick!

[–] ApertureUA@lemmy.today 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Probably not one of the 96(+) databases they had :(

DROP TABLE students

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

Peter Thiel probably has a backup copy now from doge unfortunately.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wasn't that a premise in Mr Robot?

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

It was kinda the premise of Fight Club, although private sector instead of public