Congrats Dijkstra!

That moment when you connect to production instead of staging and run your DELETE query without a WHERE clause. First comes panic, then comes the twisted acceptance that you've just created tomorrow's emergency meeting. Eight million rows gone and somehow you're sitting there with a smile because hey – at least the query was efficient! Nothing quite says "senior developer" like the calm that comes after realizing you've achieved catastrophic success.

This is a masterclass in legacy systems biting back! The tweet explains how Social Security runs on COBOL (a programming language from the 1950s) where dates are stored using the ISO 8601 standard with an epoch starting 150 years ago (1875). So when a date is unknown, it defaults to zero, which COBOL interprets as 1875. The humor comes from Donald Trump Jr. misinterpreting Elon Musk's comment about this technical quirk as evidence of "150-year-old people collecting Social Security" – when it's actually just a database returning default epoch values! It's the perfect intersection of ancient programming languages, government systems that never get updated, and non-technical people drawing wild conclusions. Mainframe programmers are cackling while pouring another cup of coffee right now.

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