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Their cowardice is palpable. If only NASA could run experiments so that we could understand how the concept of fear-based self preservation eliminates any semblance of courage when faced with even the smallest threat to their ill-defined paradigm of manhood.
In a parallel universe where we have a functioning federal government, I’d imagine something like this would be worthy of a grant or two.
If only NASA could run experiments so that we could understand how the concept of fear-based self preservation eliminates any semblance of courage when faced with even the smallest threat to their ill-defined paradigm of manhood.
You're significantly underestimating how many Chud engineers NASA employs. The agency that was founded by Nazis refugees has always had a shit history on race politics, cinema hagiographies produced decades later notwithstanding.
In a parallel universe where we have a functioning federal government
One of the biggest jokes of the US depiction of the Space Race was how many times we got our asses drubbed by Russians with less money, manpower, and educational resources, simply because our administration was so cartoonishly incompetent. We have an obscenely wealthy federal government that can afford to fuck up on the scale of trillions of dollars and still come out ahead.
Isn't there an entire movie about racism in NASA that's basically just a feel good story for white people?
Hidden Figures. More or less "The Help" for NASA dweebs.
It concedes that black women were instrumental in developing and executing a successful space race, but gets really cagey around questions like "Why did NASA only have a White Men's Restroom to begin with?", "What caused us to omit people like this in films like Apollo 13 or The Right Stuff?", and "How come the women who pioneered implementation of Fortran at NASA weren't able to pivot into senior administrative roles, private contracting firms, or academic positions like their male peers?"
Imagine dreaming to fly to space only to be denied having it because you also cared about the rights of indigenous people.
They're getting ready to colonize ~~Gaza~~ Klandathu. They can't be caring about the indigenous life. /s
Do you want to know more?
Totally normal.
Why doesn’t Trump like MSI laptops? I think they’re great for gaming in space
Sounds like a paid day off
good ol' Bobby Tables
Cracking on with the important shit, I see.
At least make sure to update all graphics to webp while executing hate based updates.
Janet Petro—the first woman to hold the position since its founding 67 years ago—wrote that diversity programs “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination,”
In 2021, when she was the director of Kennedy Space Center, she spoke at length in an interview about the value of diversity, saying “our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility has been paramount to mission success.”
The turnaround is giving me whiplash.
There's no begrudging following of the rules, it's wholeheartedly embracing the new regime.
This is just another version of pulling the ladder up behind them, no?
DEI is largely about raising the profiles of minority workers in roles and positions that were both vital to mission success and underpaid/underappreciate-for-promotion relative to the whiter career roles.
Petro's following in the grand tradition of Boomer senior leaders by pulling the ladder up behind her now that she's at the top.
You beat me by a minute with that thought! 😆
I was told to change gender to sex on the apps I develop. I'm pushing to have it removed all together because it's a field that has no relevance and the order is fucking dumb. My niece is trans saying they don't exist doesn't make them not exist.
The quote from the email isn't her words. They were given to her (and all agency heads) to send out to their workforce to implement the EO. It should not be taken as "embracing the new regime".
She sent the email. They're her words now.
So... "she's just following orders"?
If it quacks like a duck and steps like a goose…
When it is easy everyone thinks they are Oskar Schindler but when it is hard most people are Hugo Boss.
If you have the funds, please support Internet Archives.
Just did yesterday after putting it off for some months
With internet archive head quarters being in the US what would happen if the administration went after them? Would people from other countries be able to keep the project going?
We need to distribute all that data, for the sake of history in the future. Data hoarding and torrenting is a service to humanity.
Not just data but in important scientific research too. The republicans want to drive the US back to the stone age, because that's when they were last relevant.
😇 in my mind, I included those datasets in data
But sure! I agree! We need free and open science, worldwide
People need to understand the art of scientific thinking
I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?
because it's not and never was about that and by the time everyone else realises it will be too late to stop it without great effort
lmao it's already too late
I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?
The best way to understand DOGE is to be aware of what it really means: Department of Government Enshitification. The entire point of it is to generally degrade the quality of government.
Because it gives SpaceX an edge over NASA if you delegate menial tasks to PhD level people.
Oh, just scrubbing MENTIONS of them. Whew!
...for now.
