• TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl
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    7 days ago

    ITT: People who doesn’t read the article. These science institutions shouldn’t be used for fucking politics.

    I wonder if something from the list published in this article has any relation to science or space. Yeah sure, let’s go with “DEI and other Inclusivity programs are NECESSARY for space survival”. I wonder what’s the objective of NASA.

    Lol don’t worry, this Astronaut knows pronouns. /s

  • Psaldorn@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    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

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      8 days ago

      You are pissed at another kid, so you find a dog turd near the playground and you throw it his way.

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    8 days ago

    Okay, okay, yeah is it bad? Yeah it’s bad but listen up libs - Remember when Harris was being reported as focusing on the middle class during her four month campaign? Huh? Yeah. That’s why this is happening. And we were right to not fight against this fascist horror with the one thing that would have mattered, our vote. She should have paid more attention to people who have it bad.

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      8 days ago

      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?

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        8 days ago

        We need to distribute all that data, for the sake of history in the future. Data hoarding and torrenting is a service to humanity.

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          7 days ago

          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.

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    8 days ago

    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.

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      8 days ago

      When it is easy everyone thinks they are Oskar Schindler but when it is hard most people are Hugo Boss.

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        8 days ago

        Sun-Tzu actually described how this works with soldiers, and how do you work with such gentle material. I’d say his book’s parts on psychology are about making a Hugo Boss from a wannabe Oskar Schindler, but if one applies his advice to oneself, one can put different goals.

        I also like Marcus Aurelius.