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US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

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Re: US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

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Post by halJordan »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #345

They certainly can name their new price due to urgency but struggles is a bit of an overstretch. They certainly know where they live. A knock at the door with flowers and a big bonus check will do.

Can you just please read the article? The bbc writes to about a sixth grade standard.

They literally do not have contact information after they deleted the .gov email addresses

Edit: and they cant "name their price" because unlike the private sector there is legally mandated pay scale. Which is just another reason why firing g-men to save money makes no sense

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Post by wat10000 »

In the first Trump admin, Rick Perry was picked to head the Department of Energy with the goal of shutting it down. These cockwombles thought the DoE was about pushing green energy and recycling and stuff like that. Once on the job, Perry discovered that he was in charge of the nation’s nuclear arsenal. To his credit, he course corrected and seems to have done a decent job once he found out what it was.

It’s the same story again, except with even less competence and knowledge.

It’s incredible that half the voters in this country thought this guy was a good choice for our leader.

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Post by lawn »

watwut wrote: post #93

> The nuclear security officials who were laid off on Thursday helped oversee the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons. That included staff who are stationed at facilities where the weapons are built, according to CNN. So now, the question is which country will benefit from this the most. Russia or Saudi Arabia? Maybe Iran?

Russia and China are the big winners of course.

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Post by scarab92 »

someothherguyy wrote: post #311
gitfan86 wrote: post #306

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> If you got your information from economic facts comparing Europe to USA this comment it hilarious I don't understand what you mean. Can you please point me to resources to help inform me instead of pointing and laughing?

Much of Europe is in a recession, or has stagnant economic growth at best.

They've had left leaning governments for too long, and economic stagnation is the natural result of that. You can't regulate your way to prosperity.

Re: US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

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Post by fzeroracer »

scarab92 wrote: post #238
drawkward wrote: post #237

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>this problem What problem? The problem of how people are fired? You dont fix that specific problem by firing everyone! Somw other problem? Show us evidence that there was a problem, before you fire. That's how you do it in a democracy.

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What processes are broken? What lack of effective performance management? What poor service provisions?

Where is your citation for any of this? And don't bother citing Musk since we already know he's a sociopathic liar.

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Post by zimpenfish »

rayiner wrote: post #327
dukeyukey wrote: post #309

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Americans should care because America isn't the world. So much wealth and power derives from people seeing you as the good guy. Blowing that up will make America poorer.

The US is far less dependent on trade than the average country. We could close our borders to the world entirely and be fine after an initial discomfort. And nobody has has seen America as the “good guy” in my lifetime. We’re the country that destabilizes Latin American and Asian countries, bombs the Middle East, etc. I used to think there was at least a logic to all that, but it turns out our elites were just ideolo…

> We could close our borders to the world entirely and be fine after an initial discomfort.

I'm no economist but a trade deficit in the hundreds of billions[0] suggests otherwise.

[0] Wikipedia says 773B for 2023.

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Post by fzeroracer »

scarab92 wrote: post #347
hobs wrote: post #284

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Literally every valuation shows its worth After reading through your posts its like you live in an alternate reality where Musk's integrity is bulletproof, his decisions are awesome, and he's basically doing it for the rest of us. I don't know how you can sustain this with everyone throwing reality in your face that he's a short sighted rich kid who lies through his teeth and throws money around until he gets what he…

It was, but advertisers are now returning which has driven it's earnings back up while it's operational costs remain significantly below pre-acquisition. According to https://www.wsj.com/finance/banks-sell-5-5-billion-of-x-loan... earnings are now nearly twice pre-acquisition. I'm not going to respond to the ad hominem.

Advertisers are returning because Elon Musk is the long arm of the president and literally threatening tech companies with reprisal. On Twitter. It's open corruption! They're not even bothering to hide it.

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Post by onemoresoop »

baq wrote: post #218
someothherguyy wrote: post #201

If anything this whole DOGE scenario has illuminated is how confused and overconfident many in this country are. We are stumbling fools without systems and rules (organizations, institutions, laws, regulations, ...) to rely on. I wonder how much behavior like this stems from weak regulation in the US to begin with. It seems like it would reinforce the rise of agents that assume they can ask for forgiveness after acti…

Uppers have this effect on people.

You think Musk is on uppers all the time? This would indeed explain a bunch of things related to his behavior

Re: US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

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Post by zimpenfish »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #241
anon7000 wrote: post #165

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Why people think it’s a good idea to put this wealthy dickwad in charge of one of the most (allegedly) important projects in the current admin is beyond me. Move fast and break things is a stupid policy to apply to public policy.

Whether or not it's a good idea depends on what outcome you desire. If the aim is to weaken the U.S. then putting a foolish unelected billionaire in charge of things that he has no idea about is a great idea.

> If the aim is to weaken the U.S.

Say if you're China and Russia...

> then putting a foolish unelected billionaire

With ties to both...

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