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

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Post by ty6853 »

throwaway173738 wrote: post #386
ty6853 wrote: post #234

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Sorry, they are servants of the public. Maybe they ought not have been fired, but their feelings are 2nd place when their salary is funded predicated on men with guns forcing people to pay up. Maybe my feelings are hurt and I hold a grudge for being forced to pay their paycheck rather than spend that money on my family, but I'm nearly certain most of them don't care nor does much of HN.

I take it you’d also be fine paying 100% of the cost of the roads you use to buy food for your family? Men with guns take money from my family to pay for your roads after all.

Absolutely privatize them all. The roads for miles around my house are private easement (no tax) that are publicly accessible and it works beautifully. I built my own roads to access my land and it's great, my property taxes are near 0.

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Post by DonHopkins »

scarab92 wrote: post #379
LightHugger wrote: post #374

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Your use of the word "innocent" there is doing a lot of heavy lifting. He did not have a day in court, and what he did was indirect. However, a lot of people consider the supposedly "innocent" guy that got killed a mass murderer. Whether or not you agree with that assessment, it seems like you don't understand a few links in the chain there or are otherwise playing dumb. It is very reasonable for people to not care a…

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Oh, and parroting and amplifying Neo-Nazi propaganda by accusing innocent hard working legal Haitian immigrants of killing and eating dogs and cats in an internationally televised presidential debate isn't nonsense and hysterics and blatant racism?

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Post by hermitcrab »

grandempire wrote: post #439
hermitcrab wrote: post #425

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No.

I randomly sampled a few articles. And I think you’re right and I’m wrong. The economic messaging is aggressive and was wrong, but I’m not seeing famine and war. Here is an article that sampled various expert opinions: “ This event will unleash the kind of uncertainty that Keynes had in mind when he said “we simply do not know” when referring to the likely effect of war. Such uncertainty can only be disruptive for fi…

>“it is more likely than not that we will witness political instability.”

We have had 5 Prime Ministers since 2019.

Some of the problems we are seeing are due to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. But Brexit is the biggest factor by far. And 100% self-inflicted. It is the elephant in the room that the politicians can't even talk about it, as it's electoral poison.

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Post by mimd »

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-...

If even half of NPR's report is true, the way in which it was conducted was grossly cruel and with complete ignorance.

DOGE and it's supporters are quiet literally playing like a child with the levers that decide if you wake up tomorrow.

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Post by someothherguyy »

ty6853 wrote: post #445
someothherguyy wrote: post #434

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This RMG survey reports 19% of all voters knowing what DOGE was in December of 2024. https://napolitannews.org/posts/19-percent-of-voters-know-wh... (PDF) https://napolitannews.org/assets/pdfs/67633dc0cced7-gcm24-12...

Less than 19% knew what the nuclear safety team was, so be careful with the point you're making. There was probably more informed consent for DOGE than many eliminated positions.

> so be careful with the point you're making

I was attempting to find evidence for your claim, and I found that survey. If you can find other surveys, please share, as I am seeing this being repeated a lot.

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Post by theossuary »

sillyfluke wrote: post #277
scarab92 wrote: post #228

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>I fully acknowledge that it will result in mistakes, The people arguing the other side are not talking about reversible mistakes with minor fallout. They are claiming that taken as a whole the damage will be very difficult to undo. Countering this simply by accepting that there will be mistakes doesn't quite suffice. As pg tried to remind Musk on twitter (I'm paraphrasing): Countless startups come into being and die…

Pg, the guy screaming about woke? He should be on Musk's side, they both want to de-woke society by force

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Post by rayiner »

Ylpertnodi wrote: post #432
rayiner wrote: post #315

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The UK’s GDP per capita trajectory diverged around the end of the Great Recession. That was before the Brexit vote (2016) and long before the actual Brexit (2020). France and Italy have been stuck in more or less the same doldrums since the same time: https://datacommons.org/place/country/FRA?utm_medium=explore...

As a fairly regular visitor (for work), what particular doldrums are you referencing? Admittedly, the loss of the US market will be a big blow for exports, but the anti-US (Trump) feelings strongly would put up with a financial hit rather than dealing with Mr. Loopy. And Tesla's are becoming very unpopular...and unsellable.

The per capita GDP of France, Italy, and the UK have been flat since 2009.

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Post by scarab92 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #458
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> The left lost the election because the general public got sick of the nonsense and hysterics. The left lost the election because a ton of people thought "hey, better stay home than vote for Kamala because she's too cozy with Israel", and look where it got them, not only do they now have Trump in power but Netanyahu has no one to hold him in check. Trump got 74M votes in 2020 vs 77M in 2024, the key thing is that Bi…

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Post by EasyMark »

el_jay wrote: post #405
bix6 wrote: post #335

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Almost 10 years later and still no pitchforks?

A health insurance CEO was shot dead in the streets. It’s only one pitchfork but it’s still a pitchfork.

and they are shocked when someone snaps and such things happen.

"for are we not generous gods?" --Most Billionaires

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Post by ty6853 »

Hasu wrote: post #459
ty6853 wrote: post #452

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The mythos often presented is mass wealth inequality is incompatible with raising of living standards of the poor. The poor can gain something at least temporarily by taking it from the rich. Another less violent option is mutually beneficial voluntary interactions.

I'm talking about Emancipation. So no, this isn't temporarily taking something from the rich, or something that could have been solved through "mutually beneficial voluntary action". The government told a bunch of rich people that the incredibly valuable people they owned were no longer their property, and gave money and land to the people who previously had nothing because they hadn't been considered people. That's…

You're literally talking about moving violence enforced slavery to something closer to voluntary trade of labor. That's far from exclusively Marxian, even most brands of ancapism advocate such philosophy.
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