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

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Post by bobsmooth »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #401
halJordan wrote: post #361

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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

Did you not read my entire comment? The gov will certainly know where they live and breathe. A non-creative approach is easier. Paychecks and bonus checks are separately accounted.

How will they know if they fired the guy who's responsible for knowing?

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Post by psb217 »

tremendoussss wrote: post #358
joyeuse6701 wrote: post #334

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In another time it was called decimation, and was used as collective punishment.

Ah, thank you, I didn't know. Seems like a stretch to compare executions and layoffs, no one else is immune to layoffs

The people deciding to execute layoffs are generally immune to those layoffs.

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rayiner wrote: post #291
yeyeyeyeyeyeyee wrote: post #254

The US is busy making the biggest own-goal one could imagine. From a position of world-wide dominance and respect, it is being destroyed at a rate that is too quick for most to even start to comprehend what the outcome of these actions will be. I suspect the consequences of these actions will be carried for the rest of our lives, as they are not so easy to turn back. Lots of other countries are standing by watching w…

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

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Post by theossuary »

roenxi wrote: post #265
jakelazaroff wrote: post #243

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It’s not arbitrary, though. He’s attacking CFPB because he wants to launch financial features on Twitter without oversight. He’s attacking USAID because they helped end apartheid in his native South Africa. It’s really all just a bunch of petty vendettas and looting.

> It’s really all just a bunch of petty vendettas and looting. Yeah. The technical term for that is "arbitrary". It isn't ideologically motivated; it is based on some dude's opinions based on who-knows-what internal dialogue. Although this financial features on Twitter sounds like a pretty good idea and I'd like to see it in the wild.

You can't recognize DOGE as an extreme ideological endeavor simply because it aligns with your ideology.

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

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Post by mimd »

drawkward wrote: post #390
ChrisArchitect wrote: post #50

[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43055119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061481

It is as though the community wants to discuss this, but bad actors keep shutting down the conversation.

Of course they are. Any rational person not blinded by partisanship would be infuriated by this development and immediately demand that DOGE be restrained. Even most partisans would blanch and demand accountability. DOGE advocates know this. Their only recourse is to try to hide it or distract everyone with tangential arguments like they are doing in this thread.

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Post by ty6853 »

Hasu wrote: post #450
ty6853 wrote: post #445

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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.

You're moving the goalposts. People did not, in fact, vote for DOGE.

I said 'the public voted for someone openly stating they'd carry out DOGE.'

They moved the goalposts to what fraction of voters were questionably polled to know about DOGE, because my claim is pretty much irrefutable. Then when I use their own criteria suddenly we cry foul that I used their own goal posts that they shifted to.

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Post by collingreen »

celdon25 wrote: post #430
achandlerwhite wrote: post #427

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I’d say the general public got sick of the strawman version of the democrats presented by Fox News and other right media. The disinformation was epic.

You say that as if everyone hasn’t had first hand experience with them. That’s a very out of touch perspective.

First hand experience with who, democrats? If that is your point then I have to disagree with you from my own personal experience. I've had a bunch of conversations over the last few years with Republican voters who have had zero interaction with anything except the mentioned straw/boogieman democrats. Almost all of those conversations have followed a path of "what would reasonable policy be for X" and then looking up the Republican policy vs the Democrat policy and then a tantrum.

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Post by tim333 »

Jensson wrote: post #408
SauciestGNU wrote: post #389

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Conspiracy theories? Can you elaborate?

There are a lot of conspiracy theories around Trump and Musk etc. Just remember that not all conspiracy theories are wrong, but there being so many popular ones from the left now is not a good sign regardless if they are right or wrong.

There's probably a lot of conspiring going on with those guys, just a question of the details.

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Post by garden_hermit »

scarab92 wrote: post #426
4ndrewl wrote: post #423

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Not sure about that. We had 14 years of right wing government in the UK, and stagnant growth.

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Ah, you see, Right Wing government is when economy go up. If economy no go up, it no right wing government.
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