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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 collingreen »

DonHopkins wrote: post #462
scarab92 wrote: post #379

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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?

Seriously... the "irrational and hysterical" stuff reads way too much like "a woman" to me when those claiming it have to ignore all the things like lying about immigrants eating dogs then, after being called out dozens of times, admitting it was a lie and saying they were willing to keep lying because even though they don't have facts they think their point is still true.

The whole thing comes off to me as a gleeful descent into a juvenile, rebellious mindset, flinging accusations like "hysterical" around without a shred of self reflection.

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

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Post by ty6853 »

someothherguyy wrote: post #465
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.

> 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.

You were finding evidence for a different goal post you shifted to, that when applied applies even more harshly to the nuclear team.

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Post by rlupi »

scarab92 wrote: post #266
dralley wrote: post #257

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They are objectively in a worse financial position. I wasn't getting advertisements for female sex toys (I'm male) on Twitter before Musk took over. That's a long way to fall.

Neither of us really know Twitter's financial position, given it's now private. The rumours I'm hearing are that EBITDA is now above pre-acquistion. The fact that debt is trading hands without a haircut suggests that's probably accurate. There was a lot of waste at Twitter. Given that headcount was cut by 80%, and advertisers are returning, I'd suggest it's doing fine.

> Neither of us really know Twitter's financial position, given it's now private.

> The rumours I'm hearing are ...

You are literally contradicting yourself in two phrases one after another.

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derangedHorse wrote: post #196
bloomingkales wrote: post #161

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> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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

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Post by tim333 »

nobunaga wrote: post #103

Its hilarious. Americans dont realise they are being played. All this BS from the MAGA people and trump are just shift attention away from the conversation to tax billionaires. You guys had been going in the right direction when it came to having the rich pay their fair share. Now look at what you are all talking about? Your fighting each other. What a shitshow. I really dont think America will recover from this and…

I don't really see that re the tax on billionaires. It wasn't tightened up especially during the Biden admin and it would be surprising if the Trump lot went all lefty and cracked down. It seems much more of a culture war thing.

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Post by philipwhiuk »

rayiner wrote: post #391
MVissers wrote: post #350

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And the Chinese will pick up the pieces in Africa and other places.

Which is good for those countries. In my home country of Bangladesh, China is helping build infrastructure. While the U.S. was bankrolling left wing social and activist programs to destabilize the government (and ultimately contributed to the recent overthrow of the government, which will derail a decade of consistent growth).

But really bad for American world view, force projection and so on.

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Post by hnhg »

dukeyukey wrote: post #317
enraged_camel wrote: post #293

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Yes they did? Is this a joke? Or have you not been following the UK’s descent into poverty and irrelevance?

I'm as anti-Brexit as they come, but it didn't change the UK's direction much. It's still the 2nd richest European state (with the 1st declining fast), the 3rd largest tech ecosystem worldwide, one of the premier military powers. Brexit wasn't great, or even good, but it's not disastrous.

That’s because Europe overall is declining fast. However the rest of the world is rising fast and the next ten years should be interesting from this alone.

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Post by philipwhiuk »

rayiner wrote: post #375
zimpenfish wrote: post #367

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> 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.

Which is just 3.3% of GDP.

More than enough to push you into a recession even ignoring the reality that your current growth rate is propelled by a very frothy tech sector.

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Post by DecoySalamander »

someothherguyy wrote: post #399
scarab92 wrote: post #365

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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.

> 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. Left-leaning political ideology implies regulation? What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism A more convincing argument for me would detail the regulatory frameworks that lead to economic stagnation, not bucketing a whole continent in an attempt to c…

If you consider ancap to be a left-leaning ideology you should reread "Classification" section on the page you've linked.

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

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Post by ok123456 »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #7
sour-taste wrote: post #2

This is LITERALLY the twitter layoffs playing out again. They fired people who had credentials and other things they needed so had to hire them back. Everything else aside why repeat the same mistakes? Just go a little slower and give agencies time to compile accurate lists of necessary employees

Problem is, it’s not backfired - the example you cited “worked”, because it rapidly identified key personnel without weeks or months of subjective analysis and political posturing by workers and their supervisors. I think in federal government the risks are much higher, and Musk is being an idiot by exposing the America public to those risks, but the feedback loop for him on these previous experiments has been positi…

There's a big difference between a website that shows you posts, and the federal government.

Degrade the service of a website, and maybe it loads a little funny; degrade the services of a government and people die.

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