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

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Post by machomaster »

drawkward wrote: post #385
lokimedes wrote: post #285

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You have go go back to the collapse of the British empire to witness anything this grand. And that was driven by external factors.

This is Russia driven. Its right out of Aleksandr Dugin's playbook for Russian political dominance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

In the same vain and USA's politics it driven by Unabomber.

Dugin's influence on Putin/Russia is a total fake news. Aleksandr "Putin's favorite political/historical/cultural icon/advisor according to Western media" Dugin, has NEVER even met with Putin, as in not a single time.

Don't spread fake news.

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Post by petrarchy »

CaptainZapp wrote: post #240
scarab92 wrote: post #228

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> I fully acknowledge that it will result in mistakes Yep, but as opposed to a startup those "mistakes" will be deadly. Literally so.

> Yep, but as opposed to a startup those "mistakes" will be deadly.

Well, these mistakes are also deadly if it’s a move fast and break things startup in medtech. And these mistakes are deadly in healthcare.

I am calling this out because I see this complete myopia of abstracting people’s lives as OK to ever lose on purpose.

Statements like “no one thinks that!!!” “Most people are XYZ!!!” are thrown around because computer scientists start being computer scientists - we try to solve problems the way we do at work. Big O notation is not an acceptable way to manage other people’s lives.

In computer science, 100,000 people in the global population converge to zero. If you are counting DAU… OK.

If you are estimating the number of people you might accidentally kill… not OK.

If you are trying to reduce corruption and you don’t actually know if you will kill people or not, and you do it anyway… I don’t see how anyone can consider that ethical.

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

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Post by drawkward »

machomaster wrote: post #501
drawkward wrote: post #385

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This is Russia driven. Its right out of Aleksandr Dugin's playbook for Russian political dominance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

In the same vain and USA's politics it driven by Unabomber. Dugin's influence on Putin/Russia is a total fake news. Aleksandr "Putin's favorite political/historical/cultural icon/advisor according to Western media" Dugin, has NEVER even met with Putin, as in not a single time. Don't spread fake news.

You do realize that ideas can be spread by other means than face to face conversation, right?

Your argument is super goofy.

David Foster Wallace is my favorite author, and I've never even met the guy!

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

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Post by b_davis_ »

_dark_matter_ wrote: post #400
bloomingeek wrote: post #303

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Sadly true, the wonder is that the idiot has been showing his hand since at least 2015 and he still was been given another term!?! My guess, the first two years will be a type of cringe humor/horror. Mid-terms will be a political slaughter. Never, ever underestimate the ignorance and naivety of the American voter, especially my generation, the boomers.

How are you so sure how the midterms will shake out? We seen to be seeing a withering of dissent.

they are holding their powder. 18 months until it is time to get serious about electing the next congress.

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Post by woooooo »

rayiner wrote: post #382
bix6 wrote: post #321

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For anyone else wondering: The “Acela class” is a term used, often pejoratively, to refer to the elite political, business, and media class concentrated along the Northeast Corridor of the United States, particularly in cities like Washington, D.C., New York, and Boston. The term comes from the Acela Express, Amtrak’s high-speed train that runs between these cities, symbolizing the connectedness of this group. Critic…

It also refers to a political faction in the electorate, comprising about 11% of voters, that has interests and values aligned with that group: https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/what-if-we-had-... . E.g. knowledge workers who benefit from globalization and upper middle class people who benefit from cheap labor provided by illegal immigrants.

The republican core of exurban/rural ownership class benefits far more directly from immigrant labor than the liberal professional class.

Professionals might have a housekeeper or get their lawns done, but they're not employing a kitchen or construction site full of people.

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Post by DennisP »

mschuster91 wrote: post #308
chinathrow wrote: post #297

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The rich are endangering their riches in this experiment. The pitch forks will have their field day eventually. 2014 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchfor...

That's the insiduous thing we're seeing - when you have to work two jobs just to make rent on a dilapidated shack for a slumlord you don't have time to protest, and when your healthcare insurance depends on having a job (because there aren't charity-run hospitals around any more) you can't afford the risk getting fired for going on a strike, much less actual "direct action". On top of that, mass media controls the na…

Healthcare doesn't depend on a job, and I don't understand why this rhetoric continues. Except in certain red states that refused federal funds, anyone below a certain income gets Medicaid and anyone above it can get ACA insurance, complete with a subsidy based on your income. Preexisting conditions are irrelevant.

Republicans might make big changes but this has been the situation since Obama.

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Post by m_fayer »

sillyfluke wrote: post #224
surgical_fire wrote: post #130

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It is the same reason I moved to Europe. I don't think I was overoptimistic. It was literally the best decision I ever made, in every aspect I can think of.

I took the "overoptimisim" to mean that the parent thought Europe could defend and maintain this outlook well into the forseeable future, an assumption that is being tested by Europe's own rightward slide. The way things are right now in Europe, to say that it might have been overoptimistic to think that Europe will continue as it has makes sense to me. At the moment, it is unclear to most people who live there how m…

This is exactly what I meant, thank you. I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

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…

> many in this country are

It's exposing the intellectual bankruptcy of the Silicon Valley elite. Between the stupidity and kowtowing it has revealed a startling amount of groupthink and cowardice, even among people I once held as independent thinkers.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

nickdothutton wrote: post #412
throw0101d wrote: post #397

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> We are stumbling fools without systems and rules (organizations, institutions, laws, regulations, ...) to rely on. There are no organization or institutions or anything else that matters: only people matter. If people don't bother to have integrity then "institutions" (or anything based around them) are irrelevant. "There are no institutions, only people." — https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1231219728619835395…

We are told endlessly in the UK that "institutions are strong". This is about as foolishly optimistic a statement as I can recall hearing, from ostensibly serious people. Institutions are not strong. Institutions are made of people. People are weak, corrupt, lazy, stupid, and endlessly self-serving. Institutions are weak.

> People are weak, corrupt, lazy, stupid, and endlessly self-serving. Institutions are weak

This is partly a self-fulfilling prophecy. Low-trust societies are filled with weak, corrupted, lazy and stupid leaders.

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