4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

Post by croes » Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 10:21 AM UTC

15155 wrote: post #76

croes wrote: post #49

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So Thiel and Musk have nothing to do with Trump getting elected. Or Social networks as an easy way of spreading misinformation. New to the club AI that delivers convincing sound, photo and video „proofs“ for any fake news they want including elaborated texts fitting to their target audience

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Post by verzali » Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 10:38 AM UTC

jart wrote: post #80

bradley13 wrote: post #59

I'm sure the bureaucracy can stand some serious cutting. However, with voluntary programs like this, you tend to lose the best people.

NASA ended their space shuttle program in 2011 and hasn't been able to send things into space since. For the rest of that decade, the only way Americans could access ISS was by purchasing tickets on Russian spacecraft. NASA pivoted to partnering with private government contractors like ULA, which did 4 launches in 2024, probably spy satellites for the military, but their Atlas V rocket only has 14 launches remaining…

Post by verzali » Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 10:40 AM UTC

magicloop wrote: post #40

The real game the current administration is playing is to land on Mars before their current term expires. This mirrors the political, prestige, and technology triumph of the Kennedy administration. This is why the BBB Bill refocussed on the Mars mission despite having cuts. What is being cut is otherwise a symptom of the budget deficit (7%) and the fact that politically they cut areas where there are not republican v…

Post by watwut » Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 10:44 AM UTC

15155 wrote: post #78

exe34 wrote: post #56

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> Trump came with a "believable" story If they believed Trump, they deserve everything they get. Sadly those who didn't believe didn't vote enough.

> If they believed Trump, they deserve everything they get. Is it a matter of "belief," or could it possibly be an optimal strategy to secure potentially two more Supreme Court nominations?

Post by derriz » Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 11:12 AM UTC

pseudo0 wrote: post #69

derriz wrote: post #39

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I don't think this is true or at least is not reflected by any statistics. Inequality, as measured by GINI has been falling both for the EU as a whole and within most European countries for decades now. The last decade in particular has seen declines in nearly all EU countries. Taking the EU on average the last time it increased was in 2014 - which is to be expected as the 2013 expansion allowed a number of relativel…

The problem with those stats for Ireland is that the Gini coefficient measured by the World Bank just looks at household income, not wealth. Much of the inequality in Ireland in the last few decades has been driven by the explosion in property prices and rents. This has created a great deal of inequality between people who benefited from the rapid increase in price of those assets, and the people stuck paying much hi…