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

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

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

derektank wrote: post #60
exe34 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The entire tech industry is roughly a dozen billionaires and then a bunch of nobodies.

Even if you limit yourself to billionaires, I don't see how you can possibly blame Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, and Tim Cook for the current administration's decisions to cut funding to science and basic research (among other bad decisions). The worst thing you can say about them is that some of them, after the election, essentially paid bribes to the protection racket that is the current administratio…

The people that proactively bend the knee before they are forced to are giving support to the bad guys. Cowards.

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

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

hopelite wrote: post #85
arghandugh wrote: post #2

Thanks, tech industry! A generational disruption in all forms of science and the destruction of the crown jewels of America’s last century, but at least now you get to be ruled by a violent senile pedophile and his deranged crackhead enablers.

“… at least now you get to be ruled by a violent senile pedophile and his deranged crackhead enablers.” Which one? *blank stare* America has a deeply rooted problem with a parasitic and evil, lying, conniving, devious ruling class and their treasonous, accomplice enablers… to clarify what may be dismissed by some because you call them “crackheads”.

It used to be they tried to hide it and were embarrassed when they got caught. Sometimes they even got thrown out of office.

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

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Post by netsharc »

mittensc wrote: post #9
sokoloff wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What part of this do you think is the fault of the “tech industry”? The tech industry certainly has its flaws and things to criticize, but this doesn’t seem part of it, unless I’m missing a connection somehow.

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As some promiment commentator wrote (and I'll rephrase terribly), imagine if there was no Russian election meddling, then we wouldn't have those racists and "deplorables"!

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

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

Yeul wrote: post #86
spicyusername wrote: post #4

Wow, that's terrible news... I just don't understand why this is something people would want.

Even the US is not exempt from economic rules. Trump and the rich want less taxation. The deficit cannot grow infinitely. Something has to be cut.

It has nothing to do with the deficit. If it did, the big beautiful bill would have looked much different.

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

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Post by actualwitch »

smokel wrote: post #28
arghandugh wrote: post #2

Thanks, tech industry! A generational disruption in all forms of science and the destruction of the crown jewels of America’s last century, but at least now you get to be ruled by a violent senile pedophile and his deranged crackhead enablers.

Any practical tips on how to improve upon the current situation?

Start perusing https://news.ycombinator.com/active as your hn frontpage and make note of a very obvious flagging bias there. Vouch and upvote the information that is getting hidden while not breaking the guidelines. Hulk Hogan's death being front page news while MechaHitler getting flagged tells you everything you need to know about this site.

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

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Post by mittensc »

LtWorf wrote: post #61
mittensc wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does the US influence elections in Russia/China? Also, I care about my children not growing up in a dictatorship. As such, their manipulation affects me directly... You should too. You won't like being treated like a literal slave. Deflecting like this just empowers the same manipulation.

> How does the US influence elections in Russia/China? Are you claiming the CIA doesn't exist? Are you claiming there was never any stay behind organisation? Are you claiming the entire continent of south america doesn't see USA intervention every time they vote wrong? I also don't like dictatorships, and USA propped dictators aren't any better than russian ones.

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

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Post by nozzlegear »

kacesensitive wrote: post #20

I know a few of these people. The two I've spoken with since their resignation basically said, "we're definitely getting laid off unless something insane changes with the funding cuts so at least this way we get a severance." It's really sad how our NASA funding is the lowest it's been since 1961. https://www.planetary.org/articles/nasa-2026-budget-proposal... I'm so sick of the not only incompetent leadership in the…

> We're 6 months into this nightmare, I really can't see how it can get worse.

Please, don't jinx us

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

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Post by LtWorf »

nradov wrote: post #98
LtWorf wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a lot of negative. Perhaps you could do some reading on what those organisations do before telling me how amazing they are? For example, being involved in killing prime ministers USA doesn't like that were regularly elected… https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizzazione_Gladio#Collegam...

You're being disingenuous. There will be some bad actors in any large organization. That doesn't make stay-behind organizations in general a bad idea. Sometimes younger people today fail to realize that Communism once represented an existential threat to human civilization.

If your ideology is "it's ok to kill any amount of people to avoid someone I don't like to be democratically elected somewhere in the world" I don't think we will ever agree.

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Post by perihelions »

lostmsu wrote: post #100
perihelions wrote: post #47

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> "before their current term expires" > "This mirrors the political, prestige, and technology triumph of the Kennedy administration" Trump may have said "before my term ends"; what JFK said was "before this decade is out". IMHO, this is like a diametric opposite of Richard M. Nixon landing on the moon, two presidencies after Kennedy (and of opposite party); acting for Americans' obvious shared interests (not personal…

> a Trump-like figure, spouting vapid promises of greatness Can't pinpoint who you are referring to. Gemini thinks Yeltsin? But neither it nor I remember any "greatness" promises from the guy.

Putin made a number of incredibly grandiose promises about Russia's progress in space (and in technology and engineering generally), as he dismantled and looted Roscosmos over the past twenty years—gifting away its wealth to oligarch allies. The Russian space capability is a shadow of its former self, barely able to maintain its old Soviet rocket production. Their ISS modules, if you've been following, are quite literally falling apart from negligence—leaking toxic gases and such.

Here's a generic example of the flavor of Russia's non-credible space propaganda—stuff their government says, like Trump, that's an enormous lie, that everyone knows is a lie:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120204103104/http://english.pr... (Pravda: "Russia to send cosmonauts to the Moon this decade" (2012))

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

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Post by thowaway7564902 »

smokel wrote: post #28
arghandugh wrote: post #2

Thanks, tech industry! A generational disruption in all forms of science and the destruction of the crown jewels of America’s last century, but at least now you get to be ruled by a violent senile pedophile and his deranged crackhead enablers.

Any practical tips on how to improve upon the current situation?

That's not what's important right now. What's important is figuring out whose fault this is

- Randy Marsh

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