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Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights

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Re: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights

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Post by xnx »

silverquiet wrote: post #32
Aurornis wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It is mind blowing to me that this is what people want. It is not what people want. The Trump administration’s popularity is already below 50%, and much lower among independents (around 30% depending on the poll). Many people aren’t yet aware of what’s happening. A lot of the electorate is getting their news from filtered sources like Fox News or various far right media outlets. Joe Rogan has gone all in on praisin…

> It’s only a matter of time until they realize that they were the intended targets of the cuts, not accidental damage. I suspect that other scapegoats can be found to blame for their problems; as you say, their news sources will offer them all sorts of filters to deflect blame from the obvious source.

> I suspect that other scapegoats can be found to blame for their problems

Woke, Biden, DEI, Obama, trans, Hillary, Soros, gays, illegals, fluoride. Take your pick.

Re: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights

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Post by masfuerte »

dfxm12 wrote: post #82
Aurornis wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It is mind blowing to me that this is what people want. It is not what people want. The Trump administration’s popularity is already below 50%, and much lower among independents (around 30% depending on the poll). Many people aren’t yet aware of what’s happening. A lot of the electorate is getting their news from filtered sources like Fox News or various far right media outlets. Joe Rogan has gone all in on praisin…

This is what Trump campaigned on though. This is what he said he'd do. Did people vote for Trump because they thought he was a liar?

> Did people vote for Trump because they thought he was a liar?

Yes! I know apparently smart people who voted for Trump because they thought that his more extreme rhetoric was merely intended to wind up the left. Like the first time he got elected. Except that this time he had a plan.

Re: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights

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Post by philipwhiuk »

linuxftw wrote: post #98

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> Now, they have to get dressed and at least physically show up to collect a paycheck. If they possessed real, marketable skills, they would just leave the government and seek employment elsewhere. You will have to pry these jobs from their cold, dead hands as they're never quitting voluntarily.

Right sure, everyone is obsessed by money.

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alabastervlog wrote: post #24
kept3k wrote: post #13

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An organization allegedly about reducing waste is creating it instead, by arbitrarily forcing a tight timeline and using heavy, specific, and inflexible top-down mandates that don’t let those closer to the work use the information they have (say, that their offices aren’t ready to work in). Spending freezes, blanket firing of tons of provisional workers (fun fact: the recently-promoted are also provisional, this does…

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Re: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights

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Post by philipwhiuk »

trhway wrote: post #42

i do wonder how Musk is planning to get FAA approvals for SpaceX if the federal stuff is decreased. Is he going to wait many weeks, months, years like the others will be waiting or is he personally going to cut the line? Or may be getting rid of FAA permits at all? Back to the time of great unlimited aviation and rocketry innovation. I personally have a bunch of non-traditional designs i'd like to get airborne/launch…

SpaceX is taking over FAA contracts, I'm sure they won't have any trouble getting approved.

Permits will be for the little guys.

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

piva00 wrote: post #55
Aurornis wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It is mind blowing to me that this is what people want. It is not what people want. The Trump administration’s popularity is already below 50%, and much lower among independents (around 30% depending on the poll). Many people aren’t yet aware of what’s happening. A lot of the electorate is getting their news from filtered sources like Fox News or various far right media outlets. Joe Rogan has gone all in on praisin…

It can't be only attributed to ignorance, you see many comments here on Hacker News defending it with vitriol I had never experienced on this forum even during Trump's 1st presidency. Somehow Americans have really bought into it, the lies, the disinformation, the destruction. I cannot understand, the moving targets shift (CRT, immigration, DEI, cancel culture, wokeness, whatever is next) so it isn't about them whatso…

We know that Russia has run a very long, very extensive disinformation campaign against the west. It might be expected that that extends to HN. Not everything posted here is someone's actual opinion. Some of it is deliberate propaganda and attempts to manipulate.

That's hard to accept, given what HN was once. The difference between ten years ago and last year was noticeable; the difference between last year and this is much starker.

You're in a war, even here.

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Post by motbus3 »

baggachipz wrote: post #90
drivingmenuts wrote: post #21

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At this point, anyone remaining at Xitter has to be aware that they are working for a neo-Nazi. And anyone using Xitter in a country that has a history of fighting Nazi's in WWII has to be aware of who they're supporting. It's maddening how many people just don't seem to give a shit.

Lots of people (in the US and abroad) were pretty ok with the Nazis the first time around, until they weren't.

The narrative is more complex than that if I am not mistaken.

It seems the general public outside the affected regions were not completely aware on what was going on with concentration camps. This does not mean they were not aware of at some level.

It is quite common for old people to say that they only became aware of many of the atrocities months or years later the war was over. The US was not keen on putting pressure to concentration camps as, well, they had their own full of "japs and n*"

Re: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights

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Post by mihaaly »

sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #2

The disruption is (part of) the point. Degrading the ability of government employees to do their jobs leads to greater inefficiency and more failure, which can then be pointed at to validate assertions that government isn't efficient and produces bad outcomes.

And there will be lots of people pretending that this is a beliveable assertions.

Basically all will either pretend believing or refuse believing above the mental level of this old infant elected as president, so almost everyone.

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Post by philipwhiuk »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #40
Aurornis wrote: post #25

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That’s how remote works. People don’t have a physical office because they work from home or another location.

> That’s how remote works DOGE is “targeting remote-work arrangements” [1]. [1] https://www.wsj.com/opinion/dont-let-doge-kill-remote-work-h...

Yes, hence the article.
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