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Re: NASA Force

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Post by edgyquant »

throwup238 wrote: post #284
casefields wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congress passes the budget since they have the power of the purse. Presidents have requested all sorts of nonsense to appease the base.

Congress also declares wars, and we know how well that has worked out for everyone. First year civics: the legislative branch passes the budget, the executive branch is the one that actually spends it. Or doesn’t, in which case you have a constitutional crisis.

Congress has granted the president a lot of power to conduct wars on its own

Re: NASA Force

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Post by edgyquant »

WaltPurvis wrote: post #250
casefields wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congress passes the budget since they have the power of the purse. Presidents have requested all sorts of nonsense to appease the base.

It has been 30 years since Congress last passed a budget.

Congress passes a budget every year, what are you talking about?

Re: NASA Force

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Post by hdndjsbbs »

ninjagoo wrote: post #300
krapp wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>EDIT: Good Lord, I get the cynicism but at least someone at NASA HR is trying new things to keep the lights on. Why bother? Americans clearly don't believe in science anymore, and the American government can't be trusted to fund it properly, or to not rewrite or defund research because of wrongthink or "DEI." If I were working for NASA, or even a possible candidate for working for NASA, I'd get my passport in order…

> Americans clearly don't believe in science anymore There's about a third that lean that way or atleast they don't care, and they have gained control of the government because of various factors, namely, part of the middle third disillusioned with economics (left behind) and wanting a change, another part of the middle third staying home because of geopolitics, and yet another part of the middle third falling prey t…

When you frame it like that it sounds like some kind of vanguard of class-conscious people should try to rebel and establish a, I don't know, dictatorship of the proletariat? Maybe they could give themselves some kind of Russian name to sound cool.

Re: NASA Force

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Post by conartist6 »

ambicapter wrote: post #102
dragonwriter wrote: post #62

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It is a definition; the transition between the logotype and normal text has an implicit [:}, NASAFORCE: technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery. Though its an odd choice that they run it in with the paragraph of normal text rather than making that a heading. Of course, with a four day hiring window its a website that exists as pro forma evidence that the…

You skipped a word. "NASA Force: Technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery".

You can't put a period on that (in gramatically-correct English) because it isn't a sentence. You can't have a sentence without a verb. There's no verb here. If you look through a real dictionary you'll also notice that the definitions are not period-terminated sentences, and this is why

Re: NASA Force

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Post by jaffee »

rozab wrote: post #182
sailfast wrote: post #113

"Build a website - it's almost like you got the job done already" - Someone in the White House OEOB The new National Design Studio that replaced the USDS does not seem to be capable of building a website that is accessible, performant, and not overly bombastic / hyperbolic. Completely unreadable. Animation fails at the top, on a decently provisioned Mac laptop with 16GB of RAM. Either way - it's unfortunate that the…

The copy also doesn't seem to be written by someone with a good command of English, even ChatGPT would do better >technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery. You work on real missions, alongside the teams building them, and your contributions move from concept to operation. For a few days, access is granted to this work. The number is extremely limited. The…

This was the first thing I noticed. The first sentence is not a grammatical or sensical sentence as far as I can tell.

Also who are they expecting to get with a hiring window open for 4 days? People susceptible to manufactured urgency I guess... these are the tactics that phishing scams use.

Re: NASA Force

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Post by givinguflac »

kube-system wrote: post #42
givinguflac wrote: post #4

This is so weird and vague; I am not interested for fear of all of it being for space defense. Nope for me.

Technology and defense technology have been inextricably linked since the wheel and fire were new technologies.

So what? Doesn’t mean I have to be a part of it or support it.

Re: NASA Force

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Post by tencentshill »

Terr_ wrote: post #222
tencentshill wrote: post #2

Cool website, Big Balls. Where's our social security data?

Just in case a reader has blissfully managed to not-remember last year: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/doge-musk-edward-cor...

A more recent update confirming he likely worked on the website: https://www.wired.com/story/where-the-doge-operatives-are-no...

Re: NASA Force

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Post by cvoss »

conartist6 wrote: post #304
ambicapter wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You skipped a word. "NASA Force: Technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery".

You can't put a period on that (in gramatically-correct English) because it isn't a sentence. You can't have a sentence without a verb. There's no verb here. If you look through a real dictionary you'll also notice that the definitions are not period-terminated sentences, and this is why

"Wow."

Re: NASA Force

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Post by BirAdam »

edgyquant wrote: post #302
WaltPurvis wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has been 30 years since Congress last passed a budget.

Congress passes a budget every year, what are you talking about?

It’s a technical distinction. The last true “budget” was FY1997. Otherwise, CRs are used until some kind appropriations bill can be passed. The problem is, that appropriations bill isn’t a true budget as money was already spent via CR.
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