They should just pass a law saying these people are essential workers and cannot say no to not coming back, and will be paid and must accept whatever pay they are told to accept. Done!
Poe's law
US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago
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#642Here we go again, let's watch HN users bend over backwards to tell everyone how this is a good thing, or clever, or a master stroke of finding inefficiencies.
I mean, yeah, this place invented Elon Musk and Sam Altman and every last Silicon Valley grifter. It's not all JavaScript and cute GitHub projects. I really do hope HN is at least a footnote in the history books that talk about the collapse of the United States.
SV produces tacit fascists.
Re: US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago
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This is not quite as innovative as you might think, I guess you are advocating for the Chernobyl approach: "Let's turn all safety features off and see if it breaks!"
They turned off the safety features to test a safety procedure. I don't think it is a fair analogy.
They weren't testing a safety procedure, they were testing whether they could get rid of a safety feature. Specifically they were checking whether the plant's turbine could provide enough power to keep coolant flowing without the help of a counterweight system.
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#644The simpsons
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It’s more than that I’m Asian. The same arrogance and disregard for popular sovereignty in other countries that you see at USAID/State/NED has metastasized and been turned inward. “Deplorables” is how Acela types see Iowans and Bangladeshis alike. As the parent of a kid who got put in a “BIPOC” affinity group, I’m thrilled about the cuts to DOEd and the hammer coming down on teaching race consciousness ( https://www.…
The Tulsi that pushes Russian disinformation? That should do well for rooting out lying. Also some facts: Intelligence services did not lie us into the Iraq war - politicians did. Politicians manipulated intelligence reporting to fit their narrative. Since you seem to like conspiracy theories, it should be obvious that this was so Halliburton, the company vice president Dick Cheney was CEO of, could profit from gover…
> And by conservative parents as domestic terrorists, I assume you mean the people convicted of crime due to their actual criminal actions on Jan. 6?
I think he means parents who made threats of violence against school boards.
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Yes they did? Is this a joke? Or have you not been following the UK’s descent into poverty and irrelevance?
The UK’s GDP per capita trajectory diverged around the end of the Great Recession. That was before the Brexit vote (2016) and long before the actual Brexit (2020). France and Italy have been stuck in more or less the same doldrums since the same time: https://datacommons.org/place/country/FRA?utm_medium=explore...
Em. Those aren't inflation adjusted.
- UK - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDGBR
- FR - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDFRA
- IT - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDITA
It would be somewhat unusual if they didn't all look similarish given the level of trade between them.
The UK government predicted a 2% reduction in growth over 15 years with a soft brexit compared to what it would have been otherwise, but seeing it on a graph may be difficult given those countries were also hurt by Brexit.
Re: US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago
#647https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-... If even half of NPR's report is true, the way in which it was conducted was grossly cruel and with complete ignorance. DOGE and it's supporters are quiet literally playing like a child with the levers that decide if you wake up tomorrow.
Not shocked at all. The US Gov right now is crazy, and I wouldn't go back with a crazy ex without a huge overhaul first.
And yup, it's about as disrespectful a dismissal as you'd expect from a Musk "plan". I'm not surprised they are having trouble
>"Please work with your supervisors to send this information (once you get it) to people's personal contact emails," the memo added.
Wait, they don't keep personal emails on record? I have to fill that out for every single job I apply to. Pretty sure USAJobs and my State job board required it to.
I guess they either aren't answering or these were more senior personell than I thought.
>Despite having the words "National" and "Security" in its title, it was not getting an exemption for national security
This just gave me a chuckle and I had to share.
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Very similar to the story about the Supercharger network. Apparently the boss of the team was told to make layoffs, she did some but not enough to please Musk, so Musk in a face to face meeting demanded she make more. She said they couldn't without affecting delivery. Musk fired her. Then fired the team. Then hired the team back because she was correct. But not before lots of ongoing projects got stalled because cont…
Such a fragile ego. A mature manger should be able to handle a subordinate disobeying without throwing a temper tantrum and firing the whole team and damaging the whole company out of spite.
I haven't had th misfortune of having such managers myself. But I've been right next door to other managers like this and it's the absolute worse.
Even then, a power trip that actually fired hundreds of people on the spot is just ficticious levels of stupidity. It's the exaggerated evil businessman that everyone would laugh at. And musk fits it to a T.
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Why people think it’s a good idea to put this wealthy dickwad in charge of one of the most (allegedly) important projects in the current admin is beyond me. Move fast and break things is a stupid policy to apply to public policy.
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>it's objective (did anything break?
Did you even try to read the article?
>The US government is trying to rehire nuclear safety employees it had fired on Thursday, after concerns grew that their dismissal could jeopardise national security, US media reported.
It hasn't even been one business day. We don't know how much this will break. The titanic took 4 hours to sink; these things don't instantly show its aftereffects. Clearly, the administration thinks something will break if they are reversing course.
> usually easily undone.
article:
>A memo sent to NNSA employees on Friday and obtained by NBC News read: "The termination letters for some NNSA probationary employees are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel."
We are definitely in unusual times.
You also responded 2 coments downstream to another story where this strategy cost a company an entire division and utterly missed its goals.
Re: US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago
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“Uppers”? I thought the leading theories were MDMA and Ketamine (and recovering from neck surgery), neither of which are best-described by the word “uppers”, nor is that behavior an effect that “uppers” generally have (e.g. cocaine, (meth)amphetamines).
The MA in MDMA is methamphetamine. That said, it's also an empathogen that promotes prosocial behavior, which isn't the word I'd use to describe the behavior happening.
I don’t think it has empathy-promoting properties when abused heavily and chronically. As I recall, the empathy-promotion is highly dose-dependent to begin with, and can even reverse due to extended misuse.