• @Armand1@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Janet Petro—the first woman to hold the position since its founding 67 years ago—wrote that diversity programs “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination,”

    In 2021, when she was the director of Kennedy Space Center, she spoke at length in an interview about the value of diversity, saying “our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility has been paramount to mission success.”

    The turnaround is giving me whiplash.

    There’s no begrudging following of the rules, it’s wholeheartedly embracing the new regime.

      • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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        103 months ago

        Sun-Tzu actually described how this works with soldiers, and how do you work with such gentle material. I’d say his book’s parts on psychology are about making a Hugo Boss from a wannabe Oskar Schindler, but if one applies his advice to oneself, one can put different goals.

        I also like Marcus Aurelius.

    • @Zannsolo@lemmy.world
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      153 months ago

      I was told to change gender to sex on the apps I develop. I’m pushing to have it removed all together because it’s a field that has no relevance and the order is fucking dumb. My niece is trans saying they don’t exist doesn’t make them not exist.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      53 months ago

      DEI is largely about raising the profiles of minority workers in roles and positions that were both vital to mission success and underpaid/underappreciate-for-promotion relative to the whiter career roles.

      Petro’s following in the grand tradition of Boomer senior leaders by pulling the ladder up behind her now that she’s at the top.

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    713 months ago

    I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?

    because it’s not and never was about that and by the time everyone else realises it will be too late to stop it without great effort

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      I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?

      The best way to understand DOGE is to be aware of what it really means: Department of Government Enshitification. The entire point of it is to generally degrade the quality of government.

  • @thejml@lemm.ee
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    This is definitely the most important thing for the country and for human space exploration as a whole.

    /s

  • @TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
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    453 months ago

    Imagine dreaming to fly to space only to be denied having it because you also cared about the rights of indigenous people.

  • Wren
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    333 months ago

    Their cowardice is palpable. If only NASA could run experiments so that we could understand how the concept of fear-based self preservation eliminates any semblance of courage when faced with even the smallest threat to their ill-defined paradigm of manhood.

    In a parallel universe where we have a functioning federal government, I’d imagine something like this would be worthy of a grant or two.

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      103 months ago

      If only NASA could run experiments so that we could understand how the concept of fear-based self preservation eliminates any semblance of courage when faced with even the smallest threat to their ill-defined paradigm of manhood.

      You’re significantly underestimating how many Chud engineers NASA employs. The agency that was founded by Nazis refugees has always had a shit history on race politics, cinema hagiographies produced decades later notwithstanding.

      In a parallel universe where we have a functioning federal government

      One of the biggest jokes of the US depiction of the Space Race was how many times we got our asses drubbed by Russians with less money, manpower, and educational resources, simply because our administration was so cartoonishly incompetent. We have an obscenely wealthy federal government that can afford to fuck up on the scale of trillions of dollars and still come out ahead.

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          73 months ago

          Hidden Figures. More or less “The Help” for NASA dweebs.

          It concedes that black women were instrumental in developing and executing a successful space race, but gets really cagey around questions like “Why did NASA only have a White Men’s Restroom to begin with?”, “What caused us to omit people like this in films like Apollo 13 or The Right Stuff?”, and “How come the women who pioneered implementation of Fortran at NASA weren’t able to pivot into senior administrative roles, private contracting firms, or academic positions like their male peers?”

    • guldukat
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      93 months ago

      Conservatives are creating their safe space.

  • Optional
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    -263 months ago

    Okay, okay, yeah is it bad? Yeah it’s bad but listen up libs - Remember when Harris was being reported as focusing on the middle class during her four month campaign? Huh? Yeah. That’s why this is happening. And we were right to not fight against this fascist horror with the one thing that would have mattered, our vote. She should have paid more attention to people who have it bad.

    • @Psythik@lemmy.world
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      153 months ago

      Any post that starts with “listen up libs” immediately makes me ignore the rest of its contents. Not interested in your MAGA and/or tankie bullshit.

      • @Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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        43 months ago

        Since Herr Trumpf got elected for his second term, the line between MAGA and Tankie has been getting preeeeeetty thin. Seen a lot of “masks off” comments from the folk at .ml…

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        -243 months ago

        obviously you are a old and don’t understand that liberals are the absolute worst thing in the world next to conservatives. Us kids are down with the leftism now and any Democratic person is a horrible traitor to society which is why we let trump win. You need to read the manga versions of Das Kapital to really get it.

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        -103 months ago

        One would think. And yet she was pilloried for focusing on the economics of the middle class.