• @[email protected]
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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    154 hours ago

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

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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 hours 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      2213 hours ago

      The quote from the email isn’t her words. They were given to her (and all agency heads) to send out to their workforce to implement the EO. It should not be taken as “embracing the new regime”.

    • @[email protected]
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      3515 hours ago

      When it is easy everyone thinks they are Oskar Schindler but when it is hard most people are Hugo Boss.

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        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.

    • sunzu2
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      Boomers are natural bootlickers, no conviction… She says what gets her a head.

      Also shouldnt she be in a fema camp instead of leeching on federal budget?

      • @[email protected]
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        31 hour ago

        Dude, they are restarting people and blaming boomers for everything is just keeping us divided. You want to start throwing ageism into this look at the ages of the tech bros of elon musk doge raiders. All like 19 -26

        Look at the average ages of jan 6 Matt gaetz, Alex jones.

        The vast majority of everyone is suffering.

        It’s us poors together that we need not letting them keep us divided

    • @[email protected]
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      7517 hours ago

      With internet archive head quarters being in the US what would happen if the administration went after them? Would people from other countries be able to keep the project going?

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        We need to distribute all that data, for the sake of history in the future. Data hoarding and torrenting is a service to humanity.

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        That’s unfortunately a very valid point. Iirc the big problem IA has is the sheer amount of disk space required to store everything.

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          I wish I had the necessary petabytes of storage to at least store an offline copy. I wonder how many disks that would be and how redundant disks you’d need.

          • @[email protected]
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            Here’s this from 2021. They say they have about 200PB of raw storage across some 20k spinning drives at the time of writing (with more being added constantly, about 25%/yr), and capacities are mixed from 4TB to 16TB, across 750 servers housed on about 75 racks. I have 6x16TB WD red pros that ran me about $355/ea new with tax, and my bill was a smidge over $2100. Assuming you used all 16TB, you’d need about 12,500 16TB disks, which would run you about $4,437,500 without a bulk discount. How much of that is redundancy I’m not sure, but that’s just HDDs, not the hardware to actually run everything between storage enclosures, OS, disks, memory, clustering, etc. They say they say a single copy with 16TB drives would be about 15 racks., but how that breaks down I’m not sure.

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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?

    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.

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      Because it gives SpaceX an edge over NASA if you delegate menial tasks to PhD level people.

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      915 hours ago

      You are pissed at another kid, so you find a dog turd near the playground and you throw it his way.

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    This is definitely the most important thing for the country and for human space exploration as a whole.

    /s

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    2616 hours ago

    What happened to indigenous people and women? I swear I saw one just an hour ago so it seems like they still exist. Maybe not?