CNN: Trump & Musk tried to fire 300 nuclear officials, then realized they were the ones overseeing the US nuclear arsenal and scrambled to rehire them

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This is how you know they have no clue what they're doing. They are pulling up any and every agency and just firing people (without knowing what they do) because the more money they free up the more they have to play with. And dumbass maga conservatives are still running with the narrative that this is all being done under the guise of "eFFiCiEnCy."

I can't imagine the branch chiefs and division managers who spent months interviewing and hiring people, in some cases then training them, hours of work to find the right people, then months of them producing and getting their feet on the ground. Then these bozos come through and start firing everyone, undoing all the work that was done. Back to square one, skeleton crew, overworked staff, work taking days to get to people's desk for reviews, etc. etc.

and these brain rotted maga's talking about "this money that is being found by DOGE will be returned to the taxpayer" :laff:
 

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What we are in is far worse than Idiocracy. I WISH we were in Idiocracy. People in that movie knew they were dumb. They acknowledged they didn't have the answers and when someone came along clearly smarter than them, they (eventually) made him their leader.

We've weaponized and glorified incompetence, refused to acknowledge some people know better (or even argued over what's "better"), and most don't even care about society as a whole, as long as they get theirs. Our leaders are only concerned with their image and could give two ducks about the rest of us. President Camancho's whole state of the union address is the only example you need to compare to today's leadership to see how far away we are.
 

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If you want to know how dire the situation is for our overall future:


Now read this thread:



These brilliant individuals were expected to simply walk away from a complex, multi-phasic research program that we hired them to develop by COB today. There was no discussion with the government's intellectual property attorneys, no planning to continue the work on funded grants or other contracts, no chance to distribute biological collections to colleagues across the world. No time to discuss data management. There was no time for questions asked about papers or grant proposals that may be under review.


This is the second gut punch as a researcher. Our work will just...be lost. Nobody is ensuring continuity, there isn't a review process where the best projects are protected and staff is consolidated onto them. Our team is NTE all the way up and down, so unless something changes, our whole program will just be wiped out and nobody who can run it from a purely technical perspective or has the subject matter expertise to continue it will be left.


How many genetic lines that have been carefully cultivated over decades will simply die in unplugged freezers? How much research will collapse because there's a gaping hole in the timeline?

What will this cost us?

By "cost", I don't just mean money-wise. By"us", I mean THE PLANET.

I work in a facility that has a collection of over 30K viable samples, collected from all around the globe going back to the 1950s, of a disease for a major commodity crop. This disease used to cause widespread epidemics. Those epidemics became orders of magnitude less severe due to the genetic surveillance and plant breeding tools our lab unit has developed over many decades and many generations of scientists.

We lost 4 of our 7 head scientists yesterday, right in the middle of a critical period when we're working with foreign samples of this pathogen outside of the bio-safety level 3 facility. The human impact of this has been cruel and traumatic.

Part of my job is to maintain the culture collection and I'm terrified that we're just going to lose it all because everyone that is left gets fired or even something as simple as the LN2 shipments stop or nobody is there to respond to the alarm of a failing -80C freezer.
 
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