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Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites (www.404media.co)

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (4 children)

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] 10 points 4 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] 23 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

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] 9 points 6 hours ago

She sent the email. They're her words now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

They need to give all interviews in with an Inspector Clouseau accent to let us know they are under duress like the US pilot who was put on TV during the first gulf war.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

So... "she's just following orders"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

If it quacks like a duck and steps like a goose…

[–] [email protected] 38 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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] 6 points 4 hours 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