• archonet@lemy.lol
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    14 days ago

    Whatever this person is smoking, snorting, swallowing, injecting, and/or boofing, I want some. I’m already self-medicating with as much pot as I can afford to get through this assclown fuckery we call an administration; I want/need stronger drugs that enable this kind of magical thinking and optimism.

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        13 days ago

        The truth is those “career experts” are now long gone. The ones who needed to continue working have either gone into industry or left for greener shores. The ones who could retire, did (a good chunk of them also having left the country). It’s a billion times easier to stop doing science and turn off all the equipment, than it is to turn it back on. Even the agencies that are hiring again, are having trouble - my friend is a PhD physicist interviewing for Los Alamos right now, and normally, there would be HUNDREDS of applicants for these government positions.

        They got 60 applications for two jobs, total.

        Nobody wants to work for the government when we’ve just learned some billionaire friend of the President can fire you just because Grok told him you were worthless.