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NASA says 20% of workforce to depart space agency (www.reuters.com)
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About 20% of the employees at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration are set to depart the space agency, a NASA spokesperson said on Friday.

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[-] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 123 points 1 week ago

Depart is such a passive way to say they're fired

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 54 points 1 week ago

they're using that language to mix the resignees with the firees.

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hurray! Everyone's getting laid!!

Oh, there's one more word on this memo, but it's kinda smudged and hard to read

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