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?

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

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".

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.

This is just another version of pulling the ladder up behind them, no?

DEI is largely about raising the profiles of minority workers in roles and positions that were both vital to mission success and underpaid/underappreciate-for-promotion relative to the whiter career roles.

Petro's following in the grand tradition of Boomer senior leaders by pulling the ladder up behind her now that she's at the top.

At least make sure to update all graphics to webp while executing hate based updates.

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

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.

good ol' Bobby Tables

They're getting ready to colonize ~~Gaza~~ Klandathu. They can't be caring about the indigenous life. /s

Conservatives are creating their safe space.

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.

You're significantly underestimating how many Chud engineers NASA employs. The agency that was founded by Nazis refugees has always had a shit history on race politics, cinema hagiographies produced decades later notwithstanding.

In a parallel universe where we have a functioning federal government

One of the biggest jokes of the US depiction of the Space Race was how many times we got our asses drubbed by Russians with less money, manpower, and educational resources, simply because our administration was so cartoonishly incompetent. We have an obscenely wealthy federal government that can afford to fuck up on the scale of trillions of dollars and still come out ahead.

That was a cat. You saw a cat an hour ago. Indigenous people and women have never existed. It's been straight white men since Adam and Steve. Wait...

Any post that starts with "listen up libs" immediately makes me ignore the rest of its contents. Not interested in your MAGA and/or tankie bullshit.

The middle class also has it bad. A worker is anyone who isnt an owner

Electoralism is bullshit to begin with. Trump shouldn't have been able to do what he's doing at all. An actual developed society shouldn't be susceptible to fascist takeover, because fascists should be unacceptable in government. And the president shouldn't be able to do anything they want with nothing but good faith holding them back. The American government fundamentally failed a long time ago. If Harris had won it wouldn't have been Trump, but she was far from a progressive and would not have changed the government in an attempt to preserve it against future fascist uprising.

Not to mention her commitment to Israel. Not to mention she was part of the Biden administration, and had a direct involvement in the American government's support for the Palestinian genocide.

Yes, it would've been better in many ways if she had won. But the choice never should've been between a neoliberal conservative and a fascist. America was broken under Biden, too. Not the way it is, nor the way it will be as Trump's kingdom rises. But it's far more nuanced than just "if she had won everything would be swell". And it's weird to point out non-voters as the problem, instead of like. The past 5 decades of American politics. The many many many people who did nothing to prevent this from happening over 50 years. The democratic party itself failed to meaningfully respond to his first presidency.

Yes if the people who had stayed home had instead voted, and voted for Harris specifically, she would be president and the outcome would be better for everyone. Undoubtedly. Like Weimar Germany though the government was already fundamentally broken and susceptible to the rise of fascism. To simply and immediately put blame on the voters ignores the actual reasons that situation even came about to begin with.