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.

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.

I can understand why Nazis like it, given the truck’s habit of trapping you inside as it engulfs you in flames.

Love an app that defaults me to people I actually follow and doesn’t bombard me with endless reams of ads or engagement bait.

We’ll see how long that lasts. But for now, its a blast from the past to be on a social media app I don’t hate.

According to Wiz, DeepSeek promptly fixed the issue when informed about it.

:-/

Oh man, its 2008 again. Can’t wait for them to rediscover Conservapedia and Voat.

I’m a big fan of a particularly virtual table-top tool called Foundry, which I use to host D&D games.

The Instagram algorithm picked this out of my cookies and fed it to Temu, which determined I must really like… lathing and spot-wielding and shit. So I keep getting ads for miniature industrial equipment. At-home tools for die casting and alloying and the like. From Temu! Absolutely crazy.

I’d tell you, but my area network appears to have already started blocking DeepSeek.

I mean they voted for it so shrugs.

330M Americans and 77M of them voted for Trump while 75M voted for Harris. The 77M were distributed across a selection of states with 312 EC votes, which is why he won. Harris’s 75M would have carried her if she’d traded a few hundred thousand votes in Texas or Florida for a winning balance in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. This, despite the fact that nobody voted for Harris in the primaries.

To say “the Americans voted for this” puts far too much credit on the dysfunctional, byzantine, and ultimately anti-populist presidential selection system. Americans don’t get to decide their president in any meaningful capacity. Not to get all annoyingly-conservative with the talking points, but we really do live in a Roman-style Republican more than a Greek-style Democracy.

Finding people you like on the internet and talking to them is fun.

The whole road to the top is lined with asses to kiss. Why would Zuck stop now?

Does all this sound like they’re actually loving Trump or are there credible threat to their health from the Trump admin?

Credibly threats to their revenue streams, more like. You don’t climb the ladder to billionaire-hood without kissing a few assess and sucking a lot of dick.

Building my entire data model around the Tienanmen Square copypasta. I can run this thing on a Raspberry Pi plugged into a particularly starchy potato and it reliably returns the only answer I’ve thought to ask it.

This is Whataboutism and you are clearly a Wumao agent sent here to destroy democracy.

This is where it all ends. “Everything I don’t like is Russia/China/Iran”.

Nothing evaluated on its merits. Nobody with a view different from mine is real. Evil Foreigners is the explanation for every bad take and un-pc post. Americans are only ever loyal patriots, villainous traitors, or useful idiots.

What I was referring to is Goedel’s incompleteness theorem which says that in a logic system there are things that are true that cannot be proven in the system, and logic systems can become complex enough that you can’t prove they’re consistent.

If you get into the real guts of the theorem, the limit becomes a system attempting to describe itself.

But there’s plenty of room for logical analysis outside the artificially engineered naval gazing that Goedel uses to prove incompleteness.

in logic you sometimes have to build on foundations you can’t prove to be true, despite believing very strongly that they are.

In logic, you do have certain unprovable truths known as axioms, which you use to form the foundation of a model. And one way to evaluate a model is to try and prove statements that force one axiom to contradict another (typically referred to as a paradox).

“Time Travel is impossible” is a conclusion we can make IRL, but not one that holds in a narrative fantasy.

But isn’t our understanding of quantum physics predicated on logical and provable mathematical models?

Also, I gotta point out that this is a Sci-Fi setting with superluminal travel, which is also supposed to be (practically speaking) impossible. A different kind of problem to be sure. But at some point it feels like the real unlimited power of the Federation is just realizing the fantasies of nerds from the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Rhode_Island_and_Providence_Plantations#1663_Royal_Charter

The colony also passed the first anti-slavery law in America on May 18, 1652, though the practice remained widespread in Rhode Island and there exists no evidence that the legislation was ever enforced

Ain’t that just Liberalism in a nutshell.

ACABers suddenly becoming fans of police brutality

It’s just two fascists trying to kill one another.

Just another normal day in the Lemmyverse