Hows about dropping that SpaceX contract?
I know why, but can still be unhappy.
Somehow they are better than Boeing…
Wasn’t the Artemis Program advertised to land the first woman and first person of color in the moon? Well, I think Elon wanted to cancel the whole thing anyway (Except the NASA funding for his new rocket, of course).
Artemis does seem like the third most practical way to get there. Maybe it would be better to put that money to more effective use. Like it or not, SpaceX is a leading contender
This explains why musk spacex blows up so many rockets
The directive, sent on January 22 and obtained by 404 Media, states:
“Per NASA HQ direction, we are required to scrub mentions of the following terms from our public sites by 5pm ET today. This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request. Note that the list below is the list that exists this morning, but it may grow as the day goes on.
DEIA
Diversity (in context of DEIA)
Equity (“ “)
Inclusion (“ “)
Accessibility (“ “)
MSI
Minority Serving Institution
Indigenous People
EEJ
EJ
Environmental Justice
Underrepresented groups/people
Anything specifically targeting women (women in leadership, etc.)”
This is some ridiculous bullshit.
It’s just bonkers, but in a scary clown kinda way.
I’m kinda amazed at the prescience of the handmaids tale and other dystopian novels.
Anything specifically targeting women (women in leadership, etc.)
Hooooly fuck.
They’re really not hiding it anymore. Well, I guess that’s not new, but still, holy fuck. This might be some malicious compliance from NASA administrators or something.
53,% of voting white women voted for this. Maybe they’ll wake up when their birth control gets taken.
Maybe that edgy atheist was right all along.
Some of that I can see. They don’t want to continue the narrative of oh the poor minorities.
Then again, this is way more of a blanket than anything. Scrubbing all mentions of things like “equity” is a little crazy.
Can I get the ROI on all this bullshit experiment?
This is affecting our work - our Share point was down for two days while they looked through it for any mention of dei, delaying plenty of work that had nothing to do with dei.
But even putting that aside, now we have many (thousands?) government employees on admin leave, which means they’re getting paid to do nothing. And likely will be for months.
And this delayed resignation thing, if they uphold their end of the deal, will cost even more. Especially since many of the takers seem to be people who were going to retire anyway, or “super commuters” that don’t live near the office, both of whom were likely on their way out anyway.
That’s a lot of money they are spending for no return at all.
Sounds like we can get more efficient if we remove musk from office.
How about no.
Either that or go whole-hog the other direction.
NASA History
Since its founding in 1958, white man at NASA have pushed the boundaries of scientific and technical limits to explore the unknown for all the male citizens of our planet. Discover the history of our human spaceflight, science, technology, and aeronautics programs.
Remembering Our White Heroes
NASA will never forget the tragic loss of the all-male, all-white crews of the Apollo 1 crew, and some other people who we don’t need to mention because we forgot about them.
Hidden Figures
Did anyone other than white men ever play a pivotal role in spaceflight? It’s possible, but if it had, I’ve been instructed not to tell you about it.
If you’re going to get fired, make it count.
You forgot to mention the Nazis imported from Germany after the war…
Actually, that would be an excellent addition. And, for the thumbnail, just include Musk’s salute, with no further explanation or anything other than the straight facts.
Not far enough. Someone might think “white man” is inclusive of diversity hires of descendants of immigrants from Ireland or Italy, and not exclusively of English origin.
Also it should be specified that these are straight men who never entertain wistful thoughts of another man’s cock. Muscular, well-endowed straight men, whose rock-like chests glisten with fragile beads of moisture as they shower together before towelling each other off and pulling on their tight, white, form-hugging space underwear under their spacesuits, but who are not thereby aroused. This should be spelled out explicitly, to avoid any confusion.
Discover the history of our
humanwhite male spaceflight, science, technology, and aeronautics programs.Malicious compliance, lovely!
You’re assuming they would object to that. I haven’t seen anything to support that assumption.
Lets make indigenous people invisible again, great.
I’m terrified that they’re going to try to finish the job.
Aw shit, here we go again
I have a feeling this is just them wanting everything to not be about minority groups.
Are you blind or fucking stupid?
