A Boring Dystopia

10076 readers

525 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--If a picture is just a screenshot of an article, link the article

--If a video's content isn't clear from title, write a short summary so people know what it's about.

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

givesomefucks

NASA moves swiftly to end DEI programs, ask employees to “report” violations (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 hours ago by return2ozma to c/aboringdystopia

11 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 11 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] workerONE 4 points 2 hours ago

Report violations of ensuring a diverse work force. Only homogeneous workers are allowed!

[–] TheBat 9 points 4 hours ago

NASA is going back to their Nazi roots, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

there is probably more detailed info about this but from the end of the article:

For the medical research community, however, the termination of these programs might be the least of its concerns. As of Tuesday, all external communication from agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the NIH, Centers for Disease Control, and the Food and Drug Administration, were put on hold. This will include things like alerts regarding the spread of emerging diseases, such as the H5N1 bird flu that’s currently widespread in agricultural animals.

But today, it became clear that this policy extended well beyond external communications. One researcher said that an NIH workshop was canceled mid-presentation. Others have reported that all evaluations of grant proposals by the NIH are now on hold indefinitely. Should the hold last for any significant amount of time, it will have severe ripple effects, as arranging the peer review panels that evaluate grants involves complicated scheduling and travel, so the delays may persist for considerably longer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

Hold a government program underwater until the bubbles stop. Whine pathetically to anyone who will listen that it's "broken" and should therefore be dismantled rather than fixed.

That's completely inline with the Republican MO. I would expect them to push it as far as possible this time. Hope the the MAGA folks are ready to take it in the ass with the rest of us since that's what they signed us all up for.