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[–] givesomefucks 159 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (13 children)

He didn't seize shit...

They made up an email address, claimed it was OPM, then spent an afternoon pretending to be official between that and the fork in the road email.

Apparently from metadata, it's not even a real email for OPM, it's being spoofed.

The whole thing is an absolute shit show.

But on the upside all it seems to be doing is delaying the retirements of everyone who was already planning on leaving when trump came back.

They have no idea what a bureaucrat will put up with out of spite, and a large amount of Feds didn't like their loyalty called into question by some ai slop pretending to be from a federal agency.

Edit:

They sent another last night too, a "FAQ" talking about how you'll get paid till the end of the fiscal year...

Like government employees aren't fucking aware we're on a continuing resolution... There's zero money to offer here, and a "FAQ" isn't binding.

That's not even getting I to how a couple agencies are saying if anyone takes it, they lose the position for good.

Like a 10 person office, if 2 take it, it's now permanently an 8 person office.

It's an obvious trick. And all it's doing is galvanizing the federal workforce

Edit 2:

And if you're not up to speed, the emails are 100% "written" by the 19 year old using chatbots.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-hires-trump-office-personnel-183345778.html

[–] givesomefucks 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty sure I've got Anker cables from when they were the "no name generic" option.

They're probably the most recommended brand now for all types of cables and battery banks. It's kind of crazy

[–] givesomefucks 7 points 3 weeks ago

It's insane how many people took that email seriously...

If they could fire a bunch of feds they would, but they can't so they want to scare them into resigning.

Even when there's good reason, it's hard as fuck to fire a fed. Don't let them get what they want without the fight, because they'll used the time saved to break more shit.

[–] givesomefucks 38 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Cool...

But if you're done, why are you here trying to convince others to give up?

If it's too much for you, that happens.

Go check out from politics, dont hang out and tell people it's pointless to try. Literally no one is happy in that scenario except trump.

[–] givesomefucks -2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The addition of electricity is the only reason anyone calls it scifi

[–] givesomefucks 18 points 3 weeks ago

Nothing new about it...

Movies are made in Cali because the first studios didn't want to pay Edison for his stolen patents on equipment...

So they moved to the opposite end of the country where it was mostly unenforceable, and it didn't take long till intellectual property was a big concern for them.

[–] givesomefucks 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Smart people doubt themselves.

Dumb people see that as weakness.

So dumb people often follow someone dumb, or someone that lies constantly.

In this case, both

[–] givesomefucks 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You shouldn't assume what position anyone is in.

But historically we know what happens when people resign...

Well, I do at least, are you aware what happened with the KKK in the South and why the majority of Southern politicians went from Black to white?

It wasn't good for the families of the people who resigned or anyone else of that group.

[–] givesomefucks 31 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Musk told him to resign from the FAA in a post on X. Whitaker did just that, leaving his post on January 20.

Stop fucking resigning...

They want people to resign because feds are hard to fire without reasons.

That's an intentional thing to prevent administrations from politicizing government service. You're not fighting by resigning, you're getting out of the way so the fascists get what they want.

[–] givesomefucks 6 points 3 weeks ago

While funny...

Every decent person should have left twitter a long time ago

Fuck em, let them have their echo chamber. You're not "fighting the good fight" you're giving them a common enemy.

Leave it to just racists and they'll start fighting over who isn't racist enough and the movement implodes.

[–] givesomefucks -3 points 3 weeks ago

since our modern understanding of the scientific method didn’t really exist back then,

Didn't exist when Mary Shelly did either...

That's my point, by it's very nature "the first scifi" isn't a fixed date due to scientific advancement.

Agriculture is a science, and it was a bigger deal than electricity when it was new, but we don't say every story with a plow is scifi anymore.

Hell, look at Jason and the Argonauts using bleeding edge navigation skills to travel to far off lands we couldn't imagine. The only difference is water instead of space.

This isn't a new process, we're talking about where modern humans draw a line that's been redrawn since the dawn of humanity.

[–] givesomefucks -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What are you trying to prove?

What I just quoted and you just agreed with...

If we count Frankenstein as scifi…

Then stuff centuries earlier also count as scifi, and she’s out of the discussion again.

I'm not sure why you're upset with me, now that we're on the same page...

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