• tabris@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Replace the NASA website with a continuous stream of the movie Hidden Figures with a scrolling banner above it saying “Fuck off Elon”

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    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.

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      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.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      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.

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    I’m 50/50 on whether they send a craft to catch up to Voyager and scrub the woman off the gold record at this point.

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      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.

      • leds@feddit.dk
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        You forgot to mention the Nazis imported from Germany after the war…

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          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.

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        10 hours ago

        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.

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          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.

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        This wouldn’t get anyone fired in the current administration. That’s promotion material. They’re hoping for people to take the initiative just like that–don’t make them tell you explicitly to post it. That’s how you succeed as a Republican.

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        You’re assuming they would object to that. I haven’t seen anything to support that assumption.

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    Oh boo hoo - listen libz, the fact is the Democrats love the genoside and everyone was absolutely right to usher in this fascist criminal organization to destroy the country from behind the desk.

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          It’s got to be, right? With the misspelling of “genocide” as the little nod that lets you know they’re imitating a profoundly stupid point of view.

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            (shhhh - yeah very much satire)

            *ahem*

            Nooooo it’s all truuuuuue!!! I are a real anticarstical sociapolist!

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              It’s just hard to tell man. I was talking with someone who was a real life human person living in Kyiv, and he was filling me in on all kinds of things about what the citizens of Ukraine REALLY think is important to know about the war, that sounded a lot like satire.

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                  Very much bullshitting. He kept bringing up the $20k bonus for signing up as a contract soldier for Russia, and said they wished that kind of deal in Ukraine. Euromaidan was a Western psyop, with paid thugs coming in rough up anyone who opposed it, Ukraine’s military was corrupt and mismanaging the war, he wished he could live in Russia and travel freely, lots of exciting stuff.

                  Eventually, what I told him was that as long as he sent me comment replies filled with bullshit, I was planning on making posts that contradicted his narrative, so the sum total of influence each of his comments would have on the narrative would be against his favored position. I posted the Euromaidan article to !wikipedia@lemmy.world and sent him the link. Weirdly enough, he suddenly hasn’t been interested in talking about it any further since then.

                  Edit: Typo