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Excellent reporting by Wired. I've been impressed by the depth of their coverage in the past year. This is outright corruption. These ghouls don't even attempt

Excellent reporting by Wired. I've been impressed by the depth of their coverage in the past year. This is outright corruption. These ghouls don't even attempt to hide the conflicts of interest. Musk is hiring employees from his own company SpaceX, using a backdoor to avoid vetting, to an agency that regulates his own company, to change critical safety systems. After the secretary of that department outright lied about what's happening. Meanwhile contracts continue to be awarded to SpaceX with no attempt from Musk to recuse himself or separate the conflict of interest. > By the time these posts were made, though, according to sources who were granted anonymity because they fear retaliation, SpaceX engineers were already being onboarded at the agency under Schedule A, a special authority that allows government managers to “hire persons with disabilities without requiring them to compete for the job,” according to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

insane_dreamer 2y ago
> special authority that allows government managers to “hire persons with disabilities Just to add to the irony, that type of authority is exactly the type of "DEI" practice that Elon/Trump is railing against as "corrupt/Marxist". Piling on corruption under the guise of rooting out corruption. It's an old trick used by dictators in other countries.
- titzer 2y ago
  It is 100% Orwellian doublespeak. It should be a five alarm fire, but cowed media outlets are incapable of calling it out for some reason. Probably because they are terrified of the consequences. Preemptive surrender. Dark times ahead.
  - smashah 2y ago
    From the transparency of the comments, it's clear many people are in denial about this. The media enjoy the circus, even if it's on fire.
  - yujzgzc 2y ago
    The outcome of "calling it out" for 8 years straight is a comeback with popular vote win. So I think it's reasonable to change a strategy that has failed so miserably for so long.
    - sho_hn 2y ago
      Indeed. The problem is that the voting base has been carefully groomed for many years to distrust independent journalism, and "calling out" anything is just perceived as partisan and not to be trusted.
    - ziddoap 2y ago
      >So I think it's reasonable to change a strategy that has failed so miserably I'm not sure how a strategy of "ignore it and don't mention it" is going to perform better than "call it out"...
      - yujzgzc 2y ago
        A working theory would be that people do not believe that there can be bad consequences until they get burned more, so things will need to get worse for a specific set of people. It's the strategy of falling to the bottom of the pool so you can push on the floor to kick yourself back up. But if you've got other ideas go for it.
    - Glyptodon 2y ago
      That's not how I would describe the overall behavior of the media for the last 8 years. Though obviously a large amount of people don't believe anything except what they want to hear.
    - sidibe 2y ago
      The only strategy that works apparently is to let them screw up the country so badly people believe it.
      - actionfromafar 2y ago
        I wonder what will happen then. In Russia it doesn't matter what anyone believes. But maybe the US population is different?
- dandanua 2y ago
  Like they care at all about using anything else that gives them more power and control. They will use all the freedom created by the previous generations of Americans to reduce as much freedom for others as they can. Fascists do fascists things.
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jklinger410 2y ago
> This is outright corruption. These ghouls don't even attempt to hide the conflicts of interest. It was better when folks in the FAA tried to hide their conflicts of interest!
- wat10000 2y ago
  Unironically yes. The need to hide them makes it more difficult to have them.
HanClinto 2y ago
> Excellent reporting by Wired. I've been impressed by the depth of their coverage in the past year. Depth of reporting is not accuracy, and there may be a bit of illusion here. For instance, the bit you cite (their reporting on Schedule A) is a great example of lazy reporting for a cheap "gotcha" to amplify ragebait with misinformation -- the Wired reporters either couldn't be bothered to look up the various forms of Schedule A hiring (in this case, Schedule A (r) [0] vs. Schedule A (u) [1]), or they are intentionally mis-reporting in order to add more outrage. Only section U deals with disabilities -- section R deals with temporary hiring. I think you and I are walking away with very different impressions of the quality of Wired's "depth of coverage". [0]: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-5/part-213/subject-group-ECFR2a2db745208d125#p-213.3102(r) https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-5/part-213/subject-group-... [1]: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-5/part-213/subject-group-ECFR2a2db745208d125#p-213.3102(u) https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-5/part-213/subject-group-...
- maxerickson 2y ago
  Is the idea that software experience has been holding the FAA back? The vague applicable part of the r is this: professional/industry exchange programs that provide for a cross-fertilization between the agency and the private sector to foster mutual understanding, an exchange of ideas, or to bring experienced practitioners to the agency; Amazing that rocket application guys are the most valuable experts when dealing with air traffic control.
yubblegum 2y ago
> This is outright corruption Mars, baby. You ain't seen nothin yet. I noted downvotes of displeasure. Rebuttal would be more informative. Focus on "cost savings" and doing away with "corruption". Bonus points for connecting dot$ between El Doge's various businesses and the MIC.

insane_dreamer 2y ago

> special authority that allows government managers to “hire persons with disabilities Just to add to the irony, that type of authority is exactly the type of "DEI" practice that Elon/Trump is railing against as "corrupt/Marxist". Piling on corruption under the guise of rooting out corruption. It's an old trick used by dictators in other countries.

titzer 2y ago
It is 100% Orwellian doublespeak. It should be a five alarm fire, but cowed media outlets are incapable of calling it out for some reason. Probably because they are terrified of the consequences. Preemptive surrender. Dark times ahead.
- smashah 2y ago
  From the transparency of the comments, it's clear many people are in denial about this. The media enjoy the circus, even if it's on fire.
- yujzgzc 2y ago
  The outcome of "calling it out" for 8 years straight is a comeback with popular vote win. So I think it's reasonable to change a strategy that has failed so miserably for so long.
  - sho_hn 2y ago
    Indeed. The problem is that the voting base has been carefully groomed for many years to distrust independent journalism, and "calling out" anything is just perceived as partisan and not to be trusted.
  - ziddoap 2y ago
    >So I think it's reasonable to change a strategy that has failed so miserably I'm not sure how a strategy of "ignore it and don't mention it" is going to perform better than "call it out"...
    - yujzgzc 2y ago
      A working theory would be that people do not believe that there can be bad consequences until they get burned more, so things will need to get worse for a specific set of people. It's the strategy of falling to the bottom of the pool so you can push on the floor to kick yourself back up. But if you've got other ideas go for it.
  - Glyptodon 2y ago
    That's not how I would describe the overall behavior of the media for the last 8 years. Though obviously a large amount of people don't believe anything except what they want to hear.
  - sidibe 2y ago
    The only strategy that works apparently is to let them screw up the country so badly people believe it.
    - actionfromafar 2y ago
      I wonder what will happen then. In Russia it doesn't matter what anyone believes. But maybe the US population is different?
dandanua 2y ago
Like they care at all about using anything else that gives them more power and control. They will use all the freedom created by the previous generations of Americans to reduce as much freedom for others as they can. Fascists do fascists things.

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jklinger410 2y ago

> This is outright corruption. These ghouls don't even attempt to hide the conflicts of interest. It was better when folks in the FAA tried to hide their conflicts of interest!

wat10000 2y ago
Unironically yes. The need to hide them makes it more difficult to have them.

HanClinto 2y ago

> Excellent reporting by Wired. I've been impressed by the depth of their coverage in the past year. Depth of reporting is not accuracy, and there may be a bit of illusion here. For instance, the bit you cite (their reporting on Schedule A) is a great example of lazy reporting for a cheap "gotcha" to amplify ragebait with misinformation -- the Wired reporters either couldn't be bothered to look up the various forms of Schedule A hiring (in this case, Schedule A (r) [0] vs. Schedule A (u) [1]), or they are intentionally mis-reporting in order to add more outrage. Only section U deals with disabilities -- section R deals with temporary hiring. I think you and I are walking away with very different impressions of the quality of Wired's "depth of coverage". [0]: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-5/part-213/subject-group-ECFR2a2db745208d125#p-213.3102(r) https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-5/part-213/subject-group-... [1]: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-5/part-213/subject-group-ECFR2a2db745208d125#p-213.3102(u) https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-5/part-213/subject-group-...

maxerickson 2y ago
Is the idea that software experience has been holding the FAA back? The vague applicable part of the r is this: professional/industry exchange programs that provide for a cross-fertilization between the agency and the private sector to foster mutual understanding, an exchange of ideas, or to bring experienced practitioners to the agency; Amazing that rocket application guys are the most valuable experts when dealing with air traffic control.

yubblegum 2y ago

> This is outright corruption Mars, baby. You ain't seen nothin yet. I noted downvotes of displeasure. Rebuttal would be more informative. Focus on "cost savings" and doing away with "corruption". Bonus points for connecting dot$ between El Doge's various businesses and the MIC.