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None of this is efficiency. Our local NOAA office has lost their sparse janitorial staff. That doesn't make the agency more efficient. That just means an overwo
by juujian 1y ago
None of this is efficiency. Our local NOAA office has lost their sparse janitorial staff. That doesn't make the agency more efficient. That just means an overworked person making 6 figures now has to figure out how to procure toilet paper and get the bathrooms fixed. It's obstructing people eager to do important work while marginally reducing cost, that's all it is.
- jgilias 1y agoI don’t think it actually reduces costs if someone better paid is now doing it instead.
- rekrsiv 1y agoIt's not about reducing costs, it's about funding the tax breaks for the rich.
- CamperBob2 1y agoNo, that particular act of stupidity is about fucking up NOAA so it can be privatized by Trump cronies, while simultaneously burying "inconvenient truths" that inconvenience the same people. Defunding NASA is about the tax cuts. NOAA is different.
- stogot 1y agoSide note: Inconvenient Truth documentary might have actually been more widely accepted if it wasn’t a political ad for Al Gore
- scoreandmore 1y agoThere’s the problem. It wasn’t a political ad for Al Gore, it was published 8 years before he ran. It just so happened he was actually interested in improving things and leaning on smarter people for policy, but that made half the country go “Eeeewww… facts! Elitism!! we want someone dumber we can have a beer with for president!” That was literally an argument in the 2000 election: who would you rather drink with. Then GWB put on his yokel hat and yokel accent and dumbed it down so that people wouldn’t be scared. Instead of voting for someone with a plan, they voted for some rich cokehead fail-son from the Bush dynasty because he seemed more “of the people”. But Al Gore takes the flak for trying to raise awareness. Unbelievable how dumb this country is as a whole. And 10x dumber now that the current POTUS is unwriting history at rocket’s pace.
- Hikikomori 1y agoSomething something Florida recount and now those people are in trumps cabinet and even in the supreme court. The federalist society has been subverting democracy for a long time.
- triceratops 1y agoHow was it a political ad?
- CydeWeys 1y agoNo, payroll is still down, it's just that labor is now being used less efficiently and thus less useful work gets done.