Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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I don't thing they are spending enough money.
This attitude is far broader than the NNSA Labs, it is society wide and plagues the bloated defense budget too. Every single weapons system is over budget and over schedule. We are squandering any technological advantage we have as a nation, and new technology is kept out of our weapons due to largely paranoid fears.
Either we change our attitude toward all this or we will suffer a horrible fate as a nation.
Yep, that's going to work and make everything OK. What exactly is the "right thing"? My attitude is just fine, and that makes very little difference. Your comment is the proverbial Ostrich head in the sand.
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Sounds a bit over the top to me.
1/27/2020 5:35 PM
But this has been your problem for a very long time. Perhaps it is time to consider that you need actual evidence before you think
you are right.
Just go ahead, our adversaries will be very pleased with your actions. If you think that American power is supreme, and we don't need to start doing things differently, you are part of the problem.
Americans who can't envision doing things better are simply doing the work of the enemy. You are simply assisting our enemies in defeating us.
Wow, now that is a straw man argument. This makes no sense whatsoever. I get it you have a problem with the labs. There is plenty to criticize in a sane and reasonable manner, you are adding nothing to the conversation but noise. You do you and let the adults have a real conversation.
As for the labs, if you are starting from "I hate them and everything they stand for," especially due to some past grievance, real or imagined, the idea that "we are governed by paranoia and fear" is a little silly.