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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Stores are empty, people are fighting. One of my neighbors house is wall to wall supplies, he goes to several different towns everyday to multiple stores to grab everything up to whatever the limit it. It is like he had a hidden hoarder gene that switched on. He is still going to work, or more precisely he goes in for an hour every other day. He seems angry all the time. He has thousands and thousands of eggs, which seems odd since I am not sure that you can even freeze them. Also how long can milk be frozen? One of the other neighbors has family of where both people work at hospitals and he seems to hate these people again which is odd since they are supper nice people. The labs have some very strange people. One thing for sure I have seen some behaviors that I have never seen people.
Thank you!
Presuming that your not making jest of this, then your neighbor sounds like a sociopath to me.
What I don't undertsand is that knowing what kind of people that work in LANL I would have guessed they would be the very first to get the virus. You know these guy don't exactly know how to hold social norms much less social distancing. Also being cowboys they are not exactly known for being careful or safe. Heck I thought LANL would be one of the first placed to get it in the US. I just don't seem to understand these people.
You beat me to it. Well said.
3/23/2020 5:45 PM
Agreed, Triad should be out and Bechtel should be brought back in, shut down the labs, fire the scientists, make lots of money and let a lot of people die. Bechtel Baby!!!!! 5:45PM you are my brother, LANL treated us wrong and they should all pay...all of them. New Mexico would be so much better without LANL. Bechtel!!!! Bechtel!!!! Bechtel!!!!
Let me be clear if Bechtel cannot come back in that at least get rid of UC from TRIAD. Oh and I am not bitter, never have been never will.
3/24/2020 4:32 PM
What shocked me the first time I went to Livermore after working for years at LANL is that they don't have DRAMA every single day like LANL. It is generally friendly, happy, and a great place to work. Not sure this is a "management" problem....
Excellent! The real "Bechtel Baby!" guy has been outdone. Fabulous satire.
Blathered on by 3/23/2020 8:42 PM
The connection of UC with whoever is managing Los Alamos gives the mission at least a hint of scientific integrity. Take UC out of the picture, and you get a Rocky Flats pit factory all over again. I am sure that is the preferred scene for the well-paid managers, but I suspect that the glove-box workers would prefer a less risky occupation at the same wages. Clearly, the surrounding communities should learn from the history of Rocky Flats, and the impact of massive contamination, before subscribing to the insanity of getting rid of UC. Is the company town of Los Alamos really ready for an FBI raid?
3/27/2020 4:53 PM
It seems like the opposite in that UC now knows it does not need Battelle.
3/28/2020 7:38 AM
Nor does it need LANL!
3/27/2020 8:53 PM
You really need to read the history of Battelle before you write.
3/23/2020 5:45 PM"
TRIAD is merely acting on the direction of NNSA and DOE, where managers did not score high on STEM in high school or college. And those poor souls are taking direction from a failed real estate broker who does not even understand compound interest.
You have a very inflated idea of the importance of Los Alamos to the country. It is nil.
3/31/2020 5:42 PM
Agreed, LANL, LLNL and Sandia are not needed. Why do we have nuclear weapons in the modern world anyway. What done at LANL that cannot be done elsewhere. Why do I post on this blog.
Everything you say makes total sense, logic in its purest form. I am glad that you are not bitter about anything.
3/31/2020 5:42 PM
You might want to tone down the bitter vibe on some your posts it is not doing you any favors.
3/31/2020 5:42 PM"
I take it you have no idea whatsoever about what is done at LANL and why is it so important. There is a very good reason the budgets are going up. Hint recent events have revealed why. Before you post again think about why that might be. If you don't get it think about more. If you still don't get it than just accept that the world is just too complex for you to understand therefore your rantings are pointless and you should top posting your noise to this blog.
I worked at the lab as a scientist for 30 years, and lived in Los Alamos for 40 years. I know whereof I speak. If you spend time outside the DOE/NNSA/National Lab bubble, you realize it is of no importance to anyone else in the country.
You are so full of it is not funny. There are many that are spending considerable in dealing with the military, academics, DC, and many other governments facilities and yes Los Alamos is very important for rather obvious reasons and it is not just the NW programs either. Again this is all easy to check even to the outside science. There is very good reasons that LANL is so well funded and will be continued to be funded for some time. Not to mention that LANL is pondered in high regard across all these institutions.
We could go over all the numbers about the specific NW programs, about high performance computing, about bio modeling work, quantum computing, surveillance, multiple other national security work, climate modeling, space sciences, materials, production, magnetic field lab, nonlinear science, complex systems, the unique science capabilities, the number of postdocs and students that go through LANL and end up as professors, staff at DOE, and the number that go to high tech jobs like Google, Microsoft, and numerous start ups, and these numbers are in the thousands. How is it that we have all these professors and scientists that come to visit LANL every year to give talks and do research including profs with Nobel prizes. The list just goes on and on. It is also very telling you call something like the "DOE" a bubble. Do you have any idea whatsoever just how big the DOE is in terms of basic science for the US what are the other DOE labs and the DOE funded University research, do you have any idea how LANL compares to these in terms of publications to the other DOE labs and Universities in the US.
Now with that in mind you claim you worked at a lab scientists for 30 years, if that was possibly the case you would know this. Either you lying or are just so beyond bitter about what you think LANL did to you that are delusional. Look we all know a few of the crazy bitter nut jobs in town and Santa Fe and I think it is pretty clear where you fall. You have made you nutcase claims over and over again. You have no idea what you are talking about so please give it a rest.
Ya right pal, Chris Mechles also worked at the lab for some years before he was fired. I think you have some sort of personal agenda and you have no interests in the truth just your personal narrative about how you so great and LANL is so bad. Ever think it might be you and not the lab.