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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The Dems are generally pro science and can just shift the labs to work on green energy.
Maybe Biden will attempt to cut the NNSA budget. The question is what is the time frame and if we can get enough support from the house and Senate. One problem is that some Republicans may want some cuts as well to say that they stopped some spending. The NNSA is a big target indeed. Not to mention that a case could be made that some cuts could be justified. The bigger worry is maybe they want some real crazy cuts.
It looks like the world is changing. Could it be better or worse, well that depends, but it is going to change fairly fast, particularly in terms of the internet. I bet this very blog is gone in 6 months but maybe less. In case it ends sooner than we think I just want to say thanks to Scooby for giving the NNSA folks particularly non-mangers a voice for issues and information.
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