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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China or NIF....
I think China is the safer bet.
Uh, I guess the “Star on Earth” banner hanging on the National Ignition Facility was a horrific misprint. What are the odds?
7/25/2022 11:16 PM
Nope, just a flat-out lie from the start. Everyone who mattered knew it was about weapon secondaries. Except maybe the Secretary of Energy.
7/27/2022 5:49 AM
There are millions of people that believe that the earth is flat, or (and?) that Trump won the 2020 election by a landslide. Please don't begrudge the handful of true believers in laser driven ICF as a viable commercial source of energy. Like MAGA, it's a religion.
7/30/2022 3:06 PM
Not to begrudge your point about NIF but I doubt there are millions who believe Trump won in a landslide. I doubt there are millions who ever believed in Q. Now there are millions who think there could have been some weird things about the election and if there was not the mass mail in voting due to Covid Trump would have won. That may be close to half the people on both sides. The problem with that is that it was not technically cheating and the mail in voting could have added a boost to both Republicans and Democrats but it would tend to go more towards Dems due to the high urban concentration. Also if it was the other way around and it benefited the Republicans I am sure they would be just fine with it. It is just odd the MSM goes on about how you must be crazy to even think there was some odd things about the 2020 election, when in fact there was many odd things due to the Covid, but I do not believe in any grand conspiracies.
By the way this is not the same as absentee ballots people seem very confused about this. I do not doubt that there are some MAGA people how are almost religious in there thinking but there are millions that are not. You do not come across like a serious person when you compare flat earthers to Trump voters. You just sound like someone repeating talking points you found on the internet. By they way so much of this is hype. For example the Q-anon stuff, I hear it all the time as an insult and on MSM yet I even though I must know hundreds of people who are republicans I do not not know a single one that believes in Q, not one. In fact few even know what it is, yet my Democrat friends all insist that all republicans believe in Q. Something does not add up.
Scooby will allow your post on but will no doubt make sure this one does not come out.