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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Of course, other pandemics as well, environmental crises (such as the dust bowl), and severe disasters such as the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, the Galveston hurricane. Also not new to have homeless people, of course. The history of blacks and Native Americans, of course, their contributions and discrimination against them, along with movements towards civil rights, is a big part of history. The current geopolitical issues of course, are not yet as serious as World War I and World War II, which was a nuclear war in fact.
And the economy (as well as crime I believe) was much, much worse as recently as the 1970's, which had the oil crisis following the 1973 Arab-Israel war, stagflation, Nixon's resignation, the loss in Vietnam, the Iranian hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and Carter's energy programs which led to the imposition of a 55 speed limit on all roads, while the Three Mile Island events led to a backlash against nuclear power.
The things going on now, in the context of history, are not that unusual in some ways, it is a big error to think that because the United States is now so modern, that rather than comparing its actual conditions to how it was historically, we compare to a utopian ideal that was never actually present.
I am convinced that some kind ChatGPU or an AI has been posting on this blog. We are getting long but content free posts everyday now. The question is why would somebody or something being doing this?