Oh! Oh!!

 A series of unfortunate events

https://losalamosreporter.com/2021/09/29/doe-announces-investigation-of-series-of-events-at-lanl-plutonium-facility/

The Department of Energy’s Office of Enterprise Assessments’ Office of Enforcement’s has announced its decision to conduct an investigation into the facts and circumstances associated with a series of events between February and July of this year occurring in the Plutonium (PF-4) Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Impact of CA Affordable homes bill

 Will these bills signed into law by Governor Newsom force and ensure mixed income housing developments are built in job centers like Livermore and Pleasanton, with minimal pushback?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=280MuPj_8uU

Will there be a government shutdown?

 Will there be a government shutdown, is so what does it mean for the labs. Do we still get paid?

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/mike-causey-federal-report/2021/09/government-shutdown-talk-is-back-again-have-we-learned-anything-from-the-last-ones/

CRT (again?)

 https://losalamosreporter.com/2021/09/24/critical-race-theory/

Well this has created another fire storm on the Los Alamos facebook pages. It is the usual where people are saying you should teach critical race theory at LA schools with other saying they do not know what critical race theory is and using the defections of 70s for legal studies and saying it is only taught in "advanced academic settings". Some people saying it is only teaching the truth and to be against is to be racists and so on , so the conversation is pretty low level. This is at the schools but I guess it could be coming to the labs.

Just a few points on CRT, while it is true that it originated from a theory for legal system in the US, the basic concept can be and is widely applied to large sections of the social sciences, and humanities. It is the the hypothesis that literally every thing in the US has racial issues baked in them. The original idea was that the legal system has inherent or as the say "structural: racism built in the foundation. In some was this also leads to the ideal of structural racism where the even though you cannot find a law that is obviously racists the whole thing is still racist you just cannot see it and it must be reason for any type of inequality we see in society. Like all "critical theories" this same idea can then be applied to any field such art, literature, music, games, sports, roads, transpiration, food, and so on. Critical theories in general are so common in humanities/social sciences because they can be very easily applied to your particular field. Suppose you study the history of TV shows, (yes there are professors who study that), than all you have to do is is reexamine your previous work on TV shows in the context of critical race theory to show that TV shows have built in biases and racism that support one group and suppress others you than write some papers and NPR will interview for your great work where you talk about how Gilligan's Island reinforces racism we did not even know it. Heck you could even take a critical race approach to a reading off Intel chip manual. When the general public uses the term "critical race theory", what they really mean is just critical study to any field where the assumption is that race controls everything.

Of course the problem is why should you believe any of this? Even in its original form in terms of looking at law, there is simply no reason to believe that any of it is true, it is only a conjecture of "here is the way the law is" followed by a series of assertions . Sure you can cheery pick some data to make your case and ignore everything else ect. None of these critical theory approaches are actually a "theories" in any scientific sense of the word. This type of work does not follow any scientific approach such as being falsifiability, without that why should any accept what they have to say.

I agree that history as least as accurate as we can make should be talked about, such as slavery, race, right to vote, Jim crow. Along with all the efforts to correct this and the progress that can be made. Applying a critical theory approach bases race in the US is not appropriate for high schools or below because there is no reason to believe the theory itself is correct, which is that structural racism is a massive issues that underlies and explains all current issues of race today. At this point this is open to debate and real evidence with actual numbers strongly argue against CRT interpretations particularly in things like law, crime, and so on.
Math, statistics and actual analysis of data are something you will not find in CR or CRT.

If this comes back to the Sandia, LLNL or LANL it will of course suffer the same issues, namely what is the evidence that CRT is correct, and what is the evidence that it is not correct, what are the alternatives, and what do simply not know.

Mandatory vaccine

Federal contractors must ensure employees are fully vaccinated by December

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/24/federal-contractors-vaccine-514201

For entertainment purposes...

 Here is a good conspiracy theory.

The Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN is about to start up again after another upgrade. The last startup after an upgrade was in 2016. Some claim that has been creating holes in multiverse and we keep jumping to more and more absurd worlds here Trump got elected in 2016. One can also guess how crazy it is going to get once they turn it on again at even higher energies. Another scenario is we we are in a simulation and the LHC is creating events that are destabilizing the simulation. Who knows what comes next. Of course some would counter the recent crazy stuff just in 2021 before has occurred before it turned on. But what if part of the destabilization is due tachyon production so some of the real insanity we will see in the future is now leaking into the past to our current time.

Dept. of Energy's loan program

While most people have heard of Tesla, far fewer have heard of the United States Department of Energy Loan Programs Office.... 

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/573148-dept-of-energys-loan-program-helped-tesla-now-it-needs-to-help-low