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David Rice, a disabled Army paratrooper who has been on probation since joining the U.S. Department of Energy in September, also learned Thursday night that he had lost his job.
Rice, who has been working as a foreign affairs specialist on health matters relating to radiation exposure, said he’d been led to believe that his job would likely be safe. But on Thursday night, when he logged into his computer for a meeting with Japanese representatives, he saw an email saying he’d been fired.
“It’s just been chaos,” said Rice, 50, who had just bought a house in Melbourne, Florida, after he got the job.
Rice said he agrees with the Trump administration’s goal of making the government more efficient, but objects to the random, scattershot approach being taken.
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There is not a conservative community on Lemmy. There are, however, a few communities entirely composed of one guy posting conservative leaning articles that all get downvoted to zero and have a half dozen comments saying he’s wrong.
I love that so much…
A disabled federal government worker who supports Trump. You have to be a special kind of clueless to be in all of those camps.
Did he think being a veteran would protect him from the fickle judgement of the guy who famously called dead and injured soldiers “suckers and losers”?
DEI allowed people with disabilities to work in government. This dipshit Trumper MAGA fuckwit thinks he was immune. Fuck him. Hope he gets everything he voted for.
That’s because they think DEI just means black. As usual they don’t know what the fuck they are talking about
Now now now, they also think it means you hire women.
DEI is the safe n word now.
I have yet to hear one of those fuckers IRL tell me what DEI stands for, they don’t know!
It stands for Donald, Eric, Ivanka.
That’s because Trumpers conveniently forget to mention the “A” in “DEIA”. The A stands for “Accessibility”. As in, accessibility for the disabled to actually be able to do their jobs with reasonable accommodations. If you kill DEI, you also kill accessibility.
Generally speaking disability rights has adopted civil rights language in its activitism so it’s also part of diversity. And equity… And inclusion.
theyd have him in a camp alright
The article says he agrees with one point of the Trump administration, where I come from that doesn’t mean you support the entire administration’s point of view, but I might be wrong about that in the US
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The Leopard feasts tonight
People act like it’s only government workers that are lazy and wasteful. But lazy workers are universal, especially with the soulless jobs that the vast majority of people have to do in order to survive.
They think other government workers are a waste but they themselves are a special case because reasons. It’s easy to criticize when you don’t understand what is going on. Hopefully they learn from this instead of thinking it’s an honest mistake.
“… but objects to bring personally affected by the retribution he asked for.” ftfy
Wait, he’s still in his probationary period at a new job and he committed to buying a new house?! The job isn’t even really yours until you’re hired permanently. You can be let go for any reason at all. (I know this the US, where worker protections suck even after that)
Getting a new probationary job means you can commit to going out for dinner to celebrate, not tying yourself down with a 20 year mortgage.
To clear up some of what you’re saying, it sounds like you’re applying private sector rules to government jobs.
Government probationary jobs have fewer protections than non-probationary, but they still have way more protections than the private sector. Once they make it past probation, government employees can only be fired after 30 days notice and an opportunity to challenge the firing in writing, so it takes a while to lay the groundwork for firing an employee. And then a fired employee has appeal rights.
While on probation, government employees don’t have the right to notice before firing, or an opportunity to challenge the firing before it happens, and their appeal rights are seriously limited. But the law is that they still can’t be fired except for poor performance.
Can you share a link for that info? A friend of mine is a probationary fed who just got fired, so I’m trying to help in any way that I can
This article compiles some information, but I know a lot of lawyers are currently going through the work of citing specific provisions and putting out guides to people’s rights.
“random, scattershot approach” AKA “They did not only target the non-white people!”
Our leopards are starting to look a bit, uh, not super healthy.
Their first rule says:
- No racism or bigotry.
So… is it really a conservative community?
Conservatism != racism
Frankly I’d love to see more non-racist conservatives on Lemmy! If we want the fediverse to replace big tech, we can’t be a left wing echo chamber
But yeah, you can’t be a dick
That’s a good point, didn’t they want to make it illegal to be against racism?
I can’t tell if this is leopard eating face, or dog getting nose rubbed in. That sub has always been very tolerant of people contradicting the narrative you usually see fostered on social media. Was it co-opted by non conservatives? Maybe? If so good.
That’s not contradictory to conservatism itself, only to the way it’s represented in the USA (and a few other countries, but in many countries there’s a right wing party and a center-right conservative party)
Does that really mean anything though?
If you asked Trump himself if racism and bigotry were bad, he’d say yes. Then he’d go on to sign anti that hurt minorities and marginalized groups.
It’s funny how people support getting others in their situation fired because they all think they are indispensable.
Hint: nobody is indispensable.
Of course, it’s a bit late to warn Trump voters. But I’ll leave this here for when the next autocratic populist comes along in a few years.
That’s the funniest part aboit the facing eating leopard party; not only do they think they are the leopards they don’t realize they have faces.
The conservative consequences.
They all fail at game theory. When being negative, everyone loses. Tit for Tat + 10% forgiveness is the most successful and highest growth potential. T4T means you are always nice, always positive, and when someone is negative, you respond in kind but randomly forgive 10% of the time to exit the stupidity spiral. Most world leaders know and operate under T4T now that it was established as the only path to maximal growth for everyone. Failing to apply this when everyone else is applying it will ALWAYS result in bringing everyone down but the most damage will ALWAYS occur to the perpetrating entity when all others are playing T4Tpt.
This is interesting, how did they get those calculations?
The person you’re replying to is describing (without giving proper context except for “game theory”) an algorithm that’s fairly successful at the “iterated prisoners dilemma”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat
I don’t know where this particular graph came from, but Richard Dawkins has a whole chapter about strategies for the prisoner’s dilemma in his book “The Selfish Gene”.
Veritasium did a nice video covering the research and explaining the sources. It was an academic competition of sorts
There are a variety of ways. One way is to run a computer program that executes each strategy and then just have them all go against each other some number of times like a tournament, or sometimes just “random matchings”. Super fast to do so it’s easy to try different scenarios and make a lot of different strategies.
They’ve also done tournaments with actual people, and then compared the different people’s behavior to the different “pure” strategies that they made. This helps them validate that the behaviors carry over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma
It’s worth noting that nation states don’t always behave the same as individuals, but often closer to the game theory ideal. Additionally, there are circumstances where tit for tat isn’t actually the dominant strategy, specifically when you know that the game is going to end.
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Like Germany in WW1 and WW2, or the Napoleonic State of Europe
Someone wanna tell this person what T4T actually means? It’ll be funny.
I’m lazy. Sorry T’s. May you always be positive and get your extra 10%
So what I’m hearing is, we should forgive 10% of the magats?
I “forgive” them by not punching them in the face on sight.
Forgiveness is for you. Any benefit they get is a by-product.
I avoid getting sued, arrested, or fired by not punching them in the face.
You are arguing that you should forgive them, so that you are not at risk of punching them in the face.
That’s why I put “forgive” in quotes in my first post. I know I’m not using the word correctly. That’s the joke.
But it’s funny because it’s true. You should, and you would be better off if you did. We hold onto anger feeling like we are contributing a good to the greater world by bearing that burden. But you can both forgive a person, and learn better for next time.
The graph only shows that eventually 15 % of the population do T4T, not that it is the best or whatever?
This is the first I’ve seen of a conservative Lemmy community. God willing it is the last I see of one as well. At this point I unironically believe Lemmy needs a healthy amount of tankies so that right-wingers know they’re not welcome here~ ❤️
That’s mean to say but I’m trying to switch over from Reddit and I’m honestly just so done with MAGA stinking up every damn space it’s insane, I don’t want them to even breathe in my direction. With RFK Jr as the recent pick for the Department of Health and Human Services, I just might need to enforce that boundary literally.
Reminds me of this
I’ve had a very difficult time differentiating tankies from trumpers.
Well, half of them are Russian bots, but a real tankie will throw billionaires and Nazis into woodchippers and that’s my personal bar for tolerance.
From what I’ve seen, any “conservative” community on Lemmy is 2 or 3 troll accounts that make up 90% of posts. Why would far right people use Lemmy when Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook are so welcoming to them?
Just to get a reaction, which so far seems to be getting down voted into oblivion.
But they probably get off on the down votes.
Owning the libs. Getting them so triggered.
russian psyops
Imagine getting assigned Lemmy. Reddit and Facebook are massive departments and Lemmy is one cubicle with a Linux machine and two chairs.
it’s all bots nowdays anyway
so every early 2000s startup!
On the bright side, if there is another pandemic, we’ll get a nice case study in Darwinism
I knew a few people that died (working in a hospital) from COVID but the last one that did was a full on conservitive that was the first to take the mask off and complain about it… until one day when I went to his desk and his coworkers told me he was out sick… and then a week later he was dead from complications from COVID.
I unironically believe Lemmy needs a healthy amount of tankies so that right-wingers know they’re not welcome here
That is one job they’re good for. Been trying to tell the anti-leftist crusaders the last few years they’re just facilitating right-wing safe space.
So now we got conservative communities posting breitbart and users feeling safe to critisize the Nuremburg trial. Like I know it is all the rage to question the holocaust on reddit now, but damn they move fast when they see opportunity.
Last paragraph says it all He believes the rhetoric and then complains when they do what they told him they were going to do.
