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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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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 203 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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"?

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 111 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 100 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That's because they think DEI just means black. As usual they don't know what the fuck they are talking about

[–] GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago

Now now now, they also think it means you hire women.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have yet to hear one of those fuckers IRL tell me what DEI stands for, they don't know!

[–] db2@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

It stands for Donald, Eric, Ivanka.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

DEI is the safe n word now.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] PwnTra1n@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

theyd have him in a camp alright

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 62 points 1 month ago (14 children)

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.

[–] SeaUrchinHorizon@reddthat.com 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is interesting, how did they get those calculations?

[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 month ago

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

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

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".

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Veritasium did a nice video covering the research and explaining the sources. It was an academic competition of sorts

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

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%27s_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.

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone wanna tell this person what T4T actually means? It'll be funny.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I'm lazy. Sorry T's. May you always be positive and get your extra 10%

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago

Our leopards are starting to look a bit, uh, not super healthy.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

I love that so much..

[–] SeaUrchinHorizon@reddthat.com 35 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On the bright side, if there is another pandemic, we'll get a nice case study in Darwinism

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’ve had a very difficult time differentiating tankies from trumpers.

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[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

Last paragraph says it all He believes the rhetoric and then complains when they do what they told him they were going to do.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Claiming to on some level support Trump as a government worker is just common sense at this point, regardless of what you actually believe.

There's a sliver of a chance this article goes viral. If MAGA sees him as "one of them", he might get his job back. If not, he might get ruined in ways that go beyond job loss.

It's kinda like some Chinese protests have signs glorifying the CCP and Xi.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If MAGA sees him as "one of them", he might get his job back. If not, he might get ruined in ways that go beyond job loss.

As if. MAGA doesn't give a shot about injured veterans. For them, veterans are just an advertisement for the armed forces, and injured veterans taint the image. Also he's a textbook DEI hire.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 25 points 1 month ago

The conservative consequences.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How braindead do you have to be to equate efficiency with destruction?!

Unless of course, destruction is the point.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Lots of folks want it all to burn down, not see it healed. Accelerationism is not unique to maga, they just differ in what they hope comes next

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[–] hark@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In the jungle, the mighty jungle

The Leopard feasts tonight

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

"I thought it meant they would fire one of THEM, not me!"

[–] gimmelemmy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

"... but objects to bring personally affected by the retribution he asked for." ftfy

[–] Nusm@yall.theatl.social 20 points 1 month ago
[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Their first rule says:

  1. No racism or bigotry.

So... is it really a conservative community?

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[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I've seen about 3 pop up in All so far. And I just block them as they appear.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

"random, scattershot approach" AKA "They did not only target the non-white people!"

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

"The last time the economy lost jobs was in December 2020, when the United States was still recovering from ~~the coronavirus pandemic~~" Trump's first term. (fixed that)

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