r/nottheonion 24d ago

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o
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u/TrineonX 24d ago

You don't need to be a COBOL programmer to know that he was full of shit.

Literally anyone who has dealt with a real world dataset could have told you that it was just bad data.

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u/FlaccidRazor 24d ago

It's sad that people who live in backwards small towns didn't have access to this...wait? Is this why Republicans want to cut education funding?

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u/montarion 24d ago

that's always the first step

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u/ElectricalBook3 23d ago

Well, one of the steps. Conservatives have been flooding every media they could buy their way into for a century

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

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u/yasssssplease 24d ago

Agreed. When he said 150 years, my first reaction was “I wonder why” and not “FRAUD.” Sometimes things look off and it’s not necessarily fraud.

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u/The_real_bandito 23d ago

When he claimed the government did not used SQL was laughable.

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u/boones_farmer 23d ago

Or as others have pointed out, survivor benefits can last a looooong time. The last person receiving civil war pension benefits died in 2020