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[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 105 points 2 months ago

I’m 50/50 on whether they send a craft to catch up to Voyager and scrub the woman off the gold record at this point.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago

I propose we should send Musk to fetch it himself.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

He'll just award himself a few funds from the US Treasury for that.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

I don't mind paying for the outward trip if we can scrub the return

[-] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

He can go get his car back for the return drive

[-] TheRealKuni@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago

They have to. She’s naked, that’s pornography.

[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 91 points 2 months ago

The directive, sent on January 22 and obtained by 404 Media, states:

“Per NASA HQ direction, we are required to scrub mentions of the following terms from our public sites by 5pm ET today. This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request. Note that the list below is the list that exists this morning, but it may grow as the day goes on.

DEIA

Diversity (in context of DEIA)

Equity (“ “)

Inclusion (“ “)

Accessibility (“ “)

MSI

Minority Serving Institution

Indigenous People

EEJ

EJ

Environmental Justice

Underrepresented groups/people

Anything specifically targeting women (women in leadership, etc.)”

This is some ridiculous bullshit.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 71 points 2 months ago

Anything specifically targeting women (women in leadership, etc.)

Hooooly fuck.

They're really not hiding it anymore. Well, I guess that's not new, but still, holy fuck. This might be some malicious compliance from NASA administrators or something.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

53,% of voting white women voted for this. Maybe they'll wake up when their birth control gets taken.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe that edgy atheist was right all along.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -2 points 2 months ago

Some of that I can see. They don't want to continue the narrative of oh the poor minorities.

Then again, this is way more of a blanket than anything. Scrubbing all mentions of things like "equity" is a little crazy.

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 75 points 2 months ago
[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 125 points 2 months ago

Either that or go whole-hog the other direction.

NASA History

Since its founding in 1958, white man at NASA have pushed the boundaries of scientific and technical limits to explore the unknown for all the male citizens of our planet. Discover the history of our human spaceflight, science, technology, and aeronautics programs.

Remembering Our White Heroes

NASA will never forget the tragic loss of the all-male, all-white crews of the Apollo 1 crew, and some other people who we don't need to mention because we forgot about them.

Hidden Figures

Did anyone other than white men ever play a pivotal role in spaceflight? It's possible, but if it had, I've been instructed not to tell you about it.

If you're going to get fired, make it count.

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 19 points 2 months ago

Malicious compliance, lovely!

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Not far enough. Someone might think “white man” is inclusive of diversity hires of descendants of immigrants from Ireland or Italy, and not exclusively of English origin.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Also it should be specified that these are straight men who never entertain wistful thoughts of another man's cock. Muscular, well-endowed straight men, whose rock-like chests glisten with fragile beads of moisture as they shower together before towelling each other off and pulling on their tight, white, form-hugging space underwear under their spacesuits, but who are not thereby aroused. This should be spelled out explicitly, to avoid any confusion.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

This wouldn't get anyone fired in the current administration. That's promotion material. They're hoping for people to take the initiative just like that--don't make them tell you explicitly to post it. That's how you succeed as a Republican.

[-] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

Discover the history of our ~~human~~ white male spaceflight, science, technology, and aeronautics programs.

[-] leds@feddit.dk 5 points 2 months ago

You forgot to mention the Nazis imported from Germany after the war..

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 2 months ago

Actually, that would be an excellent addition. And, for the thumbnail, just include Musk's salute, with no further explanation or anything other than the straight facts.

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

You're assuming they would object to that. I haven't seen anything to support that assumption.

[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 2 months ago

This is getting out of hand

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

Been that way for a while, and will only likely get worse.

[-] uberdroog@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago
[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

It's been 2020 for 5 years.

[-] freebee@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

A long 2 weeks

[-] uberdroog@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

Can I get the ROI on all this bullshit experiment?

[-] residentmarchant@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

He sure is running the government like one of his businesses...and now we see more clearly why they've all failed!

[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

Lets make indigenous people invisible again, great.

[-] Somsphet@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

Aw shit, here we go again

[-] tabris@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Replace the NASA website with a continuous stream of the movie Hidden Figures with a scrolling banner above it saying "Fuck off Elon"

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

"First woman in space"...shhhh

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Also no mentions of Jews or the Versailles Treaty

this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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