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  • 'How Does This Help Working People?' Fury Over Trump Mass Firing of Health Workforce.

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  • They're not supposed to be able to be fired for no reason. But now with trump all rules have been discarded since the constitution's "checks and balances" mechanism has collapsed.

    I didn't go into all the details, but besides the civil service protections, many of these jobs require extensive training to learn the job (some are quite specialized) which is a significant investment. With some entry level positions, it's not uncommon for people to take a government job, get training and experience and then quit to go to the private sector for more money. This way the govt at least gets a certain return on their investment in training the employee. The incentive to stay for less pay after that is that after a certain number of years, you're vested meaning you get a pension, not to mention that theoretically you're doing something worthwhile serving your country instead of a for-profit corporation.

  • The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back

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  • That's good. Some of the comments were making me wonder!

    I think some people may not realize how detrimental it can be to their quality of life or stress level, to have something constantly interrupting their attention or that it's something that can be controlled without having to completely cut themselves off.

  • 'How Does This Help Working People?' Fury Over Trump Mass Firing of Health Workforce.

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  • For federal career civil servant jobs, yes. It's because those jobs have (until now/soon of course) protections so they can't (until now/soon) be easily fired for political reasons every time the party in power changes. That's why the probation period (when they don't have those protections yet) exists so that there's time to evaluate if someone turns out not to be fit for the job, before civil service protection kicks in.

    Of course the first thing trump did was decree the "Schedule F" tactic (see Project 2025), which will remove those protections from all federal jobs so anyone can be easily fired, but until that is fully in effect, they're going ahead with the low-hanging fruit and firing all the people who don't have the protections--those still on probation, which firings can't really be legally challenged like "Schedule F".

  • 'How Does This Help Working People?' Fury Over Trump Mass Firing of Health Workforce.

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  • DOGE stands for Dept of Oligarch Grift Efficiency

    No need to even pretend they want to help people now that they're in power. Their goal by gutting the federal agencies is to destroy their ability to function, so they can turn the functions of government over to private enterprise owned by the oligarchs. The worse the damage caused by these firings, the faster they can say "we need to privatize" the functions of that agency. The "Efficiency" part of DOGE means "get more taxpayer money into oligarchs' pockets more efficiently"

  • The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back

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  • Seems a lot of comments are arguing about this as if it's an all-or-nothing. I use a dumbphone (for many reasons), but even it allows me to configure DND settings to allow certain phone numbers to audibly ring or vibrate. Surely smartphones can do the same? I find being with someone whose phone is constantly making noises to be very irritating--and more so if they interrupt our conversation to check it every time.

    My not-so-dumb flip phone also has 3 indicator lights on the closed cover -- red if battery is low, a green envelope if I have a message or other notification, and a blue phone if I've had a call (even those can be disabled). So I don't have to touch it or do anything other than glance in its direction to know I have a message. "Smart" phones can do such simple things as this, can't they?

  • MAGA melts down at Tom Hanks playing Trump fan on SNL50

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  • It’s so obvious that poor white people would get along with and want to same things as minorities if they could just get over that racism and stop falling for the manipulation by religious and political leaders

    Which is why they killed Martin Luther King, Jr. He was starting to make progress bringing poor people off all backgrounds together and that was a threat to the powers that be.

  • Trump spending freeze sticks Iowa farmers with millions in bills for conservation work

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  • They'll probably toss them a bone at some point to shut them up, like they did with farmers in his first term after his previous tariffs fucked them over.

  • Apparently there's a conservative Lemmy community? Anyways, here's some great face eating from one of their articles they posted.

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  • So what I'm hearing is, we should forgive 10% of the magats?

  • Apparently there's a conservative Lemmy community? Anyways, here's some great face eating from one of their articles they posted.

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  • "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)

  • Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them

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  • And a big fat bonus.

  • 'Vexatious litigant’: Lawyer devises 'radical' plan that could stop Trump in his tracks

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  • Pie in the sky speculation that ain't gonna happen.

  • To hand power 'back to the people,' House Dems propose amendment to reverse Citizens United

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  • Nice idea, but you're a decade late and billions of dollars short.

    OTOH, it has always been important to keep introducing bills showing what you stand for even when they have no chance of passing, which (theoretically) builds public support over time (by getting press coverage and talking about it in interviews and on the campaign trail). For example Repubs have introduced bills to kill all or parts of the ACA over 50 times since it was passed, and they do that with lots of other issues--they just push and push and push their agenda regardless of whether it can pass.

    But Dems don't. It's hard to take this effort by Dems seriously when the first time they've attempted to do this is only after the effects of the Citizens United ruling have come to full fruition. I know the only time they've had the majority again since the ACA was passed was the first half of Biden's term and they did get some good things done during that time. But the idea is to relentlessly try to do what you're sent there by your voters to do. So I guess it's a ... start?

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  • I doubt they even know there's anything other than gmail.

  • Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.

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  • Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.

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  • Whenever I see Gulf of America mentioned, in my head it sounds like "This is America" in the Childish Gambino song.

  • Donald Trump's Gen Z popularity plunges

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  • I don’t know what brain rotted the Gen Z boys in a way that didn’t work on the Gen Z girls but I can tell you it wasn’t fake, those kids are not alright.

    A lot of it is all that "manosphere" grievance propaganda shit -- reels them right in.

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  • That's exactly what I did, lol. Kbin seemed intriguing but didn't last. I did try to look and get an idea about different lemmy instances but found very little info about any of them except for the 2 or 3 "infamous" ones, so I just went with .world, which seems fine to me.

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  • Sorry, that's more than one sentence.

    person you're saying that to: "So much words, very explaining!" runs away

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  • Has software usage really gotten to the point where the average person can't handle being given a choice about anything? Where it's just too much effort to do anything more than mindlessly click on whatever is presented to them? 🤦