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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by Sharlin on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:55PM (#42924526)
Everything about it makes perfect sense because pesky things like consumer protection and occupational safety cut into the profits of the owning class.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by test6554 on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:13PM (#42925340)
I guess I'll just have to become a shareholder
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by callc on Monday February 03, 2025 @09:41PM (#42927017)
Too late the 0.1% took all the cookies and didn’t learn how to share as children
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by exe34 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:19AM (#42930586)
I'm just going to buy cake at this point.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by mlinhares on Monday February 03, 2025 @10:02PM (#42927241)
Looks like we'll have leaded gas back in pumps pretty soon.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by Symbiote on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:30AM (#42929248)
The target to replace lead water pipes was abandoned by Trump yesterday.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:19AM (#42929615)
> target to replace lead water pipes was abandoned by Trump yesterday

Source?

I'm only finding a Guardian article about Congressional Republicans planning a CRA action [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/republicans-...

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by consp on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:11AM (#42929551)
Got to keep people mad and dumb I guess.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by rayiner on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @06:06AM (#42930897)
Slippery slope fallacy. And bad politics. Reflexively defending State department ops to destabilize foreign countries through a putative foreign aid organization by hand having about leaded gas (in the context of a guy who restarted the EV industry) is how you get to this point in history.
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