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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by tremendoussss on Sunday February 16, 2025 @08:34AM (#43067837)
I think being fair is the point. Instead of using any metric that might infringe on a protected class, let's use math?
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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by JKCalhoun on Sunday February 16, 2025 @09:15AM (#43068185)
(Curious what the last digit of Vivek's SS is.)
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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by joyeuse6701 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @09:35AM (#43068358)
In another time it was called decimation, and was used as collective punishment.
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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by tremendoussss on Sunday February 16, 2025 @09:49AM (#43068454)
Ah, thank you, I didn't know.

Seems like a stretch to compare executions and layoffs, no one else is immune to layoffs

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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by psb217 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @11:19AM (#43069176)
The people deciding to execute layoffs are generally immune to those layoffs.
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