..of public employees: A quick cheat sheet.
What I found amusing about the tweets from Badlands National Park yesterday (which were cheered by the supposed fans of “science”) were how either they weren’t “scientific facts” (no, it is an opinion, not a fact, that last year was the “hottest on record”) or trivial and irrelevant chemistry (“A gallon of gasoline puts X pounds of carbon into the atmosphere when burned). But I was also amused at the concern that the employees who had done so had probably been fired.
One of the many reasons federal employee unions are terrible. It's almost impossible to discipline people. https://t.co/quxjqIG9t6
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) January 24, 2017
@michelelfrost A high-level friend of mine tells stories about how he couldn't get rid of bad secretaries, except to promote them.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) January 24, 2017
Badlands National Park, fully sentient now, lumbers towards Washington, DC to exact its revenge. pic.twitter.com/ZLoL6ajq6t
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) January 24, 2017
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s the story for those who don’t know what I’m talking about.
Badlands National Park: ocean acidity has increased 30% since the Industrial Revolution
And trust us, we’re the authority on such matters.
A lot of people on Twitter seem to think that government agencies should be activists in the service of the Democrat party. When asked about the famous shoe on other foot dilemma, its f off and block. For people so concerned about the values of being Americans, they don’t understand any of it.
Not sure why ethics and the ability to distinguish between the rights of government workers and private citizens is so hard to grasp.