• The USIP is now headed by a 28-year-old, per a federal court filing.
  • DOGE named Nate Cavanaugh, a tech entrepreneur and college dropout, as the USIP’s acting president.
  • Lawyers for the USIP said nearly all of the institute’s staff in the US have been fired.

https://archive.ph/fkjbG

  • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works
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    He never made anything, just repackaged others work and his mommy worked at IBM. His 20 year old self would be working at DODGE right now.

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      Are you saying that’s a good thing? Maybe 20-year-olds shouldn’t be running government agencies.

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        Him? No. someone who won model U.N. in highscool, was on their collegestudent boards or student president, has a law degree? Yes. Being old doesn’t make you good at something.

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          He has achieved a bunch of academic larping. These aren’t suitable experiences qualifying for sudden leadership of a large organization. Experiential learning is deeply important for high level leadership positions. The nature of time and space mean he simply cannot have this quality yet. Digging your heels in otherwise is such a braindead position to take. Jfc

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            We have Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Mitch Mconell in congress, we have an 80 year old as president. The older you get the more cynical you become, you begin to refuse to learn anything new. Sure, there needs to be a few greybeards to give advice about that thing that happened in 98’ but they just don’t have the current knowledge and youthful optimism required for true leadership.

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              “The pilots are crashing the plane because they’re too old… so we should replace them with pilots who have never flown a plane before but have really good hand eye coordination and who did well at PE class”… no bro we should just find some pilots who know how to fly a plane but aren’t fucking ancient rather than over correct to a worse position

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                til someone with 4+ years of traing plus another six years of practical experience is not qualified to be a manager of experts.

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      I don’t believe his mother worked at IBM but she was on a lot of corporate boards and was on the board of United Way where John Opel the then CEO of IBM was also serving as a board member.

      Now it’s a distinction without a difference as it still shows how not self made he was, but I’m a pedant.

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      He wrote Altair Basic, which is more than just repackaging. I can only assume he tended towards more business related tasks after that though.