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When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed

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267 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 18:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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mirawelner ◴[29 Mar 25 19:54 UTC] No.43518168[source]▶
I’m working at a biomedical lab at UPitt full time and another biomedical at CMU in my “free time”(lol) and it’s bizarre how it’s now totally okay to talk about politics at work. People are sharing political articles on the teams chat.
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tayo42 ◴[29 Mar 25 23:33 UTC] No.43519721[source]▶
Maybe not talking about politics is a problem. Like how we all started talking about salaries when we weren't supposed to and now we have a better sense of what our worth is in the job market.

If no one talks about politics, no one gets challenged. Maybe that used to be ok, but now we can retreat to pseudo anonymous communities online or consume algorithm suggested content that only reinforce or create more extreme positions.

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1. mirawelner ◴[29 Mar 25 23:49 UTC] No.43519808[source]▶
I really like the comparison between talking about politics at work and talking about salaries at work. They are both things that were just 'not allowed' for vague reasons and they both turned out to be really important things to bring up at work.