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U.S. Chemical Safety Board could be eliminated

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386 points z991 | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 23:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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vpribish ◴[24 Jun 25 00:56 UTC] No.44361823[source]▶
You have to check out their incredible safety investigation videos on youtube. I don't know how well-organized or efficient they are but clearly their role needs to be played by someone - and as a taxpayer I appreciate that they are doing it in a way that educates and informs.
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Hawxy ◴[24 Jun 25 01:33 UTC] No.44362039[source]▶
> I don't know how well-organized or efficient they are

They're 50 employees with an annual budget of $14.4 million. The cost/benefit ratio here is very good.

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hilbert42 ◴[24 Jun 25 09:21 UTC] No.44364272[source]▶
For that trivial amount this has to be anti-tech anti-science thinking at work.

What's this administration trying do, return the US to the Third World or the Dark Ages? Madness.

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immibis ◴[24 Jun 25 09:46 UTC] No.44364405[source]▶
Well, yes, pretty much. It's an observed pattern among authoritarian states that actual facts are frequently in opposition to the authority, therefore, actual facts must be eliminated.

It's a silver lining in disguise, really. Such countries tend to collapse relatively quickly because it turns out facts are important for running a country - look at the USSR's fake food supply. Relatively quickly could still be a decade, though.

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FirmwareBurner ◴[24 Jun 25 09:48 UTC] No.44364414[source]▶
China has been the exception that authoritarian states collapse quickly. It's what the western powers were banking on would happen after they had success with USSR. It didn't pan out the way they thought. Not even close.
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hilbert42 ◴[24 Jun 25 10:29 UTC] No.44364647[source]▶
"China has been the exception that authoritarian states collapse quickly."

Why? Because if you check the CVs of most of Politburo members they have degrees in science and engineering. QED!

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1. hilbert42 ◴[24 Jun 25 16:01 UTC] No.44367628[source]▶
As I replied to boringg, I should have been more specific. I was referring to China nowadays—since Mao's death and Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms.

See section Change from Charismatic Revolutionaries to Technocrats especially bullet points four and five in this link on Chinese leadership: https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat8/4sub1/item2247.html.