• ashok36@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Why would the DoD be immune to having crazy people? 90% of the crazy people I’ve met in my life have served at some point. It’s not like the DoD is known for their robust mental health screening and/or treatment facilities.

      • ryno364@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Because we rely on them for our military and infrastructure. And yes the DoD is known to mentally screen people before hiring them.

        • 50gp@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          like the guy recently who was obviously mentally unstable and was still allowed to work with and eventually leak sentitive info on fuckin discord? hows your “”“screening”“” going?

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      1 year ago

      Honestly it’s probably just bullshit they made up because if they didn’t find something else to do the gov would have to help regular people.

      I actually think it’s bullshit to try and trick China into thinking the ship based laser missile defence system is able to create sustained plasma interactions at high altitude, they used to do the same to the Soviets all the time - push fake news so they’d waste r&d money. They hope china sees how much effort they’re going to with this farce and assumes it’s to hide the experimental anti missile defences which are the actual source of the tictac videos and radar recordings.

      But I think that’s just me being hopeful, I wouldn’t be surprised if the US gov doesn’t know if they have probably the biggest and most important discovery in centuries being kept secret by shadowy secret agencies so they need to hold hearings with obscure and clearly oddball whistle blowers to try and find out…