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Aaron Shepard

@spacecadetshep.bsky.social

Things I make: Robots🤖 AI 🧠 Satellites 🛰️ Things I don't always make: Polite small talk Sense 😂 Opinions are my own 👨🏾‍🚀

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Aaron Shepard @spacecadetshep.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Vivek was right though. I know a lot of people who think they're exceptional when in reality they're mediocre at best

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Aaron Shepard @spacecadetshep.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

And if you're uncomfortable reading the word "nigger", imagine how uncomfortable I was hearing it...

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Aaron Shepard @spacecadetshep.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

"He just says mean things sometimes" IDC about what he says, it's who listens. Some people see leaders acting like this and use it to justify their own hate. You may not be one of those people , but the guy who told me in 2019 "I can shoot a punk nigger like you in Trump's America" definitely is

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

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Aaron Shepard @spacecadetshep.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Now is this person going to change their views, probably not. I want him to know that all the rhetoric he echos affects real people who are closer to home than he thinks. For the record he read my message and never replied. I'm plan to ask him about it the next time we see each other

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Aaron Shepard @spacecadetshep.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It's one thing when those "lazy others" are nameless/faceless. It's another thing when it's someone you know and have to interact with. It's another other thing when it's me because I'm messy and will gladly speak out against your BS

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Aaron Shepard @spacecadetshep.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Because as a federal contractor, if cuts need to be made I'm the first to go. My exact words at the end of the message were "I like my job..."

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Aaron Shepard @spacecadetshep.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

In fact this realtor (and almost every other person I interact with in our small SC town) love to ask me questions about space whenever my place of employment comes up Made a point to tell him that "trimming the fat" could be very bad for me

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Aaron Shepard @spacecadetshep.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

For those who don't know, I work remote for NASA. Ive loved spaceflight my entire life and I consider it an incredible blessing that I'm able to support those missions without having to uproot my family to do so. I certainly don't think that I'm a waste of tax dollars...

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Aaron Shepard @spacecadetshep.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The other day he posted a quote from some Republican saying "_% of the federal workforce are full time remote workers" (implying that they're a waste of money) and that he was excited to see the new administration "trim the fat" I replied (paraphrasing)" you know I'm in that statistic right ?"

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Aaron Shepard @spacecadetshep.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Story time: The realtor who sold my wife and I's house also sold houses to my wife's parents and brother. We live in a smallish town and see him out and about all the time. He's a very vocal Trump supporter who loves to post about politics on Facebook

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Aaron Shepard @spacecadetshep.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

My response was that the lack of empathy also comes from the fact that people live in their own homogeneous communities and rarely have to interact in meaningful ways with "others"

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Aaron Shepard @spacecadetshep.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

So I was on reddit this morning and came across a comment that basically said society is getting worse because people aren't learning or practicing empathy and that people not reading( which makes you take the perspectives of others) contributes to this lack of empathy. I decided to reply

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Aaron Shepard @spacecadetshep.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I just migrated over from X.. hopefully this is worth it 😂

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