protist

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 5 points 5 hours ago
[–] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 13 hours ago

Ralph Steadman vibes

[–] protist@mander.xyz 10 points 18 hours ago

6/21 was a Saturday, 6/30 was a Monday

[–] protist@mander.xyz 43 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] protist@mander.xyz 0 points 1 day ago

My friend, what from "What are you responding to here?" is me "opening the door to insults?" The way you spoke to me right out of the gate indicates you probably don't make friends very easily. That's an observation, not an insult.

The topic here is the negative impact the Trump Admin is having on science in the US. To say you've strayed from it would imply you were ever near it

[–] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If you don't think even the best science has inherent biases, I guess I don't know what else there is to talk about, even though this is way off track from the conversation.

Do you disagree that Hitler and the Nazi party destroyed the scientific establishment in Germany? It sounds like you think since the concept of science exists independently of nations or politics that governmental control of scientific institutions is inconsequential, which I couldn't disagree with more.

Calling people stupid and deriding them is also really not cool, fyi

[–] protist@mander.xyz 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Wow...you must have no problem making friends lol

I'm just really confused by the people responding "that's not how science works, buddy!" when that's not at all the point of what Hitler did or the Trump Admin is doing. This entire interview is about funding cuts and political censorship, because the entire point is the Trump Admin exerting political and social control over the scientific establishment in the US. You responding to all this with "that's not how science works, buddy!" just misses the point.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 15 points 1 day ago

In the global long run, yes, you're right, however the point here is comparing what happened in Nazi Germany to what's happening now in the US. It's not about Trump's America trying to get "the discoveries they want," it's about eliminating objectivity and punishing party-line dissenters. They don't actually care about science at all one way or the other, they care about political control

[–] protist@mander.xyz -4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

What are you responding to here?

[–] protist@mander.xyz 43 points 1 day ago (11 children)

When he says "the scientific system," he's talking about the institutions we have in the US that educate, employ, conduct research, and/or fund people conducting science. I guess I thought it was obvious he's not referencing the scientific method

[–] protist@mander.xyz 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We still have all of July, August and September and most of October to go...

[–] protist@mander.xyz 11 points 2 days ago

Which platform are people going to flock to once American billionaires take over tiktok and send it the way of twitter?

 

"I've got to get Israel to calm down now," Trump said as he left the White House. "Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before, the biggest load that we've seen. They've been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing."

 

But now I'm in bed questioning my decision.

 

so I turned on some lights.

 
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