protist

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This represents the fourth time in 18 months that Microsoft Gaming has laid off workers.

Morale there must be terrible

[–] protist@mander.xyz 12 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

That's going to be a lot more than 65 million people

[–] protist@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We live in a society

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

Ralph Steadman vibes

[–] protist@mander.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

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

[–] protist@mander.xyz 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] protist@mander.xyz 0 points 2 days 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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago (6 children)

What are you responding to here?

 

"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."

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In The Who's musical Tommy, Pinball Wizard was sung by Elton John

 

But now I'm in bed questioning my decision.

 

Garden Grove on Garden Grooves

 
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