Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone
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Re: Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone
#2What is this supposed to be? It's a link to a bunch of posts on some kind of social media platform that all say "uspol science funding". Am I missing something?
Re: Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone
#3What is this supposed to be? It's a link to a bunch of posts on some kind of social media platform that all say "uspol science funding". Am I missing something?
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Re: Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone
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The vast majority of federal spending goes to the military (including Veterans Affairs), Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and debt interest. Everything else doesn't matter much. This is especially true given that Republicans will probably increase the deficit; any money saved will go to tax cuts for the rich, and then some.
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#7What a horrible outcome! NIST is, for most of its services, a self-funded agency and they define the acceptable standards for new tech. This makes no sense.
Edit: Too much time on screen today. My apologies for muddying the waters!
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> Everyone whose funding is cut/questioned says it's wrong
Everyone who made billions off the internet is too busy smelling their own farts to recognize that none of this waves hand in the general direction of basically all modern technology would exist without the sustained government funding that built ARPAnet and NSFNET.
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I think many people who argue this, including myself, are saying that there are good cuts and harmful cuts, this likely falling into the latter.
The common two reference point for "good" ways to reduce the deficit is 1) spend less on defense. 2) change taxes (either raise on corporations, wealthy or close loopholes).
2 being basically impossible to move. 1 seems easier, but I know nothing of this space. Others include stronger healthcare reform, etc etc.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a “show more” button
What a strange UI/UX.
This is because a bunch of us use the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc.) as a general purpose social media network and really don't care to have the entire timeline be doom and gloom about how bad the world currently is, but want to read the other things folks have to say. So a bit of etiquette has built up over the years to stash those things under a CW (think of it like a subject line) so you can read it when and if you have the spoons to do so, and can happily ignore it and wait for something else from that person, say, cat pictures, without having to unfollow them.
In a more elegant world, Mastodon/Fediverse would have the concept of topics, and I'd be able to follow `@mh+cats@example.com` without following @mh+uspol@example.com`, but we're not in that elegant world. Mastodon (nor Pleroma, nor Pixelfed, nor any of the other Fediverse software) doesn't offer anything like that, short of multiple accounts, which comes with other big problems.