Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone

Post by kortilla » Tue, Feb 25, 2025, 6:37 AM UTC

consumer451 wrote: post #180

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> Not evaluated efficiency cuts. Just thrashing about. Personally I'm not sold on their tactics so far, but there is another way to view this than thrashing out. Non-probationary federal employees are protected and not easily fired. If one honestly believes the government is bloated and so far into debt that the budget needs to be balanced at all costs, cutting anyone and anything you can may make sense. Normally you…

Where exactly is the proof that the ship of government funded science in the USA was sinking? If you don't mean just US funded science, then what evidence is there that the USA was sinking in general? When I look at the graph of debt increase, it was actually decreasing. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1366899/percent-change-n...

Post by Braxton1980 » Tue, Feb 25, 2025, 6:42 AM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #292

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One thing Americans don't seem to realize is that the current constitution needs to be rewritten once we get out of this mess. One of the consequences of dictatorships is that they deform the constitution for their purposes. It seems that republicans have done enough to deform the system in an irreparable way.

How would you propose rewriting it that wouldn’t just mean “less democracy” and “more control by credentialed elites?”

Post by Braxton1980 » Tue, Feb 25, 2025, 6:45 AM UTC

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Optimistic.

I mean, to the degree in which I expect there to be an election in 2 years, and 4 years, I suppose that counts as optimism. I've not seen any indication that elections themselves are under threat. Given that elections would happen at state level anyway (and absent disbandment of congress) those elections would elect senators and representatives. Which in turn have the power to remove a president. So yes, I see nothin…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 25, 2025, 6:51 AM UTC

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The real question is, what negatively changed when the debt went from 600k to 666k? What about 500k to 600k? What will negatively change if it goes from 666k to 700k? I hear a lot about the debt going up. Not once have I ever heard what the consequences of this debt are to the regular tax payer. None of these cuts are going to give normal people significant tax cuts, and cutting all these programs certainly doesn't s…

Generally sovereign debt is not a problem until creditors become worries that the debt will not be paid back. The exact threshold is subject to the regular market fear/greed manias and is not an exact figure. Once this happens the country issuing credit will have trouble lending at favorable rates and will be forced to choose between printing money (could lead to massive inflation) and making large cuts. Here is rece…

Post by BLKNSLVR » Tue, Feb 25, 2025, 6:54 AM UTC

hayst4ck wrote: post #256

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We have seen it happen over and over again. When was the last time real science came out of Russia?

I wouldn't put down Russia's achievements. They did manage to effectively disable their greatest geopolitical enemy and cause us to destroy ourselves. All the weaponry in every other country on earth couldn't harm America more than what they did with social media, some highly skilled "recruitment," and smart leveraging of monetary resources. They got us to vote against Ukraine at the UN without a gun. Even the worlds…