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seriously, dang, why are you doing nothing about the concerted attack on HN?
another post about the descontruction of the American state and in particular the government-funded research state that produced the entire fucking tech industry of which we are part, flagged. seriously, dang, why are you doing nothing about the concerted attack on HN?
Flagging should absolutely have to be public, at a bare bare minimum.
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Isn't the likelihood insanely low like 10%? Maybe since it's a government researcher the likelihood is higher. This thought calls into question why conservatives should even support academia in general, especially liberal arts academia, which shuns conservative thought like the plague while having massive influence upon the culture. At least STEM has measurable value.
I'm not a conservative, but the most recent Mindscape podcast had a psychologist on talking about polarization, and she presented the most polarized position, while also mentioning the bad things about being polarized. It was an educated version of what you would expect to find on any popular reddit sub when politics comes up.
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You have no way of knowing if the Anonymous medical researcher here is not right wing themselves.
Isn't the likelihood insanely low like 10%? Maybe since it's a government researcher the likelihood is higher. This thought calls into question why conservatives should even support academia in general, especially liberal arts academia, which shuns conservative thought like the plague while having massive influence upon the culture. At least STEM has measurable value.
Which is where one studies physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, amongst many other such studies.
Here's how STEM tends to break down at universities:
S - College of Liberal Arts
T - College of Engineering
E - College of Engineering
M - College of Medicine
Not every university is the same of course, but that's pretty much how STEM gets divided amongst the colleges. Now, if you want to make the claim that conservatives don't support science, I'm not going to disagree with you. It's been wryly noted that reality has a liberal bias.
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Isn't the likelihood insanely low like 10%? Maybe since it's a government researcher the likelihood is higher. This thought calls into question why conservatives should even support academia in general, especially liberal arts academia, which shuns conservative thought like the plague while having massive influence upon the culture. At least STEM has measurable value.
> liberal arts academia Which is where one studies physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, amongst many other such studies. Here's how STEM tends to break down at universities: S - College of Liberal Arts T - College of Engineering E - College of Engineering M - College of Medicine Not every university is the same of course, but that's pretty much how STEM gets divided amongst the colleges. Now, if you wan…
This administration has adopted a blitzkrieg approach, fully aware that our system of checks and balances requires time to respond. Their apparent goal is to inflict as much damage as possible before legal challenges can be mounted. Notably, Congress seems complicit in this blitzkrieg, and it appears they have employed Musk as their patsy. I wonder what Musk thinks of this role? When this is all over, we must serious…
The last thing that we want is a constitutional convention. The american populace just gave trump and right wing authoritarianism a "strong" democratic mandate (don't act like ~2% isn't HUGE in modern elections). He's actually getting more popular in the face of his current "deconstruction of the nation state". You might try to meme this away as "political honeymoon" but I'm sure that this is durable. https://abcnews…
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> liberal arts academia Which is where one studies physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, amongst many other such studies. Here's how STEM tends to break down at universities: S - College of Liberal Arts T - College of Engineering E - College of Engineering M - College of Medicine Not every university is the same of course, but that's pretty much how STEM gets divided amongst the colleges. Now, if you wan…
Great, what was really needed in this discussion was some rules lawyering nerd making some asinine point and a dig at conservatives. Good job I guess. I'm predicting a lot of people's reality will turn upside down in the near future when they find out they are not living in the early 2000s anymore and reality has a conservative bias lol.