Think of any technology you use today, it started as a government grant (either NSF, DARPA, DOE, etc).
Looks like the Trump administration is trying to cripple US science and technology research and I don't understand why.
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What is your explanation for Trump putting tariffs on every country in the world except Russia?
Russia is already under sanctions and has no significant trade with the U.S. — same as North Korea: https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-cuba-north-korea-escape...
The US imported 3.5 billion dollars of goods from Russia in 2024, and exported 500 million dollars of goods.
https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia...
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Is there any evidence towards this allegiance? Why should we attribute to malice what we could attribute to incompetence, or greed?
One piece of evidence would be that Russia, Belarus and North Korea have been specifically excluded from US tariffs. You could argue that the net effect is negligible since we don't import a lot from those countries, but the signal being sent to long term allies is devastating to America's future relations with them.
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#284I have been in and out of the academic world my entire career. I have worked as a programmer/engineer for two universities and a national lab, and worked at a startup founded by some professors. There is huge uncertainty with the people whom I have worked with, nobody seems to be sure what is going to happen, but it feels like it wont be good. Hiring freezes, international graduate students receiving emails to self d…
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The SS Trust Fund is numbers on a spreadsheet. It doesn't matter. It's gone and spent. The question is about real actual resource distribution. SS is drawing more resources from young people than it is giving back. That's an actual problem, no matter how many tabs you add to your excel spreadsheet.
This post is nonsensical. > The SS Trust Fund is numbers on a spreadsheet. It doesn't matter. "Numbers on a spreadsheet" is meaningless, you just described functionally all of accounting for the entire economy , and if that's a reason it "doesn't matter" then the debt also "doesn't matter" because it's also just numbers on a spreadsheet. What do you think nearly all money is? > It's gone and spent. Simply, factually…
I will expand, if you need.
The SS trust fund produced a surplus. Boomers then spent the entire surplus on their own deficit spending. There is no actual cash in a bank — it was put on a spreadsheet and then spent on other budget priorities — wars, military, medicaid, everything else. The SS trust fund was one of the main reasons the US could spend profligately for the past couple decades!
The SS Trust Fund is NOT A BANK ACCOUNT. I cannot emphasize this enough. The money got spent.
Now, boomers are retiring and demanding that money — which they already spent — back again. That's absurd double spending which impacts young taxpayers as inflation or deficit spending.
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I don't think it's fair to call a car self-driving if the self-driving disengages itself every time its about to get into a nasty wreck because of its own actions. It's facially "self-driving except for when it's not", the "not" times you, of course, cannot predict.
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Russia is already under sanctions and has no significant trade with the U.S. — same as North Korea: https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-cuba-north-korea-escape...
The US imported 3.5 billion dollars of goods from Russia in 2024, and exported 500 million dollars of goods. https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia...
So under your logic, Trump is also controlled by Cuba? How does that work exactly?
https://translatingcuba.com/the-cuban-regime-celebrates-that...
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> If the general response is one of absolving themselves of responsibility there won't be the necessary level of reflection and reform to prevent it from happening again. Where did I absolve anything? I just corrected something that was wrong. I didn't vote for the guy either time, I don't like this either.
I didn't direct that at you, but at the general response of the American public. Apologies for not making that clear.
Apologies for my earlier response being curt - I totally get it.