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Wait, but which is it? Tequila or Gin? I need THE SCIENCE!!
I think many of these people would be perfectly happy for a woman to not have definitive knowledge about whether or not she’s pregnant. I suspect there might be some overlap with the group that’s trying to get rid of all contraception and abortion measures.
808 Billion for maintaining an army
It also can’t be understated how much private corporations benefit from technology this research yields. We spent $25 billion ($175 billion in today’s money) on the Apollo programs alone, and NASA research has led to everything from cell phones and laptops to the rubber molding process used for sneakers. The DoD wasted a ton of money in the 80s on this new technology that involved getting computers to communicate with each other, and now we have the internet.
The government spends money in ways that could never be justified by cooperations, then the cooperations enrich themselves with that research and use the profits to lobby Congress for lower taxes and limited spending. It’s absolutely infuriating.
Anyone remember the early days of Musk’s Twitter takeover?
“I don’t know what this ‘microservice’ nonsense is, I’m gonna remove it”
“…Sir, everything is fucking broken now, could you please stop messing with the system”
“Ur fired lol”
…Expect more of that.
Or the server move
So less than 20 Hummers.
We spend about 90 Billion dollars on corporate welfare each year.
90 Billion.
Yeah but let’s focus on the rounding errors.
The Department of Government Efficiency is going to increase the efficacy of giving taxpayer money to the ultra wealthy.
Here’s the tweet in question: https://xcancel.com/DOGE/status/1858540521096089876#m
Anyone know what studies it’s referring to?
Musk continues to demonstrate loud and clear that he is none of the things he claims to be.
Spoiled rich boy who wants to be president and figured out how? Rumor is he hasn’t left trumps side since the win.
He’s an investor and salesman. Given the way he treats his workers, I’d bet money on him being a douche to waitstaff.
Little spoon wants to be the big spoon.
How much do we pay for politicians and their security to go golfing?
I personally don’t think that politicians should be given elaborate security details. Their performance or lack of performance should determine how safe they are from the populace they’re tasked with serving.
Ehhh, with a large enough population you’re bound to find someone crazy enough to do it for no reason at all.
Rather have an assassination problem than a school shooter problem. If we let those crazy people shoot the president instead of a school, they can work out their hatred of humanity without harming anyone important.
Oh absolutely! Making politicians fear gun violence at a personal level is the only way to enact actual gun control policies.
Drag has a point, I bet gun control laws would follow quickly.
(said from the safety of New Zealand)
That frog was Elon Musk’s mother.
I never knew pregnancy tests had frogs in them. The sticks seem so small.
There are some smol frogs out there
Those are usually the scary ones to piss on, unless it’s a tree frog in which case you have to factor in the dexterity.
Sunfish I can’t find the actual study, it appears it was done in 1975, and was a big thing that congress at the time used as the examples of wasteful spending.
First 2 I can’t really say the value or lack of value of. I mean they were studies on effects of dangerous substances on behavior. and yes of course like all studies you pick animals that you might be able to get the effects of. Obviously a lot of science is just randomly probing around looking for oddities that give you a hypothesis to try and refine later into something useful. Obviously addictive substances is an important topic to understand, and poking around randomly might actually give solutions that could be discovered IMO.
Now the last one is the only one I’d agree, isn’t exactly super useful.
was done in 2016.
All that being said… lets also take a serious statement on cost here… a million dollars in 2016. That’s like, 15 minutes of iraq war money.
Another comment explains the moon landing one. It’s a hexbear comment and probably not federated to a lot of instances, so copying it here:
The Moon landing line is a pretty important thing to study, actually, since we know what the rehearsed line was: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Without that “a” it’s a very silly line.
Armstrong for years claimed he said the line right and that it must’ve been garbled in the radio transmission, and in recent years has been vindicated as better signal:noise algorithms processed the recording and found the missing word. Researchers aren’t blowing money to find out if Armstrong was a liar, they’re using it to develop more sensitive receivers, better transmission protocols, and more advanced algorithms to parse signal out of noise, all of which have massive impacts in other domains. An algorithm that’s better at parsing data out of noise in particular is going to be useful in loads of places like MRI machines where improving resolution will take billions in research but improving parsing is just updating the software.
Can’t really blame people for defederating though. It’s a slog to find the treasure in the shit. In this same thread there’s both “Death to America” and “kill all honkeys” non-sequiturs. I can see why they drove off their admins in a stupid struggle session recently. I’m just waiting for another struggle session when they discover the etymology of “bad” and have to rename [email protected]:
It is possibly from Old English derogatory term bæddel and its diminutive bædling “effeminate man, hermaphrodite, pederast,” which probably are related to bædan “to defile.”
Excellent comment ruined by using the conservative instance.
wow, yeah thanks for the repost of it then, and yeah seems even further to go in there, when conservatives comb for examples of the terrible things they are fighting… and it seems like over and over again, even their cherry picked examples seem to fail
How much is it gonna cost us to create this new “D.O.G.E.” Department and pay Musk? The cost of these studies is completely irrelevant to the situation, like others have said the GOP props up ridiculous situations and makes it seem like they represent the entire situation, and they do it to disguise what they’re doing which is fleecing taxpayers money to private corps.
I was furious when I learned about the “Schools are offering litter boxes to trans students who identify as cats!”
Not because it was a lie, but because it was based on truth.
The truth? Schools in areas with heavy gun violence now have litter boxes so that pooping can be done in the advent of a school shooting.
It’s absurd, but because of a problem the Right made, not because of a “misguided solution” of the Left
instead give it directly to Elon, he will know what to do with the extra money!
