• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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    2 months ago

    And if you look at science funding in the EU, Canada, or Australia it’s a drop in a bucket compared to US and China. So if you want to work on interesting stuff, you basically have to go to China now.

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    2 months ago

    Man this shit pisses me off so much. At the turn off the twentieth century Germany was absolutely cleaning up in theoretical physics. And they pissed it all away with their fascist bullshit.

    None of these people care to read the basics of history at all.

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      2 months ago

      Man this shit pisses me off so much. At the turn off the twentieth century Germany was absolutely cleaning up in theoretical physics. And they pissed it all away with their fascist bullshit.

      the US learned from this and wants to emulate it. /s

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      2 months ago

      … At the turn off the twentieth century Germany was absolutely cleaning up in theoretical physics. And they pissed it all away with their fascist bullshit.

      it feels like there a pattern here. every time the sciences have notably progressed, there’s a social backlash at the soft sciences.

      in both nazi germany and – now – maga united states, transgender studies seems to be bridge too far and we start see book burning happening in both places and at the same time our biggest scientific accomplishments.

      i get the feeling that this is a cycle that humanity is going to keep inflicting upon itself.

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    2 months ago

    This is why China is thanking Trump. He’s destroyed the US for a generation. The damage is already done.