America is sabotaging its own scientific research with cutting the NSF budget from $9 billion to only $3 billion, using AI to evaluate grant proposals and shift NSF funding from universities to private companies

https://www.science.org/content/article/my-boss-was-crying-nsf-confronts-potentially-massive-layoffs-and-budget-cuts

As a result, applications for positions as research group leaders from the US at Germany‘s Max Planck have doubled 🚀🔬
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/usa-forschung-kuerzungen-100.html

@fj or in other words there is another six billion cut from 36 trillion+ debt. Yay!
@nickserv @fj i can't tell if you're serious but in case you are: that's not how that works. The USA has control of their own money.

@nickserv @fj

Public debt is our private savings. Politics determines who has the savings and that won’t be working class people.