David Ho14h ago

I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.

It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world’s population.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Show threadLord Caramac the Clueless, KSC13h ago
@tuban_muzuru @davidho A lot of really important and exciting new science has been coming out of China in recent years. It's not like science will die with the US.
Show threadCykonot10h ago
@tuban_muzuru @LordCaramac @davidho evergrande is being liquidated, but like 1/5 of the global population and a quarter of the manufacturing capacity is still there
Show threadCykonot

@tuban_muzuru @LordCaramac @davidho provincial debt is real, but i believe the sum of their provincial and national debts is still less than US national debt (albeit comparable). I doubt that so much of their infrastructure is made of tofu that they're worse off than our aging petrochemical guzzling logistics backbone

Would be neat if our debt crisis wasn't being made unnecessarily worse while the petrodollar gets further undermined by Iran trading in yuan... Maybe the inflation will save us 😂

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