Trump is killing the NGS. It's resp for maintaining & updating what’s known as the Nat Spatial Ref System, includes measurements of depth & height as well as calculations around Earth’s gravitational field—crucial mathematics that inform much of the basic infrastructure around us, from constructing bridges to mapping out water & electric lines...
Trump doesn't understand their role, & regardless, doesn't care bc he can't profiteer, so he's defunding the NGS.
#NOAA #USPol https://www.wired.com/story/trump-cuts-are-killing-a-tiny-office-that-keeps-our-measurements-of-the-world-accurate/
Now many billions will Trump, his family, and his partners collect on his official trip to the Middle East next week?
How many journalism organizations will try to aggregate the spoils of Trump world corruption so the public will fully understand the breadth and depth of the sleaze?
I can't begin to guess the answer to the first question, but the second one is easy: zero.
So much of the destruction in the USA is away from the spotlight at grass roots level. But the foundations of a modern society are being smashed. The National Science Foundation has just stopped awarding new grants and funding existing ones. That effectively means that work on all existing NSF grants has to stop immediately. Universities are telling researchers to stop spending on those grants right away. That's jobs and progress and opportunity just being eradicated.
Mexican sculptor Chavis Mármol dropped a nine-ton replica of an ancient Indigenous Olmec head onto the roof of a Tesla Model 3 in Mexico City as a brilliant commentary on modern society’s obsession with materialism, excess, and capitalism. This is Mármol’s latest art installation in a series where he uses the symbol of the Indigenous Olmec head as a representation of the cultural roots of the land, and of his, as well as all, Indigenous ancestors — ancestors whose way of life was and continues t
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