Frog's Gift

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• brlemworld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How much do we pay for politicians and their security to go golfing?

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ehhh, with a large enough population you’re bound to find someone crazy enough to do it for no reason at all.

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• m_f@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here’s the tweet in question: xcancel.com/DOGE/status/1858540521096089876#m

  Anyone know what studies it’s referring to?

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This isn’t about efficiency, it’s about attacking science as a tool for evaluating truth. It’s a way to discredit the authority of expertise and shape the course of research with selective funding and demonization.

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  • leisesprecher@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Especially if you’d add up all the inefficiencies already introduced in the name of efficiency. All those grant proposals, superfluous fluff articles to bump impact factors, etc. are all required overhead to game a system designed to seem efficient.

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  • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it’s because Elon Musk just really wanted to be the head of a department called “D.O.G.E.”. The whole attacking science thing is just a bonus.

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    • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Elon Musk: now singlehandedly responsible for the US falling further behind China in innovation and research (for the record, fuck the CCP).

      I seriously hope the UK takes advantage and offers visas and funding for the research. We’ve already got a good research sector though it took a hit from Brexit. Taking in these US scientists, even if it’s only for four years, would accelerate the UK’s growth, suck it Yanks!

      p.s. also the EU would love to have them as well.

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah how much is this “office” going to cost the taxpayers? I would guess a lot more than $100k on a sunfish experiment.

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