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[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 25 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

China is going to devour the scientific world if we keep it like this

[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 5 points 1 hour ago

Won't happen, or at least won't be useful if it does. Lotta Chinese authors are faking data for the sake of the CCP and their studies don't replicate. If that takes over, it'll be like a global Dark Age.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 points 2 hours ago

Going to continue devouring the scientific world with lots of smart Westerns leaving the new SlaveTastic^tm^ USA

[-] Zementid@feddit.nl 3 points 2 hours ago

Republicans deserve no progress. Let them fall back into the ages they desire. No Smartphones. That's which science.

[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 84 points 6 hours ago

The world just keeps getting more and more efficient at being dumb. Let's just count all the appallingly stupid things crammed into this small meme with 2 million views:

  1. "Insurrection Barbie"
  2. Celebrating the defunding of useful scientific research by a new government efficiency agency
  3. This new agency is named after a cryptocurrency
  4. The cryptocurrency in question was created as a joke to satirize cryptocurrencies, but became a top prominent cryptocurrency itself.
  5. The "Department of Government Efficiency Agency" has 2 heads, both of whom have other primary jobs and were chosen in return for political support.
  6. There is also already an existing government agency that does the exact same thing, called the "Government Accountability Office". But most people seem to be unaware of it, likely because it's not named after a cryptocurrency/dog meme.
  7. This whole scheme was the idea of the richest person in the world.

Idiocracy didn't happen because of unnatural selection, it happened because social media unlocked a runaway chain reaction of stupidity.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 9 points 5 hours ago

Why are people saying that it was named after a cryptocurrency?

Isnt the dog the first thing people think of when seeing "doge"?

[-] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 3 points 43 minutes ago

Is it better to be named after a stupid meme instead?

[-] zagaberoo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 39 minutes ago

Yes, Kabosu was a gem.

[-] zeca@lemmy.eco.br 33 points 5 hours ago

Its reasonable to make the connection to the coin, as this particular cryptocurrency was propagandized and manipulated by musk, who will be running the agency.

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[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 9 points 5 hours ago

True! It was then technically named after a meme...which the coin named itself after, as it was supposed to be a "meme coin".

Still stands though.

"Government agency named after meme. Such dumb. So chaos. Woooooow." Lol

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 24 points 6 hours ago

Neolib idiots don't see the (immense) value of fundamental research because it doesn't directly generate profits, more at 11

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

They're not neolibs, they're fascists. The Democrats are neolibs

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Which is stupid, because even video games make you research sticks before you can make nuclear reactors. Guess even entertainment can't teach dumb shits anything. Just retaining nothing.

[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 2 points 1 hour ago

It directly generates profits, they're just too stupid to understand how.

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah but sometimes it might not because that is not the main goal ! Useless, I tell you !

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 15 points 5 hours ago

Welcome to a new era of weaponized ignorance

[-] superkret@feddit.org 8 points 5 hours ago

Goddamn, it really is impossible!
How the fuck am I gonna filter US politics out of my feed when it creeps in through Science Memes?

[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 9 points 2 hours ago

There's only one way to filter politics out of your time online: don't go online.

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 97 points 8 hours ago

Say it with me:

No. Research. Is. Useless.

If we say that research is useless because it doesn't bring you mo ey we could stop teaching children math beyond the absolute basics because "it doesn't brinf them anything". This is stupid, because those are the fundamentals that tech children to thing logically and become useful member of society. Same with research. It teaches us the things necessary to maybe invent some of the most useful stuff ever seen

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 61 points 8 hours ago

Republicans: "No. Research is useless."

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[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 hours ago

You say that but I've heard concerningly many people say that there is no point in teaching everyone stuff like basic math because chances are they won't use it

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago

I also hear that argument often and I absolutely hate it. They always say "tech them things like insert manual labor work. Nobody needs Math."

It always depends. A lot of people will likely never use a saw outside of school. Especially in a time where a lot of people go to university the skills that complex math teaches you are basically the bare necessitys. Also school usually is teaches you the basic broad knowledge and skills required to get more specific education on a specific topic. This includes studying all different subjects and also getting training as a woodworker. It is literally impossible to focus on everything and that also isn't really the use of school. Its just the first and universal form of education.

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[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 hours ago

Republicans want drones and cannon fodder, not scientists and intellectuals.

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[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 28 points 7 hours ago

Like the dead don't realize they're dead, they don't realize they're stupid. They're just everyone else's problem.

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[-] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 18 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

the 2010s science bazinga man being the reason all the cool science gets cut is darkly funny.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

"Haha, I'm insurrection barbie, get it? Because the libs think when Donald Trump lets a massive mob of his supporters to the Capitol to disrupt the election certification process the libs thought it was an insurrection!"

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 25 points 8 hours ago

Welcome to the new Dark Ages, brought to you by religious fascists.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago
[-] pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Elon isn't even religious. Like always religion is just a fucking disguise for enriching themselves, both with money and power.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Neither is trump, or any of these other people.

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[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 97 points 10 hours ago

"preventing next corn plague" with resources used being a box of soil and bunch of underpaid grads seems pretty efficient to me, but i guess that since the common clay of the new west already voted they can be safely disposed of

at USDA, they're turning beetles kinky! 😡

  • alex jones fuming aimlessly while being stored in some container
[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 32 points 9 hours ago

The Onion buying Infowars is the only good news I've heard this week.

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[-] Ethalis@jlai.lu 263 points 11 hours ago

Sure, that's great but it's not even the point. Fundamental research and other type of "useless" scientific endeavors help humanity as a whole to better understand our universe but would never be privately funded because they don't have any concrete and immediate financial benefits. This is precisely what a government should finance, because no one else would do it and yet it's small stuff like that that make us collectively move forward as a species

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 67 points 10 hours ago

Musk fans don't want humanity to advance. They hate technological progress.

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[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 24 points 8 hours ago

Hell can we mention that the cold war era these fucks idolize was also the golden age of the government throwing money at side projects?

[-] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 122 points 11 hours ago

In addition, government research in the sciences is miniscule. You could cut ALL of science funding and be no where close to the 1 trillion that Musk claims he'll be able to reduce the budget by

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