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soundworlds 36 minutes ago [-]
"Humanities" is literally on the list. As in, do not fund any Humanities research.
Also not allowed to use "solar energy", "Geothermal energy", "EV infrastructure", "electrification", "Hydrogen energy".
Welp, America, you either gotta kick this administration out, or enjoy cosplaying the 1800s.
hahahaa 30 minutes ago [-]
Car powered by coal combustion via fast energy transmission systems. "Chemical coal".
protocolture 4 minutes ago [-]
>enjoy cosplaying the 1800s.
Thats what they voted for, dont know why they would get rid of them now.
whatever1 2 hours ago [-]
Math professors at my alma mater were instructed to remove references to “inequalities” to increase their chances of getting funded. The <= and >= type of inequalities.
superhuzza 56 minutes ago [-]
Yes, same with "diversity" for cellular diversity in the brain. Millions of dollars of grant money withdrawn.
beej71 57 minutes ago [-]
We had some trouble with a geology grant that mentioned "mineral inclusion".
transcriptase 1 hours ago [-]
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cwnyth 1 hours ago [-]
Citation needed.
Yokohiii 21 minutes ago [-]
The comment is removed. I was also a bit confused, so I've looked it up. So a very rough overview: Under Trudeau in Canada some regulations around gender politics and climate change, got a bit out of hand in terms of absurd requirements to state how they are helpful in the matter. Even for trivial things, they were not a hard requirements but helpful.
Unlike the US gov in this post, they didn't slash projects with good intentions, they just changed and clarified the requirements.
Correction welcome, I am far away from canadian politics.
transcriptase 10 minutes ago [-]
Interesting that an entirely true comment has been removed via flagging. I not only helped write grants during the peak of that trend, but reviewed applications where I was expected to evaluate how other applicants satisfied those priorities of the funding body.
what 41 minutes ago [-]
Weird that you want a citation for this but the GP.
qsera 1 hours ago [-]
Humans are a stupid stupid stupid bunch!
wnevets 45 minutes ago [-]
Its important to note that US deficit spending is breaking records. They can't even pretend that they're saving money.
These people who work for this administration are all so grossly and maliciously incompetent.
throwaway27448 1 hours ago [-]
They are quite competent at causing enough chaos for those with inside knowledge and wealth to exploit.
slater 26 minutes ago [-]
And for the next administration to be left holding the bag, teeing it up for another round of "see? SEEEE???? they're terrible at the economy!!" if a Democratic president wins the election
Varelion 2 hours ago [-]
Should be criminal.
reverius42 1 hours ago [-]
A lot of it is! We live in lawlessness (for those at the top) in the US.
piloto_ciego 53 minutes ago [-]
Man, this is the kind of thing I have been trying to tell people. It's unsettling to think about, but I'm like, "look, there are no rules now, it's all a negotiation, the only real laws are the laws of physics and the rules someone selectively enforces under the threat of violence."
It would do us good if we remember this, because this sort of the basic state of nature that most people have lived under most of human history. I'm not saying this is how it should be, but a lot of people are still living in the pearl-clutched "but, that's against the rules!" despite there being basically no real rules for a decade.
When people realize that it's all nonsense, it's going to get weird.
hibikir 12 minutes ago [-]
There's entire books on developmental economics which explain how states create institutions that might appear to be rules based, but are ultimately just negotiation and favor. They get more money from developed countries and investors that don't look to deep, but ultimately the rate of growth is quite bad, because investing money in that kind of environment just has a poor rate of return.
All well described, with experimental numbers and everything, for countries in Africa and Latin America. Little did people realize that no, you can also apply this to developed countries when they suffer sufficient degradation.
throwaway27448 22 minutes ago [-]
'The last decade has been the Democrats clinging onto the rulebook going "but a dog can't play basketball!" while a dog fucking dunks on us over and over' -@Arr
wahnfrieden 11 minutes ago [-]
Won’t matter as long as people have Netflix and Chipotle
qsera 1 hours ago [-]
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sunshinesnacks 1 hours ago [-]
Over-correcting from too much competence? Can’t tell if that’s what you meant (presumably sarcastically) or if you mean over-correcting from too much previous attention to DEI…
qsera 1 hours ago [-]
Competence does not require correction.
It is when there is too much stupidity going on that
* Even large number of fairly average people can see it happening...
* large number of fairly average people tries to correct it and overshoots the target, because you know, they are a large number of average people..
The cycle continues...
I won't go into specifics, because read the above.
Yokohiii 40 minutes ago [-]
You are governed by fairly average people.
As a fairly above average person you can certainly adapt.
jasonlotito 1 hours ago [-]
> Competence does not require correction.
Correct, which is why an even larger number of fairly average and intelligent people are wondering why we are correcting.
> It is when there is too much stupidity going on
Exactly. There is too much stupidity going on in government right now. Exactly.
> I won't go into specifics, because read the above.
Because you don't want to get corrected?
sublinear 1 hours ago [-]
Has there ever been an administration that wasn't tone deaf to the other side?
macintux 1 hours ago [-]
Do not “both sides” this level of corruption and incompetence.
mrtesthah 40 minutes ago [-]
Following the law is not a matter of partisan politics.
ajross 38 minutes ago [-]
What's the counterexample of significant funding withdrawn by democratic administrations because of "possibly conservative" language in the output?
"Tone deaf" seems not to be capturing the essence of the malfeasance here.
floren 32 minutes ago [-]
Biologists I know were reporting that they'd changed their grant proposals to study e.g. ovarian cancer in "non-male" mice
I wonder if just injecting a typo into each banned word when its used will be enough to bypass the keyword search for auto-banning.
1 hours ago [-]
bluecalm 35 minutes ago [-]
Why not use an LLM to filter research they don't want to fund? Keywords list seem like the dumbest way to go about it.
rjrjrjrj 31 minutes ago [-]
"Dumbest way to go about it" is SOP for this administration.
etchalon 2 hours ago [-]
This is what right-wing Twitter brain gets you.
forestrywat 2 hours ago [-]
That's just "Twitter brain" at this point, right? Hard to imagine anyone leftish still being there.
dadjoker 11 minutes ago [-]
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dools 2 hours ago [-]
The trump admin is a hive of scum and villainy worthy of a comic book universe, and Musk is inextricably linked. Thus anyone using twitter or grok or buying a Tesla or using starlink is complicit.
EDIT: or working for these companies!! Couldn’t pay me enough to do it.
inigyou 2 hours ago [-]
"admin" is what we call a regime that works properly. This one doesn't, so it's a "regime".
blints 47 minutes ago [-]
Under the previous administration there were keyword lists that ensured that not only would you not get funding, but were subjected to a humiliating self-criticism session before being professionally ruined.
protocolture 1 minutes ago [-]
>And some or all of the Black students across three sections of the course were offended by what they’d heard. So they wrote a letter to the dean of the Marshall School of Business, Geoffrey Garrett, among others, describing Patton as insensitive and incapable of teaching the three-week intensive communications course.
The Biden administration is some students now?
mrexroad 44 minutes ago [-]
Citation?
secretsatan 37 minutes ago [-]
It’s the usual stuff, they shut down speech on all sorts of topics, like the superiority of white christian men over everyone else
Also not allowed to use "solar energy", "Geothermal energy", "EV infrastructure", "electrification", "Hydrogen energy".
Welp, America, you either gotta kick this administration out, or enjoy cosplaying the 1800s.
Thats what they voted for, dont know why they would get rid of them now.
Unlike the US gov in this post, they didn't slash projects with good intentions, they just changed and clarified the requirements.
Correction welcome, I am far away from canadian politics.
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/u-budget-d...
It would do us good if we remember this, because this sort of the basic state of nature that most people have lived under most of human history. I'm not saying this is how it should be, but a lot of people are still living in the pearl-clutched "but, that's against the rules!" despite there being basically no real rules for a decade.
When people realize that it's all nonsense, it's going to get weird.
All well described, with experimental numbers and everything, for countries in Africa and Latin America. Little did people realize that no, you can also apply this to developed countries when they suffer sufficient degradation.
It is when there is too much stupidity going on that
* Even large number of fairly average people can see it happening...
* large number of fairly average people tries to correct it and overshoots the target, because you know, they are a large number of average people..
The cycle continues...
I won't go into specifics, because read the above.
As a fairly above average person you can certainly adapt.
Correct, which is why an even larger number of fairly average and intelligent people are wondering why we are correcting.
> It is when there is too much stupidity going on
Exactly. There is too much stupidity going on in government right now. Exactly.
> I won't go into specifics, because read the above.
Because you don't want to get corrected?
"Tone deaf" seems not to be capturing the essence of the malfeasance here.
Banned Words List
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319573
EDIT: or working for these companies!! Couldn’t pay me enough to do it.
The Biden administration is some students now?