I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.
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@davidho The problem with science is that it can be biased and perverted. People lose trust in science when it winds up saying whatever industry has paid it to say. Academia is also seriously toxic in many places. I'm a big fan of science, but it's easy to see where the trust was lost.
Yeah, science vastly empowers.
It's the non-sciences of ethics, morals, values, politics that needs to keep science and technology firmly under control.
And has not.
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We'll see. PRC is in planet-busting trouble if their shadow banking system goes under. A financial black hole will open under Shanghai and suck a good deal of the world in. PRC-style capitalism will come to a bad end, as the Japanese Collapse of the 1990s
@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
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@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
@cykonot @LordCaramac @davidho
PRC forces its provinces to borrow money for them.
"To borrow money is glorious."
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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.
@davidho
Honestly, I think the U.S. right now has vastly bigger problems to deal with than science funding cuts. -
@cykonot @LordCaramac @davidho
PRC forces its provinces to borrow money for them.
"To borrow money is glorious."
@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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@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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@davidho
Honestly, I think the U.S. right now has vastly bigger problems to deal with than science funding cuts.@sunscream @davidho this feels myopic
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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.
@davidho
We have to do science resiliently. Do it in spite of the lack of money and a hostile system. Because it is needed now more than ever. -
@davidho The problem with science is that it can be biased and perverted. People lose trust in science when it winds up saying whatever industry has paid it to say. Academia is also seriously toxic in many places. I'm a big fan of science, but it's easy to see where the trust was lost.
@BrettCoulstock @davidho Apparently their propaganda is working. I guess it’s not surprising, considering certain industries and political movements have been trying to discredit science and scientists for many decades.
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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.
Worst of all, this is a scheduled disassembly. I would like to emphasize again, and maybe everybody in the sciences already know this and have discussed at length, but the morbidly rich are a public health crisis for civilizations.
Check the track record straight back to antiquity. It is unblemished.
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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.
@davidho the path continues, direction dystopia
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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.
Yes to everything you said but I feel too change one number:
Science is how we’re able to grow food that feeds ALL of the world’s population.
Capitalism is how we can only feed half of the world's population with it. -
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.
@davidho
The world is flooded with the idea that "you should fund your own research, just like Musk does." -
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