Rusticus

I feel like we’re living the script of the Terminator. Can we make the Dementor in Chief watch Mr Rogers instead?

lol. I got a chuckle out of this. Ty.

This is not true. In STEM in the US nearly all PhD candidates are paid a stipend and tuition.

Since the NIH funding freeze in Jan 2025 that was so devastating to academic research labs in the US, we have lost 10,000 PhD candidates. That's 10,000 of the brightest and smartest young researchers in the world just gone. That single move destroyed STEM research in the US that we will never recover from.

For those that think, no we'll easily recover as we just won't freeze funding in the future: no young scientist will come to the US now or in the future to enter a PhD program because of the always present threat that we will elect another troglodyte. These research labs have grant money that cannot be paused even for a day as they can't pay for their research assistants and students without it. It's their only source of funds.

Edit: based upon the ignorant responses most don’t appear to know how PhD programs work and are funded which contributes to the lack of outrage over these destructive policies. US is rapidly going down the tubes.

This. Billionaires class is so afraid of social policies that they want to ban using the word socialism and imprison anyone who suggests it.

What person in their right mind would be against universal healthcare and food for children???

Also, paying taxes is our civil duty. Why the hell do we celebrate wealthy people avoiding taxes???

I liked that movie Mercy with Star Prince.

-Peter Thiel, probably

Smell my fingers.

-Pete Kegbreath, probably

With any luck American voters will also remember, since they are the ones who paid for the fucking things.

300 million people in the US. $166bn in refunds is about $500 for every man woman and child in the US. Fuck you Trump and all the oligarchs!!!

This approach is how the Spanish flu spread worldwide. US troops took it from Kansas to Europe and then 50 million people died. But I wouldn’t expect Kegbreath to know any history.

Are we great yet?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09655-y

And now we’re finding out that having the Covid vaccine can help treat and potentially cure cancer. Beam me up Scotty.