• ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Well, they just cut every research university in the country’s money by limiting facilities and administration funding on science grants to 15% (with a few exceptions possible, if approved, presumably by Elon Musk).

    Basically, a $1,000,000 grant to a research scientist comes with a corresponding payment to the university to build whatever is needed and run the lab. It’s usually close to 50% because research labs aren’t cheap. And with few exceptions, private companies don’t really fund basic research labs like they used to. (There is, obviously, a lot of private sector R&D but nothing like back in the day when Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, etc. were doing revolutionary work.)

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      6 hours ago

      So basically the Brain Drain towards the US will slow down, maybe China will take over

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        Slow down? Shit is going to start flowing the opposite way. The brain drain from the US has begun.

        They want a stupid populace, they’re going to get one. And it will probably end up killing us all.

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          The people who are smart enough to be able to get jobs else where are also smart enough to see the writing on the wall of an anti-intellectual admin. The us is only going to get dumber, which is the goal for the gop.