This is the entire annual budget of the NSF. This is about 1/5 the annual budget of the NIH. No, we couldn't fund Medicare for all with this money, but we could do something useful and good with it, rather than illegal wars of aggression
damn that’s more than I make in a year
The largest payment eliminated by DOGE was $38,468,659 to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for transition support services to adulthood for disabled children served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
The missles in this video cost more than that.
We must unlock the strategic reserves of calories stored in excess fat!
When the machines starting talking about demand destruction for human food it’s grim
We used to call these people hipsters
Boss revolt against telework should reverse, but won’t
It’s like they saw this meme and thought “yes, good idea”. Russia is off to the side as the Sickos guy
Why do they not simply plant and cultivate to maturity a coffee farm in Iowa or Nebraska? I am very smart
Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center
A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big
hmm
Oh yah I get that’s what it really was, I meant more LinkedIn lunatics using it as lAtErAl tHiNkInG
Why is the Gordian knot told as a positive example of lateral thinking instead of Alex the Great being an asshole and breaking a puzzle he couldn’t solve?
This is my read.
This is clever
Fools spring
And as always: the enemy gets a vote
Don’t print lies in the Bluesky
Also, shutting down an oilfield is not a trivial thing that can be easily reversed
How do you figure? From what I read he’s still caucusing with GOP, this is purely a party line gambit
This is devolving into another version of his clusterfuck handling of covid except this time its totally and completely self-imposed. There is zero reason that any of this needs to be happening right now except that Trump wanted it to.
Sins of omission vs sins of commission
Universal Pre-K means saving a year of daycare.
Single payer healthcare means no more private insurance needed
But don’t message it this way! You’re not losing out on money, you’re saving money as more services are provided more efficiently
Not even really fancy
It’s why cliffs are almost never implemented as a policy meant to do anything other than coerce or cause harm
Good luck, be safe
I know next to nothing about current mil tech so forgive a potentially stupid question on the order of “why no dig canal through mountain”
Genuine question: aren’t anti aircraft point defense turrets a relatively solved solution we could roll out relatively efficiently? Or are the costs of modern radar installations at sensitive infrastructure too high?
