10 comments

  • whatever1 51 minutes 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 15 minutes ago
      Yes, same with "diversity" for cellular diversity in the brain. Millions of dollars of grant money withdrawn.
    • beej71 16 minutes ago
      We had some trouble with a geology grant that mentioned "mineral inclusion".
    • transcriptase 34 minutes ago
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      • cwnyth 22 minutes ago
        Citation needed.
        • what 0 minutes ago
          Weird that you want a citation for this but the GP.
      • qsera 33 minutes ago
        Humans are a stupid stupid stupid bunch!
  • wnevets 4 minutes ago
    Its important to note that US deficit spending is breaking records. They can't even pretend that they're saving money.

    [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/u-budget-d...

  • hn_throwaway_99 1 hour ago
    These people who work for this administration are all so grossly and maliciously incompetent.
    • throwaway27448 23 minutes ago
      They are quite competent at causing enough chaos for those with inside knowledge and wealth to exploit.
    • Varelion 1 hour ago
      Should be criminal.
      • reverius42 20 minutes ago
        A lot of it is! We live in lawlessness (for those at the top) in the US.
        • piloto_ciego 13 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.

    • sublinear 34 minutes ago
      Has there ever been an administration that wasn't tone deaf to the other side?
      • macintux 33 minutes ago
        Do not “both sides” this level of corruption and incompetence.
    • qsera 35 minutes ago
      It is just the pendulum swinging all the way to the other side, aka over-correction...
      • sunshinesnacks 32 minutes 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 26 minutes 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.

          • jasonlotito 20 minutes 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?

  • deadbabe 7 minutes ago
    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.
  • ChrisArchitect 1 hour ago
  • etchalon 1 hour ago
    This is what right-wing Twitter brain gets you.
    • forestrywat 1 hour ago
      That's just "Twitter brain" at this point, right? Hard to imagine anyone leftish still being there.
  • dools 1 hour 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 1 hour ago
      "admin" is what we call a regime that works properly. This one doesn't, so it's a "regime".
  • blints 6 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.