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"MAGA" voted in the manchurian candidate. Dismantling oversight, accountability, throwing out old alliances and siding with the global aggressors. The US government is rapidly turning into a kleptocracy.

Speaking of which, https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/climate/trump-logging-nationa... because, of course.

Highly likely that Trump's bumbling of COVID resulted in Biden's election. In NYC there were refrigerated tractor trailers parked outside of hospitals for the overflow dead. I'm sure it was just as bad in other parts of the country during those months. Curious how quickly people forget, and I'm sure we'll have to relearn these lessons yet again.

He's an autocrat acting on delusions of empire building. That is the root of Russia invading Ukraine. All the other excuses are ancillary or nonsense (Nazis etc)

What percentage of the world's countries will still respect the US's extradition treaties in 4 years?

Until someone gets mineral rights to your wilderness and goes to strip mine away

And it'll call you out for the silence on the line...

March 2020 almost became that.

the "throwing in the towel" that you see out of the market is some of the bigger earlier players agreeing to get essentially acquihired back into Big Tech. Biggest one that comes to mind: Inflection AI.

endowment per student for the top universities runs mid-7 figures for places like Princeton (3.75M), Yale (2.7M), MIT (2.1M) etc. The endowment per student for UPitt in 2023: 172k, which really doesn't give it a lot of wiggleroom to spend while maintaining the purchasing power of the gift endowments over time.

RIP US-based Academia INC In the immediate term, obviously the center of academic research moves to Europe/Asia, but the longer term damage is irreparable. Where is the 0-1 basic research that fundamentally moves the ball forward going to come from? Clearly not the US anymore.