Habits of Insects

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• Ethalis@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sure, that’s great but it’s not even the point. Fundamental research and other type of “useless” scientific endeavors help humanity as a whole to better understand our universe but would never be privately funded because they don’t have any concrete and immediate financial benefits. This is precisely what a government should finance, because no one else would do it and yet it’s small stuff like that that make us collectively move forward as a species

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  • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Musk fans don’t want humanity to advance. They hate technological progress.

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    • SARGE@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      For OTHERS, yes. But many want the cutting edge for themselves, at no cost to themselves.

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    • algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Where did Musk come from? I don’t see any mention of it here

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  • bronzle@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh, they’ll probably publicly fund it for private profit

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    help humanity as a whole

    And here you’ve identified why they hate it. They cannot stand the idea that resources might benefit other people, resources that they could hoard instead.

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• rational_lib@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The world just keeps getting more and more efficient at being dumb. Let’s just count all the appallingly stupid things crammed into this small meme with 2 million views:

  1. "Insurrection Barbie"
  2. Celebrating the defunding of useful scientific research by a new government efficiency agency
  3. This new agency is named after a cryptocurrency
  4. The cryptocurrency in question was created as a joke to satirize cryptocurrencies, but became a top prominent cryptocurrency itself.
  5. The “Department of Government Efficiency Agency” has 2 heads, both of whom have other primary jobs and were chosen in return for political support.
  6. There is also already an existing government agency that does the exact same thing, called the “Government Accountability Office”. But most people seem to be unaware of it, likely because it’s not named after a cryptocurrency/dog meme.
  7. This whole scheme was the idea of the richest person in the world.

  Idiocracy didn’t happen because of unnatural selection, it happened because social media unlocked a runaway chain reaction of stupidity.

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  • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why are people saying that it was named after a cryptocurrency?

    Isnt the dog the first thing people think of when seeing “doge”?

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    • zeca@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Its reasonable to make the connection to the coin, as this particular cryptocurrency was propagandized and manipulated by musk, who will be running the agency.

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      True! It was then technically named after a meme…which the coin named itself after, as it was supposed to be a “meme coin”.

      Still stands though.

      “Government agency named after meme. Such dumb. So chaos. Woooooow.” Lol

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    • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Isnt the dog the first thing people think of when seeing “doge”?

      It used to be so, but in recent several years Doge has lived and pretty much been defined in public consciousness by the cryptocurrency, which Musk has openly endorsed/memed.

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    • TassieTosser@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Is it better to be named after a stupid meme instead?

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    • sleeperdouge@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It was for me until a few years ago. I used doge as a base for most of my internet alias since I like the meme (as you can see from my username). One time inside a game, I was asked if I was a crypto bro because of my ign. At the time, i don’t like crypto but have no hard feelings against it. Ever since then I loath those crypto bros and their worship of crypto currencies for destroying the image of doge and with their stupid crypto currency nonsense.

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• GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In addition, government research in the sciences is miniscule. You could cut ALL of science funding and be no where close to the 1 trillion that Musk claims he’ll be able to reduce the budget by

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  • TheDoctor@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Now if he could start making cuts to the military…

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How dare you threaten the poor defense contractors.

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  • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Regardless, he’ll claim he cut 500 bajillion dollars no matter what he ends up doing

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    • BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      My bet is that if he expects to cut 2 trillion, he will end up increasing the budget by 4 trillion.

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  • callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    He actually claimed 2 trillion.

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    • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I knew Elongated Muskrat was a dumbass but I didn’t know he also can’t do math.

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  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The goal’s more about cutting all the science funding than reducing spending. These are people who bitch about Ukraine when they don’t even plan on spending that money on something else they’re just guzzling Russian propaganda.

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• cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Say it with me:

  No. Research. Is. Useless.

  If we say that research is useless because it doesn’t bring you mo ey we could stop teaching children math beyond the absolute basics because “it doesn’t brinf them anything”. This is stupid, because those are the fundamentals that tech children to thing logically and become useful member of society. Same with research. It teaches us the things necessary to maybe invent some of the most useful stuff ever seen

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  • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Republicans: “No. Research is useless.”

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    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s a good one, but sadly true.

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  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Republicans want drones and cannon fodder, not scientists and intellectuals.

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You say that but I’ve heard concerningly many people say that there is no point in teaching everyone stuff like basic math because chances are they won’t use it

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    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I also hear that argument often and I absolutely hate it. They always say “tech them things like insert manual labor work. Nobody needs Math.”

      It always depends. A lot of people will likely never use a saw outside of school. Especially in a time where a lot of people go to university the skills that complex math teaches you are basically the bare necessitys. Also school usually is teaches you the basic broad knowledge and skills required to get more specific education on a specific topic. This includes studying all different subjects and also getting training as a woodworker. It is literally impossible to focus on everything and that also isn’t really the use of school. Its just the first and universal form of education.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      India just removed pythagorean theorem from their educational curriculum for the very reason you mentioned.

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  • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I agree no research is useless but some just goes straight into the bonkers folder.

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    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, but just because a scientist calculated what would happen if we replaced the earth with blueberrys doesn’t mean we should defund him.

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And so the US lost decade becomes the medieval dark ages

  It’d be fascinating as an outsider if the choices made by the US didn’t basically impact everything, everywhere.

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  • Nariom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I thought we were done with the “medieval dark age” myth.

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    • Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How’s Neo-Feudal Gilded Age strike you?

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• skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “preventing next corn plague” with resources used being a box of soil and bunch of underpaid grads seems pretty efficient to me, but i guess that since the common clay of the new west already voted they can be safely disposed of

  at USDA, they’re turning beetles kinky! 😡

  • alex jones fuming aimlessly while being stored in some container

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The Onion buying Infowars is the only good news I’ve heard this week.

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  • BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The common clay of the new west

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Fun fact, Gene Wilder ad-libbed “you know, morons”, so Cleavon Little’s reaction to it is genuine. It’s such a delightful scene.

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• pH3ra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  China is going to devour the scientific world of we keep it like this

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  • djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Won’t happen, or at least won’t be useful if it does. Lotta Chinese authors are faking data for the sake of the CCP and their studies don’t replicate. If that takes over, it’ll be like a global Dark Age.

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  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Going to continue devouring the scientific world with lots of smart Westerns leaving the new SlaveTastic^tm^ USA

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    • Zementid@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Republicans deserve no progress. Let them fall back into the ages they desire. No Smartphones. That’s which science.

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  • ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hell yeah

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    • pH3ra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A scientific monopoly is a bad thing regardless who you cheer for

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• mac@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The appointment of Elon Musk to lead the proposed department of government efficiency raises concerns, given his track record of business management.

  His handling of Twitter/X after its $44 billion acquisition has resulted in a significant decline in its value, with some sources putting the valuation around $9bn.

  Doesn’t seem very efficient to me.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not just significant, I’m pretty sure the loss in value is some sort of a record, for real.

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• Sylvartas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Neolib idiots don’t see the (immense) value of fundamental research because it doesn’t directly generate profits, more at 11

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  • ReCursing@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’re not neolibs, they’re fascists. The Democrats are neolibs

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  • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Which is stupid, because even video games make you research sticks before you can make nuclear reactors. Guess even entertainment can’t teach dumb shits anything. Just retaining nothing.

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    • Famko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They’ve never seen a game complicated enough to have research tbf.

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  • djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It directly generates profits, they’re just too stupid to understand how.

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    • Sylvartas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah but sometimes it might not because that is not the main goal ! Useless, I tell you !

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• Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Like the dead don’t realize they’re dead, they don’t realize they’re stupid. They’re just everyone else’s problem.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Image

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We’ve built a society with full guard rails. There’s very little a stupid person can do to remove themselves from the gene pool before they procreate. Being stupid seems to actually increase the odds that they’ll procreate early, and often.

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  • troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They were when they were alive, too

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• Facebones@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Welcome to the new Dark Ages, brought to you by religious fascists.

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  • pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Elon isn’t even religious. Like always religion is just a fucking disguise for enriching themselves, both with money and power.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Neither is trump, or any of these other people.

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  • django@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Stupidly funny, right? Like watching a movie, where something dumb is about to happen. You are watching and screaming in agony, pleading for the characters on the screen not to do the dumb thing. But you watch in horror, as all your words are without any effect, you can’t reach anyone.

    But now with the added bonus, that the dumb thing might affect your life. Or that of your loved ones, neighbours, friends.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Living in Australia, with China just to the north as our largest trade partner, I’m not looking forward to what is going to happen with America’s allies in relation to China

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    again

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  • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m thinking this too… let’s hope Renaissance mk2 only takes a few years to blossom - but my confidence is not high.

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• 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hell can we mention that the cold war era these fucks idolize was also the golden age of the government throwing money at side projects?

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• PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Welcome to a new era of weaponized ignorance

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  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Galileo wept

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• Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  the 2010s science bazinga man being the reason all the cool science gets cut is darkly sad. hate this man.

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• mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, we’ve been studying the sex lives of various different animals (including ourselves!) for centuries now, yet nobody bat an eye until now. 🙄

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• Lussy@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fuck dude, I’m about to get an awesome job with the usda after being unemployed for over 2 years, and time is literally running out for me to get my contract finalized before these ghouls fuck everything.

  A kind fuck you to every hexbearite ironically cheering on the destruction of the civilian government workforce.

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  • coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    time’s literally running out for insects too

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• masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s also helped develop advances in flight, metamaterials, physics.

  But Barbie makes a good point with a meme about how she treats her cuck husband.

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• ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Roasts are equally lost on them, these people only understand bullyinghow-compelling

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• wax_worm_futures@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes! I was just reading a few scientific articles about the mating patterns of darkling beetles. (not a gov’t employee tho)

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Goddamn, it really is impossible!
  How the fuck am I gonna filter US politics out of my feed when it creeps in through Science Memes?

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• TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Like they said after Brexit…”tired of experts”.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Haha, I’m insurrection barbie, get it? Because the libs think when Donald Trump lets a massive mob of his supporters to the Capitol to disrupt the election certification process it was an insurrection!”

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• JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m too stupid to understand. How does this all connect?!

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