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Some of that blame should be pointed at those that proliferated frivolous and ridiculous research proposals.
by heyjamesknight 3y ago
Some of that blame should be pointed at those that proliferated frivolous and ridiculous research proposals.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Some of that blame should be pointed at those that proliferated frivolous and ridiculous research proposals There are fewer of these than you'd think. Modeling wobbling plates is easier mocked than done, for example.
- heyjamesknight 3y agoThere aren't. There are entire fields of this stuff. Taxpayers shouldn't be funding studies into the weaving techniques used by pre-Columbian natives in the upper Mississippi basin.
- jacobolus 3y agoNo, the research was fine. For example, a friend of my family spent a large part of his career writing an extensive bilingual dictionary for an indigenous language in Southern Mexico. He won a "golden fleece" award from asshole Senator Proxmire of Wisconsin, who thought dictionaries for languages with only a few hundred thousand speakers was a waste of government research grant money.
- heyjamesknight 3y agoIs this satire? Creating a bilingual dictionary for an indigenous language spoken by a few thousand people who aren't even in the country funding that research is the definition of "a waste of government research grant money."
- jacobolus 3y agoIs this satire? Leaving aside your sloppy reading, this is one of the the most exaggerated examples of a stereotypical "technical person utterly bereft of human perspective" takes I have ever seen on this website. Which is really saying something, because there are a lot of blinkered people here. I feel profound sadness and pity for anyone with such an impoverished worldview. I hope someday you can experience some literature, art, nature, or human connection that can pierce though it and help you reconnect with your innate capacities for empathy and wonder.
- heyjamesknight 3y agoWhat a ridiculous ad hominem response. Not wanting to use taxpayer money to fund your friend’s whimsical intellectual odyssey is not the same as lacking empathy and wonder. Keep your pity—you sound like you could use a fair dose of empathy yourself.
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