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Federal Shutdown Means More Grants Won't Be Reviewed This Cycle
Federal Shutdown Means More NIH Grants Won't Be Reviewed this cycle, more lost time, more research coming to a halt, more scientists leaving to other nations. This is what a failing superpower looks like.
- softwaredoug 1y agoThe Dem argument would be that NIH Grants are not particularly reliable under a funded Trump administration, as the administration seems to ignore the will of Congress on a whim, cancel grants, etc with little legal recourse. (Or worse, grants are doled out to cronies)
- SubiculumCode 1y agoSeriously thinking about looking for a position in Europe, as funding my research has gotten terribly uncertain (even more uncertain the it usually is) in the U.S.
- kiwih 1y agoI left US academia for Australia in 2023 and have never been happier - I'd be happy to talk to you about the changes I encountered if you'd like!
- nine_zeros 1y agoIf anyone thought China's gain in the last 20 years was rapid, they have no clue what it would look like by 2028 - thanks to a self-inflicted damage by Republicans.
- Dig1t 1y agoShri Thanedar, a Democrat senator, said outright that Democrats are intentionally causing this shutdown. https://x.com/ShriThanedar/status/1973393877122818079 https://x.com/ShriThanedar/status/1973393877122818079 Using taxpayer money to pay for healthcare for illegal immigrants is also a self-destructive act. China isn’t funding healthcare for illegal immigrants either, for good reason.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 1y agoWhy is the democrats fault and not the fault of the republicans who voted against the budget? They could have prevented the shutdown all by themselves.
- softwaredoug 1y ago> Using taxpayer money to pay for healthcare for illegal immigrants is also a self-destructive act. Illegal immigrants are ineligible for the ACA subsidies that the Dems are fighting to keep.
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- farseer 1y agoWell it is run by one tyrannical party if not a single tyrant. Maybe that is the model we are all going towards.
- nine_zeros 1y agoDid you just describe communism? Republicans are the biggest communists in America.
- dang 1y agoCould you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? You broke the site guidelines badly here, and we've had to warn you about this more than once in the past. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
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- muzani 1y agoChina has actually slowed down drastically over the past few years. They shot to middle class and are now facing middle class problems - unemployment, overpriced housing, low fertility rates, insane traffic, social welfare, etc. The trade war since 2018 does impact their livelihood. But I think most impressions of China are just well outdated; they've been ahead of the curve for years now. Funny enough, a Google search on how China is doing will pop up what Americans think of China, despite me being geographically closer to China than USA. If anything, there will probably be a lot of social reforms in the next 50 years or so because the political censorship is starting to crack. They'll need to loosen it to have control, ironically. We'll probably see it evolve to something similar to Western style surveillance and censorship, e.g. FBI kind of stuff.
- nine_zeros 1y agoLots of problems in China. But if I were a betting person, I would bet they'll fix their problems far better than America because of 3 reasons 1. They care about citizens more than billionaires 2. They are not obsessed with partisan and religious takeover 3. They don't have a narcissistic tyrant driving the country down. This can all change if they get their own narcissistic tyrant someday - and they have a poorer political system to deal with tyrants. But that's only in comparison to historical America. Trumpistan America might be comparable in political weakness to communist China.
- jf22 1y agoA few years ago a I read an interesting quote by a Chinese official and how confident they are they'll surpass the US. It was something like, "the US spent trillions on wars in the middle east, we spent trillions investing in our country"
- nine_zeros 1y ago> It was something like, "the US spent trillions on wars in the middle east, we spent trillions investing in our country" This is no longer true - because the US now spends trillions on internal domestic wars to run a mass prison system - all while China keeps investing in development of the country.
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoDoes is also mean less links will be submitted? /s
- firefax 1y agoI encouraged folks with strong English skills to apply to Canadian and UK unis in 2016 and got called hysterical and an extremist. There's a big sunk cost in learning a language, but Canada and the UK have some fine unis. (No offense to Edinburgh but you're no Oxbridge yet -- I'd bet that Scotland declares independence and joins back with the EU at some point, the main reason independence failed last vote is a lot of the things they wanted they got via being in the EU.)