GLenH

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   by GLenH 9y ago

   My wife (who teaches at a university, not to be named here) once had flesh-eating beetles FedEx'ed to her lab in order to clean skeletons for student use. Unfortunately the box had a hole punched in it sometime during transport, and th
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   by GLenH 9y ago

   Government: money expires after two years. Which means that if you come in under budget, you have to find something else to spend the money on - which is sometimes needed infrastructure, like upgraded computers, but is more often whatever h
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   by GLenH 10y ago

   In the US we spend about half of our national budget on social programs, including Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, grants to build affordable housing, public education grants, the Veterans Administration (which mostly covers health car