Every day it just gets worse and worse…I’m starting to worry that we’ll never recover from this.
IapetusApoapis342 on
every day i wake up and take the fact that i don’t live in the US for granted
i’m sorry for whatever the fuck is going on over there
AbeFromanEast on
TLDR: A new Federal rule would make scientific funding contingent on passing a political test. Put another way, „*how would this grant benefit MAGA?*“
Transcendence_MWO on
What a quack. Go read the actual rule change, not this guy’s extremely narrow minded ‚old man yells at cloud‘ post. If scientists are pursuing actual hard science, there is literally 0 impact to funding. The actual CFR post gives plenty of examples of blatently wasteful, harmful, misused funding distributed over the the last 5+ years. As an ACTUAL taxpayer (read – I literally don’t care what any Europeans in this thread think think about this, they don’t have a stake in it), I’m happy to see some sanity injected into the CFR.
yety175 on
you guys will cry about anything
starhoppers on
We will recover….everything in life is temporary, except death.
IHzero on
Oh, yes it’s destroying science to try and prevent people from running virus weaponization labs is foreign countries, kick back literal gold bricks to politicians foundations and NGOs to launder with six figure salaries to politicians or their family members, or using grants to fund NGOs like SPLC that literally paid the KKK to recruit and demonstrate so Democrats could use it as a pretext to ban republicans.
TenthMarigold77 on
From the Article:
„I have been an active planetary scientist for 45 years, funded by federal awards primarily from NASA. I have served on numerous NASA advisory groups and panels, including advising on the grant selection process of a number of NASA programs. I have been a community advocate for federal funding of planetary-related grant programs and have testified before Congress on the subject.
I have been a community leader, chairing the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Association. For more than 20 years, I was CEO of the Planetary Science Institute, during which I built it into one of the largest private employers of planetary scientists in the world.
I retired from that position a little more than a year ago. As a “soft-money” institution, PSI depends upon being successful in the competitive acquisition of grant and contract awards. In that position I became quite familiar with the Uniform Guidance (2CFR200) and its antecedent regulations. I am consequently alarmed by the OMB proposal “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance” and feel that it should be withdrawn or otherwise rejected in its entirety.
**This proposal reflects anti-American and anti-science (equivalent to anti-God) values, it reduces the return on investment in federally funded science to the American taxpayer, it encourages corruption, it decreases transparency to the public, it cripples important international collaborations, and it is fundamentally uninformed and poorly crafted.**
The consequences to organizations like PSI and American science in general will be devastating. Even if a new Administration comes in two years from now and reverses everything, the damage will continue to be felt for years to come, and perhaps be irreversible.“ – Mark V. Sykes, Ph.D., J.D.
dCLCp on
I know no matter what happens America will spend the rest of history repairing the damage Trump’s corruption and selfishness have wrought. It will never be over. It’s like cancer or venereal disease. The damage isn’t over, but it has been done.
I know all this and all I want is for the people who caused it… the MAGA, but also the people that don’t vote, I want to see them struggling and suffering too. And I do. Like the rain, at least Trumps incompetence and greed fall on everyone equally. Even his „friends“ and allies struggle every day under the weight of his ginormous stupidity.
Toshiba1point0 on
To be fair, we have been making such incredible strides forward in the past 100 years from medicine, technology, biology, astrophysics, computing etc that slowing down with god based interference is our only option if we have any hope to keep from evolving.
Positive_Cod8807 on
Politicizing or dismantling foundational scientific institutions is a recipe for long-term decline, @EdwardHeisler. While critiques of bureaucratic inertia are valid, actually tearing down the system only benefits global adversaries who play the long game. True progress needs structural optimization, not self-sabotage.
Digital_Pharmacist on
*“Let’s destroy America”
-Fixed
metalsnake27 on
And then they wonder why all of our scientists and researchers are leaving for China.
Rattus_NorvegicUwUs on
The only way forwards, to safely move forwards, free from a potential return of these anti-science forces is clear:
The Heritage Foundation must be destroyed.
It needs to be reduced to ashes as a warning to the next extremists who aim to cripple the future of this nation for their own schemes. The damage they are doing is the stuff of fantasy from our most wretched enemies.
The punishment must match the crime.
time_drifter on
Science isn’t political, it just doesn’t align with stupid and therefore must be politicized by MAGA.
MAGA is a waste of human life.
Gerry1of1 on
[Edited for bad typing]
Rapepublicans hate science. They’re anti evolution, anti-vax. Bush banned cloning research, limited stem cell research. Republicans cancelled construction of a HUGE particle accelerator.
Europe and Asia have the lead in science now. USA is #1 in pedos, school shootings, and hate-crimes.
Outrageous-Point-498 on
And you are the same people that love Elon and SpaceX so much lmao
CaptainSkarn on
Thank god those leftists taught Kamala a lesson in 2024!
buffaloburley on
If you voted for this, you are a traitor
Lonestar-Boogie on
Also current science:
Men can get pregnant
Can’t define what a woman is
Get the Covid shot and you won’t get sick and you won’t give it to anyone else
The Earth only has 20 years to stop global warming before we all die (that was 40 years ago)
Outdoor church service during Covid, absolutely not! BLM riots during Covid, yes go ahead!
Science is cool. A lot of today’s scientists? Not so much
ThisIsntOkayokay on
This is a regime attack on the country.
PhantomTollbooth_ on
*“A brief summary of the reason or reasons for finding that termination is in the interest of the Federal agency or pass-through entity. The reason or reasons may apply to an individual award or class of awards. The Federal agency or pass-through entity is not required to provide a detailed or exhaustive analysis.”*
Well that’s fucking alarming.
jedrider on
SpaceX destroying it’s very foundation, through Elon Musk.
SuspendedHalo on
I think it encourages corruption is the worst part. Part of me thinks that federal funding shouldnt be just be a blank slate to do „whatever“, but at the same time more oversight is always a problem with who is in charge. It doesn’t matter who is in charge at the current moment, the next person can be way worse regardless of political leanings.
GoslingIchi on
Quoting Bible verses will make America great again like nothing else can!
F-Cloud on
If this rule gets approved it will be the death of scientific progress in the United States. Ignorance, bias, politics, and business agendas would become the deciding factor for research funding. Does anyone think the current crop of political appointees possess the curiosity, knowledge, foresight, and benevolent intentions that should temper such decisions?
Such a rule would discourage younger generations from pursuing education and careers in science. If acquiring federal funding for research becomes impossible, what would be the point? Entire subjects of research could become impossible to fund. Imagine what would happen to climate science under the current regime, or studies into the effects of pollution, or sociological research.
Conservative leaders are admitting defeat in order to enrich themselves. They’ll abandon ship to another country as soon as things get too ugly. The US still has a lot of future potential, so don’t vote for losers.
Let them know what us citizens feel about this rule change. It’s not much but let them know how terrible this shit is.
Misty-Canyon-7204 on
that title is pretty jarring. are you talking about restructuring how federal grants are distributed, or is this about changing the academic system? genuinely curious what the alternative looks like.
chezdistester on
Of course, their goal is to make Americans stupid, poor, and angry so we’re easier to divide and subjugate.
Postulative on
China is comfortable with this.
thoughtbludgeon on
Please don’t ruin this sub with trump garbage.
manofredearth on
I want to see progressives *give no fucks* about excluding conservatives from every facet of public life going forward. They are quite literally a cancer and must be eliminated as a safety measure for others when they seek to advance themselves at the cost of *our* existence.
SignalDifficult5061 on
Those shit-pigs at the Heritage Foundation are just loving ruining as much of the world as they can get away with touching without consent. I don’t even know how they dare say the name „Jesus“, but the name shouldn’t be in their horrible hungry grasping mouths. They absolutely know it.
Has there ever been a more horrible parasitic clique (in the juvenile High School sense) that was worse for the parent civilization than the Heritage Foundation? Perhaps, but it would be a hard fought war of words to put someone else in first place.
They just want to destroy anything that they are too stupid and intellectually lazy to understand, because they are horrible people.
It is basically the worst instincts of HOAs and MLMs running this country, and I’m not buying any bullshit about it being religion, and neither should you.
Trump is horrible child raping sex trafficker that launders money for the Russian mob by bankrupting casinos, but just outright banal evil organizations like the Heritage Foundation are enabling it.
We’d be better off with enemies from the James Bond books and movies running the place than those stupid gross fucks at the Heritage Foundation, and that is a fact.
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Every day it just gets worse and worse…I’m starting to worry that we’ll never recover from this.
every day i wake up and take the fact that i don’t live in the US for granted
i’m sorry for whatever the fuck is going on over there
TLDR: A new Federal rule would make scientific funding contingent on passing a political test. Put another way, „*how would this grant benefit MAGA?*“
What a quack. Go read the actual rule change, not this guy’s extremely narrow minded ‚old man yells at cloud‘ post. If scientists are pursuing actual hard science, there is literally 0 impact to funding. The actual CFR post gives plenty of examples of blatently wasteful, harmful, misused funding distributed over the the last 5+ years. As an ACTUAL taxpayer (read – I literally don’t care what any Europeans in this thread think think about this, they don’t have a stake in it), I’m happy to see some sanity injected into the CFR.
you guys will cry about anything
We will recover….everything in life is temporary, except death.
Oh, yes it’s destroying science to try and prevent people from running virus weaponization labs is foreign countries, kick back literal gold bricks to politicians foundations and NGOs to launder with six figure salaries to politicians or their family members, or using grants to fund NGOs like SPLC that literally paid the KKK to recruit and demonstrate so Democrats could use it as a pretext to ban republicans.
From the Article:
„I have been an active planetary scientist for 45 years, funded by federal awards primarily from NASA. I have served on numerous NASA advisory groups and panels, including advising on the grant selection process of a number of NASA programs. I have been a community advocate for federal funding of planetary-related grant programs and have testified before Congress on the subject.
I have been a community leader, chairing the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Association. For more than 20 years, I was CEO of the Planetary Science Institute, during which I built it into one of the largest private employers of planetary scientists in the world.
I retired from that position a little more than a year ago. As a “soft-money” institution, PSI depends upon being successful in the competitive acquisition of grant and contract awards. In that position I became quite familiar with the Uniform Guidance (2CFR200) and its antecedent regulations. I am consequently alarmed by the OMB proposal “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance” and feel that it should be withdrawn or otherwise rejected in its entirety.
**This proposal reflects anti-American and anti-science (equivalent to anti-God) values, it reduces the return on investment in federally funded science to the American taxpayer, it encourages corruption, it decreases transparency to the public, it cripples important international collaborations, and it is fundamentally uninformed and poorly crafted.**
The consequences to organizations like PSI and American science in general will be devastating. Even if a new Administration comes in two years from now and reverses everything, the damage will continue to be felt for years to come, and perhaps be irreversible.“ – Mark V. Sykes, Ph.D., J.D.
I know no matter what happens America will spend the rest of history repairing the damage Trump’s corruption and selfishness have wrought. It will never be over. It’s like cancer or venereal disease. The damage isn’t over, but it has been done.
I know all this and all I want is for the people who caused it… the MAGA, but also the people that don’t vote, I want to see them struggling and suffering too. And I do. Like the rain, at least Trumps incompetence and greed fall on everyone equally. Even his „friends“ and allies struggle every day under the weight of his ginormous stupidity.
To be fair, we have been making such incredible strides forward in the past 100 years from medicine, technology, biology, astrophysics, computing etc that slowing down with god based interference is our only option if we have any hope to keep from evolving.
Politicizing or dismantling foundational scientific institutions is a recipe for long-term decline, @EdwardHeisler. While critiques of bureaucratic inertia are valid, actually tearing down the system only benefits global adversaries who play the long game. True progress needs structural optimization, not self-sabotage.
*“Let’s destroy America”
-Fixed
And then they wonder why all of our scientists and researchers are leaving for China.
The only way forwards, to safely move forwards, free from a potential return of these anti-science forces is clear:
The Heritage Foundation must be destroyed.
It needs to be reduced to ashes as a warning to the next extremists who aim to cripple the future of this nation for their own schemes. The damage they are doing is the stuff of fantasy from our most wretched enemies.
The punishment must match the crime.
Science isn’t political, it just doesn’t align with stupid and therefore must be politicized by MAGA.
MAGA is a waste of human life.
[Edited for bad typing]
Rapepublicans hate science. They’re anti evolution, anti-vax. Bush banned cloning research, limited stem cell research. Republicans cancelled construction of a HUGE particle accelerator.
Europe and Asia have the lead in science now. USA is #1 in pedos, school shootings, and hate-crimes.
And you are the same people that love Elon and SpaceX so much lmao
Thank god those leftists taught Kamala a lesson in 2024!
If you voted for this, you are a traitor
Also current science:
Men can get pregnant
Can’t define what a woman is
Get the Covid shot and you won’t get sick and you won’t give it to anyone else
The Earth only has 20 years to stop global warming before we all die (that was 40 years ago)
Outdoor church service during Covid, absolutely not! BLM riots during Covid, yes go ahead!
Science is cool. A lot of today’s scientists? Not so much
This is a regime attack on the country.
*“A brief summary of the reason or reasons for finding that termination is in the interest of the Federal agency or pass-through entity. The reason or reasons may apply to an individual award or class of awards. The Federal agency or pass-through entity is not required to provide a detailed or exhaustive analysis.”*
Well that’s fucking alarming.
SpaceX destroying it’s very foundation, through Elon Musk.
I think it encourages corruption is the worst part. Part of me thinks that federal funding shouldnt be just be a blank slate to do „whatever“, but at the same time more oversight is always a problem with who is in charge. It doesn’t matter who is in charge at the current moment, the next person can be way worse regardless of political leanings.
Quoting Bible verses will make America great again like nothing else can!
If this rule gets approved it will be the death of scientific progress in the United States. Ignorance, bias, politics, and business agendas would become the deciding factor for research funding. Does anyone think the current crop of political appointees possess the curiosity, knowledge, foresight, and benevolent intentions that should temper such decisions?
Such a rule would discourage younger generations from pursuing education and careers in science. If acquiring federal funding for research becomes impossible, what would be the point? Entire subjects of research could become impossible to fund. Imagine what would happen to climate science under the current regime, or studies into the effects of pollution, or sociological research.
This proposal is still open for [public comment](https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/OMB-2026-0034-0001). I encourage you to make your voice heard.
Conservative leaders are admitting defeat in order to enrich themselves. They’ll abandon ship to another country as soon as things get too ugly. The US still has a lot of future potential, so don’t vote for losers.
You can leave a public comment here:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/29/2026-10817/regulation-for-federal-financial-assistance
Let them know what us citizens feel about this rule change. It’s not much but let them know how terrible this shit is.
that title is pretty jarring. are you talking about restructuring how federal grants are distributed, or is this about changing the academic system? genuinely curious what the alternative looks like.
Of course, their goal is to make Americans stupid, poor, and angry so we’re easier to divide and subjugate.
China is comfortable with this.
Please don’t ruin this sub with trump garbage.
I want to see progressives *give no fucks* about excluding conservatives from every facet of public life going forward. They are quite literally a cancer and must be eliminated as a safety measure for others when they seek to advance themselves at the cost of *our* existence.
Those shit-pigs at the Heritage Foundation are just loving ruining as much of the world as they can get away with touching without consent. I don’t even know how they dare say the name „Jesus“, but the name shouldn’t be in their horrible hungry grasping mouths. They absolutely know it.
Has there ever been a more horrible parasitic clique (in the juvenile High School sense) that was worse for the parent civilization than the Heritage Foundation? Perhaps, but it would be a hard fought war of words to put someone else in first place.
They just want to destroy anything that they are too stupid and intellectually lazy to understand, because they are horrible people.
It is basically the worst instincts of HOAs and MLMs running this country, and I’m not buying any bullshit about it being religion, and neither should you.
Trump is horrible child raping sex trafficker that launders money for the Russian mob by bankrupting casinos, but just outright banal evil organizations like the Heritage Foundation are enabling it.
We’d be better off with enemies from the James Bond books and movies running the place than those stupid gross fucks at the Heritage Foundation, and that is a fact.