Yes. Yes, I can. That is in fact exactly how the federal government works. Politicians are rewarded by rich people to make them even richer. Then politicians themselves become rich. Then they reward themselves and the richer rich people even more.
This means absolutely nothing to most people it’s blah blah -as if it’s proof of something he’s such an asshole! And yet the cult will repost and say “see!”
The inevitable consequence of ignorance & hubris & giving power to a toddler...aka, techbros
"Look at me!!"
Yes, child - you've did a cost cutting. But since you are blissfully unaware of what you're doing you've now kneecapped research that would cure your mummy's cancer 🤷
They live in a vacuum🙄
I feel fortunate to have come across your posts, Oeishik! I appreciate your concise and clear explanations. Well reasoned, informed and no useless BS.
I recommend Oeishik highly!!
Since they won’t be able to include these kinds of indirect costs, universities will just have to build a new lab and kit it out with completely new equipment for every grant. That’s efficiency!
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That is a hefty indirect rate but NIH capped it so…does anyone know what indirect rate Musk charges on the government contracts his businesses receive?
I keep wanting to use pronouns.
The little shit doesn’t even know how universities, medical research facilities work w the expensive research in each Dept.
They have to be funded bc it’s difficult to get endowments every year for each Dept. Hes never contributed to research for anything has he?
The irony of Musk not understanding overhead after refusing to pay rent and bills for his shitty factories and wages and benefits for his staff tells you everything you need to know about his "genius"
The indirect rate is usually far less than 59%(the rate for demonstration projects by the way). Also, lab space and other overhead is not cheap. Musk is a moron.
I have written many grants. I was the project director of a demonstration project with a 59% indirect rate. The reality is that didn't come close to covering the expenses. The match from the university was enormous, the return on investment for the taxpayers has been phenomenal. Even Musk benefitted
Tesla's P/E is about 4 times higher than any company has any right to be. It's all cultish hype, lavishing unearned billions on this asshole, and he begrudges universities that spend money on lab facilities to cure cancer.
How many millions would be shocked to learn that ‘overhead’ includes the salaries of staff? Do people not know their own salary is considered ‘overhead’?
WTF
Can you believe an electric car company with billions of dollars in revenue was siphoning money from the US government in the form of corporate welfare?
It is impossible to do the cancer research I do without water, electricity, lab space, equipment, janitorial, maintenance, accounting staff, etc . That is what overhead is for. You would think any one who has run a business would know this.
I'm convinced that billionaires actually have atrophied the part of their brain that had business sense and the average civilian is more business savvy than them.
Okay we'll you gotta stop giving him credit for "running" businesses. He's never run one. He's just bought them. He has COOs and others who "run" things.
Same with the orange one.
Don't forget spending hours of each day posting bullshit on Twitter and pretending to be in the top 1% of players of games that are deliberately designed to be timesinks
I heard from somewhere reliable (though I forget where) that when he visits the offices of the various companies that he “runs” that they have to come up with decoy projects for him to work on so he doesn’t mess up the actual work they are doing 🤦🏻♀️
My dad, himself a successful entrepreneur and was the reason I lived as comfortable a life as I have, called him “a really good entrepreneur” last night. I spent the rest of the evening depressed.
Yeah but a lot of that is pointless fluff like fume hoods (is it so hard to hold your breath?), biohazardous waste disposal (that’s what compost bins are for), ppe (why are we paying to keep you from messing up your own eyes?), all kinds of pork barrel spending
He does know. They are trying to cause chaos and destabilise the country so they can establish mini kingdoms. Look at the ideology of Peter Thiel. It's about that. He 100 percent knows. It is destruction on purpose. They are explicitly going after the public service and the academy. #ElonMusk
Oh Sarah, hello
I am truly happy to see I share the name with a clearly much more educated and beautiful woman. Thank you for giving me a point to research.
Right? That overhead is the exact reason so many of us who were working federal jobs that could be done just as well (often better) from home resisted returning to office in 2020. They are cutting overhead that *is* required, while mandating overhead for jobs that don't need it.
Elon doesn't understand overhead because his employees just bring their wives and kids and camp out in whatever government building Elon is squatting in at the time.
He is making a point here that is open to debate. Universities such as Harvard DO have huge endowments. Why can’t they fund their own research? It’s BS that their endowments just sit and grow. If only Congress would pass a regulation…
Please post some data of financial from nih to counter this.. he’s throwing this shit out there but we need the correct information to be blasted..Molly you have the megaphones to squash this
This two-man administration thinks just shutting everything down will fix everything.
They are not about improving anything.
Just shut down.
Imbeciles 🤦🏼♀️
Does he know what overhead is? Who does he think is going to run the research project, pay for the equipment essential for the project to run? Overhead should be factored in to the cost of the grant & shouldn't be capped at a measley 15%. Do they want Walmart greeters running clinical trials?
I can assure you, those of us in Academia aren't doing it for the glamor. We're in it for a love of science, the health of our neighbors, & investing in the training of next generation of scientists. We need running water, electricity, internet, hazwaste disposal, and support staff to do so.
Thanks for posting this. I had a similar discussion with my son when he was grant writing. This is an easy area to spread misinformation & actually takes a bit of time to understand.
Thank you. Most don't get it, but research is overhead intensive. Facilities are expensive and must be maintained to highest standards to perform accurate studies. Only way I see to change the narrative is to shift to direct charge model; all support functions direct charge to project.
He has absolutely no clue about how academic research works. Researchers ae grossly underpaid but stick it out because they love what they are doing to improve things for all of us. Our research buildings are falling down as we work in them. Public universities in particular have a rough go of it.
fElon knows, but does not care. I don't understand how the maga cult, who said the Dems were influenced by billionaires, how awful that was, but still love fElon and #vptrump
This government site lists spending and this page lists $ given to SpaceX (from NASA. Dept of Defense spending for Starlink does not appear). Notice how much the fed gov gives to Universities to do research on behalf of SpaceX. WE PAY FOR THIS.
That is a high indirect rate imo. But 15% is absurdly low. Those indirect costs keep the org running. Like literally power, internet, support staff, etc.
he's running commercials at the super bowl to outline the "waste and fraud" he's found and cut so far.
in a proper world these would be confessions of his crimes to be used against him. Now? Chuds will take these up as gospel and recite them a billion times over.
sure, until you bother to actually look at what the overhead covers, which obviously hasn't been done and 15% seems like an arbitrary percentage he pulled right out of his arse.
Where can I find out what the overhead covers? I’m familiar with typical business OH rates and what it covers. Somewhat familiar with allowable rates for Gov contracts. The 67ish % seems excessive. Especially considering tuition costs!
I no longer have copies of grant proposals I worked on. I can't remember the % we used - a not-for-profit research firm.
I've been out of research for 6yrs.
When the feds cut research funding last time 🍊 was in office, 250 to 350 were let go.
I don't need to. You'd have to ask the Universities as it will be thier job to decide what gets cut and what doesn't, if they want to meet the 15% cap.
Look at University of Michigan. They had a negotiated 56% which means they spent more on indirect costs than they did on actual research.
No, requesting more info so I can read about it. I believe bleeding/leading edge R&D brings with it high capital costs. Facilities for that would be in OH. What else goes into OH?
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I’d have responded “can you believe the world’s richest man has received tens and tens of millions in grants to build his companies that then make him even more money?”
We know he hires smarter people to do work that he pretends he did himself. He cant even play video games, gotta hire people to play in his name so he can cosplay as a gamer. Should we just assume he can't do basic math? Sure, call out lies.
ALSO, lets troll him for being incompetent, he'll hate it
We can’t troll him though unless you’re on his Nazi-infected platform (which I refuse to be) and if we were he would just ban us because he’s such a bitch-ass phony free-speech absolutist snow flake.
LOL! I was permanently suspended from my 1st “Twitter” account before the illegal immigrant bought it but promptly set up a new account with different credentials 😂😂 but bailed on it when the Nazi moved in on it
Elon Musk needs to educate himself on what is entailed in/how much it costs to run a lab, and what is involved in running a research institute. Because he sounds like an ignorant fool to anyone that knows any better.
Question: was it always this way? PhDs (healthcare related) complained frequently to me how much their institutions charged for administrative costs from their grants, but it was a while ago.
I’m not saying that the whole process is not worthy of some kind of reform to cut back on cost. But to just eliminate it altogether without a replacement option, is destroying science.
Thank you for your reply and explanation. Yeah, this appears to be throwing the baby out with the bath water and the tub too. And the money on the NIH grants are not going directly into someone’s pocket, there are results expected.
He’s so fucking ignorant, he has no idea how research grants work, and all the costs that are involved in even just keeping a lab running so that it can perform research. Maybe he should educate himself before he starts spouting off on social media and cutting off funding to essential research
I think he’s speaking to the percentages directly to the right of the funds associated with Harvard, Yale and John Hopkins on the visual. But still, he doesn’t seem to have taken any time to understand the data.
When are we going to stop working within the system? Have we not learned that the DOJ was weak and scared for the entire Biden administration? It’s almost too late now.
He's such an idiot he forgets his own games. He needs to disappear into the void of nothing and stay the hell out of any political decisions. trump is such a disaster it's beyond words
Having done graduate research at Harvard in Engineering I wrote many grant applications some of which got awarded. I really didn't like that half of the money we were awarded went to university overhead and could not be used by our research group to do the work that we won the grant for.
Some push back on this is itself not a bad thing. When I was in grad school back in early 2000s, we knew then that the number of administrators at the university, had grown significantly over several decades, and was thought to be why the price of college grew by 4-5x in short time period.
I know universities are not corporations. And it matters for this change to be sudden. Would be great if the extra money went to the research, but I assume that's not the proposal here and they want to keep it at the government.
I'm beginning to think Musk has never made a budget before. How does he think these research institutions pay for stuff like, oh, say RENT, utilities, laboratory supplies, assistants, travel to conferences, etc., etc.
He’s never had a reason to know nor even care where or how much one spends and it’s not like he gives a rats ass about anyone else. It’s fucking repugnant how excessive it is.
He's lying and he knows it. The goal is to ensure that no child ever questions the hatred & corruption that is MAGA. If there is no more higher education, there are no more questions.
Really pathetic that he’s trying to ‘sell’ this garbage - as if he really believes he needs to convince people that he should be doing this. (‘Yeah i robbed that bank, but banks have no right to hold people’s money..’)
According to some dipshit I encountered in Substack comments, scientists are basically on equal footing with the fossil fuel industry in terms of corrupt motivation to lie about climate. 🫠
How much of the money X brings in goes towards literally keeping the lights on? (He hasn't yet realized he can make his employees code by candlelight.)
I'm sure we'll see some distancing at some point by those who submitted, "There was nothing I could do except go along if I wanted to keep the Republican party alive." 🙄
The Republicans need to take out their trash.
Take a moment to appreciate the bitter irony of
@lizcheney.bsky.social defending the judiciary against the Administration's expansion of Unitary Executive Theory to its logical extreme: rule by fiat.
'Judges aren't allowed to tell the King how to rule'
Can you believe that the richest man in the world takes government subsidies for Tesla, Space-X, etc., and that Tesla paid $0 in taxes last year! What a rip off!
Former nonprofit executive here. The overhead Muck is complaining about are salaries of people who support principal investigators. Majority of budgets are salaries, just like in business (other than work camps and 19th century plantations).
Indirect costs are ‘fixed costs’ - physical space costs, heat electricity maintenance support staff salaries ( not researchers) which are usually 50-60% of overhead. The research specific costs are variable - materials, direct lab staff, etc. Musk is a bad businessman
I can’t help but imagine him at a desk, his knee bouncing, and suddenly he latches onto a word that triggers him. His whole brain must blossom like an open umbrella as he cuts what he sees as a simple free-floating form. He can’t do interconnectedness, it’s too complex. And the room cheers him on.
I just read a book on aging written by a Nobel laureate in chemistry and, to shorten the story, he all but called Leon's ideas about genetics and biology "fucking idiotic." Whatever Apartheid Clyde knows, it's not science.
For a year, universities aggressively attacked anti-Netanyahu protesters. They did nothing of the sort against creationists, global warming deniers/accelerationists, anti-vaxxers, and the other anti-scientific buffoons who dominate the GOP. This pain is very much deserved by the universities.
What about the DOD indirect costs for contracts/grants of 100-150%? I see contractors for the military play musical buildings all the time! Each one bigger and better than the last! Universities use the same buildings and working to improve what they have.
Yeah those are always redacted when they partner with a university on a grant (as “proprietary”). But you can reverse engineer the rate with the numbers and they’re typically 100-125% rates!
This is why you don’t let people who know fuck all about how government works work in government. You can’t do science without a lab, running water, electricity, scientists (many grants are for specific equipment), etc. That is what these indirect payments are for.
How do the 2 “greatest businessmen of all time” not understand how much goes into administrative costs or just how important those things are? You need people to handle paperwork, track budgets, clean the building, etc. Indirect costs are usually just as important as the direct ones.
and, he is winning conversation in the public square. @mollyjongfast.bsky.social, you are helping him by reposting this. As of October 2024, Harvard's endowment was valued at $53.2 billion. BILLION! Help me understand what US tax payers are getting in return for the money they are giving to Harvard.
He's an idiot who doesn't understand how anything works and doesn't care to learn.
He thinks that overhead in research is somehow the same as overhead in manufacturing. It's not.
I'm not saying it's immune to fudging and shouldn't be looked at. But this blind approach with a fraud in charge? No way.
Can you believe that Elon is not an accountant and he and his lieutenants are not actually doing audits, but they are stealing our personal data and closing federal agencies to fulfill his power to privatize agencies and profit from them?
Also 60% IDC on direct budget is roughly 30% of the total grant budget. This 30% provides lab spaces, equipments, maintenance, utilities and support to do the research funded by grant. NIH to build facilities to conduct the research and hire scientists as government employees will cost 10-20x more.
Unlike Tesla and Spacex which are for profit and makes money off government contract. University IDC only get reimbursed for the actual cost incurred. The cost is used to keep Americans locally employed.
It's almost like the Faust problem. I get the sense that popping them on a technology-free farm SOBER and having them grow vegetables, till, and take care of animals would give them the satisfaction they are lacking.
I actually was sort of just thinking this while I was preparing a meal for my family. They will never know the satisfaction of making a meal for their family.
Yeah!
Neither will they be happy with what they have nor will they let anyone else be happy.
He could have just gone to some island and be sipping some drink relaxing and having fun but instead he's busy screwing people's lives and livelihoods.
The sooner he's separated from his money the better
He abused the legal system of the US, including the immigration system. He needs to be deported and his assets need to be seized after all this is over.
SpaceX has 72 liens in Texas for nonpayment of bills and explodes almost every rocket it sends up. Yet no one asks where the billions of dollars of govt money it receives is going. Where huh?
"Putin's favorite Congressman" Dana Rohrbacher pushed the Republicans to privatize our space program and hand Musk our intellectual property and $ BILLIONS when SpaceX didn't even have a working prototype. We need to "un-privatize" it and get our space program back from this drug-addled traitor.
Guess what - the mother fucker gets the US government to pay for research at universities for SpaceX and then the intellectual property gets transferred to him. For example, $28 MILLION to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Here's another university that the federal government is paying to do research for the benefit of SpaceX $183,000 THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY
Of course I could see how the % overhead would be smaller on one of Elon’s >$1B bid-rigged contracts than on a small research grant.
But I promise you his fed contracts cover overhead costs (stated or otherwise) and that overhead+profit likely dwarfs this unreasonable spending he’s crying about.
When I was there 30 years ago I believe Harvard’s overhead charges were over 100%. They’ve already been cut back substantially. Could they be reduced further? Perhaps. But adjusting budgets by tens of millions isn’t something you just do overnight.
It's always a battle to keep research dollars out in experimental areas. The government imposes lots of administrative requirements on grantees. In the end, 15 is probably too low. Organizations must learn how to directly allocate costs to grants.
Weird how a bunch of us academics are about to lose our jobs and the easy solution was just for them to access their endowments 😆
..musk is such an idiot
I worked on overhead rate policy for publicly funded research in the EU for years. It always amused me that those who were touting for their reduction were the heads of large corporates, whose own o/head rates were 150% and higher!
Well, If he doesn't know or understand the consequences of what he is doing, it must be easy to be proud. It is not the actual research that is expensive it is all the other things like electricity, someone to clean the toilet etc, which is normally not covered in grants.
Notice Elon sees himself as the Trump administration in his tweet response?
7.4.26. will it be their mission complete?
The clock is counting down. 1 day closer.
Nationalism/ cult Is a Made Up POWER OVER
word. It has nothing to do with that religion.
Yeshua Hebrew teacher/radical /
Words added on to Christian are Ego words.
Their lying is pathological. Elon would lie about the color of the very sky above us. He has no integrity whatsoever. There is no lie too big or too small for him.
Ask him what good things he does do with his billions. I’m sure he’s doing lots of good, humanitarian work. You know. Like MacKenzie Scott. I’m sure musk, bezos and zuckerberg are all spending billions trying to help the less fortunate, to care for our dying planet, to lift people out of poverty..
He has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about, and he’s high on his own power. Consequences to him are immaterial as long as he destroys the institutions that are either investigating his companies or threatening the unfettered growth of his personal wealth.
Bingo. Any government function that regulates any of his businesses must be destroyed. Only government largess to his businesses is vital government spending.
My dude, there weren't even that many performers at the inauguration. Where are they gonna find them? They'd better hope big daddy elon's doge doggies remember their elementary school ballet lessons.
Elon should have his citizenship revoked. It is mind boggling that 4 or 5 republicans are so self centered and spineless to not do the right thing to get the First Lady Donald and President Musk the hell out of our country and White House
He will lock them out of building take away clearance and their computer access. This is the playbook and it’s all out in the open he will come for them
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If not they can sheetJacket you! Pull it over you sit on it! You get beat!
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Stay tuned for more? Lyfao!
Did you visit me?
Exonerated whistleblower who exposed a state run child rape ring and a pedophile governor?
Nope. Just venting about being ignored and seeing the results of the yellow press on the rule of law and such.
End impunity Abolish qualified immunity Pay the exonerated.
Exactly. These dumbass people like Tommy. Tuberville don’t even know what their role is. Stupidity. The power of the purse is with Congress. What does dumbass Musk think someone arbitrarily old the $ millions of Iowa wheat to go overseas??? That would be no. CONGRESS did.
If there are questions about how allocated $ is being spent, they should use independent forensic accountants, not juvenile "programmers" who know nothing but computer coding. They're not "evaluating" the merits of funding; they're cutting it willy-nilly to make room for billionaire tax cuts.
Those " juvenile "programmers" who know nothing but computer coding" know EVERYTHING about coding. That is precisely why they are being used to do this work. 'Independent forensic accountants' deal in figures they see on the front end of program. They can't code sh1t. Programmers code the back end.
Correct--which is precisely why calling this an "audit" to find ways to save money is a joke. The "juvenile" reference was regarding their youthful age and lack of life experience/knowledge, not their coding skill level. I'm sure they can code circles around most programmers.
You are also correct. There is no audit. I will wager it's changing or corrupting the code and generally taking control of or destroying the system. We are being attacked from within and the GOP has sanctioned it. As a perpetual optimist, I will say we are going to be ok, but I don't believe it.
Molly keep up the fight, Harvard and MIT may have large endowments but husbands company TGen is not. This non-profit research company depends on those monies. It will devastate the medical research industry. Thousands of lives and jobs will be disrupted.
Colleges use endowments to support their mission, such as paying faculty salaries or maintaining campus facilities.
he has used this term to dismiss all! So if Harvard and large universities can use these endowments in that way at least they have it. These smaller independent non-profits can not.
He isn't doing the work. He's having his little boys do it. That way, he can try to play as if "HE" didn't do anything wrong. I'm betting that's part of why "Big Balls" resigned. I think he wisened up and realized he'd be left holding the basket.
He….doesn’t actually work. He’s a spokesman and snake oil salesman. Him posting on X and further spreading misinformation to the cult is precisely his job.
Mr. 'work 70 hours a week' has 4 'full-time' jobs and I don't think he shows up for any of them. He probably blazes through each one once a week with his kid on his shoulders and looks for things to fuck up.
I work directly below a board, and I can tell you the only thing people at the top do is dispatch unrealistic expectations and duties down to the underpaid staff.
I guarantee he does exactly what you say, and shows chaos before disappearing once more.
Yes, a current point of contention I have with my workplace is I had to BEG for the raise I got at the end of last year, only two weeks later to bring on some new staff to support me and pay them the same.
And they are incompetent as FUCK to boot. It's like a slap, and not in a fun way.
That is also on purpose. They do not want any people alive that are not a perfect physical specimen! That is what eugenics is! That is the VERY BASIS OF RACISM. To them...IF YOU HAVE A DIEASE OR HANDICAP OR ARE NOT SELF SUFFICIENT...YOU ALL NEED TO DIE! WORLDWIDE!!! THEY DO NOT CARE! FULL STOP!!😡
Ahh, but the darkest part is that even they too become old, gray and disabled in some way. Dementia or cancer or other defect will eventually rendering them a burden that must be removed from society. What then?🤔 Therein lies the fallacy of their ideology...🤨 Lord of the Flies...
How does he have time to run multiple huge companies, a government department and reply to everyone on Twitter? The Truth, the only thing he actually does in all the above, is Twitter posts.
We must stand behind people who speak out like Molly. Don’t be apathetic. Apathy is killing our democracy before our eyes. We ALL must stand up and speak out NOW!! IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE #resistNOW
Support @democracydocket.com @aclu.org @democrats.org for starters
he’s either a bald-faced liar, willfully ignorant, or actually ignorant; none of which are a good look and any of which should result in DOGE being yanked out altogether
Elon is incapable of relating to anyone or their feelings, he’s socially inappropriate, obsessive and totally self absorbed. All traits of people on the autism spectrum. Trump is a sociopath.
"---Elon Musk - the leader of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), an unofficial cost-cutting group that Trump has given leeway to slash government spending---" BBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rmk3CAx0OE MUSK CUTS USA HEALTH.
Now start watching the price of medication also go sky high when big pharma tries to do their own basic research which is laborious, time-consuming and requires super expensive equipment.
Trump and ilk are EVIL. anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, anti everything good.
Musk-Trump's to cut research funds is devastating. Research= time intensive & highly structured. Process must be continuous or the data collected become invalid. Successful treatments are the result of 10-15 years (NON-STOP) work. Musk-Trump endangered (some already destroyed) potential treatments.
Exactly! My late husband was one such dedicated scientist. 9 years of trial and error for a single protein was typical to achieve success. He depended on NIH’s backing. He’d be in such a miserable state along with other scientists if he were here.
I worked Clinical Research-saw lives saved. (Hepatis C CURE - FDA approved). MDs who conduct Clinical Research are HEROES. They spent time reading complex study protocols, med/potential side effects/study patient benefit. MD work longer b/c strict protocol procedures for potential patient benefit.
For government contracts, there is overhead, it sometimes varies by cost of living and other factors. Someone please look up what spacex and other Musk industries charge for their government cobtracts. Please.
We won't be able to, Molly...as we'll all be in camps, too. Unless we happen to be white male controlling arrogant insecure selfish shitheads. Then we won't.
I really hope they don’t have to use it, but if it comes to that, I hope the footage survives long enough for future generations to watch. Be like “They got her in the end, but did you see the look on their faces when she took three of ‘em out?”
Molly, you're brilliant. It's, so, important to have this stuff visible. Thank you for gritting your teeth and staying on X when so many of us get out of there for mental health reasons x
I hear ya but it hasn't helped us for years. MAGA team is mostly lies and seems to make no difference.
Also think that financial boycotts work at times. Feels like the only power we have left. No?
Personally, I left a while ago and have been a lot happier since but lately I’ve been wondering whether we ought to go back. There’s an insane disinformation campaign going on there and no one to call it out. No easy answers but I don’t fault others for staying and fighting
There's no way he is unaware. He just wants to do this quietly so no one sees how detrimental this is to hospitals, universities, and US citizens (and the world).
this jerk, implementing the "move fast and break things" mantra, has no idea what he's doing, and he's using AI in the stupidest possible way to help do it
… the Nazi’s 2m followers, wouldn’t that skew the AI? The AI is smart but can only reflect what the internet as a whole says. If that’s incorrect, won’t the AI be wrong too? Then more people go down the rabbit hole because AI said it so it must be true
Among other things, Musk is using AI to do a crude search across the database for terms that might be related to anti Project2025 agenda, in order to target the people using those terms, regardless of context
Yes, but doesn’t it use what’s put out on the internet as a whole so if the input to the internet is skewed, then the output for ChatGPT, Grok etc be similarly skewed?
I don’t know as much as I should about AI so apologies, but doesn’t AI gather its knowledge from across the entire internet so niche issues will have few mentions so AI would be accurate. But if, say, a Nazi owned a sm site & spewed out 100s of inaccurate info & that was shared by…1/
I'll be right by your side to help put his sad little ( looks like getting bigger by the day though!) ass in a solitary confinement cell! He won't be putting any of us in a camp!
One would hope. The US has most of NATO's weapons though.
More likely, it'll be bloody on both sides of the border with a civil war down south (many Americans have already posted that they'll fight on behalf of Canadians), along with a long, drawn out asymmetrical / guerrilla warfare from Canadians.
This seems great to me. “Life science?” Bah, humbug if you ask me. There’s no future in it. Now gather around and let me tell you about this magic bean I’ve got. It’ll make us all rich I tell ya! So rich!
Unfortunately, Elon has no F'ing idea what he is cutting funding for or to. His policy is slash and burn and don't worry about the consequences as long as cuts are happening.
Musk is an ignoramus,a power hungry narcissist,a wannabe autocrat.He will always be a wannabe,always be less than 3rd in the "who has the most power" ratings & never,ever be any kind of ruler to any kind of nation,unless you're using his height as an actual ruler:how many Musks is that Pylon?
He and the Donald are two of the same
Dumb nepobabies with Narcissistic Personality Disorder who are Surrounded by sickophants
and manipulative opportunists (also mostly narcissists)
Thank you for your courage to speak the truth, Molly. Keep going. You are a bright star in the dark sky 💙🙏🏻
(I always wanted to get to Cuba, where my maternal grandfather was from & where my mom grew up. But I never imagined I’d be sent there in chains for my role in the resistance. Oh, the irony.)
Putin And Xi’s—Strategic Puppet Elon Now Running America’s Government—And Destroying America From The Inside —No Weapons Or War Needed!!—With Trump And Republicans Help Too!! Speak Up Americans!!
Since the election, has congress made ANY decisions on ANYTHING, proposing or passing bills like a normal democratic legislative body, at ALL, or have ALL decisions been made by one S. African megalomaniac high on power and ketamine?
No, because Congress (The Senate and the House of Reps) is controlled by the Republican Party. Votes gave MAGA all THREE branches of government...there are no checks and balances anymore. Republican politicians are actively participating in the destruction of our democracy.
Yes, and this was all so preventable if people would have bothered to compare the policies of both candidates before voting in November. The Heritage Foundation made it clear that Project 2025 (readily available for everyone to read) would be a THE policy for the Trump admin.
🤔 elon was not tagged on the original post but somehow he noticed it.
That is strange, unless some sort of monitoring of key words is being done at the platform.
I’m thinking that he will be setting up musk run entities that will serve similar functions and be able to be easier to control even when they are not in power. The reality is that gov. could just as easily abandon the new musk systems and create new systems.
Trump’s history shows acolytes can expect to be dropped instantly when they’re no longer useful, or a liability. Musk will be the latter, he can’t stop being an asshole.
Elon and the orange menace playing the role of useful idiots to take the public heat for Peter Thiel and the others who are really pulling the strings.
Of course. All of this is to gather enough money in time to give corporations and billionaires their tax brewls before it is too late. They are sacrificing the lower class to get richer and pretending they are cutting cost to help us. Millions potentially dead and suffering, and they don't care.
Boy he’ll really be surprised to know that Trump doesn’t want to help special needs kids, or kids to have at least one balanced meal a day, or any kind of support for all those babies he wants white women to have- in other words he’s an uninformed asshole.
Either that or he really does want to eliminate all us poor folk dragging his bottom line- humanity be damned! Be nice if he at least paid his taxes on the profits from all those lucrative government contracts filling his coffers since he’s putting the burden on the lowly Middle Class.
Most people have no clue as to the vital role NIH plays in funding basic health research, much less Musk! No basic research = NO NEW or safer DRUGS OR TREATMENTS. The whole pharmaceutical industry depends on basic research.
There’s a legal process to investigate. This is ILLEGAL.
If the purpose was really to save the average American money, they would be pushing for universal health care. Every country that has it spends, at most, 3/4 (most are closer to half) of what the US does, for better average outcomes.
It seems they both also do not pay their bills.
Elon did not pay the severance promised to twitter employees he let go.
Anyone else hav factual info on his unpaid employees or bills.
He didnt pay the FAA fine either
Cheeto & Muskie = unpaid bills.
He's so busy slashing and burning the country down while on his ego trip that he's not bothered to actually learn about all the life-saving programs his manic power trip is destroying.
None of them do. The whole world can die as long as they get to have a feud somewhere where they can play god. It's what the technocrats like him want, and have been working towards for a long long time.
Is this to suggest that they're untruthful when they say they're fed up with "forever wars"? If I understand it correctly (correct me if I'm wrong), they never seem to swiftly do whatever it takes to end a war as quickly as possible.
I've always thought it was to keep money flowing into Defense.
People have a tendency to equate lots of money with genius instead of looking at the person's background, amount of inherited money, and education. Perception is everything 😍 People love money.
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"Look at me!!"
Yes, child - you've did a cost cutting. But since you are blissfully unaware of what you're doing you've now kneecapped research that would cure your mummy's cancer 🤷
They live in a vacuum🙄
But they actually think that’s irrelevant as techbros are superior beings 🤦♀️ it’s terrifying
So maga will believe his simple lies over any accurate discussion about the reality of indirect costs
I recommend Oeishik highly!!
Killing millions at home!
Covid 4% of the World! 18% of the Dead!
Misinformation and lies are still killing!
H5N1 spread excedlliratng as CDC, USDA and all agencies are Gagged!
Deleting million $ studies from public view!
Purchases Frozen! Rutro!
Never has this ever Happened!
It's not about making a profit, which is why it needs subsidies & , grants, right?
The little shit doesn’t even know how universities, medical research facilities work w the expensive research in each Dept.
They have to be funded bc it’s difficult to get endowments every year for each Dept. Hes never contributed to research for anything has he?
Apartheid Clyde is math impaired too?
Also, normal running of labs is theft now? Sounds like more RU disinformation that seems to go straight to Leon…
and you have to come into the office”
‘Can you believe that ______ with tens of billions in sales were siphoning off __% of government money for
"______"?’
WTF
Same with the orange one.
See through the facade.
So bigger overhead.
He clearly doesn't do anything if he has all this spare time.
I am truly happy to see I share the name with a clearly much more educated and beautiful woman. Thank you for giving me a point to research.
#Project2025
#Fascism2.0
#Trump
#Musk
#GOP
That and he hates remote work because he doesn't feel the power of being able to walk into a place of work and get his ass kissed.
I’m waiting for him to sell Tesla as it’s now losing money.
Maybe not losing money now, but not far off.
They are not about improving anything.
Just shut down.
Imbeciles 🤦🏼♀️
🙄
https://inthesetimes.com/article/taxes-biden-2024-tesla-elon-musk#:~:text=Tesla%20is%20perhaps%20the%20most,of%20more%20than%20$190%20billion.
That really isn't a lot of money spread out over 50,000 grants.
Coastal elite, indeed 😂
https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=159d8644b7bf47b7061bcff7f29dbea7
Fuck that goddamn asshole.
in a proper world these would be confessions of his crimes to be used against him. Now? Chuds will take these up as gospel and recite them a billion times over.
I've been out of research for 6yrs.
When the feds cut research funding last time 🍊 was in office, 250 to 350 were let go.
Look at University of Michigan. They had a negotiated 56% which means they spent more on indirect costs than they did on actual research.
ALSO, lets troll him for being incompetent, he'll hate it
Civil War is coming
#RiseUp to take America back before it is too late!
Elon claims 60% costs.
The NIH data he's commenting on shows $9 billion out of $35 billion...
...that's 26%.
I've worked with Fortune 500 firms that apply 30-35% to indirect.
And they weren't funding much scientific research.
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I think you're right. But he's going to cherry-pick the examples.
Also, what are the indirect rates in major corporations to compare with?
I'd really like to know how they pulled 15% out of their backsides. Another Frank Luntz focus group, like the one that brought us "death taxes"?
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The Republican way.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/technology/elon-musk-spacex-national-security-reporting.html
CO2 is the GAS OF LIFE!
Meanwhile, the GOP establishment is asleep, or complicit.
This will be a legacy no tax-dodging 'foundation' donations will erase.
Republicans need to take out their trash.
I don't think there's a Grand Old Party anymore in the context of a two party system of politics.
🔥
I'm sure we'll see some distancing at some point by those who submitted, "There was nothing I could do except go along if I wanted to keep the Republican party alive." 🙄
It will be the height of hypocrisy.
Take a moment to appreciate the bitter irony of
@lizcheney.bsky.social defending the judiciary against the Administration's expansion of Unitary Executive Theory to its logical extreme: rule by fiat.
'Judges aren't allowed to tell the King how to rule'
And indirect costs, depending on what they are, may be perfectly legitimate and even be in the contracts.
https://bsky.app/profile/rebekahtromble.bsky.social/post/3lhotscgct22x
Does he not actually understand ANYTHING?
"Siphoning off" suggests the money is being wasted, but it's being used for scientific research... fuck.
Cutting health research to fund tax cuts for billionaires is not a good trade. Hate this man!
Or - more likely - he doesn't care. He's looking for cases that he can represent as easy wins to the ignorant.
That’s one way of keeping costs down!
Tesla also hasn't paid taxes in years.
He thinks that overhead in research is somehow the same as overhead in manufacturing. It's not.
I'm not saying it's immune to fudging and shouldn't be looked at. But this blind approach with a fraud in charge? No way.
Posting screenshots of parts of a thread I was participating in earlier…
Rip off.
Truth be told, I think he's made several already, just that no one's going to hold him responsible for them.
It would be interesting to see how left-leaning rich people live their lives vs the right
Neither will they be happy with what they have nor will they let anyone else be happy.
He could have just gone to some island and be sipping some drink relaxing and having fun but instead he's busy screwing people's lives and livelihoods.
The sooner he's separated from his money the better
Idk wtf makes maga think rich people are smart 🤷🏼♀️
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SPACEX C1 MISSION CALIBRATION, MATERIAL TESTING, AND ANALYSIS
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https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=159d8644b7bf47b7061bcff7f29dbea7
Back in an awful period of my life I worked for a govt agency managing tens of millions of federal grants.
Indirect was about 50%, and nobody was taking it home. It paid for everything other than salary that let ppl do their jobs.
Elon employs thousands of ppl and knows this.
But I promise you his fed contracts cover overhead costs (stated or otherwise) and that overhead+profit likely dwarfs this unreasonable spending he’s crying about.
So universities can have money for research they just can’t use it to buy the equipment necessary to do research.🔬🧐
..musk is such an idiot
His mother raised a real POS.
7.4.26. will it be their mission complete?
The clock is counting down. 1 day closer.
Nationalism/ cult Is a Made Up POWER OVER
word. It has nothing to do with that religion.
Yeshua Hebrew teacher/radical /
Words added on to Christian are Ego words.
Oh and you’re gonna want to cut into it very carefully.
Before it happens, we fight
to the last humane breath
https://teachdemocracy.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-13-2-b-the-suppression-of-art-in-nazi-germany
Chachi’s one man performance as Drumpf a’la Hal Holbrook as Twain.
He wouldn’t know either if they bit him on his flabby orange ass.
Tie your sheet corners head and feet together.
If not they can sheetJacket you! Pull it over you sit on it! You get beat!
Tie Your Sheet!
Shoelace and any heavy
Rock in a Sock! Lock in a sock! Blunt Force weapon! They do not come for another hit! If they are moving?
Head shoulder swing! Whack!
Cherry kool aid and Vaseline for lip Color
Stay tuned for more? Lyfao!
you go, girl!
Exonerated whistleblower who exposed a state run child rape ring and a pedophile governor?
Nope. Just venting about being ignored and seeing the results of the yellow press on the rule of law and such.
End impunity Abolish qualified immunity Pay the exonerated.
The two are not mutually exclusive
If they want to change the budget then it should happen through congress not Vought or FElon making cuts at their whim
he has used this term to dismiss all! So if Harvard and large universities can use these endowments in that way at least they have it. These smaller independent non-profits can not.
Maybe we should go back to the hell site and overwhelm his mentions. Maybe he’ll finally break
I guarantee he does exactly what you say, and shows chaos before disappearing once more.
And they are incompetent as FUCK to boot. It's like a slap, and not in a fun way.
All while tripping in a K-hole 🙄🤮
Support @democracydocket.com @aclu.org @democrats.org for starters
You can set up a reminder:
Go to your profile settings, click "Accessibility" under Basics, make sure "Require alt text before posting" is toggled on.
Many won't RS w/out it.
THEY ARE JUST STEALING YOUR MONEY.
Trump and ilk are EVIL. anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, anti everything good.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/refugees/protection.html
Old grandmas are out here shopping for Berettas and Glocks online. Not kidding.
Also think that financial boycotts work at times. Feels like the only power we have left. No?
He’s an idiot. Please be safe.
More likely, it'll be bloody on both sides of the border with a civil war down south (many Americans have already posted that they'll fight on behalf of Canadians), along with a long, drawn out asymmetrical / guerrilla warfare from Canadians.
... I propose a game of "go fish," if they're kind enough to provide cards... 😆
Dumb nepobabies with Narcissistic Personality Disorder who are Surrounded by sickophants
and manipulative opportunists (also mostly narcissists)
(I always wanted to get to Cuba, where my maternal grandfather was from & where my mom grew up. But I never imagined I’d be sent there in chains for my role in the resistance. Oh, the irony.)
That is strange, unless some sort of monitoring of key words is being done at the platform.
I'm sure he has all the alerts for this and its variants.
That is something people could use to piss him off.
No mater what the post is about introduce the word.
He needs something in that payment system.
He's up to something here.
He doesn’t donate any of his own wealth
Eldolf Mush
At least, we'll have good company and finally be with people who make sense and are kind.
There’s a legal process to investigate. This is ILLEGAL.
Musk lies a lot.
Elon did not pay the severance promised to twitter employees he let go.
Anyone else hav factual info on his unpaid employees or bills.
He didnt pay the FAA fine either
Cheeto & Muskie = unpaid bills.
I've always thought it was to keep money flowing into Defense.
NIH is what you shutdown
"The Cruelty is the Point!™" - MAGAts Everywhere
“..then along came a spider”