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Maybe that's a good thing.
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He's not wrong. Current payments are funding current retirees rather than there being a "savings" account where retiree payments went while they were working. That just means we need to adjust the funding model by removing/increasing the cap on the tax being collected.
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There are some ebooks my county library is not able to buy at all. I don't want to support Amazon. I want to get value for my taxes.
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This article claims that NIH intramural researchers can be paid higher than the Fed salary scale. When I was involved in extramural research funded by NIH or other Fed agencies, that was 100% not the case, pay for our researchers was restricted to a certain level on the Fed salary scale. WTH??
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I live in Oregon but not her district. I'm not sure I trust her, although I agree there could be an even worse nominee. She was pretty MAGA in her losing campaign.
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Canadians make good beer also - at least they used to.
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But how do you verify what AI is telling you and when do you know something has been generated by AI?
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So frustrated that I can't get around NYT paywall. I REFUSE TO SUBSCRIBE.
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The real Gulf of America..
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Most of these evangelicals espouse principles that are nothing like the Christian church I was raised in.
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Please stop posting stories that are behind a paywall.
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Defunding the NIH will make whatever medical research is done VERY unreliable. Drug companies and even well meaning NGO's all have vested interest in certain outcomes and research will reflect those biases.
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All of his cuts and layoffs/terminations are also going to increase unemployment substantially.
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You are 100% correct. There will be huge impacts to the public - higher unemployment and the loss of scientific knowledge that for profit companies then use to produce their products. Loss of forward momentum for basic science that leads to advances in disease prevention and treatments.
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I had a companion who was a member of a US-based socialist party in the 70's. He claimed that USAID was a CIA front. What a transformation that it is now purported to be a far-left front.
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Admin costs include costs of maintaining infrastructure, providing personnel to monitor and ensure compliance with funding terms and conditions, file financial and progress reports, administrative support, etc. Fifteen percent is nowhere near enough. The highest cost is the infrastructure piece.
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She just pretends to care and caves in in the end.
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If white men were as or more competent than women and people of color they would have no problem competing with them.
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Some publishers are refusing to sell books to libraries, especially ebooks.
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Without NIH funding, medical research will cease to be evidence based. Other funding sources have vested interests in the outcomes and are therefore biased and unreliable.
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If I was ever to vote for a Republican, he's someone I might be tempted to vote for. Principled and rational.