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Habits of Insects (mander.xyz)

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[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 30 points 1 hour ago

Say it with me:

No. Research. Is. Useless.

If we say that research is useless because it doesn't bring you mo ey we could stop teaching children math beyond the absolute basics because "it doesn't brinf them anything". This is stupid, because those are the fundamentals that tech children to thing logically and become useful member of society. Same with research. It teaches us the things necessary to maybe invent some of the most useful stuff ever seen

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 13 points 45 minutes ago

Republicans: "No. Research is useless."

[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 35 minutes ago

Hell can we mention that the cold war era these fucks idolize was also the golden age of the government throwing money at side projects?

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 2 hours ago

"preventing next corn plague" with resources used being a box of soil and bunch of underpaid grads seems pretty efficient to me, but i guess that since the common clay of the new west already voted they can be safely disposed of

at USDA, they're turning beetles kinky! 😡

alex jones fuming aimlessly while being stored in some container

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 16 points 1 hour ago

The Onion buying Infowars is the only good news I've heard this week.

[-] BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 12 points 2 hours ago

The common clay of the new west

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 4 points 20 minutes ago

Welcome to the new Dark Ages, brought to you by religious fascists.

[-] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 minutes ago

Like they said after Brexit…”tired of experts”.

[-] Ethalis@jlai.lu 197 points 3 hours ago

Sure, that's great but it's not even the point. Fundamental research and other type of "useless" scientific endeavors help humanity as a whole to better understand our universe but would never be privately funded because they don't have any concrete and immediate financial benefits. This is precisely what a government should finance, because no one else would do it and yet it's small stuff like that that make us collectively move forward as a species

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 35 points 2 hours ago

Musk fans don't want humanity to advance. They hate technological progress.

[-] algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 27 minutes ago

Where did Musk come from? I don't see any mention of it here

[-] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 11 minutes ago

Musk will govern the DOGE department, won't he?

[-] moody 2 points 6 minutes ago

The Department of goverment efficiency was Musk's meme idea and Trump is apparently just rolling with it.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 17 points 2 hours ago

For OTHERS, yes. But many want the cutting edge for themselves, at no cost to themselves.

[-] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 72 points 3 hours ago

In addition, government research in the sciences is miniscule. You could cut ALL of science funding and be no where close to the 1 trillion that Musk claims he'll be able to reduce the budget by

[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 32 minutes ago

The goal's more about cutting all the science funding than reducing spending. These are people who bitch about Ukraine when they don't even plan on spending that money on something else they're just guzzling Russian propaganda.

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 20 points 2 hours ago

Regardless, he'll claim he cut 500 bajillion dollars no matter what he ends up doing

[-] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 hour ago

My bet is that if he expects to cut 2 trillion, he will end up increasing the budget by 4 trillion.

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 13 points 2 hours ago

He actually claimed 2 trillion.

[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

I knew Elongated Muskrat was a dumbass but I didn't know he also can't do math.

[-] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

I don't think he even attempted to do math. Someone asked him about it and said what the current budget was, and he just rectally sourced 2 trillion. I assume he said that because it's big enough to sound huge, but less than half of spending so people don't panic that everything will be cut.

It's meaningless bullshit until he actually says specifically what will be cut. Republicans have been claiming they can cut huge chunks of spending for years, but it never materializes. They only know how cut government income without paying for it.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

Still waiting for that ACA replacement promised on week 1 of trump's presidency. It was supposed to be so easy. Now we're 8 years out and they have "concepts of a plan".

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It's also helped develop advances in flight, metamaterials, physics.

But Barbie makes a good point with a meme about how she treats her cuck husband.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 75 points 3 hours ago

And so the US lost decade becomes the medieval dark ages

It'd be fascinating as an outsider if the choices made by the US didn't basically impact everything, everywhere.

[-] Nariom@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

I thought we were done with the "medieval dark age" myth.

[-] Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 hours ago

How’s Neo-Feudal Gilded Age strike you?

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 points 1 hour ago

One giant leap forward, one roundhouse kick back.

[-] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, we've been studying the sex lives of various different animals (including ourselves!) for centuries now, yet nobody bat an eye until now. 🙄

[-] JoShmoe@ani.social 1 points 1 hour ago

I’m too stupid to understand. How does this all connect?!

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 hour ago

reproductive habits of some insects are of critical importance in pest control in agriculture

natural product chemists (it's a subfield of organic chemistry) find and identify new weird shit in obscure organisms (esp marine organisms) all the time. because amounts are tiny, then their work is on synthesis of the same thing. some of these turn out to be useful

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 55 minutes ago

Its actually quite simple. Snaily often eat crops and thereby reduce the production of said crops. The more snails reproduce, the more crops will be eaten. When you know how their reproduction works you can start looking for solutions on how to reduce their reproduction (and so the production of crops).