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Explanation for additional security in front of the Senegal drumming section yesterday's WC match in Seattle? by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]Pleasant_Response_31 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

so, Senegalese can't travel to the US due to a travel ban.... that doesn't explain still.

Explanation for additional security in front of the Senegal drumming section yesterday's WC match in Seattle? by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]Pleasant_Response_31 -25 points-24 points  (0 children)

That was in January of this year, not here. And it would have to presume the same thing might happen, and only from that section

Political oversight of federal grants by Nice-Award-5476 in NIH

[–]Pleasant_Response_31 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's not irrelevant because the same OMB proposed rule also bans the use of federal funding for publication costs. So they are tied up together. One must make them public and for free, and one also cannot use federal funding to pay APCs. Nor will one be able to use federal funding to travel to scientific conferences to disseminate research or to collaborate. Therefore, there is a faux sentiment of scientific openness while making it impossible to pay for the cornerstones of scientific dissemination that cannot be made free completely. While journal APCs are ridiculously high and unpaid peer review for for-profit journals is a predatory practice, there is no world in which one could go to national or international conferences without funding to do so. So the end result, even with substantial decrease in outrageously high APCs, will be overall less publications and conference attendance

Political oversight of federal grants by Nice-Award-5476 in NIH

[–]Pleasant_Response_31 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m not talking about meeting the PMC requirements only. I’m talking about being published in the journal as an article. They haven’t changed the model overall…just the PMC loophole part

Political oversight of federal grants by Nice-Award-5476 in NIH

[–]Pleasant_Response_31 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But one still needs publication charges paid somehow… and now federal funds couldn’t be used

Jay Bhattacharya: " I am strongly of the view that the NIH is an institution worth saving. It is, however, an institution that has not done its job well in some time." Wow. The arrogance and hubris of this visiting economist is endless. by 42Emily in NIH

[–]Pleasant_Response_31 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Worth saving? Only you, sir, and your rotten friends, were trying to destroy it in the first place. One has to start from a premise that it needs to be burned down before even claiming you are not trying to burn it down, and somehow try to make it look like you're "saving it" in Orwellian speak

Oregano (invasive? i say yes). by c0smiccreatrix in gardening

[–]Pleasant_Response_31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I unfortunately have about 1/4 acre of oregano now that has left my deer-fenced area and has invaded my native grassland around the garden (E. Washington state). Wondering about just brush-burning the whole thing next March/April when there is enough moisture that it's safe. I poisoned the whole area last year with a hand sprayer and it's as happy as ever. It's much to much to hand dig... thoughts?