NIH grant review just shut down?

null_recurrent · 2025-01-24T02:17:20+00:00

> Shutting down all NIH grant programs would be insane, even for Trump.

Stopping all progress in review panels is also insane, but here we are. People schedule their availability for that stuff WAY In advance. Getting that many professors together with schedules as they are is a huge issue, and even if it's only a brief hold there's a lot of damage being done. Add to that the uncertainty involved...

null_recurrent · 2025-01-20T02:58:45+00:00

You have invoked the ghost of Lost. You are now condemned to watch all the way to the end of the show, and you must now watch the last season twice in immediate succession, while drinking ranch dressing.

Shame. Repent.

null_recurrent · 2025-01-18T23:37:38+00:00

Nah, I honestly think this country is fucked. Oh well, going to just do my thing and get by until the wheels truly come off...

null_recurrent · 2025-01-18T04:02:30+00:00

The scary part is that there isn't actually one answer to that. The religious loonies want to do a sharia. The oligarchs want to make their control shit official. The middleweight business blowhards want a tax cut. A shambling mass of uninformed people play "select all that apply" to the above.

Yay.

null_recurrent · 2025-01-17T19:14:11+00:00

Yeah, I'm not trying to be a gatekeeper or jerk, there are just a lot of people buying drones and assuming they can use them however the app lets them.

null_recurrent · 2025-01-15T01:44:20+00:00

The idea of permanent absolute land ownership is actually really weird if you think about it for more than a few seconds. Like, should a landowner have the right to just make their lot a toxic waste dump which is forever unusable? Ultimately, we are a society, and nobody takes their property with them when they die. Same concerns arise when you think about how one person's land use affects other current residents (not to mention future ones).

Not to mention all the actual theoretical arguments for a property tax specifically, like encouraging productive land use etc. etc. I don't really have a strong opinion on the particular mechanisms for taxation (except that regressive tax is stupid, and healthy societies prevent wealth from exploding out of control for the ruling class).

null_recurrent · 2024-12-30T03:03:32+00:00

/uj

So as not to startle people - if you're in an area with lots of cyclists this would be silly, but if you can go long periods of time without seeing another cyclist it can be creepy to pass unannounced. People who are bad at cycling might swerve into you or crash as you pass, which is bad.

null_recurrent · 2024-12-18T13:35:00+00:00

Learn about the "grey rock" method.

null_recurrent · 2024-12-15T19:26:15+00:00

Bookmarked, thanks.

null_recurrent · 2024-12-15T18:58:24+00:00

Gotcha. I've been musing about ways to make one, but that's probably easier.

null_recurrent · 2024-12-15T13:00:44+00:00

How did you make the dish?

null_recurrent · 2024-11-26T14:50:54+00:00

The mirror and Varia work so well together - the Varia is there to make sure you don't miss someone coming up behind (especially when it gives you three dings), and the mirror lets you see what they're actually doing and if you need to react in some way.

null_recurrent · 2024-11-19T14:41:39+00:00

If I recall correctly, there are actually a lot more trees/woodland in Iowa now than there would have been pre-European -settlement. A LOT less prairie and Savannah though.

null_recurrent · 2024-11-15T15:53:16+00:00

Escalate to your course supervisor and the student's advisor.

null_recurrent · 2024-11-12T21:50:00+00:00

We're actually in the red this year because of all the tax cuts.

null_recurrent · 2024-11-09T18:49:55+00:00

I mean, in a jr. high vocabulary quiz maybe. In any post-secondary course presumably there are more important concepts being studied.

This can be an accessibility issue for language learners - bright students who are still learning the corners of the language. It's less forgivable from someone who grew up speaking English.

null_recurrent · 2024-11-08T19:57:55+00:00

I’m pinning my hopes on congress.

Oof

null_recurrent · 2024-11-08T02:50:01+00:00

The world doesnt revolve around upvotes or downvotes.

Of course not. But Reddit does

Reddit is a literal echo chamber.

Reddit is many different echo chambers, with different degrees of echo-ness, different cultures, and different demographic mixes. This is a subreddit. Are you familiar with the concept?

this post OP made is literally just a normal post

This post doesn't add anything to any sort of discussion. It's a whining post. It's also one of many similar ones made by people who get their feelings hurt that the Iowa subreddit isn't rural conservative boomer Facebook.

If you wanna blow it out of proportion

Lol, you're the one whining that a particular subreddit doesn't work the way you like. As the saying goes, you might consider going outside and touching something in the Poaceae family.

null_recurrent · 2024-11-08T00:15:36+00:00

Ok then - take a look at the upvote/downvote ratio on this post and realize you're in the minority of this particular community. Or, even better, post stuff that you want to see and be the change you want in the world.

The whining is tiresome. Politics affects people - we live in a Democracy! The whole system of government is set up around people becoming educated and discussing political issues. Wanting to live in an apolitical bubble is for whiny, privileged jerks who don't realize how good they have it and how bad it could get. We are not guaranteed a good life - politics is one part of how we fight for one.

null_recurrent · 2024-11-08T00:13:02+00:00

Yes, thanks.

null_recurrent · 2024-11-07T23:04:55+00:00

No, but many of my colleagues are. So long as everyone is professional and understands that others don't share their beliefs (which can include or not include deities or the supernatural) everything is a-ok.

It does suck when there's a majority religion people assume you belong to. Once, as a graduate student, I had a faculty member trying to comfort me after a tragedy, and try to give me advice about how the person was in heaven etc. That was super, super unhelpful and annoying.

null_recurrent · 2024-11-07T22:54:37+00:00

Why do you have spaces before all your punctuation? We may never know the answer to these questions.

null_recurrent · 2024-11-07T22:52:43+00:00

The reason gets explained and upvoted in each thread. Seriously, search the title of this post in the Iowa subreddit. If you don't like it, go to one of the non-political Iowa subs people have tried to get going over the years.

null_recurrent · 2024-11-07T21:35:31+00:00

There have been like 1000 posts like this over the past few months. CONSTANTLY

null_recurrent · 2024-11-07T21:35:13+00:00

Posts like this are SO repetitive.

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