• Kickforce@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      0·
      11 days ago

      They should remove the transmission from their cars, just weld the engine directly to a wheel, not efficiënt but it won’t turn the boys into girls.

      • Skydancer@pawb.socialEnglish
        0·
        11 days ago

        No, they need to stop using transportation altogether. I’d love to see a trend of repugnicans cutting off their legs to “own the libs.”

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    0·
    11 days ago

    Whoever came up with that stupid word filter and decided to follow through on it without proper human review that the filter matched what they meant to find, is pretty trans-intelligent.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    0·
    11 days ago

    So I learned something yesterday, from someone who is in the world of research.

    The trope about researchers spending most of their time applying for grants is no joke. Universities don’t pay researchers; the researchers get paid from the grant money they receive. If they also have a teaching position, they might get a tiny tiny bit from the university, but that’s it.

    So when federal grants get halted, there’s a whole bunch of people who do important research basically put out of work immediately. The kicker is that a fair amount of the research being funded is ongoing research, where if you just “stop doing it,” all the previous work is ruined. Because there’s a lot of things you can’t just stop, put on a shelf, and restart later.

    Little t’s war on universities is more serious than you might think.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      11 days ago

      If they also have a teaching position, they might get a tiny tiny bit from the university, but that’s it.

      Granted this is a best-case scenario, but the salary for profs at my alma-mater (a public tier 1 research university) are public and I looked one of them up once. He was getting well into six-figures for teaching classes.

      • Prime@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        0·
        10 days ago

        If at all, this applies only to profs, which is a tiny subset of researchers and insanely hard to get into. Everyone else is paid shit and 80+% depend on grants. Source: am researcher

      • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        0·
        11 days ago

        Yeah, from what I see, professors get their salary i.e. the money for living expenses from their teaching job. But most of the research money comes from grants. Those are usually earmarked so that they can only spend it for very specific purposes.

        Edit: This is only true for people who need to run labs. For subjects like math or philosophy, professors depend less on grants since most of their work is done without significant expenses. But they still do need grants for travel and organizing conferences.

    • FishFace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      11 days ago

      As far as I can work out about this USA, this is not true. It is certainly not true where I am from. It may be true in the case of postdoctoral researchers (but not always), i.e. relatively junior researchers who don’t yet have a permanent position. But a permanent position is just that - it’s like a permanent job, and you’re paid a salary by the university that gave you that position. You will typically also need to apply for grants in order to pay for things like:

      • travel to conferences
      • travel to collaborate in person with colleagues at other institutions
      • make papers open access
      • hire postdoctoral researchers and PhD students.

      I did two postdocs during my time in academia and both were grant funded (one awarded to me, one awarded to a more senior researcher who then took me on as a postdoc). I also applied to one postdoc position I remember which although fixed term, not permanent, was paid for by the university. I worked with many permanent staff who had salaries from the university as well as grants for other things.

      As far as I can tell in the USA the only real difference is that your salary may only be for the 9 teaching months, not the full academic year, and you’re expected to top up those 3 months if you want to be paid a proper wage.

    • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      11 days ago

      Which is why this is hilarious imagine the country threatening everyone inhibiting their own future which means they will be more dependent on the people they’re threatening in the future.

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        0·
        11 days ago

        The people who are making these things happen are wholly unfamiliar with consequences.

        • Kickforce@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          0·
          11 days ago

          But they are speedrunning for the rapture, no consequences when they are off to heaven eh…

  • oo1@lemmings.worldEnglish
    0·
    11 days ago

    Someone tell them microphones can be described as a transducer, maybe they’ll quieten down. I guess all combustion engines , furnaces and motors / generators are too technically.

    Make america amish again

  • make -j8@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    11 days ago

    they really implemented a regex filter on scientific papers ? lol that’s beyond idiocy

    but hey at least the voters identify with the main idiot in charge

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    11 days ago

    dumbfucks are using regex improperly.

    they’re using /.*(trans).*/ instead of /\s{1,}(trans)[- (sexual|[fe]*male)]*\s{1,}/

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    11 days ago

    Transformer-coupled transimpedance transistor amplifiers are also verboten.