Redkid1324

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[–] Redkid1324@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

First of all, I would like to commend you on your calm and respectful demeanor. I comprised a few in a comment below. I am interested in information on the approval process and what goes into that. On the outside, it appears that it's just a sign off sheet and popularity contest so I'd like to educate myself on that process more.

[–] Redkid1324@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ok fair enough but how does something like that get through the competitive process then? On the surface it sounds frivolous which would mean it wouldn't be competitive?

[–] Redkid1324@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The cost of some of these are insane too.

https://stacker.com/stories/business-economy/some-strangest-projects-funded-taxpayer-dollars

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/13-bizarre-scientific-experiments-that-somehow-got-government-funding/ss-AA1KJLys

I personally don't understand gain of function and why we would ever do that.

https://osp.od.nih.gov/policies/national-science-advisory-board-for-biosecurity-nsabb/gain-of-function-research/

There was one person that was searching for parasitic snails....for some reason.

Again, I think the pendulum swung too far for this admin however some of these grants, in my opinion, are frivolous and we could all probably agree WAY too expensive for the work that is being done.

[–] Redkid1324@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago (9 children)

While I agree this administration went too far in not funding stuff, there were A LOT of grants that were useless and frivolous.

[–] Redkid1324@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't this influx of lithium dilute your investments?

[–] Redkid1324@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Really? Didn't notice the sports stuff. Glad you found some good deals

[–] Redkid1324@lemmy.world 42 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I would argue to say black Friday is dead. The deals were definitely not that great this year and there is no time crunch anymore since it's like a whole weekend or week and nobody has money to do that anymore.

[–] Redkid1324@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah someone made a point this could be used to go back into Afghanistan

[–] Redkid1324@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I wonder if the alphabet agencies wanted them to come here?

[–] Redkid1324@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This is a great point. A couple possible holes in the conspiracy, I don't think it was as predetermined as charlie Kirk and I think there was a lot of people around when it happened.

They have been very quiet on the deets

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