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A different viewpoint ...
American science put on starvation diet
www.theregister.com
... To make America great again, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) aims to get by with less.
The agency responsible for promoting scientific progress in the US and nurturing national STEM talent has proposed a budget of $3.9 billion, 61.7 percent less than the $10.183 billion sought in FY 2025. Actual budget appropriations tend to differ from the sum requested.
Established in 1950 to advance science and national health, prosperity, welfare, and defense, the NSF carries out its mission mainly by making grants to American colleges and universities and by supporting academic researchers.
"This is a budget of destruction of US science," an NSF staffer told The Register. "Cuts of 65 percent to 75 in science, engineering and education will remove the United States from the world's map of impact, will lead to irreversible damage to American creativity, and destroy our country's GDP." This person asked for anonymity for fear of getting fired for talking to the press. ...
@#50 ... Mad King's Enemies List
My search engine of choice came up with nada for that particular phrase.
OK, it, more generally, did find this Game of Thrones reference ...
gameofthrones.fandom.com
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"He loved to watch people burn, the way their skin blackened and blistered and melted off their bones. He burned lords he didn't like, he burned Hands who disobeyed him. He burned anyone who was against him. Before long, half the country was against him. Aerys saw traitors everywhere."
- - - Jaime Lannister[src]
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Is that what you meant?
@#18 ... The second Nazi salute by Musk is a salient difference, wouldn't you agree? ...
Elon Musk salute controversy
en.wikipedia.org
... On January 20, 2025, while speaking at a rally celebrating U.S. president Donald Trump's second inauguration, businessman and political figure Elon Musk twice made a gesture interpreted by many as a Nazi or a fascist Roman salute.[a]
It was widely condemned as an intentional Nazi salute in Germany,[3][4][5] where making such gestures is illegal.[6] The Anti-Defamation League said it was not a Nazi salute,[7] but other Jewish organizations disagreed and condemned the salute.[8][9][10][11]
American public opinion was divided on partisan lines as to whether it was a fascist salute.[12] Musk dismissed the accusations of Nazi sympathies, deriding them as "dirty tricks" and a "tired" attack.[13][14] Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups celebrated it as a Nazi salute.[15][16] Multiple European political parties demanded that Musk be banned from entering their countries. ...
@#12 ... Wow. You really zinged me. How will I ever recover from your rapier wit? ...
Maybe, by responding to #9?
Just a thought ...