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[โ€“] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I suddenly like a lot of things about France.

I have a vps with OVH which is French, and pretty great.

I'll 100% sign up with eutel (?) satellite internet if it's ever available here.

I've also been using mistral l, a French LLM, to draft some documents lately.

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[โ€“] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

We deserve this.

[โ€“] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Makes me wonder where all that money is going? I mean they must be making billions in those funding cuts. Are they all gonna funnel that money into Russia and tech oligarch's pockets?

[โ€“] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

They want to create an oligarchy in the US.

Privatise everything and give them to their billionaire buddies to run.

Imagine the money you can make by selling weather data, gathered by government sensors. Or a private VA organisation with an exclusive contract with the government.

[โ€“] Fluke@lemm.ee 10 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

Selling to who?

If the masses are penniless serfs, who is going to buy the services provided? One of the other 8 billionaires who own the country?

They really haven't considered the longer term here. Ultimately, they'll be kings of a worthless backward shitheap, despised and shunned by the international community, their best and most promising exfiltrated to the rest of the world then fenced off to rot into obscurity.

Like North Korea, more or less.

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[โ€“] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Brain drain also shifts the country rightward. Worked well for Fidesz, will work well for the Republicans.

[โ€“] Saleh@feddit.org 6 points 10 hours ago

The US is an oligarchy already. It has been since at least the late 70s. It is just that now the system is falling apart.

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[โ€“] FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Good for us. Very very good for us.

[โ€“] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago
[โ€“] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 39 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like the amount of stupid per unit volume in America is indeed increasing.

[โ€“] Lemmist@lemm.ee 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 5 points 11 hours ago

kg

"Stupid communist units that nobody understands"

  • the USA, probably
[โ€“] TylerBourbon@lemmy.world 37 points 16 hours ago

I wish I was a scientist so I could go too.

And frankly, this is just another parallel to WWII and Nazi Germany's rise. The non-fascist scientists and people fled to safer pastures.

[โ€“] easily3667@lemmus.org 8 points 12 hours ago (4 children)
[โ€“] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I personally know three people who are moving. All engineers. All queer.

[โ€“] easily3667@lemmus.org 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

43 people is more than 40, but not a lot

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[โ€“] Gladaed@feddit.org 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Barely anyone is actually a researcher at an university. Science is a pyramid scheme in a sense and everyone cut away to form the top is someone selling their soul to the industry as an engineer. Hence actual numbers are small in every field of research.

[โ€“] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's at a single university.

[โ€“] easily3667@lemmus.org 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Which is the only one that the article mentioned as offering. Blame the article if you think the numbers are bigger and they didn't bother mentioning.

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[โ€“] Ledericas@lemm.ee 9 points 13 hours ago

The low prospects of jobs for undergrad who don't have enough experience for grad schools also turns people completely away from being a scientists to, unless you have research published or significant experience in lab work prior to graduating you won't get far, it's also harder to get into them health, like

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