• DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    In a related story, President Donald Trump has personally set fire to the Library of Congress. As he has previously cancelled funding for, and disbanded, all fire services in the Washington DC area, the raging inferno burns unchecked.

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    Can these samples be transported to another facility in a stable democracy?

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      things like this have already been happening for months

      I read in Dutch news papers that Dutch scientists are working closely with their US counterparts to copy, save, and rescue as much data as possible

      It’s such a sad state of affairs but then again, IDGAF. Americans chose this, dealer with it. Your country is over, you’re done for. Once you lose science and scientists, you’re building your own end.

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        I wish Canada were doing more of that. We’re in such a natural place to poach the “good ones” but there doesn’t seem to be any concerted effort.

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        I am so happy to hear this. I hope that hackers are able to get in through the many backdoors that have been left open now, too. Please anyone and everyone, get the scientific data before it’s deleted.

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    Yet all of that priceless data may soon be discarded due to President Donald Trump’s ongoing feud with Harvard

    Willett and his team were left scrambling to find the funds needed to protect freezers stocked with stool, urine and DNA specimens gathered from thousand of nurses for nearly five decades. Just the liquid nitrogen needed to keep the specimens frozen costs thousands of dollars a month.

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    Fuck, are we going to have to crowdfund this? At least with CNN reporting on it there’s enough awareness they might secure alternative sources, but this is getting fucking insane.

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      I honestly would not be surprised if any attempt to save these samples, or in fact to defend any of the other scientific progress being discarded, was met with a harsh reprisal.

      Like, they’re intentionally going over the top destroying these institutions and data to provoke a reaction, this drawing their awake adversaries or if the woodwork. (And, since they’re so opposed to being “woke”, one just assume they’re sleepwalking through life…)