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With how liberal the biology department can be, they love their DEI initiatives, how screwed am I?
Well, I mean, if they are studying how racist fungi are or how ecosystems are actually a reflection of tranny culture then yeah, I'd say start planning for an alternative. If you are researching actual, useful biology then you'll have a job.
 
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Clock me if late but per AP, DOGE started investigating treasury about an hour ago

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the article is two paragraphs man, stop redditoring it up and read the actual article instead of just the title. the inspector general of the Treasury is doing an audit at the request of democrats to see if they can find any security issues that would give them ammo against DOGE
WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The Treasury Department's inspector general said on Friday it began an audit of security controls for the U.S. government's payment system, the Associated Press reported, after Democratic senators expressed concern about the access given to President Donald Trump's aide Elon Musk and his staff.

Citing a letter it obtained from Loren J. Sciurba, Treasury’s deputy inspector general, the AP said the audit will review the past two years of transactions. The audit comes amid concerns over accountability for Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team.
 
the article is two paragraphs man, stop redditoring it up and read the actual article instead of just the title. the inspector general of the Treasury is doing an audit at the request of democrats to see if they can find any security issues that would give them ammo against DOGE
shit fair enough, I was just salt mining and saw that right at the top so wanted to share

my thinking was if the treasury is investigating him that means they have access to their records though yea?

appreciate the clarification though
 
How can we forget the four branches of government:
Judicial, Congress, President, and Subversive Bureaucrats.

Some are more equal than others.
 
I disagree with this part. Russia isn't le big bad that it's made out to be and I question if it ever was le big bad and not a psyop for infinity-funding of Operation-paperclip Nazis to experiment on the American people. (MK Ultra for one, popular example).

Biden pushed the sanctions on Russian energy to sell US energy to Europe at a marked-up price. Guess where the proceeds went? Ukraine. It's the same playbook as Iran-Contra.
Proof of this can be found in the UK where our PM Liz Truss - a Trump fan, was ousted after 40-or-so days because she was going to make Britain energy independent and help Europe with cutting ties to American LNG. The international markets were manipulated to make her look unpopular - combined with a media campaign to call her a lettuce, and she was gone.
How is that proof? Our current government lick the balls of the EU and paki elite, supported Kamala by sending 100s of labour members to the US and have ruined our economy WORSE than Truss. Yet they're still in power.

TL;DR - Russian energy sanctions benefited Russia. America (Biden+globohomo+wefaggots) fucked around to make extra money from Europe to help fund the war in Ukraine, which gave America the excuse to keep the gas flowing and the war going.
I respectfully disagree on your first point. It's an open secret that Putin had something to do with the 1999 apartment bombings which catapulted him to political office. He is not a good guy and, ever since his election, he has refused all NATO and Western cooperation unless it had to do with killing Chechens not under the control of Kadyrov. I 100% agree with critics that expanding NATO at the exclusion of Russia in the 90's was a fucking terrible idea, but post-Soviet Russian leadership never showed an interest in "joining the club" so to speak, and they either never made security guarantees to post-Soviet states - or they outright reneged on their assurances (e.g. Ukraine).

As for all the weird energy policies, I do agree with you there. A lot of green and renewable energy people are serious innovators. There is a lot of strategic value in renewable energy. However, that industry has become a giant incestuous government slush fund boondoggle.

Russian energy sanctions really only benefited countries like India and China that were able to get dirt-cheap energy from Russia. My opinion on the Ukraine War is this started out as a EU mistake that snowballed into globohomo nation-building.

Edit to add: the Ukraine War was also a way for the US to do "penetration testing" of Russian military capabilities and study the results. We learned a lot about Russian warfighting - at the expense of the Ukrainians, but data is data. I don't think it's right, but there is a silver lining.
 

NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science


My older colleagues in scientific community are dead scared of indirect costs cuts, which are costs not related to a project (the janitor, security cost, utilities, salaries); some departments are dependent on a lot of indirect costs (biochemistry is ~55%, chemistry too).

I know the Don likes to leverage before negotiating, but I'm concerned about I pursuing doctorate in genetics soon. With how liberal the biology department can be (they love their DEI initiatives), how screwed am I?
Is it too late to change your research focus to racial differences in intelligence?
 
shit fair enough, I was just salt mining and saw that right at the top so wanted to share

my thinking was if the treasury is investigating him that means they have access to their records though yea?

appreciate the clarification though
here's some more information from ABC News, which ironically seems to have much better reporting than the AP

from what it says here it sounds like they're trying to do an audit to:
- see if there are any security controls that DOGE misused against protocol or something for news hit pieces
- see if they can find fraudulent transactions, and if they find none (according to them), use it for news hit pieces
Article | Archive
The Treasury Department's Office of Inspector General on Friday said it was launching an audit of the security controls for the federal government's payment system, after Democratic senators raised red flags about the access provided to Trump aide Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team.

The audit will also review the past two years of the system's transactions as it relates to Musk's assertion of “alleged fraudulent payments,” according to a letter from Loren J. Sciurba, Treasury’s deputy inspector general, that was obtained by The Associated Press.

The audit marks part of the broader effort led by Democratic lawmakers and federal employee unions to provide transparency and accountability about DOGE's activities under President Donald Trump's Republican administration. The Musk team has pushed for access to the government's computer systems and sought to remove tens of thousands of federal workers.
 
No dumbass this the OIG auditing DOGE’s access to the payment system. It’s some bullshit spin by the Democrats in an attempt to make them not look like a giant pile of corruption.

https://apnews.com/article/treasury...sk-democrats-d1e2710d0b63f54a8c1fe50fe4f23d4d
https://archive.ph/Cepoz
This just came up on ZeroHedge and discusses what’s going on there. It’s kinda both


 
Migration is going very well for the Europeans and the people coming there in droves are definitely not causing any problems for their host nations.
But if you'd just visualize a rhetorically useful alternate universe in which a white German did that instead of yet another ungrateful savage from Islamistan, you'd realize that you are wrong.
 
DOGE has already been looking at the Treasury for a while because all payments go through there. They’ve been finding stuff like fraudulent Social Security payments. This is why there’s a lot of confusion. It’s not so much that they’re auditing the Treasury, they are auditing various departments and that has to be verified with Treasury records. The media has started this whole ‘Musk claims are unsubstantiated!’ which is partially true because you need access to the paystubs and only the Treasury has that. Well, now Musk did get access to it and has started finding the receipts, which is making the media and Dems have eggs on their faces. So of course Democrats want access to those records to be revoked. They want to be able to go back to saying that all this waste that Musk is finding is just ‘alleged’.
 
Learn to code.
This unironically. Bioinformatics is probably the safest and effective jobs in the bio sector, especially important with how oversaturated general CS is today.
If you are researching actual, useful biology then you'll have a job.
I'm hoping to research combatting plant viruses, by modifying plant to express antivirals on command with a simple molecule. The value of such a system could be incredible, allowing farmers to prevent entire plantations from a sure death.
 
Tangential: The reason the left can't meme is memes arise from bored, young men shooting the shit, making each other laugh, and creating inside jokes. The left doesn't allow that any more, any leftist group conversation is a Maoist struggle session or estrogen-fueled purity spiral. Organic humor isn't allowed any more, making memery impossible.
Memes also require humility. If you cannot laugh at yourself, you can’t make a joke that others can laugh at. The left treats themselves so seriously that even their jokes have to be part of their war to “save the world”
 
DOGE has already been looking at the Treasury for a while because all payments go through there. They’ve been finding stuff like fraudulent Social Security payments. This is why there’s a lot of confusion. It’s not so much that they’re auditing the Treasury, they are auditing various departments and that has to be verified with Treasury records. The media has started this whole ‘Musk claims are unsubstantiated!’ which is partially true because you need access to the paystubs and only the Treasury has that. Well, now Musk did get access to it and has started finding the receipts, which is making the media and Dems have eggs on their faces. So of course Democrats want access to those records to be revoked. They want to be able to go back to saying that all this waste that Musk is finding is just ‘alleged’.
Right, and to maintain the appearance of fairhandedness, they are also reviewing the security of the system, because they’re taking the dem talking point literally
 

NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science


My older colleagues in scientific community are dead scared of indirect costs cuts, which are costs not related to a project (the janitor, security cost, utilities, salaries); some departments are dependent on a lot of indirect costs (biochemistry is ~55%, chemistry too).

I know the Don likes to leverage before negotiating, but I'm concerned about I pursuing doctorate in genetics soon. With how liberal the biology department can be (they love their DEI initiatives), how screwed am I?
>biology

Why aren't you in a real science? Are you a woman?
 
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