• Landmammals@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        If you ask the scientists in my local Facebook group, it could kill all of them. That is, the ones not already killed by vaccines and 5G.

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      1 year ago

      I was kind of thinking that $22 billion really doesn’t seem like that much money for a project like this.

    • DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The feds give the states more than $16b per year to build and run shitty, custom made IT systems for their Medicaid programs. It’s basically a subsidy to IT companies. There are thousands of examples like this, where spending money on fundamental science is clearly a better investment.