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New comment by WeylandYutani in "How the U.S. became a science superpower"

WeylandYutani — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:01:18 +0000

You know NYC is already minority white right?

New comment by WeylandYutani in "How the U.S. became a science superpower"

WeylandYutani — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:43:37 +0000

They could have voted socialist at any point in time. Americans could have had healthcare, 36 hour work week and a pension system.

That is the tragedy of the American empire- instead of improving the lives of its citizens all the money went to tax cuts.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "The Fed Can't Save This One: Why Bonds May Break the Stock Market in 2025"

WeylandYutani — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 02:04:59 +0000

Why do Americans want to break things anyway? The economy was doing fine, unemployment was low. What is the trigger that made half Americans go nuts? There does not seem to be a rational cause unlike 1860.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

WeylandYutani — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 01:36:30 +0000

Everyone except those who died in the camps.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

WeylandYutani — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 01:26:24 +0000

Disagree. Polarisation existed long before Trump. America was going to face this sooner or later. The culture war was always coming.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation"

WeylandYutani — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 01:03:08 +0000

Is Intel still a mega corporation? That seems to be the real problem for Intel. Becoming prey.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "Shame and Revolution: Vietnam’s potent and storied anticolonialism"

WeylandYutani — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:54:58 +0000

Ah but you forget that the economic exploitation of the former colonies was supposed to continue. It is not so much communism that frightened the West as it was nationalism.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

WeylandYutani — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:21:38 +0000

"incentive to move manufacturing back to the US"

Only for the internal market. America will never again manufacture steel or cars for the rest of the world. The days of America being the factory of the world (which really only lasted a few decades) are forever gone.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "The Guardian flourishes without a paywall"

WeylandYutani — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:01:43 +0000

In the Netherlands newspapers have traditionally been funded by subscribers. Running a newspaper is not that expensive- most of the news is after all happening in the third world were a few thousand euro can get you far. Have your journalists fly economy- or worse Southwest lol.

People who cannot afford your product are not your audience, it is okay to be elitist.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "US administration revokes $11B in funding for addiction, mental health care"

WeylandYutani — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 01:17:44 +0000

You honestly think anyone in the US wants to evaluate just why Americans turning to drugs? Nobody wants to open up that can of worms.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "University of Toronto Snags Yale Professors as Canada Raids American Brain Trust"

WeylandYutani — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 01:03:44 +0000

You are right but this requires Americans to stop thinking their country is perfect. Any deep introspection and the whole facade breaks down...

Anyone who does not want to worship Jesus or Trump is welcome to check out the Netherlands.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "'Eggflation' sending US shoppers to Mexico – where $300 fines await"

WeylandYutani — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 02:01:16 +0000

The US is not the only country that suffers from avian flu- although the inability to get the outbreak under control is alarming.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "No one knows what the hell an AI agent is"

WeylandYutani — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 02:57:26 +0000

They invested billions into AI so you can be damn sure they call everything AI.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "American Pharmaceutical Companies Aren't Paying Tax in the U.S."

WeylandYutani — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 05:28:16 +0000

Exactly. We don't live in a cyberpunk world were corporations run their own universities and have their own private army.

Everything that allows a company to exist- from electricity to roads to law enforcement of patents is funded by taxpayers.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "Antarctic scientists beg for help after assault and death threats from colleague"

WeylandYutani — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 05:21:25 +0000

On the ISS astronauts can call their family members but I think there is a 20 minute communication lag between us and Mars?

New comment by WeylandYutani in "Harvard says tuition will be free for families making $200K or less"

WeylandYutani — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 03:47:30 +0000

A lot of international students receive scholarships from their own country to study at the best universities. Brains are a strategic resource.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "Harvard says tuition will be free for families making $200K or less"

WeylandYutani — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 03:33:17 +0000

Yeah my definition of not well off is minimum wage. Maybe I am wrong here and Starbucks is really paying barristas 200k per year IDK?

New comment by WeylandYutani in "Harvard says tuition will be free for families making $200K or less"

WeylandYutani — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 03:29:00 +0000

There are entire skyscrapers filled with people whose job it is to make sure rich people pay as little tax as possible.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee"

WeylandYutani — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:42:22 +0000

That is bullshit. With that kind of thinking there would never be a whistleblower or political scandal. Everything can be swept under the carpet because someone signed an NDA.

New comment by WeylandYutani in "Study finds 46 percent of U.S. counties have pharmacy deserts"

WeylandYutani — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 01:23:13 +0000

I remember a documentary on China and apparently they let people study medicine for free if they play Medicine Woman Quinn in the boonies for a few years in exchange.