A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Shout out to my wife's uncle, the nature photographer who loves hiking and nature and voted for this chode to stop the woke mind virus. How's that going bud?
Was this a condition of the Iranian ceasefire?
Since when is the President in charge of government agencies and their funding in any way?
I guess they know what they are doing.
Just kidding
one man should not be allowed to hand America's assets to his cronies and sidekicks
The ~~Confederates~~ Republicans have spent decades laying the groundwork for this. Every GOP member “elected” or appointed to any role has helped pave the way.
Brace yourselves for widespread Mossad set fires this summer and then a justification for being forced to sell off these lands for “maintenance”
This is the way the world ends.
Well how the USA ends if nothing else. But knowing the USA we will take everyone and everything down with us.
I FUCKING HATE THIS COUNTRY.
I don’t hate this country. Just a few select individuals with too much power and money.
Nah, Trump and the Oligarchy aren't something happening to America, they're a consequence of America
I think both are true. When the media is controlled and the populace is spoon fed bullshit for a long enough period of time, people who lack critical thinking skills eat it up and vote against their own self interests. People are also very unlikely to take responsibility for their own actions and find it much easier to blame others for their own shortcomings, which leads to tribalism and racism among other things. The other major issue is the giant wealth disparity causing a huge imbalance of power and influence. Couple that with the inability to have politicians not beholden to that power and money (citizens united) and you have the perfect storm of bullshit and corruption.
I really think the quote from Agent K in MIB really sums it up.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.
Don’t get me wrong, there are people who are just trolls and assholes who are beyond saving. But I continue to believe they are exceptions rather than the norm.
But why destroy the research?
They're unironically Captain Planet villains.
To show the sheer contempt for the goodie two-shoes trying to save the world.
The whole world is panicking as one lunatic is destroying everything. And there is nobody who can take him by the ear and pull him out on the street ...
There are people who can, but not people who can AND will.
Yeah great, let’s put the logging industry in charge of the forests. Who cares about research projects when you’re going to cut down all the fucking trees anyway.
Not so fun fact: Forest fires over last 6 years have made global forests net carbon emitters instead of sinks.
Yeah, its not fun that we live in a place that is now on fire year round somewhere.
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/0e45bd0ef9814d5e9ec3f87900a4cfe9
Gonna be a lot more fires in CA.
Next step, logging
Sweet mother Appalachia, the robber barrows are back. I grew up in the deep woods there, they have always been exploiting us. Please help save your rainforest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_temperate_rainforest
It’s such a shame. The US had such an exemplary park system, and now I anticipate the days where they bulldoze Yellowstone for a community of golf course condos that advertise their hot spring spa.
I hope the employees steal the data on the way out and give them to a university or some entity who can save them.
In retrospect we probably shouldn't have let a paedophile destroy the country.
Nobody could possibly have seen that coming.
There couldn’t have possibly been a detailed plan released by a conservative think tank that was actively involved in his election campaign.
Do you expect me to read all that? Nerd!
Can you source this? Feels like a gross over exaggeration compared to the article I read before.
They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
Yeah that's pretty misleading. The regional offices are being replaced with 15 state-based offices.
Same with the research program.
“The consolidation of research stations does not mean a retreat from the agency’s research mission,” Mr. Schultz said in the email. “Forest Service R&D has produced world-class science for over a century, and that will continue. The consolidation is about organizing the research enterprise more efficiently, not diminishing it.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
You fell for the bullshit spin excuse