I’m in 5th year of phd in semiconductor design and fabrication - I too am weighing my international options!

There are tons of protests going on everyday around DC. There’s some planned for tomorrow at HHS HQ specifically for this concern

I’m mostly upset that this puts z-library and libgen back high up on the anti-pirating enforcers radar

you know what Flying Squid - I’m gonna email my senator right now. 🐙

where are all the conservative instances so we can go DUNK and SLAM on them?

most electoral college votes. Less people voted for trump than did for Hillary in 2016, and he still won.

Yes, Kamala would have been better. But she lost, and thats on her. This geno cide has been going on for 75 years and she gave no indication that she would do anything to stop it.

I understand the anger - I’m currently dealing with grad school funding issues directly related to the new admin so it’s hitting very close to home. However, instead of left-of-center infighting over who got the fascist in office (when neither/none of us even voted for him) we could join forces and troll conservatives online by simply posting facts in their comments section. <3

https://uscpr.org/pro-palestine-protests/

Good on you @febra. Some of us have to stick to our principles. Meanwhile, other comments make it truly apparent that ‘scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds’

To the people blaming protest voters: Other voters are not your enemy. The two-party oligopoly is the enemy. The goal of zio nists and is rael was always to remove all the palestinians from the region - it is built into the purpose of the state. There is no evidence kamala would have done anything to stop this. She wouldnt have said lets take it over ourselves and make it into fucking casinos, but regardless, the overall plan of removing all the palestinians would have continued and the US would have continued to fund it.

A federally managed DoE goes all the way back to 1867 - it became a cabinet-level department with a specified ‘Secretary of Education’ in 1979.

Breaking news: Locals fight back when invaded by foreign countries. Shocking!

it includes a halt on publishing scientific articles as well, so there is a currently a moratorium on federally-sponsored research/knowledge being open source (which is like…the whole point of having federally-sponsored research)

I am at one of these agencies. This includes a pause on scientific publications to journals

Far more concerning is the fact that anybody (or country, company, etc) on the planet with enough money can now directly bribe the us president through crypto

Same! It is definitively unconstitutional and the us gov just pushed it through anyway (with even supreme court backing it up?!) Shit is crazy, and yet I see a lot of ‘no big loss’ type comments on it.

the Chinese state is censoring and fencing off some of the content there as a result. Source?

tiktok has(d) developed into a hivemind where tens of millions of people (or more?) can be a part of a discussion. This made it easy for trends to spread rapidly, such as deciding where to migrate with the impending tiktok ban. From my own experience on tiktok, the last few weeks there was much discussion of where to go, and it appears the hivemind settled on rednote.

I imagine merch sales are not insignificant, maybe? I see some artists selling special items on occasion like vinyl presses. Do musicians on tiktok with lots of views make money? I’m not sure how that works but it seems popular