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<p>I think our new executive branch (from lofty DJT to lowly Elno,
or vice-versa) are working hard to do the periodic extraction of
the built-up/latent "wealth" of the commons. I feel like (despite
voting for the bastard once) Reagan's trickle-down nonsensery was
a weaker version but also a template (not to mention Gilded age
Robber Barons). Why invest anything in the commons when you can
just raid it and then withdraw when everyone figures out what you
have done and wait for those with a bit more foresight to refill
the silos of knowledge and capability to raid again?<br>
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<p>My shoot-from-hip judgement of Elno-the-Magnificent is that he
hisself has done this. He came into the EV and Space Launch world
at a time when a great deal of the tech was in place and all he
had to do (understating) was reconfigure it boldly. As someone
recently pointed out, he can launch 95 rockets which blow up to
figure out how to get the 96th one to do very well what the other
95 were trying to do while NASA gets shut down for a year if they
launch even a single rocket that blows up.... a different kind
of technical debt?</p>
<p>Trump's moonshot vaccine development program was pretty much the
same... the pieces were in place and he got to take credit for
something which was "easy" (and then dismiss the need/value for
vaccines out of the other side of his mouth) and is now about to
raid the research budget for medicine in general (to give Elno and
company tax breaks?). <br>
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<p>The current inertia of renewables also gives him room to pull all
support back, redirect it to more aggressive fossil fuel
development and while destroying the biosphere (some more) gets
even more bang for his buck because wind/solar/hydro/geo are all
supporting a voracious energy demand which his fossil
aggressiveness will cash in on (Jevons Paradox).<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/8/25 2:50 AM, Santafe wrote:<br>
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Would be interesting to see a list of various categories of
science funding per capita or per GDP for countries around the
world. Situate the prospective US in this list. Will our society
be like that of Kazakhstan? Or maybe like Uganda? Probably well
below Uruguay or Argentina or Chile.
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<div>Want a direct visual image that can be delivered, about the
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