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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>It seems to me they haven’t this through so good. Thousands of NIH, NSF, and DOE funded scientists out on the international market. Add to that reduced regulation on advanced scientific equipment and services. Augment with a general sense of doom and self-interest and alienation from their country of origin. Sounds like a recipe for foreign-based companies to scoop them up, if not other governments. I won’t suggest particulars, but I think it is obvious how this could result in bad outcomes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Jochen Fromm <jofr@cas-group.net><br><b>Date: </b>Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM<br><b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] MUsk + trUMP's = MUMPS<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>American scientists who want to come to good old Europe are welcome here. I believe we have better and healthier food too (which is not difficult because the U.S. is famous for fast food and fast food is as everybody knows really not good for you)<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>https://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/scientists-run-again<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-J.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>-------- Original message --------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>From: Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2@gmail.com> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Date: 3/16/25 4:23 AM (GMT+01:00) <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>, kitchenlist@liste.unisa.it <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Subject: [FRIAM] MUsk + trUMP's = MUMPS <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>If you agree that this is a meme that should be distributed, please spread it around. Artistic credit to George Patrick Tremblay IV. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailsignatureprefix><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
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