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Re:U Pittsburgh pauses all PhD admissions amid DOGE funding ... by rayiner on Sunday February 23, 2025 @09:01AM (#43149276)
Were the people at HHS who tried to reduce indirect costs in 2013 during the Obama administration also not the “people who actually know anything?” https://archive.ph/2025.01.09-171418/https://www.bostonglobe...

I bet the “people who actually know anything” at Boeing would also say their launch costs are as low as they can go and there’s nothing to cut.

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Re:U Pittsburgh pauses all PhD admissions amid DOGE funding ... by selimthegrim on Sunday February 23, 2025 @11:31AM (#43150562)
It seems like the better comparison from your article would be 1992, but really, having RFK Junior sitting there with a chainsaw is in no way comparable to 2013
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Re:U Pittsburgh pauses all PhD admissions amid DOGE funding ... by rayiner on Sunday February 23, 2025 @11:55AM (#43150825)
It’s different because RFK with a chain saw might achieve change where Obama failed.

We have had 3 populist elections in the last 5 cycles. Obama 2008 was co-opted and Trump 2016 was stymied by Russia investigations. So this time there’s RFK and Elon and Tulsi with chain saws. If the people don’t like the results they can vote for Harris in 2028. But at least sometime tried to do what the winning party voted for.

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Re:U Pittsburgh pauses all PhD admissions amid DOGE funding ... by meroes on Sunday February 23, 2025 @02:11PM (#43152135)
These are cuts to enrich the extremely wealthy, not for a lean-mean-fighting industry. Your whole conception is off. They don’t need or care if the entire country does better overall, they care about personal wealth. It’s Obama wasn’t trying anything of the sort.
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