Federal Shutdown Means More NIH Grants Won't Be Reviewed this cycle, more lost time, more research coming to a halt, more scientists leaving to other nations. This is what a failing superpower looks like.
I encouraged folks with strong English skills to apply to Canadian and UK unis in 2016 and got called hysterical and an extremist.
There's a big sunk cost in learning a language, but Canada and the UK have some fine unis. (No offense to Edinburgh but you're no Oxbridge yet -- I'd bet that Scotland declares independence and joins back with the EU at some point, the main reason independence failed last vote is a lot of the things they wanted they got via being in the EU.)
The Dem argument would be that NIH Grants are not particularly reliable under a funded Trump administration, as the administration seems to ignore the will of Congress on a whim, cancel grants, etc with little legal recourse.
Seriously thinking about looking for a position in Europe, as funding my research has gotten terribly uncertain (even more uncertain the it usually is) in the U.S.
If anyone thought China's gain in the last 20 years was rapid, they have no clue what it would look like by 2028 - thanks to a self-inflicted damage by Republicans.
China has actually slowed down drastically over the past few years. They shot to middle class and are now facing middle class problems - unemployment, overpriced housing, low fertility rates, insane traffic, social welfare, etc.
The trade war since 2018 does impact their livelihood. But I think most impressions of China are just well outdated; they've been ahead of the curve for years now. Funny enough, a Google search on how China is doing will pop up what Americans think of China, despite me being geographically closer to China than USA.
If anything, there will probably be a lot of social reforms in the next 50 years or so because the political censorship is starting to crack. They'll need to loosen it to have control, ironically. We'll probably see it evolve to something similar to Western style surveillance and censorship, e.g. FBI kind of stuff.
Lots of problems in China. But if I were a betting person, I would bet they'll fix their problems far better than America because of 3 reasons
1. They care about citizens more than billionaires
2. They are not obsessed with partisan and religious takeover
3. They don't have a narcissistic tyrant driving the country down.
This can all change if they get their own narcissistic tyrant someday - and they have a poorer political system to deal with tyrants. But that's only in comparison to historical America. Trumpistan America might be comparable in political weakness to communist China.
> It was something like, "the US spent trillions on wars in the middle east, we spent trillions investing in our country"
This is no longer true - because the US now spends trillions on internal domestic wars to run a mass prison system - all while China keeps investing in development of the country.
>They don't have a narcissistic tyrant driving the country down.
Try posting a picture of Winnie the Pooh on one of their social networks then get back to me.
I had a Chinese coworker who confided he'd like to make $$$ in the US then maybe go back to be a professor after his post doc ended.
Next time I saw him all he would say is "China has changed". Apparently it's a dog whistle for all the things people used to say openly, at least when over here.
Winnie the Pooh isn't tweeting racist AI memes of colored people - aka - they are authoritarian but not tyrants stoking hate among their own populace.
I am not saying China is better. I am saying that they are not regressing as a society. America is actively regressing back to pre civil rights racist, anti-education, anti-health era.
And Trump is putting people in concentration camps AND riling p[eople up with hateful rhetoric.
By almost all measures, Trump is worse than Xi. The only reason Trump's rhetoric is pared down is because of the American system - which republicans hate and are trying to skirt with executive orders.
Using taxpayer money to pay for healthcare for illegal immigrants is also a self-destructive act. China isn’t funding healthcare for illegal immigrants either, for good reason.
> returning back to Detroit this morning after the republicans failed to show up in the US house. We got to make sure Americans have the healthcare that they need, and if that means we've got to shut this government down than so be it.
Not sure where you are getting the illegal immigrants stuff from.
And both sides have the power to avoid the shut down by coming to an agreement with the other side.
If democrats are intentionally shutting down the government to keep healthcare for Americans, republicans are equally as intentionally shutting down the government down to oppose healthcare for Americans.
Why is the democrats fault and not the fault of the republicans who voted against the budget? They could have prevented the shutdown all by themselves.
Could you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? You broke the site guidelines badly here, and we've had to warn you about this more than once in the past.
There's a big sunk cost in learning a language, but Canada and the UK have some fine unis. (No offense to Edinburgh but you're no Oxbridge yet -- I'd bet that Scotland declares independence and joins back with the EU at some point, the main reason independence failed last vote is a lot of the things they wanted they got via being in the EU.)