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[–] obbeel@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Springer, Nature and Elsevier seem to be on a pretty long run to me (19th century).

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Every empire comes to an end.

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

To be fair, this is mostly self inflicted. Nobody forced them to strip the NIH, NASA, etc.

[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Yep, the numbers back this up. NIH funding has been stagnant in real terms since 2003, and NASA's budget as % of federal spending is about 1/4 what it was during the Apollo era. Meanwhile China's reserch spending grew 16% annually from 2010-2020. We're literally choosing to give up our scientific edge.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 days ago

The American Empire was showing signs of decline possibly as early as the 1970s but America is collapsed in theologically and the infrastructural pillars holding this place up are being kicked out because of that, which will facilitate further collapse. Blue States should just leave the union already

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The voters. The voters forced this.

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

That’s not wrong, but it’s also reductive and borderline misleading.

[–] PagPag@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago