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My wife is a PhD in recycled asphalt materials and pioneered the use of such materials in New Mexico.

Under her PhD supervisor she directly worked with the NM department of transportation as a consultant. She did all that as an international student besides her graduate studies while being paid at 50% FTE (+tuition).

It takes between $10m (rural) to $100m (urban) to build a mile of interstate. Recycled materials can reduce the cost by 15-50% while still being equally as sustainable for decades.

Fortunately she is no longer at risk (or minimal risk) job/immigration wise. But others are not as fortunate. Just yesterday I learned that a PhD student from my alma mater was turned back from port of entry and his student visa denied. Reason? He traveled with his University provided laptop without written authorization. I understand that there are embargos and sanctions and trade restrictions, but really?


Because academia and University research is broken at best and leftist breeding ground at worst /s

Current administration have plenty of time, 3 years to be exact, to turn USA into another Iran.

Some people also need to get in the habit of researching a claim by themselves.

Pretty sure doing your own research turns you into a conspiracy theorist; so I don’t think we’re supposed to do that anymore.

Haha that's a good one. Maybe just do a "@grok is that true?".

No it doesn't. Conspiracy theorists don't actually do research. If they did, that might risk invalidating their theory.

At least some conspiracy theorists do selective research.

Selective research is an oxymoron.

The word for it is cherry-picking and it is better classified as a fallacy.


IMO, the problem is that you must learn what "research" actually entails before attempting it, so that you don't fall into the trap of that fallacy.

Most people… eh. I don't know about the rest of the world, and my experience was in the 90s, but for me GCSE triple science was a list of facts to regurgitate in exams, and although we did also have practical sessions those weren't scored by how well we did Popperian falsification (a thing I didn't even learn about it until my entirely optional chosen-for-fun A-level in Philosophy; I don't know if A-level sciences teaches that).


40% is not earth-shattering when it closed at $6.73 yesterday.

The absolute value of one share doesn't really mean anything. No matter how you slice it, down 40% means that the company lost 40% of its value overnight. That's pretty Earth shattering for any company IMO.

If it does not mean anything, why do day traders concentrate on sub $10 stocks and long term investors ignore them?

Did you just answer your own question? Sure, the share price is a psychological element and, in conjunction with pre-fractional-ownership, it helps explain the prevalence of splits above $100/share. But no, the individual unit price doesnt affect true “value”, marketcap, or fundamentals like future discounted profit model.

Tesla was winning because US government gave it half a billion dollars when it was struggling financially.

> Claude kind of has your best interests at heart

How we've all been blue-pilled. Sigh..


Easy, he committed fraud by blowing up the renovation budget.


Could you point me to the East Wing of the White House please?


Logic does not matter to alt-right.


And that happened even after they arrested him and tried to put him in jail. What's happening now might be shocking but not unexpected at all.


>tried to put him in jail

They really didn't. It was a dog and pony show under the belief that he would not make his way back into power. The dems/reps did not want to set a precedent of holding a president to account for doing terribly illegal things. They didn't intend to actually do anything to prevent this.

And so here we are.


I'm not sure I entirely agree with that. I wonder if the Democrats didn't delay prosecution until late 2023/early 2024 in order to have it be a headwind against Trump running again.

If so, they have been well-paid for that bit of "strategy". Trump was able to delay the cases long enough that the election came first, and now he has immunity at least while in office.


> I wonder if the Democrats didn't delay prosecution until late 2023/early 2024 in order to have it be a headwind against Trump running again.

I think they didn't realize the moment the country was in. They put a judge in charge of the justice department when we needed a bull-dog prosecutor. It was a bad choice.


He's done planning, it's in execution stage now. Speaking from my experience of living unelected/farcically elected governments for ~20 years.


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