What is the indirect rate for gates foundation grants?
Will be a big blow to regional employment and St. Louis’s ability to attract talent.
I’m not looking forward to the pain but I’m looking forward to seeing every idiot who voted for him suffer.
I’m not looking forward to the pain but I’m looking forward to seeing every idiot who voted for him suffer.
Gates foundation overhead (and most private foundations) are like 10 or 15%. It’s important to keep in mind that private foundations (and also the department of defense) make up a pretty small piece of the pie in terms of grant dollars at washu. And the only reason those foundations can do that kind of overhead is because NIH is subsidizing a lot of the true costs of research via their indirects. Are washu’s indirect numbers kind of crazy (55%)? Yeah. But washu does stuff like having basically a moneyball office to help PIs optimize their grants based on language NSF and NIH are looking for, which is part of why washu continues to be a funding juggernaut. As a researcher at washu, I do think it’s reasonable for NIH to try to drive overhead costs down. But this strategy is brutal. And it’s not realistic to think that 15% is sufficient to cover all the things that indirects cover.
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Classic virtue signaling when every post written and vote for candidates is in stark contradiction to your tri-weekly activities. God bless you, good sir.whitherSTL wrote: ↑Feb 04, 2025And btw, as someone involved in BB/BS and drives to north STL every 3 weeks to retrieve a 12 year-old out of Hyde Park. I hardly live in a bubble.
Take a risk boys!
JD Vance suggested that federal judges who block "legitimate executive actions" are breaking the law.
Could quickly unfold into a Constitutional crisis if the administration fully adopts the idea that they can ignore court orders.
Can't imagine Roberts, Barrett, or Kavanaugh would agree with that idea.
Seems like the logical next step as much of what they're doing is blatantly illegal and even the Supreme Court would block it when that time comes.
Could quickly unfold into a Constitutional crisis if the administration fully adopts the idea that they can ignore court orders.
Can't imagine Roberts, Barrett, or Kavanaugh would agree with that idea.
Seems like the logical next step as much of what they're doing is blatantly illegal and even the Supreme Court would block it when that time comes.
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Okay, but the Supreme Court has no actual enforcement ability - they largely rely on the executive branch to enforce rulings. If the executive branch simply ignores the courts, there is nothing that can be done short of impeachment and removal from office, which isn't happening. Hell, even then, with the SC essentially giving a sitting president free reign to do whatever the hell they want to as long as it's determined to be an "official act", there's practically nothing that can be done.
Quite frankly, I predict there's going to be another civil war in the US if the boot keeps pressing down on the neck of the working class.
Quite frankly, I predict there's going to be another civil war in the US if the boot keeps pressing down on the neck of the working class.
Missouri research institutions (mostly WashU) just lost $100MM in funding thanks to Trump and Andrew Bailey.
The party of business is actively trying to destroy the most important business in the state of Missouri.
The party of business is actively trying to destroy the most important business in the state of Missouri.
I found this 4 episode series from 1999 interesting. It seems to have lessons relevant to things going on today.
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President Reagan's Radio Address on Canadian Elections and Free Trade on November 26, 1988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1T7kPEdDY&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1T7kPEdDY&t=1s
How much better would America be if the Republicans remained center-right and the Democratic stayed center-left?
How much damage was done by Clinton pushing the Democrats to be centrists and people like McConnell and McCain working with the far-right instead of keeping them down and irrelevant?
How much damage was done by Clinton pushing the Democrats to be centrists and people like McConnell and McCain working with the far-right instead of keeping them down and irrelevant?
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Status quo-defending centrism is doomed to fail because it's not equipped to deal with problems, admitting there are problems undermines their whole position that nothing needs to change. That's why the centrism-to-fascism road is so well-trodden.Auggie wrote: ↑Feb 12, 2025How much better would America be if the Republicans remained center-right and the Democratic stayed center-left?
How much damage was done by Clinton pushing the Democrats to be centrists and people like McConnell and McCain working with the far-right instead of keeping them down and irrelevant?
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This is correct. And unfortunately, judging from the new pick to lead the Democratic Party, the centrist play isn’t going anywhere.MarkHaversham wrote: ↑Feb 13, 2025Status quo-defending centrism is doomed to fail because it's not equipped to deal with problems, admitting there are problems undermines their whole position that nothing needs to change. That's why the centrism-to-fascism road is so well-trodden.Auggie wrote: ↑Feb 12, 2025How much better would America be if the Republicans remained center-right and the Democratic stayed center-left?
How much damage was done by Clinton pushing the Democrats to be centrists and people like McConnell and McCain working with the far-right instead of keeping them down and irrelevant?
Democrats need to adopt the child tax credit and universal basic income as firm policy objectives.
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UBI would take away too much leverage from companies to exploit workers. There's no way Democrats go for that unless it's more-or-less at gunpoint, a la the 1880-1930s socialist era or worse. If anything I think it's more likely the Republicans would go for it at this point.JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑Feb 14, 2025This is correct. And unfortunately, judging from the new pick to lead the Democratic Party, the centrist play isn’t going anywhere.MarkHaversham wrote: ↑Feb 13, 2025Status quo-defending centrism is doomed to fail because it's not equipped to deal with problems, admitting there are problems undermines their whole position that nothing needs to change. That's why the centrism-to-fascism road is so well-trodden.Auggie wrote: ↑Feb 12, 2025How much better would America be if the Republicans remained center-right and the Democratic stayed center-left?
How much damage was done by Clinton pushing the Democrats to be centrists and people like McConnell and McCain working with the far-right instead of keeping them down and irrelevant?
Democrats need to adopt the child tax credit and universal basic income as firm policy objectives.
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Lmao that looks like a high-schooler designed it.
Actually, come to think of it, seeing as Muskrat is surrounding himself with little boys that might not be too far off base.
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"Receipts coming over the weekend!" They can't even communicate like adults.
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How Will the Trump Tariffs Affect Construction?
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-will-the-trump-tariffs-affect
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-will-the-trump-tariffs-affect
StlPR - Bell, Budzinski say federal cuts to transportation funding will impact pending projects
https://www.stlpr.org/government-politi ... g-projects
https://www.stlpr.org/government-politi ... g-projects
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Maybe STL should pull a Vulcan, WV but instead of asking the USSR for transit funding, ask China to fund the construction of the Green Line.
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Checking in on unification-by-hatred: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime ... ea070737c4Chris Stritzel wrote: ↑Nov 06, 2024
Now the country needs to start attempting to unite a little bit more now. If all people want to do it fight each other moving forward, keep doing so. But most voters are tired of that sort of thing and want to move on.
Who are we supposed to unite around, Chris?
Edit: Good chance this will get picked up by national media and be our community’s latest black eye.
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I think you will see some unification amongst a large share of Americans against the most anti American administration this country has had since the Jefferson Davis admin.
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