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Comment by ceejayoz a day ago

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I suppose we'll have to hope researchers overseas complete the work.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/federal-funding-for-m...

> Federal support for mRNA vaccine research appears in jeopardy after KFF Health News reported Sunday that officials at the National Institutes of Health have directed scientists to remove all references to the lifesaving technology from their grant applications. All such research is now under direct scrutiny from health secretary and long-time anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

nimbius a day ago

Chinese scientists under the steadfast leadership of the communist party of China will gladly undertake this important scientific research.

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  • rbanffy a day ago

    There is a point to be made in favor of political stability.

    One of the great things in Ireland is the list-based voting that punishes extreme viewpoints and policies. OTOH, sometimes we need politicians willing to make unpopular choices, and our system makes that more difficult.

    China, IIRC, has a different concept, one where a person can't be a candidate to a position more than one level higher than the highest one they were previously elected for. This prevents anomalies like Trump, and seems to be a very sensible approach (if coupled with a couple extra freedoms and multiple parties).

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    • wkat4242 a day ago

      Xi Jinping has removed many of those protections though like the maximum term count so he could stay in power.

      And Ireland politics got me pretty sad. It just seems to pingpong between two equally inept parties (fianna fail and fine gael) and nothing new ever happens. They just keep piling problem on problem without ever solving anything. I remember there being a lot of fuss about patients in hallways during mary harney's reign in the mid '00s and I don't think that was ever solved. Last time I ended up in hospital there I ended up in exactly that situation. The post-2007 housing crisis is another one. Does anyone actually expect that to be ever solved? And the strange thing is, this country has no shortage of land whatsoever.

      What happens is that one party blames their predecessor and wins the election and then next term things switch back again through exactly the same mechanism.

      I think something more left like sinn fein would be good for the country but they have too much image baggage due to their past. And labour seems to really just sit at the sidelines forever.

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      • TechDebtDevin 8 hours ago

        >What happens is that one party blames their predecessor and wins the election and then next term things switch back again through exactly the same mechanism.

        This is literally the United States for the last half century.

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    • jimbob45 a day ago

      So you have to work your way up from the bottom? Surely there’s a mathematical impossibility to get to the presidency here unless you’re making astronomical progress year over year?

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    • colechristensen a day ago

      The unpopular choices that need to be made in America are the centrist ones.

      One of them being "whether it's left- or right-aligned, let's not engage in your social agenda on the federal level for a while"

      >where a person can't be a candidate to a position more than one level higher than the highest one they were previously elected for

      For much of the time in the Roman Republic they also had this

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursus_honorum

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  • ajuc a day ago

    The only 2 countries on Earth - USA and China.

    You don't have to choose between oligarchy and communism. There's normal countries out there.

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jasonvorhe 14 hours ago

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  • ceejayoz 14 hours ago

    That’s research. Which they are defunding.

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    • Teever 12 hours ago

      Just flag the comment and move on.

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    • jasonvorhe 14 hours ago

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      • ceejayoz 13 hours ago

        Go on. Tell us how you'd figure out if a medical treatment is safe for human use without funding research like a clinical trial.

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