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knowledge about how the universe works so that we can understand it and improve human society,

it's been a bad few fucking months. Kind of seems like we're entering a new dark age all of a sudden, because Trump and Elon

have fired thousands of scientists from science agencies like the National Science Foundation,

the National Institutes of Health, and the National Weather Service. They've also been

freezing grant money, slashing research budgets, and even censoring scientific studies because they contain the word gender.

And finally, at his speech before Congress, Trump said this.

Just listen to some of the appalling waste we have already identified.

$8 million for making mice transgender.

Okay, first of all, dude, it doesn't take $8 million to change a mouse's gender.

According to Walt Disney, it just takes six eyelashes.

But the studies Trump was talking about have nothing to do with turning Mickey into many.

They were cancer research, fertility studies,

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