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[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 28 points 2 months ago

American Brain drain loading...

[–] Troy00@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I bet the small blue one, on the buttom, witch does not gets smaler, is Elons SpaceX funding.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You don't have to bet. You can click on it and find out.

[–] Troy00@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ahhh, i didnt klick on it. thak you. Intresting, it seams very random, i wonder why they increasd the spending on Ocean sciences?

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it's a little bit humorous that republicans think we'll actually get some of that money via no taxes at all or stimulus checks lmao.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

They don't think that, but they think it's humorous that you still believe that.

The politicians, anyway. The voters are probably still fooled.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Kakistocracy at its finest.

[–] noctivius@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago
[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Does that chart account for partial cuts that destroy ongoing studies? The kind that would have to be completely scrapped because one element is lost. Even worse, if all replication or even repetition were cut, then we are throwing out all of science.

I hope Europe is able to step up like they were talking a couple weeks ago.

[–] PragmaticOne@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Kind of embarrassing don't you think. For a country to fall so far :/

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

NYT, wtf is this shite infographic? Just use pie charts, they're so much simpler to parse.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True, the bar chart is probably the best, but both pie and bar outperform, by a wide margin, whatever NYT's chart is. With this many categories, I feel a pie chart will handle this info better than a bar chart.

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 3 points 2 months ago

From a pure functional perspective, probably. Maybe.

Personally, I look at this more as a piece of art, as the chart was most likely picked because the visuals replicate what its describing: Science funding was shattered and is now in pieces.