If you want to look at this as an optimist: scrapping all support for social sciences across an entire country is a great social science experiment. Now we get to learn how important social sciences are!
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fossilesque - 1.0yr
It's so incredibly short sighted, I do not know how to react.
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Atelopus-zeteki - 1.0yr
Is that tragic optimism? New Zealand, are you ok over there? I guess we'll never know.
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deadbeef79000 @lemmy.nz - 1.0yr
No. We're not.
Our current ultra (for us) right wing government is busy pillaging the country to line thier own and their cronies' pockets.
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Contentedness @lemmy.nz - 1.0yr
Hey at least the landlords got their tax cut tho right.
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deadbeef79000 @lemmy.nz - 1.0yr
That's not actually one that pissess me off: specifically interest deductibility.
Demanding cost cuts from health, education, disabilities support, "cracking down on beneficiaries" and generally shitting all over the most vulnerable members of our society... Just to build a few more kilometres of motorways and "celebrate our most successful" with tax cuts.
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Atelopus-zeteki - 1.0yr
Dang, sorry to hear it. Hang in there friend.
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haverholm - 1.0yr
Bleakly optimistic at best, yeah? 😬
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corsicanguppy @lemmy.ca - 1.0yr
survive covid like fucking champs
fire Jacinda
do stupid cruel shit <--- you are here, aka the "fuck around" stage
Well, kids, that's where the betting pool opens.
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JokeDeity - 1.0yr
I don't catch all the news all the time, just learning they got rid of Jacinda. Why? Why in the actual fuck would you get rid of her?
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acockworkorange - 1.0yr
She quit, basically. Couldn’t deal with the stress of holding on to her beliefs while facing the soulless ghouls of politics. Using less colorful language, of course.
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flambonkscious @sh.itjust.works - 1.0yr
And to be fair, her kid is about 18 months, im guessing?
Or have I dropped a year or two in my calculations?
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acockworkorange - 1.0yr
A year or two wouldn’t make that much of a difference TBH.
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mutant_zz @lemmy.world - 1.0yr
I had actually been planning a proposal for this fund for next year (social science). I'd sat through seminars on how to write a good proposal, and no one mentioned funding getting cut was even a possibility. The universities were completely blindsided.
It's a decision that seems to be driven purely by ideology, and mostly comes from one of the junior coalition partners (Act). I know for a fact that their leader has been expressing discontent about some of the research being done that has been criticising him (I.e. showing how his party spreads misinformation).
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stellargmite @lemmy.world - 1.0yr
KiaOra, mind pointing me in the direction of that research if anything is available?
I'm actually getting scared now. Project 2025 seems to be global. Every country on Earth is moving in stride with the fascists and seemingly happily so. This planet is about to get very ugly.
fossilesque in academia
Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-cuts-basic-research-new-zealand-scraps-all-support-social-sciencesIf you want to look at this as an optimist: scrapping all support for social sciences across an entire country is a great social science experiment. Now we get to learn how important social sciences are!
It's so incredibly short sighted, I do not know how to react.
Is that tragic optimism? New Zealand, are you ok over there? I guess we'll never know.
No. We're not.
Our current ultra (for us) right wing government is busy pillaging the country to line thier own and their cronies' pockets.
Hey at least the landlords got their tax cut tho right.
That's not actually one that pissess me off: specifically interest deductibility.
Demanding cost cuts from health, education, disabilities support, "cracking down on beneficiaries" and generally shitting all over the most vulnerable members of our society... Just to build a few more kilometres of motorways and "celebrate our most successful" with tax cuts.
Dang, sorry to hear it. Hang in there friend.
Bleakly optimistic at best, yeah? 😬
Well, kids, that's where the betting pool opens.
I don't catch all the news all the time, just learning they got rid of Jacinda. Why? Why in the actual fuck would you get rid of her?
She quit, basically. Couldn’t deal with the stress of holding on to her beliefs while facing the soulless ghouls of politics. Using less colorful language, of course.
And to be fair, her kid is about 18 months, im guessing?
Or have I dropped a year or two in my calculations?
A year or two wouldn’t make that much of a difference TBH.
I had actually been planning a proposal for this fund for next year (social science). I'd sat through seminars on how to write a good proposal, and no one mentioned funding getting cut was even a possibility. The universities were completely blindsided.
It's a decision that seems to be driven purely by ideology, and mostly comes from one of the junior coalition partners (Act). I know for a fact that their leader has been expressing discontent about some of the research being done that has been criticising him (I.e. showing how his party spreads misinformation).
KiaOra, mind pointing me in the direction of that research if anything is available?
The New Zealand Social Media Study did some analysis of fake news during the '20 and '23 election campaigns. They did a bit more in 2020, here are some of their results: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/hppi/psir/psir-research/election/facebook-campaign-communication
Much thanks !
I'm actually getting scared now. Project 2025 seems to be global. Every country on Earth is moving in stride with the fascists and seemingly happily so. This planet is about to get very ugly.