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  • @[email protected]
    28•5 days ago

    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!

    • Atelopus-zeteki
      9•5 days ago

      Is that tragic optimism? New Zealand, are you ok over there? I guess we’ll never know.

      • @[email protected]
        11•5 days ago

        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.

          • @[email protected]
            4•5 days ago

            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.

  • @[email protected]English
    13•5 days ago
    1. survive covid like fucking champs
    2. fire Jacinda
    3. do stupid cruel shit <— you are here, aka the “fuck around” stage

    Well, kids, that’s where the betting pool opens.

  • @mutant_zz
    8•5 days ago

    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).