A parable from my time in American academia: One day, the Gates Foundation descended on a field related to mine, with enormous bags of money. They wanted to fund /encourage a certain flavour of historical research. The orders had come on high, from Gates himself.
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Also in science. Eg high temp superconductors (start at ~9:40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESLkKhUE7jA&list=PLCgPBt05jaJ6gT4D48PQv70q-NQmwel6S&index=10 …
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Take away quote: "...within 6 months 75 percent of the department was working on high temperature superconductors, and the only one of the five who had worked on high temp superconductors before, who went into the field, was Dave Redmon, because he didn't have tenure"
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....or was there? welcome guys to truth cosmic alliance dot tv where we uncover the elites plans for world domination. Im your psychic host; Fredston Aclair. Today: Bill Gates re-writes history
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We never stopped having kings & queens, the only thing that changed is they no longer even pretend to care about the people they rule over.
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We also lost the ability to... ahem, "dispose" of those nobles and use that disposal as a warning for the next set of nobles on what their priorities should be. After all, they don't "REALLY" rule you, they just have money, so you're not allowed to push back meaningfully.
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Guten Tag, here is your unroll: A parable from my time in American academia: One day, the Gates… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1410519474135048194.html … See you soon.
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Some time ago I was looking through his list of "best reads of xxxx year". I even read 2 titles he recommended. Never again.
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the guy has a mind like a potato.
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