If Americans cannot have Big Brother come along and beat up all the greedy corporations who want to undercut their wages with H1B Indians, then you fucking writers, artists, and other Hollywood liberal assholes can suck a dick before anyone is going to care about your AI woes and whining. Feel free to pitch a tent on Skid Row and shut the fuck up.

You're reeeeally just gave me that stick to beat you up with? Wow, okay... let's go there. The U.S. biological weapons program, active from 1943 to 1969, involved government "scientists" at facilities like Fort Detrick weaponizing agents such as anthrax, tularemia, and botulinum toxin: poisons designed for mass harm. That was government "research". They stockpiled seven bio-agents and researched over 20 more, including smallpox and ricin, all under secrecy that hid the truth from the public. Post-WWII, the Chemical Corps produced nerve agents like Sarin and Tabun, importing Nazi samples for study and production. Most of this type of "research" continues or is even worse and scarier, including a quite real possibility that CV19 was the result of government funded research (CIA -> Ecohealth Alliance -> Wuhan Institute of Virology -> World -> Your Grandma). Thus quite a few deaths can be laid at the feet of government "scientists" doing "research". Of course that's not even scratching the surface since we didn't talk about The Manhattan Project creating nukes or the Tuskegee Syphilis "research scientists" and "doctors" running that program. The list is very very long, but sure, mock me as if the government isn't stealing from me to do some of the most evil shit on Earth against my wishes. When it comes to innovation... government intervention routinely hampers scientific progress by imposing bureaucratic hurdles, politicizing funding, and favoring cronyism over open competition. The FDA's lengthy approval processes, for instance, have delayed life-saving drugs like those for ALS and some cancers. So, yeah, weapons, poisons, and innovation beat downs are definitely a government "scientist" creed and not something decent folks should accept without a fight.

My experience with academics has been mostly with scientists at NASA or at university/government research projects with various schools like Virginia Tech, Cal Tech, and (many) others. I would say that in niche fields like Astronomy where most of the jobs are academic anyway, I've found a few really brilliant folks. I attribute that mostly to there not being as strong a place to exist in the private sector for them. However, for computer science I'd say it's mostly a dumpster fire with 90% of innovation being driven by the private sector, open source, or motivated loners. CS Profs are still trying to find a use for LISP or hustle some other niche bullshit.

Simple fact is that the government needs to be as small as possible and it's extremely suspect to have this many Ph.D's working there in the first place. That money paying their salaries would be better spent by the taxpayers it was stolen from.

Money spent in the private sector generally has a fiscal multiplier of greater than 1x, money spent by government has a lower coefficient. Of course, that fact is debated in well over a dozen academic papers all of which are aligned politically with whoever published them. So, the left-leaning academics always seem to find that government money has a positive multiplier. Private think tanks always find the opposite and that private money has the higher multiplier. Common sense tells you the private money is the better spend and that the public money-justifiers are probably just lying.

Well if that's what you think you're simply dead wrong.. The USA is still the #1 immigrant destination in terms of where they say they want to go. If you isolate educated folks, the data still doesn't fit your thesis. The educated immigrants want to go to Canada, the US, or Australia.

You are always posting some butthurt EU tripe. Notice the EU doesn't even rank here, at all. The EU majors in bureaucracy of which everyone has had their fill.

"I love scripting" ... "DevOps". So, you're an idiot Indian looking for someone to keep you from bouncing back to the home country. Don't let the door to the most popular immigration destination hit you in the ass on the way out. Feel free to remigrate back to India/Pakistan, also. I'm sure you're "needed" there and they'll fawn over your skills and bid up your salary.

Maybe. It depends on what those citations and publications actually resulted in. As a taxpayer, I think we have too many laws, too much government, and I remain unconvinced of the utility of my government's efforts in anything the private sector could do (and would likely do much better and more efficiently). So, are there currently products or services available to US consumers that resulted from your long employment with them? I have several patents on useful products to show for my personal engineering efforts. Those products are not weapons or poisons. Can you say the same?

It's not at all clear that the government's "scientists" do anything but create barriers for others to innovate around.

Yeah, suuuuureee all those 90+ % numbers were just made up by far Right meanies. The Pew Research Center (neutral/non-partisan) studies document that journalists at national and local outlets lean left/Democrat. For instance, surveys of journalists show more journalists identify as leaning left than right and Right-wingers clustering around basically Fox news and a small handful of sources. A widely cited UCLA study (Groseclose & Milyo, 2005) used an objective measure (comparing media citations of think tanks to congressional voting records) and found a pronounced liberal inclination in most U.S. outlets. The New Yorker, Columbia Journalism Review, and Politico also make the same admissions ("7% of journalists identify as Republican"). Are they far Right fascists, too, genius? The University of Indiana also concurs.

You're attempting to suspend/deny reality because you're a partisan. Just because you don't like the way the MRC meta-collected the facts, doesn't make them false. Journos are overwhelmingly far-Left. Full stop.

No, I mean the liberal media in the previously linked research. The existence of some Right leaning media is valid but doesn't change the totals. The Media Research Center study aggregates major surveys (from the 1970s through the 2000s and beyond) of journalists' self-reported ideology and voting patterns. This Allsides Bias Chart shows where the major outlets fall on the spectrum. As you can see the largest are mostly on the Left. Analyses of Federal Election Commission (FEC) records (e.g., from Center for Public Integrity and OpenSecrets around 2016) found that journalist donations skewed heavily Democratic: often 90%+ to Democrats/Clinton in election cycles, with ratios like 96%+ in some samples.

My comment was and is on media bias, what's with the constant attempts to change the subject to Trump? Axe to grind?

When you include web/browser usage, X crushes it. X gets roughly 145 million daily web visits (as of mid-January 2026), while Threads barely registers at @8.5 million. Monthly active users (MAU) estimates continue to show X ahead globally (around 550 million or more in recent figures) compared to Threads' @400–450 million MAU. Users tend to spend far more time on X (hours per month in some Android stats) compared to the shorter, lighter sessions on Threads. X also dominates real-time news, sports, and high-volume posting: all areas where raw post volume and impressions still dwarf Threads.

The real point is the Left hates X. They hate losing their censorship ban-hammer to Musk. They hate that he fired Parwal and 1000+ censors working for Twitter/X on day 1 ("let that sink in"). They hate that folks in the EU can find the truth about migrants, their economies, and crime. Slashdot is heavily dominated by far-left admins and users and this is simply red meat for them.

If it were up to the overwhelming-dominated-by-the-left mainstream media and the left wing partisans, the story about Irenya's murder would have been left as a barely noticed footnote in a local paper somewhere. The left cannot bear there is a place for people to find the truth and hear uncensored views on migration in the EU. Slashdot hates the last bit most of all.

Bitching doesn't preclude him from contributing. Plenty of people with strong opinions and things to "whine" about are also big contributors. Myself I bitch a ton but I'm also involved in many FOSS projects. The two are definitely not mutually exclusive. While I'm only about 80% overlapping with his specific points of contention, the spirit of what he's saying is correct. Fedora is a poop chute straight into the core of Linux and it's been the primary mechanism/conduit for it's anti-UNIX-way drift.

They did (what else would Wayland devs say?), but plenty of unmerged patches on Freedesktop.org say they didn't just express their opinion in a vacuum. Others were trying to fix and update XOrg and were being stymied and blocked by Red Hat / IBM Employees who control the Freedesktop.org governance structure and police the Code of Conduct. The X11Libre project was a reaction to that overt political power grab after Red Hat employees rejected over 140 patches and merge requests for Xorg and Freedesktop components. They wanted Xorg to die (they even said so straight out) and didn't appreciate folks like Weigelt trying to fix or update it.

Unreliable, unstable, and lacks several important and not-at-all-obsolete features they simply claim to be obsolete. Well, guys, simply claiming isn't really gonna cut it. However, alternatively, the commits in Wayland related projects are about 3x that of X11Libre RN. Wayland bits and pieces (wlroots, mutter, etc..) now pack in more LoC. Newer features like HDR support are mostly concentrating on Wayland and the Wayland folks are getting less shit-stupid/strident with their anti-XDMCP stance and putting some work into the X11 compatibility service.

There aren't a ton of measurements I've seen, but from what I can tell, many features are simply missing. I'm not sure one could even *do* fair 1:1 comparisons. However, I think as newer cards land Wayland support faster than X11, the performance edge start tilting toward Wayland overall.

It did. It also took a lot of very nasty politics and shitty behavior by Red Hat and IBM using a Code of Conduct to lock out Weigelt over his political views (he's a vaccine skeptic). Would have been nice to let him continue to fix and update Freedesktop and Xorg components without the "We want this to die so stop working on it!" stance or the "we want to censor your politics so we won't let you code here" stance. Would also have been nice if Wayland evangelists didn't go around judging/trashing people's opinions about XDMCP and what's useful to them "If you want XDMCP you're stupid and you should fuck off, troglodyte" was 2015. 2026 should be "Hey, we're almost done with XDMCP support and it'll be a pleasure to complete that important feature and keep it maintained."

Ahh.... not really. He crushed your assertions with a well-reasoned post about his personal situation. You didn't do anything to refute a single point. He mentioned having no place to charge, expensive EV motorcycles with shitty range, car dependency in a real area with fewer options, a desire for EVs they don't really make (reasonable priced coupe), and didn't even hit you with "99% of them have DRM'd batteries only the vendor can replace at HUGE cost to the owner", and the only thing you did was just put on your normal smug "Everything you said proves my point" nonsensical response. Hint: nothing he said proves anything you wanted proven. Not even close. It's clear environmentalism is a religion to you, not reality that has to be proved and debated to stand up to real world arguments and situations. It's no wonder that negatively impacts your ability to reason, think critically, or engage with uncomfortable facts.

So you bash the "culture war" but open up with partisan slander and worn-out culture war talking points? How extremely disingenuous.

You're doing exactly what the powerful want: fighting sideways instead of looking up. You intake so much media that they have you convinced it's "the other guys" that are "the problem". It's not. It's the powerful elite who control the media and use it to marionette people like you into wasting your energy so they can enjoy the status quo and gain even more power.

You might be right, but I'd bet it's angry censors who lost their allies at the biggest public forum.

It's the same butthurt censors who lost their power when Pajeet Agrawal and 1000 censor-trash-waste-of-money employees were fired. You're not a troll, you're right.