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The administration's assault on science feels eerily Soviet (grist.org)
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[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

The lowest bar of entry for a soviet university degree was engineer, because you need a lot of those. the highest bar of entry for a soviet university was something like actor, pianist or trumpet player, because you don't need a lot of those for your national project.

It's why former soviet states have women in stem numbers that windmill-slamdunk on every western nation. We need some railway engineers and I don't care about your bits, get planning.