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EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm

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259 points anigbrowl | 2 comments | 18 Jul 25 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.432s | source
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jleyank ◴[19 Jul 25 00:00 UTC] No.44611189[source]▶
It's really depressing how the US system seems to have existed "on belief". Once somebody set out to damage or destroy it, away it went. Pretty much without a whimper.

As I recall, the system was set up with 3 branches of government in tension. Obviously, that was naive.

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bamboozled ◴[19 Jul 25 12:51 UTC] No.44615093[source]▶
Social media is killing our societies, and it hasn't just affected politics, that just seems to be one of the lighting rods of all the shit.

Social media has allowed the masses to be manipulated in a targeted way like we've never seen in history.

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1. Rebuff5007 ◴[19 Jul 25 14:42 UTC] No.44615860[source]▶
Its a bit sad to me that the tech community here on HN doesn't seem to take any responsibility for all this.

Surely some non-trivial percentage of the commenters / lurkers that are proud to talk about their mono-repo or their favorite react library had some part in the fact that millions think the covid vaccine has 5G.

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2. bamboozled ◴[19 Jul 25 19:39 UTC] No.44618649[source]▶
I have friends who worked or work at Meta who will sit in their mansions paid for by all this destruction telling you how bad the USA has become and how displeased they are with the current admin, and never mention the role of social media lol