I realize this is an older article from 2016. But it’s just so good, I had to share it in case some here aren’t familiar with her. Her name is Alexandra Elbakyan and she’s the person behind Sci-Hub, a library website that provides free access to millions of research papers, regardless of copyright, by bypassing publishers’ paywalls in various ways.

And she’s my personal hero. :)

Thanks!

You make a great point. Seems like it would be a good fix!

Great news!

Well they are the ones in the situation, so I guess they know better than you.

Glad Trump and Musk rescued them!

All good fun, right? :)

I like Musk.

I disagree and I think they’re doing a great job.

I was referring to my comment that they guys are cutting all of that. And to that remark, you replied, “But they’re not.” and I said they are. As in the ARE cutting all of that.

They are.

I still dig what they’re doing though. Democrats fucked around and wasted money with no oversight. These guy are cutting all that. I’m good with it.

Huh? I’m posting a link to an article, how would I forget what I’m doing? Is the link not showing up? It shows up on my end. Are you commenting about the article?

Yep

Finally! Let’s get some new people in there!

Yep! I used to like him, but he’s become miserable to listen too lately. I liked his stuff back in the 80’s though.

They’re only against it because Trump is doing it even though they’ll benefit the most from it.

Yep! If Harris won and was doing this exact same things, Lemmy and Democrats would be shouting for joy. lol

They were never doing DEI because the believed in it anyway. I think it’s hilarious that Democrats fell for it.

These companies were doing whatever they think made them the most money.

And I promise once dems get in power again, and start talking DEI, these companies will start it all back up again. lmao

Agreed.

I’m not in love with the “let’s mow down everything and ask questions later” approach for all things. But in this case, I think good will come out of it, in spite of some brief pains.

The fact is that neither party has done any shit like cleaning up these numbers for as long as I can remember. So on the whole, I think DOGE is doing more good than bad.

Plus I love the chaos it’s causing on Lemmy! lmao

I actually hope there will be exact numbers, programs, and names, and what their justification was for all of these programs. BOTH sides have been wasting our money for a long time. I want names. lol

Guess the entire world hasn’t collapsed just because Trump became president. Even tho Lemmy wants you to think everything is worse. :)