Yep, they are setting themselves up for that. He’s already shown he doesn’t understand how to play DC politics. Maybe he’ll learn, but he and Sam have played this so poorly (and greedily) that public sentiment is clearly soiled on AI at this point.
I could see how standing up an independent body could be an easy win in the public eye, it’s becoming low hanging fruit, socially.
It’s not crazy… the wages are below food prep. What would be crazy is paying to help someone else’s career. That’s why a well known rule of thumb for graduate program evaluation is whether or not they pay their grad students.
If they pay their grad students, then at least the time the grad students spend creates enough value to offset the cost of paying them.
If not, stay far away from the program.
Also, regarding the career comment: If graduate school is not at least the first step in a given career (it should the second, undergrad being the first), how/why do you expect gifted intellectuals to spend their prime wage earning years doing it?
Most people do not have access to enough wealth to spend prime wage earning years toiling to help someone else’s career with no return on investment.
The chemical differences between PFAS and vitamin A and B6 are beyond vast.
Comparing them betrays a complete ignorance of the molecular properties that, in combination with biological system processes, make A and B6 healthy at small doses and poisonous at large doses on one hand, and those that makes PFAS linearly poisonous at any given doses on the other. (And yes, you can be exposed to small amounts of toxins and be fine. That doesn’t change the toxicity of a given substance.)
Struggling to see how this could be anything but a bad faith argument.
It really feels along the lines of "prove lead is actually harmful rather than potentially harmful" with all the knowledge and evidence we currently have.
You're apparently also not that well versed in English idioms given that "doing the Lord's work" is a well-known phrase which does not need explaining to the average speaker (native or not) of that language.
Doing the Lord’s Work
When someone handles a task that benefits everyone — especially something inconvenient, uncomfortable, or ignored by others.
Often used humorously. Doesn’t always refer to religion.
Can describe someone sacrificing time, energy, or sanity to improve a situation nobody else wanted to deal with.
“Whoever fixed the Wi-Fi before the meeting started is doing the Lord’s work.”
I could see how standing up an independent body could be an easy win in the public eye, it’s becoming low hanging fruit, socially.
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