I do think that any time people say stupid shit about government research should remember the guy who got the grant to annoy gila monsters and find out what’s in their gross but not dangerous venom. And what he found is the cure to 2-3 of the most common diseases and what might be the cure to like, all modern ailments. Truly gila monster spit is the Spice Melange of 21st century America.
my favorite is shrimp fight club. every time a republican conservative politician tries to hold them up as THE research needs to be stopped example of wasted spending they find out that the pistol shrimp has insane armor and hard offensive impact ability and they immediately go into military fetish mode and drop the entire thing.
while i agree pistol shrimp are anime/metal as hell for being able to absorb a hit that breaks glass from a creature the size of a mouse, there should be an understanding that research often betters the lives of people around the globe in ways that are unseeable and semi-miraculous. some guy took a trip to see camel herders putting moldy bread on their bite wounds and that lead to antibiotics. some guy hung around milk maids until he discovered vaccines. let the children play. pay them to play. you will see how wonderfully easy it is to make the worst things in the world a thing of the past.
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