I truly do not understand why US scientists are not sending every scintilla of data on their research projects to every other scientist in other countries.
Just package it up and send the harddrive second-day air. Let them distribute it outside the aegis of the Sad Murder Clown and his Incel Nazi Commandant.
The US is actually a small, silly country that despite every advantage couldn't manage to not kill itself.
Cut bait and save the knowledge. The country is irrelevant.
@johnzajac Have you ever worked in a lab? With scientists?
They are mostly selfish assholes who would rather die in a gulag than risk sharing credit for their "discoveries", which are JUST ABOUT to win them fame and acclaim. Any day now.
@johnzajac Hopefully people are already doing this and are smart enough not to let anybody know. I can't imagine sending unpublished data is super legal.
@johnzajac There are a ton of initiatives going on to preserve data. I read here on Mastodon about a bit torrent based project that is doing this in a distributed way (sorry I can’t find the link now).
@johnzajac Aaaand not 2 minutes later I see an article about the torrent project on HN -