u/Deus_Excellus

I found out today that a close family member of mine has late stage cancer. They discovered it unexpectedly. The disease has spread quite extensively and while treatments exist, I don't feel optimistic for their time remaining based upon what I've heard. It's not a cancer known for a high survival rate.

My family is being very optimistic. I don't think reality has hit most of them yet. Anyway, I'm rather unsure what to do. I feel quite bad for them. Does everyone just go on with their lives while someone else dies?

I don't really have anyone else to talk to about this issue. Nobody I know has gone through it. All of the deaths I've experienced in life have been unfortunate but sudden.

I love hearing from my PI that we don't have sufficient funding to allow students to have research-only appointments. I appreciate that my president who can barely read or do basic mathematics like calculating a percent gets to decide how much my group's research is worth.

It's really awesome living in a country where the dumbest people get to decide everything for everyone else. Logic? Reason? Nah, let's just go with feelings. Does it matter that funding science actually increases revenue in the US? He graduated from Wharton and claims to be a businessman, but good economic decisions? Nah, that's for them libtards.

Thank god he cut funding for woke science like cancer and dementia research too. You know who gets cancer and dementia? The god damn liberals! That'll teach em.