• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    You’re dead on. Science is a process. I can science the shit out of baking soda and vinegar to make a volcano, and I don’t need government funding to do it. What you science is effected by capitalism, but capitalism is just a scare word. No matter what you want to do, if it requires a significant amount of power or work to create your materials, a cost is accrued somewhere, and someone has to pay it, whether it costs dollars or beaver pelts.

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      30 days ago

      This is reductive to the extreme.

      Clearly if all you want to do is to build a baking soda volcano you can go ahead.

      It’s also pretty clear that baking soda volcanoes aren’t the kind of science the meme is talking about.