If this is seriously how cognitively deficient Lemmy is, then Lemmy is no better than Facebook.
Peer reviewers are expert volunteers. Peer reviewers are NOT paid to complete peer reviews. It is a form of volunteer work.
Peer reviewers DO hold jobs in their respective industries, and are PAID for their actual, non volunteer, jobs.
This is stupid. There are two completely separate variables here.
Peer reviewers review publications as part of their service to their respective communities. Unpaid.
Peer reviewers are PAID by their respective industry for the fucking job that they perform for that industry. Paid.
Imagine saying that soup kitchen workers were paid one billion dollars last year. In reality, the soup kitchen workers WORK FOR FREE. They have OTHER JOBS in which they earn money.
This is divisive, disingenuous bullshit.
What an idiotic and dangerous thing for him to say.
Even doctors have HIPAA rules. You can’t go home and tell your spouse about your patient’s name and treatment.
Acting flippant about sharing national security secrets with his spouse is egregiously dangerous for national security.
“Hurr durr how DARE people with means try to protect themselves when a dangerous regime is taking over”
Give me a break.
The trump regime was designed to TANK the US economy so that stocks, businesses, and industries can be bought by billionaires at rock bottom prices.
All is going according to plan.
Nah. He’ll just privatize their work sectors to the highest bidders.
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The trump regime was designed to TANK the US economy so that stocks, businesses, and industries can be bought by billionaires at rock bottom prices.
All is going according to plan.
That’s hilarious
The trump regime was designed to TANK the US economy so that stocks, businesses, and industries can be bought by billionaires at rock bottom prices.
All is going according to plan.
Conservatives WILL like it when their media tells them how to justify/spin it.