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  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    10 months ago

    This happened last time Trump was president too.
    Except this time it’s way quicker, and probably way more urgent.
    This time it’s not just because USA is unpopular, now there are also people who simply don’t want to take the risk of being sent to some prison they may never get out of.
    It’s exactly the same as for tourism, which AFAIK has dropped almost 30%. If this translates to conferences, they can expect that 30% of foreigners invited that would normally show, will not want to go to USA.

    • mriguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      I just went to a conference in Hawaii, which is usually a very popular, but half the poster boards were bare. I saw multiple recorded talks because the speakers were denied entry visas, including one of the opening keynote speakers.

    • brendansimms@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      i heard there’'s this just *horrible * site called sci hub that allows you to put in links from paywalled scientific articles and gives you access to read them and it works for pretty much every scientific paper out there…

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    The murder rate is much lower in the rest of the western world, so good chance this will save some lives