He made a fancy coatrack.
jonhendry
They made $45 billion in revenue in 2023 ($1.3 billion net), so I'm sure that is a factor.
If you owned $219,000 in stock and grossed $45,000 a year, and had $31,000 in cash, could you borrow $16,000?
Obviously Oracle and OpenAI are also expecting to soak the idiot in the White House for billions and billions of taxpayer dollars.
"Here, I’ll fund some smart people to isolate them among like-minded fringe thinkers rather than mixing with a healthy normal range of opinions.”
I never read it but somehow absorbed bits from the ambient culture. Might have watched a version at some point.
Age may be part of it. I'm 53. Perhaps Oliver Twist stuff was more visible in US culture in the 70s and 80s than it was later.
A quick pubmed search finds NIH such supported research as:
"In 2005 the genome of the 1918 influenza virus was completely determined by sequencing fragments of viral RNA preserved in autopsy tissues of 1918 victims”
Insights on influenza pathogenesis from the grave. 2011, Virus Research
"death of the child victim”
Characteristics, Classification, and Prevention of Child Maltreatment Fatalities. 2017 Military Medicine
Etc
I’m not sure lawyers file for many NIH grants, but “victim" probably comes up in medical/science research. Pathology would be one possibility.
Note: They're all problems. Just “Trauma" is kind of extra-important because of its use as a medical term.
Trauma surgery, Barotrauma, Traumatic Brain Injury, Penetrating Trauma, Blunt Trauma, Abdominal Trauma, Polytrauma, Etc.
@skillissuer
I’m fairly sure that a 50 gallon drum of lye at room temperature will take care of a body in a week or two. Not really suited to volume "production”, which is what water cremation businesses need.