You have quite a big stake which can be used for the STEM project, but instead, why do you prefer to burn rewards instead ?

Primarily due to the excessive waste and bad choices made by the DHF, I am trying to counter what little I can.

Is it like the STEM project is dead now from your perspective ?

No, but tribes mostly are dead in general as they can't really survive on Hive. I still actively maintain STEM and stand behind it having the best tokenomics out of all the tribes. It's just no one really cares and the infrastructure is crumbling.