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  • Alcohol use is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the US – report

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  • Yeah, the studies generally point to a cumulative effect. Basically the aldehyde byproduct of alcohol breakdown is also poisonous. It can lead to cancer growths so arguably binge drinking is worse in that respect because it takes longer for everything to clear.

    Interestingly, if there was a way to break that aldehyde down faster, then the cancer risk might go down significantly. It's just not super clear at this point.

  • FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court

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  • Lieberman wasn't a Democrat.

  • FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court

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  • Yeah mate, he tried. Congress didn't pass single-payer and he didn't anticipate that level of Republican hostility because it hadn't happened on that scale in the modern era of politics. So we got the ACA instead, which has likely saved thousands of lives just through no denial of coverage for preexisting conditions, let alone everything else it did.

  • Russia: Man accused of organizing LGBTQ+ tours dies in jail

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  • Any coagulation of power is a structure for corruption to take place.

    If that's the case, why are you participating in this moderated forum controlled by other people? Surely you're just feeding their inevitable corruption.

  • Russia says it's using bitcoin to evade sanctions

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  • Yeah hilariously, cash is actually more untraceable. Anything digital can eventually be tracked. It's not easy, but it's doable.

  • Biden has officially appointed more judges than Trump

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  • Precedent is set by every court. The Supreme Court considers what 9 judges think are the most important cases but a lot of times they aren't. They regularly punt on difficult decisions. District courts don't really have as much ability to do that so a lot of law is created at the local level. Also, the judges define the culture of the court.

  • Biden has officially appointed more judges than Trump

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  • The appellate courts do not hear anywhere near the volume of cases that district judges go through.

  • Biden has officially appointed more judges than Trump

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  • Elected judges are far worse than appointed. You do not want someone campaigning and judging cases at the same time. They inevitably issue decisions that have precedential downstream effects and are based purely on trying to win their electorate.

  • Elon Musk’s Threat to Primary Democrats Spurs New Urgency to Ban Super PACs

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  • Didn't Fetterman's views change after a major medical incident? It really just seems like he had an actual personality change after having a stroke.

  • House passes bill to avoid a shutdown, sending it to the Senate hours before the deadline

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  • The RFK Stadium bill unanimously passed the Senate separately.

  • Grubhub to pay $25 million to settle charges it allegedly misled diners and drivers about meal costs and pay

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  • I just know the process and know what an uphill battle it is every time. There is so much damn fraud constantly.

  • Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.

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  • Right but if they don't count primary votes that were cast, then there's a cause of action because they're breaking their own rules. It's basically a breach of contract. There's no cause of action for some votes being more valuable than others because those were always the rules. I don't love that system, but it's a private entity and those are their rules for picking a candidate to run in the general. It's true that they're not required to have a primary, but that's irrelevant right now because the Dems do have a primary under their own rules.

  • Grubhub to pay $25 million to settle charges it allegedly misled diners and drivers about meal costs and pay

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  • Not necessarily, the government may do restitution. But when the individual distribution is not going to lead to meaningful recovery for anyone, it's better for the government to add the money to their general fund rather than dole it out.

    And to anticipate another issue, maybe the governments could have recovered more or even what the actual damages were, but lawsuits are expensive, even for the states and feds, and there a lot of issues that need attention. Trials are risky too. And in a lot of cases, there's a legal max on the fine/recovery.

  • To be fair, Daytime Me is no saint, either

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  • If you can, find a neurologist who specializes in sleep disorders. I know someone who described something similar after self-referring to a sleep doc and the doctor's first words were, essentially, "you're on an adjusted sleep cycle naturally, but we're going to start tackling things in order of importance based on your symptoms and needs." Was fantastic for them to get a doc who took it seriously, was sympathetic, but also realistic that biology might not mesh with what the world required of that person.

  • Grubhub to pay $25 million to settle charges it allegedly misled diners and drivers about meal costs and pay

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  • This isn't a class action.

  • Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.

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  • They can't legally ignore primary votes. It's not necessarily a crime, but there is definitely a successful and very expensive lawsuit if someone wins a primary by the rules and the party just picks someone else instead.

  • Pretty interesting when you really think about it.

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  • Next level pedantry.

  • America Will Be Obsessed With Luigi Mangione for a Long Time

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  • There were a lot of options for non-extradition before Russia. Even the route he took when he fled doesn't make a ton of sense unless he's selling the information to America's security competitors. My guess is he genuinely believed in leaking the information and he got paid to do it by one or more foreign countries.

  • America Will Be Obsessed With Luigi Mangione for a Long Time

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  • Snowden, and Greenwald by extension, are perfect examples of how being right about one thing doesn't make someone right about everything. I also have serious problems with how Snowden chose to whistleblow, though the actual whistleblowing was necessary.

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    Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT

    www.cnbc.com /2024/02/22/reddit-files-to-list-ipo-on-nyse-under-the-ticker-rddt.html
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    Footballer Dani Alves guilty of sexual assault

    www.bbc.com /news/world-europe-68368372
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    ‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade

    www.nytimes.com /interactive/2024/01/20/us/dei-woke-claremont-institute.html
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    Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2024/jan/17/greenland-losing-30m-tonnes-of-ice-an-hour-study-reveals
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    Gunmen storm Ecuador television studio live on air

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/world-latin-america-67930452
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    Scientists hail new antibiotic that can kill drug-resistant bacteria

    www.theguardian.com /science/2024/jan/03/scientists-new-class-antibiotic-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria
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    Israel-Gaza live news: UN supports resolution on Gaza which stops short of calling for ceasefire

    www.bbc.com /news/live/world-middle-east-67799517
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    Ohio voters add abortion rights to state constitution

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2023/nov/07/ohio-issue-1-abortion-rights-vote-result