If he was trying to keep his clearance, then he would strive to avoid any appearance of mental health issues. Strictly speaking you’re still encouraged to take care of your mental health, but you have no confidentiality in your mental health records if you have a clearance and certain psychological issues can be a cause to deny or revoke a clearance. Many clearance-holders opt to avoid therapy and other mental health treatments as a result.

Tolerance is a real thing and can be developed over time. However it’s not clear if that has any relation to cancer risk, which appears to be related to ability to clear the aldehyde byproduct.

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.

Lieberman wasn’t a Democrat.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

This isn’t a class action.

It’s true, Sabra’s zero-day exploits must be stopped!

The fuck are you talking about? First of all, primaries exist. Secondly, with only a few notable exceptions, Democrats favor single-payer. The original ACA was a government healthcare bill with a private option but Joe Lieberman was the holdout and gutted it. Stating otherwise is intellectually dishonest and deliberately ignorant, or at worst a malicious rewrite of history.

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There’s actually way more agreement than people think about what’s broken in society and the causes of it, at least at a surface level. The problem is our differing views on how to fix it all.

They’re doing it because the guy on the run crossed state lines. That makes it federal, so the FBI has jurisdiction and it’s easier for them to work cross-border than the NYPD. It’s getting more resources because it’s a highly publicized case. I’m sure there’s some pressure from some wealthy and/or powerful people as well to find whoever did it, but it’s not surprising that the FBI is involved now.

Generally speaking, normalizing extrajudicial killing of people that aren’t liked tends to trend in a bad direction.

Ok but no one is arguing Windows is encrypted. Google is specifically stating, in a way that could get them sued for shitloads of money, that their messaging protocol is E2EE. They have explicitly described how it is E2EE. Google can be a bad company while still doing this thing within the bounds we all understand. For example, just because the chat can’t be backdoored doesn’t mean the device can’t be.