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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.

Well, it's just Jul, so we could all just go back to calling it Yule. Literally nothing changes and the Christians can still do whatever they want.

Everyone is convicted with some evidence. The problem for a lot of these actual innocence cases is the evidence is either not actually very compelling or made up. For example, a shitty eyewitness saying they saw the defendant do it is still evidence, even if it turns out they're wrong.

AI is inherently biased by the input. It's glorified analytics and predictive text/pixel software that relies on existing data. So what's best is what we're doing. It would just as likely recommend more executions.

There's a Pardon Office at the DOJ that normally handles vetting and recommending pardons. Realistically, there's no way to do it apolitically. Everyone has a political bias, which will be reflected in the recommendations.

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.

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.

The RFK Stadium bill unanimously passed the Senate separately.

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

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.

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.

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.

This isn't a class action.