The supreme court decided that getting money in exchange for services rendered is OK, and that influence peddling is fine.

The court case that decided this was an asshat that gave a government contract to a company, went to that company and asked for money in exchange, and they gave it to him and the facts of that wasn’t disputed. The US supreme court said that’s fine, so now a bunch of people are getting their corruption cases re-opened because the US supreme court didn’t think it should be illegal.

In addition the supreme court also said companies can give money to a senator after they’ve won an election (to “pay off debt”) which is just a way for people to buy influence.

The citizens united case made it so that companies can just buy influence. You can’t however, since for normal people there’s a limit to how much you can spend, but companies can just spend as much as they fucking want.

The US is incredibly corrupt, and it’s in the open.

It’s bash. Everyone is expecting nightmare code, and that’s why it’s fun!

Lite was made for Manifest V3. They had to drop a bunch of features to get it functioning which is why it’s called “Lite”.

Yes, most Norwegians loved the guy regardless of what they think about the monarchy.

Poverty, homelessness and hunger are products of our economic system. It doesn’t have to exist, but in any other system you can’t own yacths with a helicopter pad or child sexual abuse islands.

The article implies it as well. This article says it is as well: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/05/414326/alzheimers-disease-double-prion-disorder-study-shows

Smoking is a significant risk factor for Alzheimer’s so if nicotine itself helps then it’s definitely not by smoking.

Yeah, it’s probably not a very profitable service, if at all.

The fact that it improves safety is a claim that can easily be challenged as recently it seems to have put people in harms way. Texas police used it to stalk a woman across state lines to find out if she got an abortion elsewhere.

Insurance in general should be a public aervice rather than private enterprise and it should not be used for medical care at all.