You’re probably affected by this even if you didn’t participate.

The thing about genetics is you can make reasonable predictions about individuals if you have data on their relatives. Heck, you can reasonably make regional predictions with genetic data that will be fairly accurate.

If any of your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, etc took this test, then you are now at least a little exposed.

I literally had an econ professor years ago who directly told us “do not take a genetics test”. This was before the ACA

The reason was simple. It’s information that once a private company gets a hold of it, they will use it to hurt you. Whether it’s a drug company that learns you’re predisposed to addiction, so better to give you it people around you nice temporary discounts on addictive meds, or an insurance company that learns you’re predisposed to cancer, so better to look for ways to deny or drop coverage.

Once these companies know a little bit about your nature, they’ll exploit any aspect possible to increase profits.

This was not a progressive/socialist econ professor. Just someone who knows how capitalism works.

Often, some of the dumbest people in the company. Unless the CEO literally founded the company, chances are really high that they are a know nothing nepotism hire. Their only skill was being born to a rich and well connected family.

I really wish people would stop idolizing business leaders as ideal government leaders.

The principles that make a good business are fundamentally different and often in conflict with good government leadership.

A business would say “oh that rural farming community? let’s ignore them. They’ll never make up more than a tiny fraction of our profits”.

A good government, on the other hand says “oh that rural farming community is the breadbasket for the population. Let’s keep them happy so the people in the cities can continue to eat cheap produce”.

And this doesn’t even touch the corruption aspect. A business leader won’t likely have the morals to properly regulate their own business.

Basically.

And, to be clear, 2019 was under the trump admin. I can’t stress enough how crystal clear and dire someone’s case would have had to have been for Trump’s immigration judges to grant asylum. They were giving that out to basically nobody during his first term. Except for I guess this guy.

Wysiwygs were all the rage in the late 90s early 00s with a promise that the hard part of development was actually just doing the layout.

Tools like frontpage have been tricking incredulous entrepreneurs that programming is easy since at least then.

Depends entirely on who the veterans are. If the majority of the veterans have only a year under their belt, this can be disastrous.

The real problem with the filibuster, in my opinion, is it shields senators from taking a public position. The most extreme senator from Idaho can filibuster the “feed the children” act which prevents a senator from Georgia from having to vote no.

Project 2025. But when only the Nazi freaks liked it the Republicans have had to backtrack and pretend like that was never the plan.

You’ll stick with the theory an innocent death is for the the greater good until it’s your innocent death.

I never said the death was for good. Nor have I said that it’d be immoral for a doctor to break the law. The death is because of a horrible legal reality and a doctor that complies with the law isn’t some sort of monster. There are justifications for that decision, but you won’t respect them. I am not some moral absolutist like you appear to be. Things can be murky.

You could make the same argument that someone without insurance or means should be denied access because the hospital needs only paying customers to stay in business.

I could, but I’m not making that argument. In fact, I argue strongly that the entire healthcare industry should be nationalized and paid by taxes. Just because that’s my desired outcome doesn’t mean that I turn around and shame doctors and nurses for working for more than minimum wage. Which is effectively what you are saying “These doctors are making healthcare expensive for all because of their salaries. They should work for free!”

In the exact same vein, I argue that abortion should be legal and highly available. But that’s not the environment I or doctors find themselves in. So, sorry, I’m not going to fault doctors for not playing hero.

Secondly, you seem to suggest that an innocent death is for the greater good. Sure you want to stick with that?

I’m suggesting that we have a real life trolley problem. Save a pregnant person’s life, remove yourself from being able to save the life of someone that has a heart attack, stroke, or any other list of life threatening diseases.

Yes, I want to stick with that because that is very much the situation these doctors and hospital systems find themselves in.

And, to be real clear, many of these doctors are leaving the red states to get out of this situation. And I don’t blame them for doing that.

And how many other patients end up dying because there are no doctors staffing the ER? What happens to a community if the state government shuts down a hospital because of repeated violations of their abortion law?

That’s why your blame make no sense. While I’d certainly congratulate any doctor brave enough to be arrested over the law, I understand completely why they don’t and would not expect any doctor to.

A doctor or hospital gets to make the choice to save the life once. Once they make that call, it’s jail time, loss of license, and financial ruin.

What doctors are doing is leaving the states with these laws. In my state, hospitals are closing down their OBGYN units because they simply can’t find doctors that will work there.

Like, I’m sorry, I don’t expect someone to destroy their lives and family lives for a patient. Further, the jail time also hurts patients they can help with non-abortion related medical issues. These doctors taking principled stances will not impact the law makers or their constituents who pushed for the laws. The rabid anti-abortion terrorists literally celebrate the murders of doctors that have performed abortions.

This is a welcome change to biden’s approach of weakly talking about how abortion is a necessary evil.

That, or he’s antisemitic.

Yeah, but Christian nut jobs will freak out about the mark of the beast or whatever shit.

Here’s the thing, Vance didn’t make up the story, a Nazi did. I’m guessing Vance is now claiming responsibility because lying about the origin is better than the truth, that he’s just repeating lies from self avowed Nazis.

Ohio could possibly sue him civilly because of the bomb threats that caused them to shut down schools. That’s the best I got.

If anyone is hurt over this, then they likely have standing for a civil suit (see Alex Jones).

Criminal it’s definitely more tricky. Trump will likely get away with telling his followers to storm the capitol, so I doubt “eating cats and dogs” comes close to the same standard.

Once upon a time, admitting to something like this would have been an impeachable offense. But that’s long sailed as something Congress would fairly enforce.

Conspiracy bullshit and racism.