Don’t worry, someone else will surely stop this before it affects me.

If we strip-mine all the social programs before Republicans get the chance we can do it in a way that keeps the most important part of the system in place. Checkmate fascists!

Interesting. They were expecting the additional diversity of the food web in these areas to lead to the snakes evolving more universally deadly venom.

I think it stands to reason that in an environment with a large variety of food the snake would develop some type of preference or be limited by their own capabilities to hunt certain prey. The venom is tailored to have the strongest effect on the prey most likely to be caught.

A diverse biome could create a larger potential for diverse feeding habits, but who’s to say snakes don’t just prefer eating birds or whatever when they have the freedom to choose which prey they value most?

Very cool study, I’ll be interested to see what comes from this

Who’d guess the cia deputy director would raise such a gullible piece of shit

Right, like, corruption is there, sure. But the corruption in and of itself has no impact on the viability of the public service. The fact that it is privately owned and for profit by definition will mean that the money allocated for the service originally will be redirected into being profit instead. What happens to a service that now has less funding? It turns to shit.

Can public services have corruption? Sure.

The difference being: corruption of a service in which 99% of funding is directed towards providing the service takes less away than corruption of a service with half of the funding being allocated as “profits” before even getting to the “corruption” in the equation.

You’re basically multiplying the effectiveness of corruption by giving the responsibility to capitalists who will, first and foremost, create profits out of a publicly funded service.

VAT pays for public Healthcare in real countries

I like that the article is just the headline

Right what are we talking about

Thank you for this. I’m not sure how it became common knowledge to assume pharma companies pay for r&d but I’ve seen 10 different people on this app say those exact words and it’s really starting to peeve me off.

Last thing I’d do is give anyone a way to do my work without me present

I get to never exist AND racism is ended? Count me in

We already had lightning defenses in cities they’re called lightning rods and they were invented in like 1870

Hilarious to imagine corporations respecting the sanctity of “conflict of interest” in hiring govt employees, especially in 2025. Think of the optics!

I don’t need to check your post history to make assumptions lmao

Im like 99% sure that’s a Russian bot

The infrastructure week just started

Biiiiiiig facts, retraining your brain to stop expecting to be fed by an algorithm is definitely a benefit of being here that most probably don’t notice or appreciate

You wanna guarantee the collapse of studios there’s the golden ticket

You would think, but this guy didn’t lmao

Wow, three months of hunting down fraud and they finally found a single person taking social security fraudulently