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YSK that President Joe Biden wanted to end a loophole benefiting Private Equity billionaires. Powerful Senator Kyrsten Sinema opposed it. She was lavishly rewarded.

I'm very confused why Americans don't realize the fact that their democracy is basically non existent.

Elected officials are paid by corporations to make decisions in favor of these corporations and sometimes against the interests of the normal people. The representatives no longer represent.

If I paid my teachers in school to modify the exams so that only I know all the answers, that'd be called bribery.

However, when it comes to the government (of the people, for the people) being controlled by a few billionaires, it's called lobbying instead of bribery.

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Peer review

In my field of research, there seems to be a recent push for artifact evaluation. It's a separate process which is also optional but you get to brag about the fact that you get badges if your experiment results were replicated.

There's also some push back against this since it's additional work, but I think it's a step in the right direction.