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Usually, anyway. There are chocolate infused/flavored cigars you actually smoke.

That is... quite untrue. It's literally required by some states that maintain the practice, where it's no legal concern for maintaining or obtaining a medical license.

The Hippocratic oath (and pretty much everything similar to it) is generally just horseshit words, non-binding and unenforceable, regardless, if that was even what you're talking about. It's ethical guidelines, not a binding oath, and there's been precious few points in history it was anything other than that. Iirc it's not even part of training in plenty of places, these days.

The actual binding part of the license involves issues of medical malpractice, and what constitutes that... is decided by the state. If the state says executing people on their command doesn't constitute that, it doesn't constitute that.

E: It'd be a damn different word if those oaths meant anything more than the air that produced them, really. Almost certainly a better one, too

That... sounds a lot like it's (past?) time to be looking for a place of employment that's less shite.

you appear to have been screwed, oh no

The actual name of the suicide pod I was thinking about is the Sarco pod, which yes, uses nitrogen to induce inert gas asphyxiation. There's no sense of panic, no pain, it basically just knocks you unconscious and that's that. Most reaction that's been noted is a bit of dizziness, it's one of the most humane and consistent ways of assisted suicide we're aware of.

There's equivalents in most areas, as far as I'm aware of things, actually, usually affiliated with HUD in some way or another. There's not anything I'm aware of on the federal level like WIC, though, the programs involved tend to be state or local level.

It's just that they're generally not exactly... responsive, in the sense that around where I'm at getting into gov't assisted housing is something that can involve a wait time of literally over a decade, and regularly takes years. Some places do have some form of rent assistance or subsidization, though again actually getting it involves a lot of hoop jumping and time that isn't exactly easy to afford when you're a single parent with little to no support network, assuming there's any funding available for new applicants at all (which is not a guarantee, especially in the areas of the country particularly hostile to the worse off).

For immediate needs, sometimes there's women's shelters or suchlike in an area, but they're almost always stressed to the limit in terms of capacity, so.

... we tolerate it because the people effected are too fucked up and scrabbling to survive to fight back, and too many of the folks not effected have fucking brainworms and either don't care or are actively trying to inflict that sort of misery on the less fortunate.

A very dear online friend of mine was hit by a car last summer - he thought the injuries were light and he was healing well.

Turned out there was some hidden liver damage that the hospitals missed, and by the time he realized something was wrong it was too late. He passed a few days ago.

Condolences, yeah. That's pretty close to what happened to my grandmother last year, if on a much condensed time frame in her case. Injuries took during a fall caused worse damage than the hospital noticed, and it killed her

Dog finally woke up and realized he had a cat asleep on top of his head.

It was funny when the cat first rolled over and ended up there, too...

I think it's more because folks want to squeeze money out of people for accessing it. There doesn't seem to be much or any venues for free order book data, nevermind any that also allows for particularly useful data manipulation.

It is dynamic and rapidly fluctuating, though, so that's probably one of the major excuses being used to horde the data in question behind paywalls and such.