Canada's MAID system now accounts for roughly 5% of all deaths, has expanded beyond terminal cases, and has debated extending eligibility to people whose sole condition is mental illness. Critics like Sulmasy see this as proof that any safeguards written into law will eventually be dismantled.
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The episode's analytical spine resurfaces here. A 2024 Gallup poll showing 71% of American support for legal assisted dying suggests broad consensus [1] — Stephen Dubner "71% of Americans support legal assisted dying: A 2024 Gallup survey found that 71% of Americans believe doctors should be allowed by law to…" 22:47 — but Roth immediately complicates the picture. Two sitting Supreme Court justices, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, have both written explicitly against MAID: Barrett in her pre-judicial work on the obligations of Catholic judges, Gorsuch in a book arguing against assisted suicide. Roth notes that since the 1997 unanimous Supreme Court ruling left the issue to the states, opponents are now looking for a case to bring back to the Court — where the current conservative majority would likely be more receptive to banning it. The conversation then turns to Canada, where MAID now accounts for approximately 5% of all deaths, and where Roth suggests that much of the high number reflects previously covert end-of-life practices by doctors administering high doses of pain medication. But the larger policy question — whether Canada's expansion to non-terminal cases and possible expansion to mental illness represents a genuine slippery slope — is left productively unresolved.
Roughly 5% — or 1 in 20 — deaths in Canada now run through the government-run assisted suicide program, prompting backlash against Canadian laws.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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