teohhanhui

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From a summary:

Drinking damages the liver and may make the body more vulnerable to infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis.

Or from the review itself:

Infectious disease

The causal impact of alcohol on the four broad categories of infectious disease from the last Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health [1] has been confirmed in recent reviews [15, 16]. The main biological mechanism involves alcohol-induced liver dysfunction, which disrupts both non-specific innate and adaptive immune responses through acute and chronic alcohol consumption [80-84]. Lowered immune responses increase susceptibility to communicable diseases. More specific biological pathways are described in the references listed in Table 1.

Although it is true that they now fully use HTTPS, the claim about signature verification is untrue; they only perform a CRC-32 check on the downloaded executable, which is not cryptographically secure.

This is the wording from the blog post. Tom's Hardware just rephrased it very poorly. (see e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1ixgas1/articles_from_tomshardwarecom_should_be_banned/)

They are not democratic socialist. They even got kicked out resigned from Socialist International.

The PAP was officially committed to democratic socialism from its inception in 1954 until its resignation from the Socialist International in 1976.

In 1976, the PAP formally resigned from the Socialist International (SI) after the Dutch Labour Party had initially proposed to expel the PAP for the Singapore government's internment of political prisoners without trial, and accused it of human rights violations.[116][117]

Several big polluters from the global north invited fossil fuel representatives to join their official delegations including France, which brought 22 industry delegates including the CEO of TotalEnergies, and Norway, whose group included six senior executives from its national oil and gas giant Equinor.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-cop30

I mean, also, yes?