Me and my brother followed this from the start, we have peeps here who escaped the nightmare… 1 guys from Newyork NJ, he’s such a fine young chap that made it out of recovery and is doing fine, living and enjoying life again.
My dad says that M.Thatcher created our heroin problem (He’s a biggot Btw) and it’s not to unbelievable tbh, considering how our customs work…
I’m a left UKer @boredsocial and tbh I can’t say on this board what I do to them… In a just society the above would be my option, kinda like a Scandinavian jail where no-one leaves, because the opiod pushers deserve life in jail at a minimum.
In case anyone needs a reminder that BigLaw exists to whitewash the absolute worst of human behavior, and that they deserve less than zero admiration from anyone, The Sacklers paid Debevoise and Plimpton $12 million last year (that we know about).
It’s a bit complicated because Arthur Sackler wasn’t involved with Purdue Pharma or any of the fentanyl crap but his garbagey heroin-pushing relatives get the benefit of all of his philanthropy.
Wow, talk about some bad faith bullshit, from the party of “neo-nazis are ‘very fine people’” and also “no gun control of any kind under any circumstances.”
Pretty interesting article on how a guy was able to create a deep fake with Zuckerberg and Commander Data.
The deep fake process is fascinating but it’s implications are daunting. Undoubtedly organizations have massive databases on people with the information needed. The toothpaste is already a lot of the way out of the tube at this point.
Not entirely sure what’s come afterward in South Africa has gone all that well. Impunity from justice is a cancer that eats away at a society. When people get rewarded instead of punished for doing bad things (especially powerful people who tend to do whatever will make them more powerful but not put them at risk) it results in more bad things being done. For proof see your country, my country, Mexico, and yes South Africa.
I want to be clear that evil deeds committed by people with power are inherently different than evil deeds committed by the desperate/mentally ill/inebriated. I’m not talking about robbing a store, I’m talking about spending months or years intentionally overmarketing dangerous and addictive drugs to the population at large so that your company can profit to the tune of billions of dollars. I’m talking about systematically rigging government contracts so that you can steal billions of dollars in public funds. I’m talking about powerful people stuff here. There consequences are absolutely mandatory.
Powerful people are people like you and me. People who plot. People who spend enormous amounts of energy deciding what the right choice is. You can alter their behavior by altering the conditions they make their choices in. If you make something massively more risky (for instance in China they’ll literally put you up against a wall and shoot you) you can take some options off the table entirely.
