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Orange site cites the smartest people in the world when it comes to using chemical weapons against protestors

 

This is a twofer:

  1. The article itself
  2. HN's take on it
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Easy to say when you aren't facing the threat of bias intimidation or hate crime by recently emboldened bigots, things that actually happen unlike the caravan paranoia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Look at the stats, fentanyl has always been rarely prescribed and even more rarely prescribed compared to other opioids. The fentanyl crisis is a crisis of economics: there is less profit to be made in creating, smuggling and selling other opioids compared to fentanyl.

If you want to be accurate, doctors prescribed non-fentanyl opioids in situations where they weren't needed, often illegally, when those prescriptions ran out, that caused a heroin crisis. That heroin crisis became a fentanyl crisis when drug dealers stopped selling heroin in favor of the cheaper and much stronger fentanyl.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Doctors aren't prescribing, nor are they they source of, illicit fentanyl. The ease of synthesis means that clandestine labs can make a shit ton of the stuff, it's that simple.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Doctors aren't prescribing cocaine for the hell of it, though. Same thing with puberty blockers. Think we can trust doctors' judgment when it comes to the drugs they prescribe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Insurance can still payout and people can still be made whole for property that's deemed uninhabitable. You do not have to "continue to rebuild in Florida", but you can make sure people's lives aren't completely ruined as a result of natural disasters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

They know it and get off on being evil.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Yes, as everyone knows, if you accurately call out genocide when you see it, you actually want there to be genocide. You sick ghouls need to stop noticing genocide so I can go back to concern trolling in peace.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Humor is a powerful rhetorical weapon. I wouldn't discount it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Looks like Google is calling it Play Integrity these days: https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/safetynet/deprecation-timeline

But it's this: https://developer.android.com/google/play/integrity

It's an API that ensures you're running apps on the hardware and Android ROMs Google approves of. It can also ensure that apps are not running on rooted phones.

Developers can integrate it into their apps. Banking apps do it, for example, and won't run in Waydroid as a result. More and more apps integrate it over time.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

Because it's easy to pull a trigger to permanently silence people who might become a slight inconvenience at most.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago

Yeah, is the UN trying to escalate the conflict by being attacked, blown up and chemical weapon'd by Israel?

I bet that damn UN is going to get away with it too!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

That's because price points exist. People will only pay so much for fast food.

Turns out wage increases don't affect prices, just like the research has shown.

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