Which did you do first?

And are they both “high quality”?

I wonder what the story is with that.

There is a virtual education system that is free across the entire nation, which serves the dual goal of democratizing education and ensuring that those in rural areas or without much free time for university can still achieve degrees and a quality education

Sounds fake. Online education can be OK in some situations but a claim that you can do a whole degree worth or that it’ll be high quality has been false every other time so why would it be true now?

If you are extremely busy then you are exhausted the rest of the time so it isn’t trivial to just slowly plug away at an intellectual task.

It might be a fine project and people might benefit from it. but no reason to be so very credulous about the likely outcomes.

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omg i have never seen anyone do this video thing and I am not sure I want it to spread so please don’t tell anybody again

tho the video you posted was funny hahaha

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Ya it’s always a re-shock to see how dramatic things are. that graph is based on this chart

death from any opiod - total:

• 2002: 11,920
• 2022: 81,806

death from Synthetic opioids other than methadone:

• 2002: 1,295
• 2022: 73,838

nice work FDA

it’s a fair point. essentially what happened was just total industry deregulation.

it wasn’t regulated in the way some people wanted to begin with. doctors being the sole gatekeepers and only allowing access according to clinical guidelines arrived at by legitimate scientific research. in their attempt to enforce this they ruined what controls were in place. the pill mills were hooked into the pharmaceutical supplies and therefor provided a reliable and predictable product for the consumer.

See the graph I posted in another comment that shows pretty dramatically what happened

I just did some very light research and did find this graph.

Appears to depict H becoming safer and safer over time. The deaths from heroin are about what they were from methadone 20 years ago. (Ignoring all methodological issues in determining “cause of death”.)

I expect this is basically due to how impossible heroin is to get, perhaps the only users left over are those with the ability to obtain a very good supply. Whereas 95% people are stuck with the other stuff.

source: US CDC & Dept of HHS NCHS Data Brief: “Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2002–2022” Number 491, March 2024

cracking down and pulling the rug out from people absolutely led to countless deaths.

but everyone had to personally know 5+ people who died of toxic drugs before any harm reduction was in the realm of consideration. naloxone has only been legal for 10 years and nominally available for 5ish.

is heroin back on the market?

last i heard it was basically impossible to get

ya let’s take money from the other stuff and put it towards more of this

for the amount of money they have they could probably dissolve themselves entirely and get started on some other organizations

this’ll work linearly right?

i agree. some people become incredibly vile with dementia. every shitty thing they overheard as a 5 year old comes pouring out as they lose inhibitions.

maybe he’ll start imagining himself to not be a genocidal zionist…

this is fucking adorable

somebody ought to go update her wikipedia because it seems to be missing

i have always been a flag-skeptical person

despite that i gotta admit “red flag of revenge” has a certain appeal

the less shocked you will be when it finally happens.

i think i’ll be shocked regardless

(All the block quotes below are contiguous in the original article; it is an insane series of paragraphs.)

The intelligence services had tracked him for months. They picked up on his alleged phone call to his handler in May during at a time when he was returning from a trip to Istanbul to his home in Paris.

He missed his flight due to excessive alcohol consumption and instead returned via Bulgaria, at which point the conversation about the Olympics opening ceremony was monitored, according to Le Monde.

He was SO DRUNK he couldn’t get on a plane. Either he didn’t get to the airport or they wouldn’t let him board.

If there is one thing I know about being SO DRUNK you can’t get your basic shit done, it’s that this is the perfect time to hatch a nefarious and totally real plots. Idk about you all but I actually plan my best big time crimes when I am super hammered.

And I always follow through.

At 6am on Sunday, police officers from the elite ‘research and intervention brigade (BRI), called in by the General Directorate of Internal Security, raided the suspect’s home on Rue Saint-Denis on the right bank of the Seine. It is claimed that the police found “documents of diplomatic interest” among his possessions.

Last month Microsoft said Russia was seeking to undermine the Olympics with the creation of fake websites replicating authentic French media outlets and the use of artificial intelligence to fuel concern about violence and terrorism.

like irishtimes.com?

The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said this week that authorities had screened over one million people ahead of the games.

wtf does that mean

“We are here to ensure that sport is not used for espionage, cyberattacks or to criticise and sometimes even lie about France and the French,” Darmanin said. - The Guardian

now it’s a crime to use sport to criticize the French?!

fuck. so much for my EPIC rhythmic gymnastics direct action.

agree except I like to think it goes more like this

recently I heard on a podcast that someone who was planning to participate in “the shoe bomb” was stopped by his dad. who said something along the lines of “I heard people are talking about suicide bombing. if you commit suicide I will fucking kill you.” and he was sufficiently scared of this he changed his mind.

and there was the episode of Voyager when Seska stole Chakotay’s jizz to impreggers herself (or said she did, I could never follow the arc)