I smh, therefore I am

Lotta gas backed up in there

Mfs thought MLA was just a citation format from 8th grade English, but they fucked around and now theyre gonna find out

The dow is over 45k, so its okay! /s

Maybe Im just not understanding the point of the centaur analogy, but it seems more convoluting than it does useful. At least in comparison to just making the same points without the analogy.

The point of a good analogy is to make your broader points immediately register with the reader, not create an entirely new concept to explain

Okay now take this and make it not look like tacti-cool bullshit that would come with a glock

The Hawaiian diaspora is the most severe in the entire world when viewed per capita. More Hawaiians have been forced out of Hawai’i than any other group of people have been forced out of anywhere else

Plus the US quite literally holds massive amounts of Hawaiian lands that were seized when the US overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy, and could easily return that land to the Hawaiian people, it just chooses not to do it. Mostly by refusing to recognize any Hawaiian leadership and treating them on par with how other US native people are treated. If native Hawaiians had a recognized government the way indigenous peoples on the mainland do, the government would have to turn that land over. So they refuse to recognize

Aesthetically, one of my favorites is Zoom Earth. Visually its really impressive. Not the best for granular detail on a local area’s weather but still very cool

https://zoom.earth/

Its a government contractor sourced wrench, so theres no way it cost less than $500

I bet the conservatives will boycott NFL football after the Super Bowl all the way through late July. Thatll show em

Slop is terrible obviously, but at least in exchange for the slop we get… higher energy costs and acceleration of climate change

There are literally all of about 10 schools from which an MBA is worth anything. Often people with MBAs from non T10 schools are recommended to take their MBA off of their resume when they inevitably struggle to find a job. A sub T10 MBA on a resume just says “I will ask for more money courtesy of my useless credential”

Its more of a squares and rectangles thing IMO. All MAGA are conservatives but not all conservatives are MAGA. Maga is inherently a conservative political movement. “Make America Great Again”. Its in the name. Return to an idealization of the past (even if the idealization was never reality, nor feasible to achieve)

Pryor, whom was appointed by Bush. So literally a majority conservative panel

Bosher salt, everyone’s favorite kosher salt and borax mixed seasoning. Why stop at sodium chloride when you can enjoy the power of sodium borate?

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What are they even trying to say with the whole thing about Europe vs the US? If Europe had used their devices for shorter lengths of time, ie higher capital amounts spent on tech replacements, then they would have had higher productivity?

But that necessitates a level of investment that doesnt exist. Its like saying “if investments in the Congo were on parity with the US they would have increased productivity by 2 million percent”. Which is neither guaranteed to be true, as there are limitations in a smaller country, plus fairly useless to even say as there are limits on what is reasonably investable in the Congo without more risk than reward. Its literally useless econobabble arguing in favor of hypotheticals that make no sense on paper

Even the tech investments that occur already in the US make no sense on paper, consumer nor commercial. People dont need a new iphone every year. I get 5 years out of mine on average

Trump looking for a taste of that cardamom

In her resignation video she looks like she has a gun to her head. Maybe not literally in that moment, but in the general sense

I would think that the primary issue is the potency of fentanyl vs heroin, as fentanyl is far more likely to cause an overdose and to be misdosed than heroin. Fent might have been in the supply on a technical basis in 2013, but it wasnt popularized whatsoever. The average American did not know what it was, and the average user was probably not taking it (at least knowingly).

The spike in 2017 and rise beforehand probably correlates with increased presence of fentanyl in the US market, courtesy of China. Most US heroin was coming via Mexico and not highly related to the Afghanistan poppy production. As the current article notes, most of that production was supplying heroin to Europe and the eastern hemisphere.

China, circa 2014-2015 and just before, was ramping up their supply of illicit analogue research chems to the US. It seems like that mostly dwindled down to just focusing on Fentanyl, and then fentanyl took over as the primary illicit opiate. This also correlates with the same time period that the US was significantly tightening restrictions on legitimate pharmaceutical opiates like Oxycontin. Around 2014-2016 large numbers of patients who, for better or worse, had been legally prescribed pain pills were being cut off of them. Which drastically increased the market of people seeking illicit opiates.

I would think the overall spike is due to the increase in market size due to restricting pain pills, the popularization of fentanyl as a specifically sought substance, the ease of importing fentanyl by bad actors (given that it is a far stronger substance by weight), and the significantly higher likelihood of the end user overdosing. Due to it being a stronger substance, when it is cut with other mediums it would make any given part of the final sold product a toss up in terms of strength. One part of the cut mix might have hardly any fent, while another corner of it might have a lethal dose, even if the user is taking the same amount of the final mixture. The process of producing heroin created a more homogeneous product even if it was cut before making it to the end user. It wasnt a matter of a few grains here of there that meant life or death for the user.

Plus you factor in that junkies have a penchant for seeking out batches that have caused overdoses rather than avoiding them, because they are looking for high strength even if it might kill them. Yet another reason why fent became so popular that it displaced heroin.

I think very little of it has anything to do with Afghan heroin production to be honest