This was a very interesting article, thanks for sharing. Also, interesting visual story telling from Reuters who I feel generally lags in visual storytelling compared to NYT.
I had no idea so many different precursors could make fentanyl, that’s pretty wild.
Oh, also, you’re welcome. If I do come across something I find interesting I generally try to remember to post it to lemmy, because I feel that we really can use the content.
Chemistry is fascinating, and if you look at molecular structures of things, you can make SO many things out of other things with the right reactions and filters.
The trick is making the reactions work without binding toxic chemicals to the end product.
So that limits what you can use, but there are still so many options for things.
You’d be surprised what you can use to make aspirin.
Hopefully the same idiots who notice and try (who also read Reuters) are so bad at their first time of making pharmaceuticals that they don’t have product - only expenses.
And that’s ignoring any law enforcement who start to take notice of the precursor ingredients. Wanna guess how many RVs in the desert became suspicious to law enforcement after Breaking Bad? Showing folks how to do stuff works for both sides.
It blew my mind when I learned that Taiwanese travel to Mainland China for work. The media seems to portray the two countries in a non cooperative stand off.
Taiwanese citizens are in fact Chinese citizens because Taiwan is part of China, the political reality is more complex than I think people realize, but China considers Taiwan to be part of China.
Well before I got voted down, that was my point. China and Taiwan consider both territories as China. This literally means that Taiwanese see Taiwan as China, and both belief systems are in agreement about there being one China, they just disagree about how that works.
Foreigners don’t get that Taiwanese see themselves as Chinese, and it’s just infinitely more complex than they are two different countries, mostly because that’s not really the case.
No, thank you. TW already has extremism/fascism/ultranationalism/populism/communization integrated in one Green Commie Party – DPP, no more room for Red Commie.
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