I’ve always wanted to try psychedelics but I won’t until I have a chain of custody to prove it ain’t laced with something nasty. Hopefully something like this comes to California soon!
Check out dark net markets on TOR. There’s a whole marketplace with ebay style reviews so you can know who to trust. I always buy from people with thousands of 5 star reviews to put my mind at ease. Probably done about 5 dozen or more trips and the only time I’ve gotten fake/the wrong/laced drugs is when Ive gotten them in person.
Lol, at first I thought this meant Riot Games. I think most players of League or Valorant are too busy throwing slurs at each other to leave the house and protest anyway.
And blaming video games again?
This is France. A nation that can barely go a decade without a major protest.
I’m now imagining Louis XVI weakly flailing his hands about, complaining that the Jacobins were driven to their cause because of all the violence they were exposed to while hosting LAN parties.
Maybe the real disagreements between Robespierre and Danton later on were regarding which machine was best, the Station de Jeu or the Fboîte. Some stragglers saying neither and it was something called “Ordinateur”.
(Apologies for my poor translations, French friends. Apologies also for making light of the situation. I know it’s serious. I hope you’re all safe.)
When it’s a mayor getting his house burnt down by far right extremists, no one cares. But when it’s a guy who supports police violence and wants to put the whole country under a totalitarian system, now this is a “milestone in ignominy”.
Not all public discourse is like that, even if some large medias companies lack nuance and focus exclusively on rioters.
An judges union published a press release calling on a political answer to police violence, including repeal of a preemptive self-defense law provision often used to justify such shootings, and making police oversight a more independent process.
I mean, yes, good luck getting to their closed communities and enwalled houses with panic rooms, personal bodyguards and police / law in their pockets. Did we even have any famous billionaire assassinations in history so far?
I would personally prefer to sentence anyone with a net worth of over $1B to a lifetime eating $100 bills until they’ve literally eaten their fortune. Show them the real value of their monopoly paper, you know?
France has been a big fan of revolution since the late 18th century. They're on their Fifth Republic and I'm sure some French people feel they're overdue for a Sixth, just for the sake of keeping the tradition alive.
Is this a scheme to get some VC? They call it automobile but it drives ~25mph. They say it can fly but the weight limit is ~200pounds. Who is going to use this thing? Kids? I wonder if we will ever see one in real life…
You mean how mostly the Mediterranean e.g Italy and Greece handles it? Cause they do all the work and all things considered do pretty well. Maybe if the rest of Europe pitched in more that would be great.
This is such a complex issue but it is baffling that whenever there is an incident such as the one that happened recently, the whole blame is always placed in the government agencies rather than the criminals that organise and charge for such dangerous crossings.
Well, I'd like to hold government agencies to a higher standard than human traffickers. That the criminals who organize these crossings are scum isn't really disputed by anyone.
I blame the criminal gang that took their money, provided the boat and sent them all out there. Odd the news never mentions that end of the boats journey. I guess that would require some journalism though instead of the “This person said this. That person said that” lazy copy that is standard nowadays
Well yes, it’s always easier to just blame the government rather than doing a full investigation to find the actual root of the issue and the culprits.
I imagine a lot of that is due to issues with liability. If a journalist says “X did Y”, that opens them up to lawsuits. If they say “A alleges that X did Y”, then that allows them to report without fear of a lawsuit.
The end of the article did talk about who may have sent them out there.
Two of the survivors said Greek authorities had asked them, through interpreters and lawyers, to give evidence against the nine Egyptians who have been accused of people trafficking.
But all four survivors said the nine Egyptians were passengers, seated among them on the journey. They say the ship’s crew were masked and spent most of their time in the cabin.
“The crew jumped in the water when the coastguard approached and some of these nine Egyptians tried to sail the boat,” one of them told us. “It seems to me they are not the ones involved in people smuggling,” he added.
Relatives of Egyptians who fear their loved ones were on board have told the BBC that they paid $4,500 (£3,500) each for the journey.
I’m terrible at headlines, but honest journalism would have a title sort of like: “Criminal Human Traffickers Overload Boat Full of Immigrants, Causing Rescue Attempt to Fatally capsize boat”
The German non-governmental organisation Sea-Watch charters boats to rescue migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean. It said it does not have enough information yet to assess exactly what happened but its head of operations told us: "Towing an old vessel with hundreds of people on board in heavy seas is sure to fail and be a disaster.
"According to what we know from the pictures and the testimonies, it's not a safe way to rescue the people on the boat in distress."
Your headline puts all blame on the human traffickers and absolves the coast guard, but if the coast guard that is meant to rescue people instead caused, or even partially caused, their mass death, even if through incompetence, that is news. This was hundreds of people that died.
I haven't heard a single person defend the traffickers' actions, but it's much harder to fix that side of the problem than it is to determine how one's own nation responds. It's worthwhile to see news about things you can actually have a chance of doing something about.
Letting people die, allowing the coast guard to commit mass negligent homicide (or whatever it ends up called) without consequence or any attempt at reforming it, and denying all responsibility because someone else screwed the refugees over first would be absurd and morally bankrupt.
It'd be like finding someone bleeding out in an alley, and instead of calling an ambulance you stab them or punch them a couple times. That's still criminal as all hell, even if the person might have died anyway before you showed up.
Love how the Examiner makes it easy for readers to recognize it as a right-leaning source of news.
Citing race multiple times, along with nationalities... And the family name of the 17 year-old (we know the name over here, but newspapers don't print it).
Many of the looters and rioters that have been arrested (and charged already) admit that their actions have nothing to do with what happened. They are using it as an excuse to act out.
There are systematic problems here in France that cannot be excused or defended. What happened may happen again and can be seen around the world. Gentrification pushes low income families to certain parts of the city. In France, not every school is equal, so low income areas get poorer education, there are higher dropout rates, etc. Police do racially profile and it so happens that many of these low income families come from different parts of Africa. I live about an hour from Paris and see it where I live. My mother-in-law lives in a small town in France, and they burned down the McDonald's last night.
Nahel was one of these dropouts who had been stopped by the police multiple times. His death has been deemed a murder. The riots are now out of control and I am a little concerned that either someone will be killed tonight, or the riots will last weeks... Or a state of emergency will be invoked which could mean restrictions on digital communications because the riots are being organised using Telegram.
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