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https://media.giphy.com/media/l4FGvdfeu0ASWKlOw/giphy.webp

Are there policewoman marseys?

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[war crimes intensify]
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The Black King who Stabbed that Soyboy in NYC has been arrested

18-year-old suspect charged with murder in deadly random stabbing of beloved NYC activist: sources

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1696535033759271.webp

The 18-year-old man suspected in the grisly random stabbing death of a beloved Brooklyn social justice activist was arrested and charged Thursday as authorities recovered a knife and the sweatshirt the perp is believed to have worn during the early-morning slaying, cops said.

The person of interest, identified as Brian Dowling, was pictured with tears running down his face as officers escorted him from the 81st Precinct Thursday afternoon.

The teen – who had handcuffs around his wrists and ankles – was still wearing the same white t-shirt and stripped shorts he had a few hours earlier, when the was arrested while cops executed a search warrant at a home on Lafayette Avenue near Malcolm X Boulevard — just down the block from where Ryan Carson, 32, was knifed to death early Monday as his girlfriend watched.

Dowling is charged with second-degree murder and criminal weapons possession, police confirmed.

Dowling did not make any statements to cops after his arrest, and has already enlisted a lawyer, sources said.

Cops were searching for clothing allegedly worn by the suspect during the caught-on-camera attack — and found both Dowling and his dark Champion sweatshirt, seen in the video of the attack, inside the apartment, the sources said.

Cops also found a knife in the home, and will be working to determine if it was the murder weapon, sources said.

The teen was escorted from the apartment into a squad car by a huddle of officers a video from CBS News showed.

More than a dozen officers descended on the property during the arrest and search, the outlet said.

“Assailant has been caught,” Carson's father, Ken Carson, wrote on Facebook at 11:30 Thursday morning.

“More details will follow,” he added in a follow-up comment.

“I'm on the road…escorting Ryan Home to Massachusetts right now. I wasn't leaving NYC without him.”

Friday, Oct. 6 would have been Carson's 32nd birthday, records indicated.


Brian Dowling charged with murder in deadly stabbing of NYC activist Ryan Carson, sources say r/nyc

The CBS article actually censored the stabbers face

Suspect Charged in Fatal Stabbing of Advocate in Brooklyn - NY Times r/brooklyn

THEY WANT HIM LOCKED UP

You'll be happy to know that he has been charged with depraved indifference murder aka murder in the 2nd degree, which is a Class A-I felony. A conviction carries an automatic life sentence.

I am happy to know that. Thank you.

Where are all the jail abolitionists now? stabbed that's where

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Forbes : Reddit's IPO Filing Shows Lots Of Losses After Nearly 20 Years

Haven't seen this mentioned here yet, but for any of you r-slurs actually r-slurred enough to be considering investing in the shitshow that is called Reddit considered yourself forewarned. Also, this is a great example of how much of a loser Spez and the exec leadership of Reddit are considering Reddit clone sites like The Chive, even Digg and (hopefully) rDrama and WPD can operate at a net profit with far less employees than what Reddit does. A great example is The Chive which was profitable after 2-3 years (estimated $20 million in revenues and approx 6 employees).

In contrast, after 20 years, Reddit is not only not profitable but they continue to post yearly loses in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars a year. In fact, the article points out, that these loses translate to "....$232,432.87 a day, or nearly $9,685 an hour [in loses]."

So, Reddit finally filed for an IPO. After nearly 20 years, starting on its own, being acquired by Condé Nast Publications in 2006, spun out in 2011.

Having a long gestation as a private company getting investment dollars isn't unusual today. For a number of years now, the trend has been to see increasingly long years of waiting to seek an exit so investors can allow the company to develop. To strengthen. To build a capability of making money.

Which makes Reddit's filing — its S-1 using technical terms — so interesting is that it's taken so long to still be losing money by the truckful. That's $232,432.87 a day, or nearly $9,685 an hour.

Maybe this has something to do why Condé Nast's parent, Advance Publications, waved goodbye to Reddit so many years ago.

The company calls itself an “emerging growth company” by the definition of the JOBS Act, and will continue to be until any one of the three following conditions happens: their revenue at least equals $1.235 billion; they reach the last day of the fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the IPO offering; they reach the date on which during a previous three-year period in which they issue more than $1 billion in non-convertible debt; or, under the Exchange Act, they're deemed a “large accelerated filer.”

There are 54 pages of risk factors, which, after reading many S-1 filings over the years, seems pretty long. One of the most notable is the sentence, “We have incurred substantial losses during our history and may never achieve profitability.”

There are companies that have said that in the past, but they were much younger. AmazonAMZN +1% has a reputation of being unprofitable for a very long time, but in the last quarter of 2001, it had its first profitable quarter. That was about seven years after the company started running out of the garage of Jeff Bezos.

After two decades, Reddit still warns that it's not making money. Losses can eventually be useful for companies when they can carry them forward and finally offset profits, but the profits do have to come. At the end of 2023, the company has $216.7 million in federal and $177.1 million of state net operating losses (NOLs) to carry. The state ones are gone in 2026 if there aren't profits to apply them to. Federal NOLs through 2017 can only be carried for 20 years to fully offset taxable income. After 2017, due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, they can be carried indefinitely to offset only 80% of taxable income annually. So, the losses at this point are theoretically helpful, but practically? Who knows?

In 2023, the company's revenue was $804.0 million. Research and development, at $438.3 million, was more than half, an awfully big number for a company of this age. Total costs and expenses were $944.2 million. The net loss was $90.8 million, which at least is an improvement over 2022, with its $666.7 million in revenue and $158.6 million in losses.

Reddit favors non-standard accounting metrics like adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization). The adjusted part include “stock-based compensation expense and related taxes, other (income) expense, net, and certain other non-recurring or non-cash items impacting net income (loss) that we do not consider indicative of our ongoing business performance.” Which makes it tough to know exactly what's being included or excluded.

The adjusted EBITDA in 2023 was still -$69.3 million.

And they like free cash flow as a “liquidity measure.” Free cash flow in 2023 was -$84.8 million. In 2022, it was -$100.3 million.

On top of that, Reddit is going the dual stock class approach, where Class A is the ordinary stock with one vote per share, Class B getting 10 votes per share, and Class C, no votes. This is the type of structure designed to let a small group continue to control the company no matter what. The public argument is that they will keep doing the right thing for the company. In practice, that has meant lots of losses.

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Something something STAY IN POD something something EAT THE BUGS

https://media.giphy.com/media/v0ok8uhZvw3yE/giphy.webp

E U R O S E E T H E A N D C O P E

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Endorsed by MNN Elon Musk completes Twitter takeover and fires top executives :marseyhappening:

:marseysnoo:

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/yf8bv7/elon_musk_now_in_charge_of_twitter_ceo_and_cfo/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/yf8jpq/elon_musk_now_in_charge_of_twitter_ceo_and_cfo/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/yf8r2o/elon_musk_now_in_charge_of_twitter_ceo_and_cfo/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskALiberal/comments/yf9ijx/it_appears_elon_musk_has_officially_purchased/?sort=controversial

More in search https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=Elon+twitter&include_over_18=on&t=day&sort=comments

:marseybluecheck:

https://twitter.com/search?q=elon takeover&src=typed_query&f=top

Sean Spicey https://twitter.com/seanspicer/status/1585809826818322432 :marseyxd:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1684134994977421.webp

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Social justice advocate Ryan Carson is stabbed to death in Brooklyn

New York Post Article

lot of great quotes in there

>"a big-hearted activist and talented poet"

literally got stabbed in the heart lol and also :marseysurejan:

>"An unknown woman then appears near the corner of the frame, yelling, “Don't hurt him!” at the crazed man"

:momblackjak:

>"The video cuts off as the girlfriend kneels over her loved one's body"

she, at a distance, asks a man on the ground stabbed 3 times bleeding out if he's okay lmao

>"The horrific attack happened at Lafayette Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard, just blocks from the Bedford-Nostrand avenues train station"

I'm not familiar with hustle and bustle capital but that does not sound like a place I would ever want to be especially at 4am

>"No arrests had been made in the heinous crime by Tuesday afternoon, but a “Wanted” poster circulated showing a close-up of the suspect wearing a black “Champion” sweatshirt."

yea I'm sure the best people are on it

>“[The suspect] is the least important part of this conversation,” the roomie added. “I have no feelings of vengeance and I don't think that's healthy. I'm not angry about that.”

I can see why these guys were friends. nothing will be learned from this'

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16963903522553236.webp

RIP

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Footage of Paul Pelosi attack has been released

I will update with additional footage and any cope and seethe as it comes in.

Security camera shows Depape breaking in

911 audio

Not sure if these will end up being the main posts, but here's a few:

News

Conservative

Conspiracy

Politics

SanFran & BayArea

PublicFreakout

TrueAnon

CrazyFrickingVideos

Have your pick.

Friend of rDrama, Glenn Beck, weighs in

The Paul Pelosi attack video seems clear to me: This was a hostage situation and he is lucky to be alive. Why was this not released IMMEDIATELY to clear up all the confusion?

Adam Kinzinger

Hey @ elonmusk care to react to the Pelosi video? You spread the big conspiracy…

Juanita Broaddrick

The Paul Pelosi body cam just shows two men having a beer and enjoying each others company until the police showed up and tried to take their “toys” away.

:marseyxd:

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:marseyhappening: Liz Truss resigns as prime minister after 44 days :marseyhappening:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/y8x0fx/liz_truss_to_resign_as_prime_minister_sky_news/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/y8x05f/prime_minister_resignation_megathread/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/y8x0oc/uk_liz_truss_to_resign_as_prime_minister_sky_news/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/y8x2sc/liz_truss_resigns_as_uk_prime_minister/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/tories/comments/y8x2b1/elizabeth_truss_pm_resignation_mega_thread/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/y8x3sj/liz_truss_resigns_after_brief_disastrous_spell_as/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/y8x4px/liz_truss_resigns_as_uk_prime_minister_after_45/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPleasant/comments/y8x3yt/she_has_quit/?sort=controversial

More in search https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=truss&sort=relevance&restrict_sr=on&t=hour&feature=legacy_search

Twatter https://twitter.com/search?q=truss+resigns

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Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32994922

:marseysnoo:

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/xpc5kw/nord_stream_operator_says_three_offshore_gas/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/xpg869/gas_leak_in_the_baltic_sea_video_from_the_danish/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/xpg4iu/gas_leak_in_the_baltic_sea_after_the_three_gas/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/xpgbsi/gas_leak_in_the_baltic_sea/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/xplhql/gas_leak_in_the_baltic_sea/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/xpkyvs/presidents_office_considers_leak_on_gas_pipeline/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/xplmvm/nord_stream_ukraine_accuses_russia_of_pipeline/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/xpjoqj/nord_stream_ukraine_accuses_russia_of_pipeline/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/xpklzp/ua_pov_nord_stream_ukraine_accuses_russia_of/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/xpfj9k/nord_stream_mystery_leaks_in_russia_gas_pipelines/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/xpg21q/europe_suspects_sabotage_as_mystery_gas_leaks_hit/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/xpgrxi/swedish_and_danish_seismological_stations_confirm/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/xp90b9/nord_stream_2_leak_a_danger_to_ships_as_denmark/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/xpj50r/seismologist_two_explosions_next_to_nord_stream/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/xpdvu7/zeit_authorities_suspect_act_of_sabotage_behind/?sort=controversial

:marseybluecheck:

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1574778395359166464

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1574743941597073412

https://nitter.net/disclosetv/status/1574684197846908929#m

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1574784357063364608

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Nord%20Stream%22&src=trend_click&vertical=trends

https://nitter.42l.fr/JackPosobiec/status/1574785592856018945

:marseyexcited:

https://rdrama.net/post/108135/nordstreams-probably-borked

https://rdrama.net/post/108063/rworldnews-nord-stream-operator-says-three

https://rdrama.net/post/108007/someone-marseyglancing-marseyburger-marseyglancing-attacked-both

https://rdrama.net/post/108007/someone-marseyglancing-marseyburger-marseyglancing-attacked-both

https://rdrama.org/h/slackernews/post/108071/gas-leaks-in-russian-pipelines-to

Disclosure: /h/slackernews is our parent hole.

:marsey4chan:

https://archived.moe/pol/thread/397206628

https://archived.moe/pol/catalog#s=Nord

Generated from TLDR This:

MOSCOW, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Three offshore lines of the Nord Stream gas pipeline system on the bed of the Baltic Sea sustained "unprecedented" damage in one day, Nord Stream AG, the operator of the network, said on Tuesday.

read more Nord Stream AG said it was impossible to estimate when the gas network system's working capability would be restored.

Russia blames faulty equipment at a key compressor station and Western sanctions over Ukraine for its idling.

The project was halted altogether just days before Moscow sent its troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24.

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Louise Heavens and Jan Harvey Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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:marseytrain2: drama: Michael Shellenberger releases "WPATH files"

https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1764799914918490287

It's also here

https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/wpath-files

and on Shellenbergers substack

https://public.substack.com/p/the-wpath-files

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I'm 95% sure this is him

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1692668204080075.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16926682041558256.webp

https://twitter.com/TravisIkeguchi

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:marseysaluteussr: Bank Run Ocurring in Russia :marseysaluteussr:

Twitter is getting flooded with images and videos of it over the last few days. Merry Christmas lmao

https://twitter.com/hashtag/BankRun

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It's still early but it's picking up steam on reddit.

:marseysnoo:

https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/xy16a4/mayor_adams_declares_state_of_emergency_over_nyc/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/xy2eql/nyc_mayor_eric_adams_declares_state_of_emergency/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/xy2vsi/nyc_mayor_eric_adams_declares_state_of_emergency/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/xy14y5/nyc_mayor_adams_declares_state_of_emergency_after/?sort=controversial

:marseybluecheck:

https://twitter.com/search?q=adams+emergency

Abbot gloating https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1578422776159166464

Sanctuary cities like New York City experience a FRACTION of what Texas border communities face every day.

We'll continue busing migrants to NYC, DC, & Chicago to relieve our overwhelmed border towns until Biden does his job to secure the border.


Mayor Adams declared a state of emergency Friday over the city’s migrant crisis and pleaded for financial and legislative assistance from the federal government and state lawmakers.

The emergency declaration will suspend certain land use requirements in order for the city to more rapidly construct tent camps to house migrants, such as the controversial facility set to be constructed on Randalls Island, Adams said in a speech from City Hall.

But the declaration only goes so far, Adams said. With more than 17,000 South and Central American migrants currently in the city, the homeless shelter system is nearly at 100% capacity and social services are being strained to the brink of collapse, he said.

“It is burning through our budget,” he said, predicting that the city will spend more than $1 billion on the crisis in this fiscal year alone.

“It is not sustainable, and it is not right,” he added.

As a result, Adams demanded that President Biden’s administration and state lawmakers in Albany do what they can to help, including allocating emergency funding and passing legislation that would expedite work permits for the migrants.

“This is an all-hands-on-deck moment,” he said.

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by the way this litigation has been ongoing and the chemical in contention has been on the shelf being sold to consumers the whole time

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/bayer-loses-third-appeals-case-over-glyphosate-weedkiller-2021-08-10

Do the regulators just not care?

mmt of when Bayer got fined millions for knowingly giving people HIV

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bayer-admits-it-paid-millions-in-hiv-infection-cases-just-not-in-english

also as a company they have quite the problematic herstory

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bayer-accused-of-aiding-nazis

https://media.giphy.com/media/S9gCTpB8SInEQ/giphy.webp

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Just in time for the midterms and return of the :#marseybiden2: stickers

Reddit pissing and shidding rn https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=opec&sort=comments&restrict_sr=on&t=day&feature=legacy_search

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/xw9s6m/opec_heads_for_deep_supply_cuts_clash_with_us/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/xwbgwl/opec_agrees_to_biggest_oil_production_cut_since/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/xwcmh1/opec_announces_big_cut_in_oil_production_despite/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/xwd33l/opec_announces_it_will_cut_production_by_2/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xwdg5u/opec_urged_by_russia_agrees_to_cut_production/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/xwbcyo/opec_panel_recommends_2_millionbarrel_cut_to/?sort=controversial


The OPEC+ alliance announced Wednesday that it will cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day, a move that's likely to send gas prices higher again after a year of tumult at the pump.

In its statement announcing the cuts, the OPEC+ alliance cited the "uncertainty that surrounds the global economic and oil market outlooks.”

It represents the largest cut in production since the start of the pandemic.

In a statement, the Biden administration said it was disappointed in the decision, calling it “shortsighted” in light of global energy prices already lifted higher by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“At a time when maintaining global supply of energy is of paramount importance, this development will have the most negative impact on lower- and middle-income countries that are already reeling from elevated energy prices,” it said.

The decision by the oil cartel and its allies, announced in Vienna, comes after the price of oil and gas spiked this summer amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Prices trended downward from July to mid-September, as President Joe Biden sought to reduce gas prices, and stress on Americans’ wallets, ahead of the midterm elections.

Capital Economics research group now expects global oil prices to rise from about $93 to $100 per barrel, with U.S. benchmark prices rising from $88 to $92. At the outset of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, global oil prices had climbed to as much as $128.

"We had always expected supply growth to slow later this year and into 2023, but this latest OPEC+ action has re-enforced our view that prices will end the year a little higher," Caroline Bain, chief commodities analyst for Capital Economics, said in a note following the Wednesday announcement.

U.S. gas prices had already been trending higher in recent weeks amid increased demand and refinery issues in the U.S. The average price of a gallon of gas on Wednesday was $3.83, the highest since late August.

“The regional differences in gas prices are stark at the moment, with prices on the West Coast hitting $6 a gallon and higher, while Texas and Gulf Coast states have prices dipping below $3 in some areas,” Andrew Gross, an AAA spokesperson, said in a statement Monday.

At least six California refineries are undergoing maintenance, Gross said, and there is limited pipeline supply to the West Coast from locations east of the Rockies.

Political analysts have observed a strong correlation between gas prices and Biden's approval rating, as voters home in on gas prices as a proxy for inflation and thus the state of the economy.

Wall Street analysts say the Biden administration could counter OPEC's move by releasing stocks from the U.S.'s strategic petroleum reserve, and even boosting the so-called NOPEC bill that would penalize other oil producing states by opening them up to antitrust suits.

OPEC+, whose de facto leader is Saudi Arabia, is comprised of 13 oil-exporting countries and 11 nonmember allied countries, including Russia.

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racially motivated shooter, yep its another white male

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16931593128436475.webp

Cracker control is needed in Amerikka to prevent this kind of thing.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16931593600027258.webp

His gun, yet another Brenton Tarrant copycat.

He tried to shoot up a historically black college but campus security chased him off so he went to a random dollar general and started shooting there. Because people shopping at dollar general are subverting your race and manipulating things as part of the deep state. He also apparently attended the college at some point.

https://twitter.com/TizzyEnt/status/1695852562225013161

Yes, it is racially motivated.

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https://media.giphy.com/media/H8mFzy57dChzlHMAxo/giphy.webp

https://media.giphy.com/media/YO7P8VC7nlQlO/giphy.webp

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Virginia Mother Charged With Murder After 4-Year-Old Son Dies From Eating THC Gummies

A mother in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, faces felony murder and child neglect charges after her 4-year-old son died from eating marijuana-infused gummies earlier this year.

Investigators said Dorothy Annette Clements didn't get help soon enough for her son, Tanner Clements, when he was found unresponsive on May 6 at a home they were both visiting.

Tanner Clements died two days later.

Dorothy Annette Clements told a police detective that her son ate half of a CBD gummy and that she called poison control and was assured that he'd be OK, according to search warrant documents.

But the detective said she found an empty THC gummy jar in the house and toxicology results showed Tanner Clements had extremely high levels of THC in his system, documents say. THC is the active ingredient in marijuana that gets people high.

An autopsy found that THC caused the boy's death.

Investigators said he might have survived had Dorothy Annette Clements gotten help for him sooner.

r/news and r/JoeRogan both have some thoughts on the matter. :marsey420:

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It has not been all bluster. New research from geospatial data company Alcis suggests that poppy production has already plummeted by around 80% since last year. Indeed, satellite imagery shows that in Helmand Province, the area that produces more than half of the crop, poppy production has dropped by a staggering 99%. Just 12 months ago, poppy fields were dominant. But Alcis estimates that there are now less than 1,000 hectares of poppy growing in Helmand.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16919626230681548.webp

Experience in the E.U. with previous periods of reduced heroin supply suggests that this can lead to changes in patterns of drug supply and use. This can include further an increase in rates of polysubstance use among heroin users. Additional risks to existing users may be posed by the substitution of heroin with more harmful synthetic opioids, including fentanyl and its derivatives and new potent benzimidazole opioids.

In other words, if heroin is no longer available, users will switch to far deadlier synthetic forms of the drug. A 2022 United Nations report came to a similar conclusion, noting that the crackdown on heroin production could lead to the “replacement of heroin or opium by other substances…such as fentanyl and its analogs.”

This undermines one of the fundamental premises behind the wars: the alleged association between the Taliban and the drug trade – a concept of a narco-terror nexus. However, this notion was fallacious. The reality was that Afghanistan was responsible for a staggering 80-90% of the world's illicit opiate supply. The primary controllers of this trade were the Afghan government and military, entities we upheld in power.

Hoh clarified that he never personally witnessed or received any reports of direct involvement by U.S. troops or officials in narcotics trafficking. Instead, he contended that there existed a “conscious and deliberate turning away from the unfolding events” during his tenure in Afghanistan.'

Opium addiction in Afghanistan is out of control, with around 9% of the adult population (and a significant number of children) addicted. Between 2005 and 2015, the number of adult drug users jumped from 900,000 to 2.4 million, according to the United Nations, which estimates that almost one in three households is directly affected by addiction. As opium is frequently injected, blood-transmitted conditions like HIV are common as well.

TL:DR

:marseyheroin: users are going to turn into :marseystims: users.

:marseywalterwhite:

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  • Sphereserf3232 : @atakeonhooper why are always so mean to us? :marseytears:

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With a few notable exceptions---such as during the 1918 influenza pandemic, World War II and the HIV crisis---life expectancy in the U.S. has had gradual upward trajectory over the past century. But that progress has steeply reversed in the past two years as COVID and other tragedies have cut millions of lives short.

U.S. life expectancy fell by a total of 2.7 years between 2019 and 2021 to 76.1 years---the lowest it has been since 1996, according to provisional data recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The drop was 3.1 years for male individuals and 2.3 years for female ones. Non-Latinx Native American and Alaska Native peoples saw the biggest decline---a staggering 6.6 years. But every racial and ethnic group suffered: life expectancy decreased by 4.2 years in the Latinx population, by four years in the non-Latinx Black population, by 2.4 years in the non-Latinx white population and by 2.1 years in the non-Latinx Asian population.

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"Basically, all the gains between 1996 and 2019 are as if they never happened," says Elizabeth Arias, director of the U.S. life table program at the NCHS and co-author of a report on the new data.

COVID deaths drove much of the decline as the country grappled with the world's worst pandemic in a century. But unintentional injuries---largely driven by drug overdoses---also played a significant role, the data show. Increases in deaths from heart disease, chronic liver disease and suicide also contributed.

"This isn't supposed to happen," says Philip Cohen, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, who studies demographic trends and inequality. "I think it's a wake-up call for us ... that we can't put public health on autopilot; that we don't have this invisible hand of development just raising living standards over time."

The drop in life expectancy would have been even more stark if it had not been partially offset by declines in influenza and pneumonia deaths, which were likely reduced by pandemic-related precautions such as masking and social distancing.

Arias and her colleagues calculated life expectancy using a technique called a period life table. This involved the researchers imagining a group of 100,000 hypothetical infants and applying the death rates observed for the real population in 2021 for each year of those infants' lives. The result is not the life expectancy for a cohort of actual babies born in 2021 but rather a snapshot of how life expectancy rates would apply to various age groups at a specific point in time, Arias says.

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The data show that in 2021 the Native American and Alaska Native populations had the lowest life expectancy of any race or ethnicity: 65.2 years. This is equivalent to the life expectancy of the total U.S. population in 1944, Arias and her colleagues wrote. Indigenous peoples, who already had high rates of chronic disease and poor health care access before the pandemic, were disproportionately impacted by COVID.

These outcomes have their roots in colonialist U.S. government policies, says Crystal Lee, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico's College of Population Health and CEO of the nonprofit organization United Natives, as well as a health services company called Indigenous Health. "There have just been so many policies that have been harmful to Native Americans throughout all these years," says Lee, who is Diné and from the Navajo Nation. Native American tribes are officially recognized as sovereign. But they are also still designated as "domestic dependent nations," meaning they are subject to the U.S. federal government. The government provides funding for education, housing and health care---the latter through the Indian Health Service---but all of these have long been underfunded, according to Lee. "We don't have the resources or the infrastructure or even adequate medical staffing," she says.

When the pandemic hit, Lee and her nonprofit organization helped distribute supplies such as masks and cleaning products to the Navajo Nation and the Apache Nations, she says. She also started Indigenous Health to help provide quarantine housing for Native American people exposed to COVID. Many of them had overcrowded housing---or no housing at all---to go back to, and some were struggling with addiction, she says.

The second-biggest contributor to the life expectancy decline of the total U.S. population was unintentional injuries, of which a large fraction were opioid and other drug overdoses. Such deaths, as well as those related to alcohol and suicide---sometimes called "deaths of despair"---have spiked in the years leading up to and during the pandemic. Drug overdose deaths reached more than 100,000 annually during the 12 months ending in April 2021. Opioid overdoses were initially concentrated among the white population, but they have now become more common in the Indigenous, Latinx and Black populations as well.

Cohen says COVID may have exacerbated the opioid crisis because people who lost family members and jobs turned to drugs and may have been less able to access treatment. “One crisis doesn’t wait for another” to finish, he says.

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Native American and Alaska Native individuals, along with Latinx and Black people, suffered disproportionately high death rates during the pandemic's first year because many worked in essential jobs with a high COVID exposure risk. But the group with the second-largest drop in life expectancy from 2020 to 2021 was the non-Latinx white population. Almost half of the total loss of life expectancy of the white population occurred in the pandemic's second year, Arias says. Lower vaccination rates and more resistance to masking and other precautions among the U.S.'s white population (compared with other races or ethnicities) is one possible explanation. White Americans are more likely to have voted for Donald Trump, and areas that voted for Trump have had higher rates of COVID deaths since the fall of 2020. Additionally, COVID took longer to reach rural parts of the country, which are more likely to have a largely white population.

The gender gap in life expectancy also widened. Historically, women have lived longer than men across every race and ethnicity. The gap between male and female life expectancy had been narrowing in the past decade, however. Women were living 4.8 years longer than men in 2010, but the pandemic erased some of that narrowing, and the gap widened to 5.9 years in 2021. Men are more likely than women to die of COVID, studies have shown. In addition, unintentional injury deaths (largely overdoses)---which have increased---are more common among men.

Despite being the richest country in the world, the U.S. has one of the lowest life expectancies of any developed country. And it has seen one of the largest declines in life expectancy among such countries during the pandemic, according to World Bank data. Part of this likely stems from a high rate of socioeconomic inequality.

"One of the things that affected me the most---even though I'm used to seeing these numbers ... was the fact that there's such large disparities in life expectancy in the U.S.," Arias says. The Native American population has a life expectancy comparable to that of some of poorest countries in Africa, she notes. "It's kind of amazing, when you sit back and think about it, that we have in this country a population that has the same life expectancy as a really poor developing country."

Addressing these gaps in life expectancy would require the U.S. to overhaul its health care system and make it work for everyone, many experts say. For Native Americans in particular, that means public awareness, allyship and accountability. "We need to hold the U.S. government accountable by honoring the existent treaties," Lee says. She believes there also needs to be more awareness about Native American people, who she says have become invisible. People need to know, she says, "that we're still here in the United States, and we're still existent."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-s-just-lost-26-years-worth-of-progress-on-life-expectancy/

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