Who did get the people addicted?

Also US intelligence and military are notoriously involved in drug trafficking around the world. Just that Fentanyl can be made completely synthetically without needing a plant based precursor and also as it is used in medicine regularly, it is quite easy to source the resources or just divert from a medical plant.

Some Chinese, even if organized by the government, joining the party is hardly the main issue.

Cocaine also has legitimate medical uses.

But medical use based on proper research, a medical examination and review / temporary in general is completely different from recreational use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters

I think the largest in scale and death toll were Oppau and Texas City

At least for Germany the legal basis was already laid last year when the “progressive” government of social democrats (SPD), Greens and (neo-)liberals (FDP) passed a revamped citizenship law. They allow for dual citizenship but also passed that you can loose your citizenship if you don’t become stateless.

Then multiple states made a requirement that you need to sign a paper in your application process, where you say that you agree in “Israels right to exist”. The caveat is that this term is nonsensical in a legal sense (there simply is no codification of a “right of existence” for states) and deliberately ambiguous in a political sense. (In which territory, with which government, with which people? Is calling the current government fascist an attack on the state itself already?)

So whenever a citizen speaks up against actions of the state of Israel, goes to a demonstration, likes the wrong social media post… German authorities could revoke the citizenship based on saying he lied on his application. This does not require a criminal conviction and is much more difficult to challenge as “lying” on your application is a sufficient formal reason. IIRC the law isn’t even limited to dual citizens but it is enough if the person would not become stateless if Germany revokes their citizenship. This is for instance the case for people who are claimed as citizens by Iran, as Iran does not recognize people renouncing their citizenship.

The more money the dod pays on bombing farmers in Yemen the less money it has for other things.

Also that money could have paid the salary of about 3.000 teachers for a year. The US being willing to spend in such a stupid way does not remove from it being unsustainable for society as a whole. Will it bring the US down by itself? No. Will it be one of the many cuts that is bleeding the US dry eventually? Yes.

Extremism is usually against the fundamentals of many religions. The whole terminology is wrong to begin with.

Take the example of American Evangelists. Do they go to the fundamentals of Jesus preaching according to the bible? Take everything you have and give to the poor? Rather an Elephant goes through the eye of a needle than a rich man reaching heaven? Tossing over tables of trade in the temples as the places of worship should not be places of commerce and greed? Refraining from violence wherever possible?

In the same wake the people quoted regarding Shiasm. The Quran says you should not bother with that. Also it is core to understand that noone except Allah knows what is in the heart of a person and noone except Allah will judge on who goes to hell and who goes to paradise.

English translation of the meaning:

[6:159] Surely they who divided their religion into parts and became sects, you have no concern with them; their affair is only with Allah, then He will inform them of what they did.

So being extremist shouldnt be called fundamentalist, as you need to violate some or many fundamentals to become extreme.

Adjusting for population growth i wonder if the risk to get kidnapped by pirates is significantly different from the 17th century.

That being said, how much value do you generate for your employer and how big is your salary?

“Whenever you want to scam people as a company, just invent some fancy words that sound like innovation” odometer

No, MS just wants to expand their monopoly, but “MS buying most common browser, after antitrust laws already forbid internet explorer” doesnt ring so well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#By_continent

National laws vary widely according to the politics of each jurisdiction. As of 2012, only two countries do not mandate paid time off for new parents: Papua New Guinea and the United States.

Somalia 14 [weeks] 50% [pay] Employer liability [source of pay]

https://x.com/yemenimilitary?lang=en

The check mark is provided by Twitter.

The account has a blue checkmark. Musk be real.

The https://x.com/yemenarmyeng musk be a fake account. They dont have blue checkmark

https://www.islamicfinder.org/hadith/tirmidhi/tafsir/3107/?language=en

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: When Allah drowned Fir’awn [Pharaoh of Egypt as he was pursuing Moses and the people of Benny Israel] he said: ‘I believe that there is no god except the One that the children of Isra’il believe in.’ So Jibrail [The Angel Gabriel] said: ‘O Muhammad! If you could only have seen me, while I was taking (the mud) from the sea, and filling his mouth out of fear that the mercy would reach him.’

According to Islam no-one is beyond achieving forgiveness if they sincerely repent as the mercy and forgiveness of God is limitless. However except for explicitly mentioned people such as the Prophets, we do not know who achieves Paradise and who is punished in Hell until the day of judgement. Not even the Angels closest to God know.

ODing on Ketamine is quite difficult. LD50 for mice i.V. is 77mg/kg. So for an 80kg mouse that would be more than 6 grams of Ketamine given i.V. typically the bioavailability by nasal or oral consumption is lower and Musk most likely has a high tolerance. So we are talking probably 50grams or more of Ketamine for a lethal dosage for Musk.

I am not sure if Musk could actually snort enough Ketamine for a lethal dosage without it just falling back out of his nostrils or if he could swallow one without his stomach turning before it is adsorbed.

Obviously all of these numbers are speculative and taking drugs is harmful, no matter the amount. Also people often die not by ODing on Ketamine, but by killing themselves in accidents as they loose control over their muscles.

IIRC. the US is one in two countries in the entire world that does not offer paid maternity leave.

Supplying bullets to your body…

This is choosing between losses, not between to gains. The EU is not the king in this situation, it is the servant who has two masters demanding loyalty and both being willing to punish what they perceive as disloyalty.

Yeah, i don’t think that is what happening.

When two people are pointing a gun at you and one of them will shoot if you choose the other one, you are not exactly “winning”.

Pope Francis declared it possible for Priests to bless same-sex marriages.

If the supposed cult leader of a supposed homophobic cult is allowing for the supposed cult to bless same-sex marriages, how is that consistent with the notion of a supposedly homophobic cult?

Sure. The US military can just start murdering everyone in the country with their superior firepower. Then the economy is gone and so are the relatives and friends of the soldiers.

Look at Israel failing to militarily defeat Hamas. And that is not only with the firepower difference but also with decades of supremacist indoctrination and a near total disregard for the human life of the people they designate as enemies.

Look at how the Ukrainians took over their country in 2014, throwing stones and pushing garbage cans as shields against the army and police shooting at them.

If the people in the US were dedicated to oppose a fascist takeover, they would win. Yes people will die in the process, but the idea that the army would just massacre everyone without hesitation from a human perspective is far fetched, just as the idea of the government and their cronies happily affording to loose large parts of the population is far fetched.

How does your sentiment differ from someone who would say:

The catholic church LGBT is indeed a homophobic sinful cult that condemns homophobia as a sins for which you get punished in hell religion as being a homophobic cult, having million of followers or being popular doesn’t change the fact.

You take the broadest brush and just stroke over everything, instead of being willing to accept any nuance.