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Actually they are not targeting big tech companies, EU made legislation to protect its citizens from being exploited in various ways, the big tech companies are targeting themselves by employing practices which aim to exploit users (including EU citizens) in various ways.

Unfortunately XPU will not be available in non-commercial version.

First of all, problem with fentanyl is that it's ~100x more potent than morphine, or ~20x times more potent than heroin. While many people read this as "it's got 100x times stronger high", it doesn't mean that (actually it has shorter acting high, more adverse side effects and slightly less enjoyable high compared to heroin). It's just means you need 20x times lower quantity for comparable effect. Given that into account, you need 20x lower quantity to smuggle. It's physically impossible for ANY agency to control millions and millions of postal shipments containing small amounts of contraband. It's one thing to push 100kg containers of heroin, and whole another game ordering 50 grams from Dark web. It's incontrollable in that way.

Second, what you're basically asking for is MORE WAR ON DRUGS. Addiction is public and mental health problem, and should be approached as such. DEA is the last agency you should plead for help in times of crisis such as this opioid one. Harm reduction programs are proven as best way to tackle such problems, proven time and time again around the world.

Third, calling fentanyl "Chinese fentanyl" is reminiscent of recent declarations of "Chinese virus". It's fentanyl. It doesn't have nationality.

On one hand you have "penned an opinion piece in The Washington Post" and on the other you have pouring of tens / hundreds of millions of dollars into climate change denial (and setting up network of fellow billionaires who poured their money into same causes).

Well obviously it's not title per se, but title in relation to the authors of the book.

Essential reading.

"Mr. Koch has written (with Brian Hooks) a new book, “Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World,”"

Can it get any more cynical than this?

Bosnia basicaly doesn't have ports (besides Neum, which is not realy practical), so either Albania / Montenegro / Croatia. Most likely Albania - Kosovo - Serbia route, since it's already established heroin smuggling route.

Regarding 4): Those croatian guys are just mules basicaly, 3 guys from seaside town proficient in boat sailing. Two younger guys in mid 20's and main guy who fell into some financial business / mortgage problems. They are not even part of any criminal organization, they were just hired because of their sailing skills.

In USA it already is legalized. It's called lobbying.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but regarding money laundering, it's not like drug trafficking and heists are only illegal streams of money which needs to be cleaned. Trafficking, prostitution, illegal gambling, depositing of toxic waste, bribe money, cyber crime, financial malversations etc.

If eradication of 80-90% of population is "life improvement" for locals, then sure, their lives improved, only most of them died in the process of improvement.

Using "western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic" is more than "pointing out differences". It implies non western = poor, uneducated etc. aka of lesser value.

By year 1500 world population was 500 million, so my point is that your claim how "before industrialization world population was in the lower hundreds of thousands" is completely incorrect. That's my point.

World population by early 19th century was already 1 billion, what are you talking about?

There were many "past people" who did absolutely nothing when faced with atrocities brought upon Jews in Nazi Germany, just as there are "now people" who risk their very lives by engaing in various forms of activism regarding societal change. Making broad statements about level of engagement of "past people" is akin to statements like "in our time music used to be much better!".

Kids these days!