In West Virginia and elsewhere, dealers mix fentanyl with the powerful animal sedative xylazine. NBC News was able to arrange overseas purchases of the drug within minutes....
This is unnatural selection. Poor and homeless people use drugs because they have no way to obtain basic necessities like housing, food, showers, jobs, etc. It’s an effect of our economic disparity that is made worse by the rich. You might have a choice when it comes to using drugs, but the world is very different when people don’t have the same privileges as you.
We are both Americans. Doesn’t matter which plutocrat you voted for. We all lose when you automatically categorize everyone you don’t agree with as being on the “enemy” team.
Religious zealots have been fighting over a fairy tale for hundreds of years. This isn’t the ‘breakdown’ of society. It’s just business as usual for the brainwashed.
A more interesting “bear case” for AI is that, if you look at the list of industries that leading AIs like GPT-4 are capable of disrupting—and therefore making money off of—the list is lackluster from a return-on-investment perspective, because the industries themselves are not very lucrative. What are AIs of the GPT-4...
You’re a useful idiot for the billionaire class. You’ll never earn what they lucked (or were born) into regardless of how hard you try. Wake up, bootlicker.
A salmonella outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupe has now killed eight people — three in the U.S. and five in Canada, health officials reported Thursday....
Banning marijuana growing at home, increasing the substance’s tax rate and altering how those taxes get distributed are among vast changes Ohio Senate Republicans proposed Monday to a marijuana legalization measure approved by voters last month....
The Biden administration on Monday sent Congress an urgent warning about the need to approve tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Ukraine, saying Kyiv’s war effort to defend itself from Russia’s invasion may grind to a halt without it....
Sorry I misunderstood. I now see that you would prefer that the people of Ukraine get invaded and murdered by our cold war enemy and that we should just let it happen. You’d rather save that drop in the bucket rather than look at the entire federal budget and see how insignificant the Ukraine funding really is in the grande scheme of things. Got it.
US homelessness up 12% to highest reported level as rents soar and coronavirus pandemic aid lapses (apnews.com)
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We live in the future! (lemmy.world)
Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues (www.forbes.com)
Thoughtful boss [Work Chronicles] (startrek.website)
First came fentanyl. Now this state is counting the casualties from another deadly drug. (www.nbcnews.com)
In West Virginia and elsewhere, dealers mix fentanyl with the powerful animal sedative xylazine. NBC News was able to arrange overseas purchases of the drug within minutes....
Why Americans are going hungry despite a strong economy (www.nbcnews.com)
Gaza humanitarian disaster heralds 'breakdown' of society (news.un.org)
'Excess profits' at big energy and consumer companies pushed up inflation, report claims (www.cnbc.com)
How Reddit Crushed the Internet's Largest Protest (youtu.be)
The FTC is reportedly looking into Microsoft’s $13 billion OpenAI investment (www.engadget.com)
Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service (english.elpais.com)
Excuse me, but the industries AI is disrupting are not lucrative (www.theintrinsicperspective.com)
A more interesting “bear case” for AI is that, if you look at the list of industries that leading AIs like GPT-4 are capable of disrupting—and therefore making money off of—the list is lackluster from a return-on-investment perspective, because the industries themselves are not very lucrative. What are AIs of the GPT-4...
Six teenagers convicted in France over teacher’s beheading in 2020 (www.theguardian.com)
Samuel Paty had shown pupils caricatures of the prophet Muhammad during a class on freedom of expression...
President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail and Launch New Passenger Rail Corridors Across the Country (www.whitehouse.gov)
Customer support (startrek.website)
Deaths from tainted cantaloupe increase to 3 in U.S. and 5 in Canada (apnews.com)
A salmonella outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupe has now killed eight people — three in the U.S. and five in Canada, health officials reported Thursday....
Denmark parliament adopts bill prohibiting Quran burnings (www.dw.com)
Ohio Senate Republicans propose banning home grown marijuana and other changes to legal marijuana (www.pbs.org)
Banning marijuana growing at home, increasing the substance’s tax rate and altering how those taxes get distributed are among vast changes Ohio Senate Republicans proposed Monday to a marijuana legalization measure approved by voters last month....
Cryptoflation (lemmy.world)
Recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims (apnews.com)
Paul Rytting listened as a woman, voice quavering, told him her story....
White House warns Congress the US is out of money, nearly out of time to avoid 'kneecap' to Ukraine (apnews.com)
The Biden administration on Monday sent Congress an urgent warning about the need to approve tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Ukraine, saying Kyiv’s war effort to defend itself from Russia’s invasion may grind to a halt without it....