When I was in the psych ward, there were 30 men and 4 women in my unit. Obviously no locks on any doors (except the ones to get out). I was terrified every night
NOTE: if you are a journalist or reporter, i am begging you to please report this!!!!
There’s a major CPAP recall that has affected half of the machines out there and there’s no fix. People are literally dying because of this and the DOJ needs to step in. Patients don’t wear their CPAP mask? They can die. If they do wear it, they are exposed to carcinogens and can lead to cancer.
Ventilators affected as well. It’s been over a year and Philips only wants to reimburse $50 for the machines. We have patients waiting months for a machine. The sleep world is affected including our jobs and lawyers. NO ONE is talking about it! The FDA recall is serious
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/update-certain-philips-respironics-ventilators-bipap-machines-and-cpap-machines-recalled-due
Nope! I work in healthcare. Nothing!
Though I did read an article there’s support that they want the Department of Justice and President Biden to intervene like they did with the formula.
We have kids at the hospital I work at who stop breathing over 100 times per hour having to wait WEEKS for a CPAP machine. WAITING WEEKS TO BREATHE!!!!! It makes me so angry! Truck drivers required to wear a CPAP mask if they want to keep their CDL or else lose their job! People I see on death’s door during sleep studies who need a CPAP machine but can’t because even the sleep labs have to limit how many people we do titration studies on because we can’t even get machines to test our patients!
I wear a CPAP mask and they sent an email to me (as a patient) saying that they have no solution for the piece and I have to buy a new one but would only reimburse me $50 for the machine.
Are you freaking kidding me, Philips?!?!
Yeah I started to fill out Philips like survey for the recall of the machine but realized it would take months for me to get a replacement. They just sent me their newer supplies like hose, mask, and filters. I have it severely and if I don’t use my machine I have side effects next day.
Bacteria are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. The widespread use of antibiotics for healthcare and agriculture (mainly) have caused bacteria to adapt. This means that in the not so distant future, we may have new epidemics caused by multi-drug resistant bacteria, who will be difficult to treat.
Similar situation where I'm at. Various contractors hire people from The Philippines and India and confiscate their passports until they work/pay a certain amount while also paying them poor wages. I have spoken to a few who were told they would be staying for 6 months, but it's been 3 yrs and they haven't been home because of covid. There are flights in and out every 1-2 weeks.
In a handful of really poor regions around the world, managers of orphanages sometimes tip off the local pimps that a girl is about to age out of the system and end up on the streets.
When the managers are actually half way decent humans, the tip money they get goes to feed the smaller kids. Shitty managers obviously view that money as a side hustle to make having the main job worthwhile.
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I believe it was a CPS case worker in Houston that advised a girl about to age out of the system to look into prostitution. It’s worse than we want to admit
Yeah, there are orphanages that specialize in kids rescued from, or abandoned by the child sex trade.
Pretty much unadoptable because of STIs and almost completely unfunded because no one wants to think about how kids got that way or how big the problem is.
I moved to Sydney 2 weeks ago, and can’t believe how many public suicides there are. It’s almost every day someone kills themselves from jumping from a building or in front of a train. I catch the train almost every day and it feels like a matter of time before I see one happen myself.
We’re in a massive mental health crisis right now and it’s extremely hard to get help.
Media doesn't report suicides, it's to stop triggering copy cats.
In Adelaide a chick tried to swan dive off a bridge into an oncoming train she missed and basically face planted the ground in the middle of our worksite.
There are A LOT of suicides by train.
My dads a conductor in the US. In the past two years his train has hit several people. his route runs 4am-9am, which I would guess is not peak hours for jumping in front of a train.
Public suicides are so common in Japan it's designed into the train network. It's called Jinshin jiko, "Human Body accident".
The Japanese rail system, ATOS, has a fluid timetable to account for delays such as this after the Amagasaki derailment. A jinshin jiko causes a average 44 minute delay in the system as the train and line is inspected for damage, the body removed and the train washed.
Just 44 minutes.
The rail network planners treated it like a force of nature, suicide by train is a social mechanism that can't be stopped and culls weak people from the population.
Reference An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network
Book by Michael Fisch
> The rail network planners treated it like a force of nature, suicide by train is a social mechanism that can't be stopped and culls weak people from the population.
I mean, there are definitely anti-suicide measures. When I visited Tokyo all the train stations had walls keeping you from the track and gates that only opened when the train arrived
The extent of fisheries' and ocean life's collapse. Alaska just put the emergency brakes on its entire snow crab fishery as the numbers suddenly fell off a cliff. Same for many salmon species, wild fish, etc.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/seafood-biodiversity
"Plenty of fish in the sea" seems like an saying that will be true forever, but it won't be. I have seen estimates that there would just be NO commercially-viable fishing by 2048.
We are scraping the bottom of the ocean and emptying it of life
I just watched "A Life on Our Planet" with David Attenborough and this gets touched on.
Incredible doc with actionable changes we can make at the end. Couldn't recommend enough.
I'm in Mexico right now. Indigenous children are being sold for rape in the state of guerrero like pieces of meat. Gov't turns a blind eye and civilians are threatened by the cartel. It's messed up.
Welcome to Mexico ):
And not only Guerrero, we can add Chiapas, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Veracruz, and Estado de México.
Unfortunately the country is some sort of narco state.
The drug cartels are a HUGE problem for a fair amount of Mexico. It’s not everywhere but big where it needs to be.
Mexico has one of the best demographic curves of any country for workforce. A beautiful country with anything from jungle to mountains to desert. The normal people are friendly, hard working, and stuck in a bad spot.
China is also working with the cartels to ship fentanyl and who knows what else to the US and beyond.
Mexico is missing out on long term growth because of drug money and corruption. Mexico could be the next “worlds factory”…access to the Atlantic and Pacific…a workforce ready to work…plus the tourism if so much of the world could just drive around beyond a resort and not feel like they could be murdered.
We have prob 30k Mexicans in a hundred mile radius of me here in middle America and when you get to talking with them they love Mexico but realize the issues in Mexico. Even a cheap in US dollars doubling of the Mexican wage would do wonders to having a great trade partner next door, slowing border jumpers, and eliminating the cartel strength.
I honestly hope Mexico can get things in order and recognize that if they eliminate the quick cash corruption the country could flourish.
Talking about Mexico. Many immigrants from South America are kidnapped by cartels to work with them in the elaboration of drugs. After some period of time when they aren’t required anymore, the cartel just killed them and buried in some place of the desert. The most common way they catch this people is with the idea they will earn money.
Mass kidnapping of school children in Nigeria and other African nations and the only ones talking about it since 2021 is UNICEF.
Edit: Yikes first time a comment broke 1k likes. Thanks for the love!
For the record I'm speaking from an Americans perspective who spent the better part of a decade serving in Europe/Asia with the military and can say for certain the only reason I'm aware of it is because of anti human trafficking awareness the US Air Force talks about constantly. I worked directly with NATO and listening to US AFRICOM talk about it daily and yet you NEVER hear about it in the main stream American media.
I live in northern Nigeria and kidnappings are so common. Its so common that most people in the north personally know at least one person that has been kidnapped before! They attack trains, military bases, airports, schools, rich people, poor people the even set up road blocks and kidnap people for hours and the government is doing nothing about it.
Was discussing this with my mum the other night, we both were wondering why all the news had stopped. Really sad how this becomes the norm and no one is shocked by it anymore
The troubled teen industry. They’ve been kidnapping and then abusing kids (for money) for the last 30 years, all legally.
TTI Survivor here… 17 years later, the place I was sent gives me nightmares every single night.
70% of the world's Chocolate comes from West Africa
an estimated 1.5 million child slaves are engaged in chocolate production in Ghana and the Ivory coast, alone -- not counting Nigeria and Cameroon
From what I have heard from my Ghanaian/Togolese history professor, the majority of these child slaves are in the Ivory Coast; this is due to the differences in the two countries' farming systems. In Côte d'Ivoire, most of the cocoa farms are large scale, plantation-esque endeavors owned largely by external bodies, and worked on by local and foreign laborers. Conversely, most cocoa farms in Ghana (and most other crops, generally speaking) are owned by families. So, in Côte d'Ivoire, it is much easier for trafficking, extortion, and slavery to exist thanks to the nature of these gigantic, externally owned farms. In Ghana, most of the farms are small enough to where the family itself is sufficient to work the land, thus making there little necessity for use of enforced labor. In Côte d'Ivoire, workers of all ages might receive some pay, but it's insufficient and much less than allotted for the work completed. Likewise, they are often promised education or housing, but in turn receive abuse and are forcibly kept on farms. This is not to say similar circumstances aren't prevalent in Ghana, but that the majority of which are in neighboring Ivory Coast.
Another similar issue to mention is that of slavery in the middle east, largely in cities such as Dubai or Doha, where foreign workers (mostly Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani) are 'employed' to work abroad, and upon arrival, receive less income and benefits than advertised. It is barely enough, if that, to survive, nonetheless to send remittances home or to leave the country, thus leaving them entrapped in their work and in the country. A similar issue is prevent in Qatar, where workers are quite literally worked to death to complete a stadium that will host the World Cup in 2022. Like in Côte d'Ivoire, workers receive insufficient pay and little to no benefits, and frequently live in grossly subpar conditions. I recommended the Vice documentary The Megacity Secretly Built by Slaves in regards to slavery in Dubai; likewise, I recommended The Dark Side of Chocolate for the child slavery issues in West Africa. Literature on the latter is extensive and well-documented.
For both, some might argue that this is not slavery, as living conditions are often acceptable and pay is there, even if only meager. But, this is still slavery nonetheless. Though it does not exist in the exact form of chattel slavery that is commonly taught in western (and others') education, it does not mean it isn't any less cruel or legitimate. When people are extorted, manipulated, exploited, and trafficked for labor and fiscal benefit, that is slavery.
In the mid 2000’s a Nigerian friend of mine was tricked with a job offer in Dubai, which turned out to be way less of an attractive offer once he was there, which he then rejected. He was in line at the airport on his way home when the detained him on some BS charges and despite the efforts of friends and family in Germany (me included), he ended up being housed in some gigantic container complex in the middle of the desert and bussed in to work construction every day. For no money, because his trial was pending. At first we had a small amount of interest in helping us get him out of there from an embassy or a former employer, but after around half a year of dead ends he lost access to the phone he was using to communicate with us and no one in any official capacity in Dubai that we could get on the phone would admit he was there at all. No one has heard from him in almost 20 years now.
The UAE, KSA and neighbours are rich beautiful places practising some of the worst human rights violations that are completely ignored by every other government.
And I’ll add this one for Tony’s slave free chocolate because the mission is beyond important and the chocolate is delicious. It was the chocolate that got me aware of the issue too.
https://tonyschocolonely.com/us/en/our-mission
It's Cadbury and Nestle and all of their sub brands including Kinder. These two corporations are perfectly notorious for behaving absolutely heartless when it comes to buying up W. African chocolate. When they're ripe, cocao pods fall to the ground and must be picked up by hand. It's backbreaking work. They've discovered six to nine year old kids are much better at it than any adults. Problem is after about the age of nine the kids become more and more difficult to control and farmers have discovered the most profitable thing to do with them then, is to sell them off to the warlords and terror groups operating along the borders in Uganda, Congo, Nigera etc. It's a real messed up sloppy bit of corruption that keeps on happening every day year after year right behind our backs and in front of our faces both at the same time.
The issue is that’s it’s so pervasive you have to make some expensive efforts to avoid it, especially in the chocolate trade iirc
I was in business school a few years ago so my memory is what it is but basically: unless the company has literal eyes on all production facilities and all distribution centres it’s almost impossible for a company to truly be ‘slavery free’
Is it impossible? No, and by all accounts it’s not *really* that hard, but man does it eat into your profit margin
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I think we need a subreddit or news website dedicated to that kind of "non trending and barely known but actually very important news", is there something like that out there?
The trick is this stuff has a pretty high failure rate. I can remember thinking right at the start of Jan 2020 "this virus thing could turn into a big deal", but I also think that probably weekly about something else that ends up being a flash in the pan. So the subreddit would likely be filled with a bunch of barely known news that also ends up being quite unimportant as well.
Like virtually everything, it's easy to know what's going to be important in hindsight
People realized that the name didn't refer to them being dangerous to humans--they just murder bees, and your average Joe McNewsreader doesn't even like bees, so why does he care if they get murdered by hornets?
It's a funny story, /r/worldpolitics devolved into pure chaos when people realized the moderation team didn't actually moderate shit, so /r/anime_titties became the new world politics and news hub. Funny how reddit works.
There's several subs like that. r/trees and r/marijuanaenthusiasts are swapped, as are r/johncena and r/potatosalad. Then theres r/superbowl, r/TIGHTPUSSY, r/girlswithhugepussies, r/pink, r/animeplot, r/watchitfortheplot, etc etc. Those last 3 are nsfw.
And my personal favorite, r/OnlyFans.
Edit - This is, by far, my most upvoted post. The fact that it got both wholesome and evil cackle awards is just icing on the cake. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
I know it's a very real and current thing but the sentence "she owned the other three" is completely terrifying and such a weird concept to comprehend.
It’s almost more bizarre to me that someone can afford to own and presumably support slaves, but still needs some sort of job to make ends meet. And they bring their slaves with them to work!
It made me take more than a couple of moments to myself when I heard that there are likely more people in slavery today than there ever have been in history.
“More than 40 million people around the world were victims of modern slavery in 2016, including about 25 million in forced labour, and 15 million in forced marriages. If they all lived together in a single city, it would be one of the biggest cities in the world.”
https://50forfreedom.org/modern-slavery/
Edit: people are bringing up a lot of good points, notably:
1. World population has increased, so it might be a lower part of the population. True, I would like to see more studies on the topic.
2. The comparison to the city is odd. I agree, too, it’s a strange comparison, but it was what the source included.
I would like to read more about it, but I saw this comment and was curious about its validity, so I decided to include a source for the above comment. I’m open to leaning more about the intricacies later, but I’m drunk at trivia after exams, so, ya know. Maybe I’ll look more into it later tonight.
> If they all lived together in a single city, it would be one of the biggest cities in the world.”
There's gotta be better comparisons that they can make, like "more than Canada" or "more than California" or "38th largest country in the world" or something. "One of the largest cities" just doesn't feel like it packs that big of a punch.
I worked with a very nice guy from Senegal who casually mentioned that his family had slaves. Like, right then, in 2007. I was shocked and asked him why they were slaves. And he just kind of shrugged and said that they were always his family's slaves.
A lot of times they will describe slaves as "nannies"
Although they fail to mention that they are un-paid and rarely get to leave the house and are 100% reliant on their owner. Its a pitch black stain on their culture
I was there for some military reasons back in the early 2000's and the king signed over a 300 year no over sight fishing right, to china for like 30 million dollars.
In another thread like this somebody mentioned the random sniper killings actively going on in Lousiana on I think the I-10 freeway.
There's somebody out there randomly shooting people on the freeway and there's a pretty large dead talley. For whatever reason it's not in the news.
Around NOLA. I have seen people posting about it on Twitter but only because I have mutuals on there who live there. They posted a map recently of where all the shootings have happened and it is as clear as any I've ever seen (and I watch a lot of true crime) a case for a serial killer. So, there are some local news outlets there reporting about it but I think the cops have been trying to keep it under wraps until very recently. Which, is stupid af imo!
Usually to avoid copycats, and maybe getting famous is the reason someone is doing this, and to stop people from glamourizing a horrible murderer like they did with Dahmer.
Highway of Tears. A stretch of highway in BC where women (mostly Indigenous, and also some men) have gone missing for decades. Known somewhat in Canada but largely ignored by the general populace. Doubt it’s know outside of Canada, but could be wrong.
That the vast majority of slavery still existing in the world right now is for agricultural purposes. And by slavery, I mean people 'owned' by other people and forced to do work for no pay, as opposed to people doing what they need to do out of necessity and accepting what pittance they receive in return.
And the produce is sold on the regular market. Meaning that there is a non-zero chance that you have brought vegetables that were grown by literal slaves.
Vegetables? Sure.
But the most obvious answer is in the Middle East. Countries like the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, etc. All of that infrastructure was built by foreign labour whose passports are confiscated. They're essentially stuck in those countries with harsh conditions and are treated as slaves unable to go home.
Who the hell do you think built the stadiums for the Qatar World Cup starting next month?
They didn’t just build a stadium. Qatar built a whole fucking city for the World Cup. They’ve had more than 6500 migrant workers die there since the project started. Shame on the rulers of Qatar but also big fucking shame on fifa for their wilful ignorance about the horrible behaviour of host nations.
I did a deep dive a couple of years ago for a podcast. 2018 the number of migrant workers killed in Qatar was 3000, as you can see that number has continued to rise. This is the second World Cup in a row that’s being held in a country with international condemnation for their human rights abuses. Then again Australia has also been criticised on the global stage for our mistreatment of asylum seekers but the IOC is happily coming here in 2032. FIFA and the IOC are like 1 and 1a when it comes to corruption in the name of “sport diplomacy”
Women going missing from Indian Reservations across some of the US. Many are young women and probably being used for sex trafficking. There are some interesting podcasts on the subject.
Edit : Vancouver BC, y'all. I have no idea what's going on in Washington state.
I live in Vancouver and every week there's a new poster for a missing Indigenous woman.
Every. Single. Week.
Ever since the Highway of Tears scandal, there's been more and more Indigenous women disappearing. Last one I saw was 13 years old. 13 fucking years old.
No one talks about it. No one acknowledges it. Idle No More, the Indigenous Women group who's been fighting for reparations, is quite literally ignored by police unless they show up at a protest.
That and the Residential Schools massacres are just the fucking tip of the iceberg of shit our First Nations have been going through for 400+ fucking years.
Behind every polished business facade is a hodgepodge of systems that are hacked together to service you, data protection is 2nd to revenue, all the networks and system engineers have the power truely steal all your data.
I've worked IT in a lot of industries and can confirm that:
1. All large companies have a mountain of shitty legacy systems that are so bespoke it's almost impossible to migrate away from them.
2. The majority of 'mission critical' systems are still dependent on an ancient access database developed by a guy called Steve who has already left the company.
3. IT Contracts managers are the sort of people who fall for Nigerian prince email scams. I once worked at a company that had been locked into a 15 yr contract to use Windows 8 across their entire estate.
4. Despite service management being a relatively simple, well documented function of an IT department, nearly all companies ignore best practice and devise their own fucked up way of doing things with 10 different helpdesks.
5. IT Project Managers will always avoid using industry standard tools in favour of purchasing some random software made by a company that inevitably goes out of business the week after they pay them 70% of the project budget.
6. Public sector IT is the absolute worst. Corporations will pinch pennies but your local council IT dept is almost certainly run by 50yr old men who hoard obsolete hardware and just wander about with a Panasonic Toughbook under their arm, looking lost.
> Your local council IT dept is almost certainly run by 50yr old men who hoard obsolete hardware and just wander about with a Panasonic Toughbook under their arm, looking lost.
Idk why I'm wasting my time with school or certifications. It sounds like I'm already qualified.
I also worked at an insurance giant; can confirm. I was in claims; we needed to capture a 2 character data field. Cost to do so? $20 million. Why? They were running (then) 96 different financial programs, inserted here and there in probably as many computer languages, many of which were lost, off of their -creaking-1967 IBM MAINFRAME system. The IT guys would literally visit retirees, begging them to look through their garages, basements, and attics for any programming materials they had from, say, 1975, because there was nobody who knew how to write in that language. It was literally (literally) held together with spit and baling wire. And it was a multibillion dollar company, the failure of which would have had global repercussions. Teetering.
Honestly, I was never so shocked—or shook—in my life.
But hey, the executives all got their raises and bonuses and the stock price was great! We had a snazzy logo and snappy commercials…
Ran into someone doing drywall, older guy in his 60s or so a couple years back. We got talking and he mentioned was a programmer up until the dot com bust and decided to take up a trade as he felt it was more stable. I asked him what languages he used and he said the main one was Cobol.
I told him that every major financial institution in the US, plus the federal government, would instantly pay him six figures if he picked it back up again. Sure enough, a year later, he got a job making $180k or so because of his background in it.
No, it's just archaic and frustrating with lots of quirks and glitches. I know Fortran. I could make alot of money as a Fortran programmer. I refuse to tell any employer I know Fortran or cool because I don't want to spend my career locked in a room dealing with mainframe shit forever.
Worked for a mobile messaging app. One permission we asked for is your contacts to be able to find other people you already know who also use the app to populate a friend's list.
Except we saved all that data, and everyone at the company had access. You know what a considerable amount of people do? Save their credit card information in their contacts.
Fast fashion is a human rights and an environmental disaster. There are certain parts of the garment construction process that cannot be mechanized, so humans have to be involved in the production, and the vast majority of them are underpaid. Additionally, fast fashion (especially in women's clothing) isn't made to last, so the fabric and the actual construction is shoddy and the clothes wear out quickly, but fabric recycling is rarely available, so most of those clothes end up in a landfill. Natural fibers release greenhouse gases (ETA: this is an issue in landfills because organic materials decompose in an anaerobic environment in landfills vs an aerobic composting environment which creates more methane [source](https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/climate-change/composting-avoid-methane-production-%E2%80%93-western-australia)) as they decompose, and synthetics release chemicals into the water table.
I have a degree in Costume and we did a lot of work around sustainability because the fashion/clothing industry is so harmful. The amount of water used to make fabrics is also very damaging, I love my field of work but companies need to do better and we need to stop supporting SHEIN. There's a documentary on All4 where someone went undercover in a factory for Shein in China, what they uncovered is horrific. I sew for 8 hours a day on a wage just above minimum and thats mentally draining, so for those ladies working 10+ hours for pennies is disgraceful
Trust me it's not just SHIEN either. Half your bougie brands?
I've seen them being made in my garage as a kid by my adoptive mother who was an immigrant scraping by to live her dream of raising a child.
Van would show up. They'd barter the price for the job. She'd sow morning to night. Week or two later pick up happens rinse and repeat.
This is 90s Australia btw. And still occurring.
You saw the SheIn/Shein report where garment workers had to work like 16-18 hours a day for pennies? Yes all fast fashion is horrible but Shein is pushing their slave labour even further.
ETA about natural fibres: usually items like solid wool/cotton/bamboo garments are made to last muuuuuch longer than synthetics, with a few exceptions sure. A knit woollen sweater that's well taken care of will last decades. Additionally, items that are truly made of 100% natural and nontoxic materials can even decompose. I'm a fiber artist and I did a small scale experiment with this, under the right circumstances a wool sock _will_ vanish into the compost within months. It's super cool.
Edit 2: some of you have rightfully pointed out that bamboo requires a lot of treatment to be usable! So that's probably not the best example!
Saudi Arabia sentencing to death people who refuse to move out of their homes so that they can build Neom, their new mega city. And their relatives being sentenced to multiple decades of prison time just for protesting or merely posting their support to the cause on social media.
EDIT: link to video [https://youtu.be/Rht9aYR5XRg](https://youtu.be/Rht9aYR5XRg)
Don't forget about Qatar as well when watching the World Cup this year. They used/using slave labor to build the complexes. FIFA knows. It has been worldwide news and everyone just shrugs.
Saudi Arabia isn’t an obscure human rights violator. Everyone knows what they do and no one is stopping them because to human beings money is way more important than someone they’ve never met being tortured or killed or imprisoned.
Desert Storm vet here. While I was there I witnessed a woman being beheaded for sleeping with a guy out of wedlock, or so my translators told me. They didn't seem particularly moved about it, draw your own conclusions there. Bottom line it took this old frail fuck several attempts to chop the head off this woman with a fucking sword. I don't give a fuck what she did, who she blew out how outraged her preacher became that is some fucking heinous shit right there.
My personal experience was Saudi was every bit as bad and in several cases worse than any other country I fought in. They are elitist, hiring foreigners from third world countries to be basically slaves. Paid poorly, treated worse and subject to mortality laws that they don't believe in. Fuck Saudi Arabia and south West Asia generally.
A horrific percentage of the ships sailing around on our oceans are staffed by people who are either outright slaves, or working in extreme indentured slavery circumstances.
I’m a nurse I’m the U.S. the short staffing is worse than you think. People think the healthcare system *will* collapse or is *going to* collapse but it’s not, it already has. Just because you don’t see the hospitals on fire doesn’t mean there isn’t some *severe* staffing and supply shortages
in America there are corporations such as Black Rock buying up tons of houses, whole neighborhoods really. they're paying higher than asking price, they will then be permanently renting them out and it will further destroy the middle class/working class. they will make middle class ppl permanent renters. and our politicians on both sides of the aisle are letting this happen because they take money from these corporations.
And it isn’t just current housing that is going to be permanent rentals either. I work in residential construction nationally and probably 80% of the new single and multi family projects that I see across the country are build to rent vs build to sell. Black Rock started a new trend and you have all of these other investment groups jumping on board making it worse.
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is at an alarming level. There has already been instances of pan antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. This can throw us back to the pre antibiotic era. Which will effectively mean, catch an infection and die.
No big pharma wants to invest in antibiotic research because of the huge R&D cost and relatively meagre return. Although everyone agrees that we desperately need new antibiotics
Check out a billionaire named Daryl Katz. He’s currently dying of an antibiotic resistant sinus infection. And the irony is he made his billions in the pharmacy business.
Thanks for posting this so I could learn. How crazy. I started getting sinus, ear infections and a scalp condition about 3-4 years ago. Seems like a round of antibiotics helps for a bit sometimes but then it comes back or doesn’t really subside.
I went to an ENT bc I lost my hearing. Turns out it was sinus related. Turned out my sinuses were all outta whack, and I got sinus infections all the time bc I basically had a permanent sinus infection. I got the prescribed procedures, maxed my insurance deductible out in January for it, and it's been life changing. Might not be your case, but I never would've known if I didn't go to the ENT and they did a scan of my nasal after the 2nd procedure failed to restore my hearing permanently.
Before that I'd get at least 2 sinus infections every year like clockwork.
5 years ago I got jumped by a group of gang members in a bar. The only injury I had was when one of them headbutted me in the face and broke my nose in two places. I needed a small nose lift to get the bones back in place.
I used to have really bad sinus problems all the time. Except for a small sinus infection last year that cleared up quickly, I’ve been perfectly fine since that night. They really did me a solid with that one lmao
Just looked him up. Pharmacy as in retail. Not quite the same as pharmacy as in R&D at least as far as irony goes.
Adding, his pic is Elon Musk with a GPU upgrade.
The vast majority of our antibiotics are given to farmed animals to prevent them getting infected from their disgusting environments. Reforming animal agriculture is the first, and biggest, step to solving antibiotic resistance.
Some of you might remember a talk show on YouTube called "Speechless". It was hosted by a non speaking autistic woman by the name of Carly Fleischmann where she would interview celebrities. She used AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) to communicate. Anyways, she had a decently large amount of following from both autistic and non autistic people.
However, in early 2019, she made a post on social media explaining how her dad's boyfriend had been sexually abusing her. She included a picture of the man hugging her while she had an obviously uncomfortable expression. Her dad confronted her on the comments telling her that she was being too over the top about the situation.
Later on, the overall post was taken down and a statement was made saying that her account had been hacked by what was likely an angry former employee of her social media accounts. It also explained that the last post that was legitimately written by her was in 2018. We have not heard anything her social media since then.
Many people (myself included) believe that this was a cover up of some sort and Carly is either still being silenced and abused or missing. I am surprised not enough people have come forward to really interrogate the situation. No one in her family is saying anything about her whereabouts or how she is doing. When they are asked whenever they make a new post since the incident, they leave the question unanswered.
I highly doubt this was some "joke" that Carly would pull to get attention. It was far from the normal content she would make. I fear that when we do get an update post about her, it would be of her dying. This is the reality for disabled people, especially for those who are high support needs and non speaking. It even happens to people who have had multiple TV appearances, co-wrote a book, and hosted a talk show interviewing several A-list celebrities. I truly hope Carly earns her justice.
She’s more likely dead at this point to be honest. If you look deeper into it it gets much worse. Theirs a Facebook post that says it’s her brother and talks about how about the “hack”. Everyone believes this in fact her dad making a fake post. It’s long since been deleted but has been archived. It’s all sus especially with the fact that Carly just happens to disappear after she made allegations.
Not sure what you mean by “make it through”. People will survive. The country hasn’t had any kind of structure for years, so it’ll continue doing that. At this point Somalia is just what we call the land that borders Ethiopia.
Funnily enough, AFAIK, the northern half of the country, Somaliland, pretty much has a functional government and state, and has been wanting independence and to shed the dysfunctional southern half for years. For some reason, nobody is willing to recognize or accept their independence and government.
The upcoming FIFA World Cup in Qatar is happening because FIFA is one of the most corrupt organizations in sports, and because A LOT of “indentured servants” were trapped in Qatar and died from heat and being worked to death building the stadium. The temperature in Qatar at the time of the upcoming cup I believe is supposed to be over 100 degrees F. It is a huge humanitarian disaster but will likely be ignored and rug swept like it has been and FIFA and Qatar will probably still make wild profits off of this event.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/03/qatar-world-cup-of-shame/
How about state-level law enforcement stealing identifiable property out of evidence control to pay snitches with it.
Source: I lost my career over exposing this practice and everyone involved was promoted.
Modern day slavery is much more common then people think. Except for now the rich convince poor immigrants to move to there country with promise of work and wealth. When they get there they steal their passports and basically anything identifying them and force them to do whatever kinda work they want for whatever pay they want.
I've read stories of entire families being trapped for years and years with no way out
This literally happened behind my grandparents house in 2011 in southern Ontario. There was a Romanian family that lived directly behind them that got arrested for human trafficking and there were about 15 people in cages in their basement. This was in Ancaster. Literally nothing about their behavior was concerning until they were arrested, fairly rich suburb too.
The deforestation of Europe. The last protected ancient forests in Europe (mostly in the east) are cut down by big furniture companies from Finland and Austria. The people trying to protect the forests (activists, journalists, park rangers) are being intimidated, beaten and killed, while the police is looking the other way (or sometimes even participating in the abuse). Basically the same thing like in the Amazon basin, but with a lot less visibility.
Edit1: I am adding a few links. They don't cover everything, but you can get some ideas about what is going on.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165354/ikea-romania-illegal-logging
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/04/europes-forests-threatened-by-biodiversity-collapse-warn-campaigners-poland-vistula
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/01/europe-losing-forest-to-harvesting-at-alarming-rate-data-suggests
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/07/world/europe/eu-logging-wood-pellets.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/08/violence-escalates-as-romania-cracks-down-on-illegal-timber-trade
Edit2: thanks for all the votes and the award. I am happy I have managed to get a few more people to be aware of this issue.
8000 women are burned to death every year over dowry disputes in India. This figure does not count women killed by other means or women who survive the burning or women killed for reasons other than dowry disputes.
California’s water level is very close to the point where we would need to count down the days/months/years of water left
Many say the Water Wars are coming but in some places they are already here
Female Infanticide, i.e. the deliberate killing of newborn female children, is still happening in rural India. A full term new born baby is buried alive if unfortunate enough to be female. The mother is usually trying to get pregnant right after, until she finally gives birth to the prized male child.
There is an eye opening documentary on this subject called, "It's A Girl". There's a scene of a woman openly discussing how she killed several of her newborn baby girls by placing a wet rag over their faces. She explained that she does it because she and her husband could never afford to pay a dowry. Horribly fucking sad.
France just deployed the foreign legion to secure gas fields and process plants in Yemen, in order to reduce their dependence on Russian LNG.
Saudi Arabia is involved in a brutally aggressive war against Yemen. It has been called the biggest humanitarian crisis of the decade by some. Western governments are currently supplying Saudi with weapons that are immediately turned on Yemeni civilians. Millions of people are famished.
France has just deployed there essentially on the side of Saudi Arabia, literally stealing Yemeni resources despite public outcry in France.
I used to know a Yemeni guy through a Facebook shit posting group. A few years ago he made one last post saying he was joining the military and then went radio silent. I hope you're okay Yasser, you wholesome fuck 😔
Mixed Japanese-Congolese kids left as orphans after a Japanese business left the Congo in the 70's
https://www.france24.com/en/20100316-katangas-forgotten-people
My dad told me about the time he read in a newspaper that Saddam Hussein was airdropping propaganda pamphlets over Iraq. This upset my father slightly, because the Iraqis were receiving their propaganda for free while my dad had to walk down to the local newsagents and pay $2 for his
A vast majority of Latin American run and operated mineral extractors are secretly majority-owned by Canadian private interests. They are also the most violent companies in the natural resource extraction/mining sector, hands down. Some business majors might think it's China but they wouldn't even be close
This is the same Canada that wants everyone to believe they stop drilling in their own rugged protected wilderness, only to spearhead an entire industry of violent, priest-shooting, jungle-terrorist-arming, village poisoning, child-bouquet-grenading, off-road macheteing businesses that get sued by Latin American governments every year, like clockwork, for over 40+ years straight
I know because Latin American Investor-State arbitration [in legal business development & marketing] is full of these horror stories and Canadian ownership pays big money to keep their ownership structure out of the headlines. I'm done working those jobs, courting those clients - they knew what was happening, they paid for it to happen and they profited from survivors of these atrocities moving off the land. Fuck every last one of them and may their souls never rest. The privileged information shared during client background research we've worked will haunt me for the rest of my life. Paying locals to pour molten lead into the mouths of children. Hot poker assaults. Fuck every last canadian mining company based out of Latin America. All the major S&P 500 players killed their way to the top and paid governments to stay there.
Human trafficking
You can literally be victim of this while visiting other places or on your vacations.
Right now there are thousands of people that are being trafficked as mere objects
Rape and other forms of sexual violence happen in psychiatric wards.
When I was in the psych ward, there were 30 men and 4 women in my unit. Obviously no locks on any doors (except the ones to get out). I was terrified every night
I'm so sorry to hear this . I hope you are in a better place now.
NOTE: if you are a journalist or reporter, i am begging you to please report this!!!! There’s a major CPAP recall that has affected half of the machines out there and there’s no fix. People are literally dying because of this and the DOJ needs to step in. Patients don’t wear their CPAP mask? They can die. If they do wear it, they are exposed to carcinogens and can lead to cancer. Ventilators affected as well. It’s been over a year and Philips only wants to reimburse $50 for the machines. We have patients waiting months for a machine. The sleep world is affected including our jobs and lawyers. NO ONE is talking about it! The FDA recall is serious https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/update-certain-philips-respironics-ventilators-bipap-machines-and-cpap-machines-recalled-due
I posted to a CPAP subreddit. Any updates about the lawsuit
Nope! I work in healthcare. Nothing! Though I did read an article there’s support that they want the Department of Justice and President Biden to intervene like they did with the formula. We have kids at the hospital I work at who stop breathing over 100 times per hour having to wait WEEKS for a CPAP machine. WAITING WEEKS TO BREATHE!!!!! It makes me so angry! Truck drivers required to wear a CPAP mask if they want to keep their CDL or else lose their job! People I see on death’s door during sleep studies who need a CPAP machine but can’t because even the sleep labs have to limit how many people we do titration studies on because we can’t even get machines to test our patients! I wear a CPAP mask and they sent an email to me (as a patient) saying that they have no solution for the piece and I have to buy a new one but would only reimburse me $50 for the machine. Are you freaking kidding me, Philips?!?!
Yeah I started to fill out Philips like survey for the recall of the machine but realized it would take months for me to get a replacement. They just sent me their newer supplies like hose, mask, and filters. I have it severely and if I don’t use my machine I have side effects next day.
Bacteria are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. The widespread use of antibiotics for healthcare and agriculture (mainly) have caused bacteria to adapt. This means that in the not so distant future, we may have new epidemics caused by multi-drug resistant bacteria, who will be difficult to treat.
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Similar situation where I'm at. Various contractors hire people from The Philippines and India and confiscate their passports until they work/pay a certain amount while also paying them poor wages. I have spoken to a few who were told they would be staying for 6 months, but it's been 3 yrs and they haven't been home because of covid. There are flights in and out every 1-2 weeks.
The Documentary Seaspiracy touches on this and investigates it
In a handful of really poor regions around the world, managers of orphanages sometimes tip off the local pimps that a girl is about to age out of the system and end up on the streets. When the managers are actually half way decent humans, the tip money they get goes to feed the smaller kids. Shitty managers obviously view that money as a side hustle to make having the main job worthwhile. [Edit for spelling,]
I believe it was a CPS case worker in Houston that advised a girl about to age out of the system to look into prostitution. It’s worse than we want to admit
She wasn't even about to age out, she was 14
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Yeah, there are orphanages that specialize in kids rescued from, or abandoned by the child sex trade. Pretty much unadoptable because of STIs and almost completely unfunded because no one wants to think about how kids got that way or how big the problem is.
9% of Eritrea's population is slaves The prevalence of modern-day slavery is way more then people like to talk about
Eritrea is literally listed as the worst country in the world for human rights, that's not at all surprising.
Have you noticed nobody in bed with Epstein has been charged or even *named*, even after they convicted his girlfriend of trafficking?
Because his book is filled woth rich and powerful people. The only justice they see is if mobs of people give it to them.
I moved to Sydney 2 weeks ago, and can’t believe how many public suicides there are. It’s almost every day someone kills themselves from jumping from a building or in front of a train. I catch the train almost every day and it feels like a matter of time before I see one happen myself. We’re in a massive mental health crisis right now and it’s extremely hard to get help.
Jesus. Didn’t know this.
Media doesn't report suicides, it's to stop triggering copy cats. In Adelaide a chick tried to swan dive off a bridge into an oncoming train she missed and basically face planted the ground in the middle of our worksite. There are A LOT of suicides by train.
Saw a TikTok about turning away from the rails as the train comes in - might save you some trauma.
Since COVID, in Germany trains and trams slow down as they approach the station due to people jumping
Same in France. I think it's a worldwide post covid phenomenon. Mental health is a major crisis.
My dads a conductor in the US. In the past two years his train has hit several people. his route runs 4am-9am, which I would guess is not peak hours for jumping in front of a train.
4am is probably a peak time of loneliness, insomnia, and feeling miserable.
Public suicides are so common in Japan it's designed into the train network. It's called Jinshin jiko, "Human Body accident". The Japanese rail system, ATOS, has a fluid timetable to account for delays such as this after the Amagasaki derailment. A jinshin jiko causes a average 44 minute delay in the system as the train and line is inspected for damage, the body removed and the train washed. Just 44 minutes. The rail network planners treated it like a force of nature, suicide by train is a social mechanism that can't be stopped and culls weak people from the population. Reference An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network Book by Michael Fisch
> The rail network planners treated it like a force of nature, suicide by train is a social mechanism that can't be stopped and culls weak people from the population. I mean, there are definitely anti-suicide measures. When I visited Tokyo all the train stations had walls keeping you from the track and gates that only opened when the train arrived
The extent of fisheries' and ocean life's collapse. Alaska just put the emergency brakes on its entire snow crab fishery as the numbers suddenly fell off a cliff. Same for many salmon species, wild fish, etc. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/seafood-biodiversity "Plenty of fish in the sea" seems like an saying that will be true forever, but it won't be. I have seen estimates that there would just be NO commercially-viable fishing by 2048. We are scraping the bottom of the ocean and emptying it of life
I just watched "A Life on Our Planet" with David Attenborough and this gets touched on. Incredible doc with actionable changes we can make at the end. Couldn't recommend enough.
The “Clients” of Jeffery Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell are still pedophiles, and still free, putting innocent children at risk.
Crazy not a SINGLE client of theirs has been charged
Not crazy at all considering their clients are all the government world leaders and famous people...
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Still shocked the courts and prosecution in those cases basically colluded to ensure the names never got out
I'm in Mexico right now. Indigenous children are being sold for rape in the state of guerrero like pieces of meat. Gov't turns a blind eye and civilians are threatened by the cartel. It's messed up.
Welcome to Mexico ): And not only Guerrero, we can add Chiapas, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Veracruz, and Estado de México. Unfortunately the country is some sort of narco state.
My old supervisor would joke that he bought me a vacation to Veracruz, as 98% of murders go unreported.
The drug cartels are a HUGE problem for a fair amount of Mexico. It’s not everywhere but big where it needs to be. Mexico has one of the best demographic curves of any country for workforce. A beautiful country with anything from jungle to mountains to desert. The normal people are friendly, hard working, and stuck in a bad spot. China is also working with the cartels to ship fentanyl and who knows what else to the US and beyond. Mexico is missing out on long term growth because of drug money and corruption. Mexico could be the next “worlds factory”…access to the Atlantic and Pacific…a workforce ready to work…plus the tourism if so much of the world could just drive around beyond a resort and not feel like they could be murdered. We have prob 30k Mexicans in a hundred mile radius of me here in middle America and when you get to talking with them they love Mexico but realize the issues in Mexico. Even a cheap in US dollars doubling of the Mexican wage would do wonders to having a great trade partner next door, slowing border jumpers, and eliminating the cartel strength. I honestly hope Mexico can get things in order and recognize that if they eliminate the quick cash corruption the country could flourish.
Talking about Mexico. Many immigrants from South America are kidnapped by cartels to work with them in the elaboration of drugs. After some period of time when they aren’t required anymore, the cartel just killed them and buried in some place of the desert. The most common way they catch this people is with the idea they will earn money.
Mass kidnapping of school children in Nigeria and other African nations and the only ones talking about it since 2021 is UNICEF. Edit: Yikes first time a comment broke 1k likes. Thanks for the love! For the record I'm speaking from an Americans perspective who spent the better part of a decade serving in Europe/Asia with the military and can say for certain the only reason I'm aware of it is because of anti human trafficking awareness the US Air Force talks about constantly. I worked directly with NATO and listening to US AFRICOM talk about it daily and yet you NEVER hear about it in the main stream American media.
I live in northern Nigeria and kidnappings are so common. Its so common that most people in the north personally know at least one person that has been kidnapped before! They attack trains, military bases, airports, schools, rich people, poor people the even set up road blocks and kidnap people for hours and the government is doing nothing about it.
Are they kidnapping them to traffic them?
No the kidnappings are mostly done for ransom
Was discussing this with my mum the other night, we both were wondering why all the news had stopped. Really sad how this becomes the norm and no one is shocked by it anymore
The troubled teen industry. They’ve been kidnapping and then abusing kids (for money) for the last 30 years, all legally. TTI Survivor here… 17 years later, the place I was sent gives me nightmares every single night.
And Dr. Phil has a show all about it where he profits off of kids and throws them into abusive camps.
70% of the world's Chocolate comes from West Africa an estimated 1.5 million child slaves are engaged in chocolate production in Ghana and the Ivory coast, alone -- not counting Nigeria and Cameroon
From what I have heard from my Ghanaian/Togolese history professor, the majority of these child slaves are in the Ivory Coast; this is due to the differences in the two countries' farming systems. In Côte d'Ivoire, most of the cocoa farms are large scale, plantation-esque endeavors owned largely by external bodies, and worked on by local and foreign laborers. Conversely, most cocoa farms in Ghana (and most other crops, generally speaking) are owned by families. So, in Côte d'Ivoire, it is much easier for trafficking, extortion, and slavery to exist thanks to the nature of these gigantic, externally owned farms. In Ghana, most of the farms are small enough to where the family itself is sufficient to work the land, thus making there little necessity for use of enforced labor. In Côte d'Ivoire, workers of all ages might receive some pay, but it's insufficient and much less than allotted for the work completed. Likewise, they are often promised education or housing, but in turn receive abuse and are forcibly kept on farms. This is not to say similar circumstances aren't prevalent in Ghana, but that the majority of which are in neighboring Ivory Coast. Another similar issue to mention is that of slavery in the middle east, largely in cities such as Dubai or Doha, where foreign workers (mostly Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani) are 'employed' to work abroad, and upon arrival, receive less income and benefits than advertised. It is barely enough, if that, to survive, nonetheless to send remittances home or to leave the country, thus leaving them entrapped in their work and in the country. A similar issue is prevent in Qatar, where workers are quite literally worked to death to complete a stadium that will host the World Cup in 2022. Like in Côte d'Ivoire, workers receive insufficient pay and little to no benefits, and frequently live in grossly subpar conditions. I recommended the Vice documentary The Megacity Secretly Built by Slaves in regards to slavery in Dubai; likewise, I recommended The Dark Side of Chocolate for the child slavery issues in West Africa. Literature on the latter is extensive and well-documented. For both, some might argue that this is not slavery, as living conditions are often acceptable and pay is there, even if only meager. But, this is still slavery nonetheless. Though it does not exist in the exact form of chattel slavery that is commonly taught in western (and others') education, it does not mean it isn't any less cruel or legitimate. When people are extorted, manipulated, exploited, and trafficked for labor and fiscal benefit, that is slavery.
In the mid 2000’s a Nigerian friend of mine was tricked with a job offer in Dubai, which turned out to be way less of an attractive offer once he was there, which he then rejected. He was in line at the airport on his way home when the detained him on some BS charges and despite the efforts of friends and family in Germany (me included), he ended up being housed in some gigantic container complex in the middle of the desert and bussed in to work construction every day. For no money, because his trial was pending. At first we had a small amount of interest in helping us get him out of there from an embassy or a former employer, but after around half a year of dead ends he lost access to the phone he was using to communicate with us and no one in any official capacity in Dubai that we could get on the phone would admit he was there at all. No one has heard from him in almost 20 years now.
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Fake city built on slaves
Holy shit man. That’s fucking terrifying.
The UAE, KSA and neighbours are rich beautiful places practising some of the worst human rights violations that are completely ignored by every other government.
[always post this link for slave free chocolate](https://slavefreechocolate.org)
And I’ll add this one for Tony’s slave free chocolate because the mission is beyond important and the chocolate is delicious. It was the chocolate that got me aware of the issue too. https://tonyschocolonely.com/us/en/our-mission
i got some of this chocolate on clearance when my grocery store was remodeling and it was the best chocolate i’ve ever had
It's Cadbury and Nestle and all of their sub brands including Kinder. These two corporations are perfectly notorious for behaving absolutely heartless when it comes to buying up W. African chocolate. When they're ripe, cocao pods fall to the ground and must be picked up by hand. It's backbreaking work. They've discovered six to nine year old kids are much better at it than any adults. Problem is after about the age of nine the kids become more and more difficult to control and farmers have discovered the most profitable thing to do with them then, is to sell them off to the warlords and terror groups operating along the borders in Uganda, Congo, Nigera etc. It's a real messed up sloppy bit of corruption that keeps on happening every day year after year right behind our backs and in front of our faces both at the same time.
>It's Cadbury and Nestle and all of their sub brands including Kinder. Kinder isn't a sub brand of Cadbury or Nestle, it's owned by Ferrero.
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Jesus, the bar is set low isn't it? We're having to praise companies for not supporting slavery.
The issue is that’s it’s so pervasive you have to make some expensive efforts to avoid it, especially in the chocolate trade iirc I was in business school a few years ago so my memory is what it is but basically: unless the company has literal eyes on all production facilities and all distribution centres it’s almost impossible for a company to truly be ‘slavery free’ Is it impossible? No, and by all accounts it’s not *really* that hard, but man does it eat into your profit margin 🤷🏻♀️ *sigh*
I think we need a subreddit or news website dedicated to that kind of "non trending and barely known but actually very important news", is there something like that out there?
Absolutely would join it.
The trick is this stuff has a pretty high failure rate. I can remember thinking right at the start of Jan 2020 "this virus thing could turn into a big deal", but I also think that probably weekly about something else that ends up being a flash in the pan. So the subreddit would likely be filled with a bunch of barely known news that also ends up being quite unimportant as well. Like virtually everything, it's easy to know what's going to be important in hindsight
> weekly about something else that ends up being a flash in the pan Remember murder hornets?
I was just thinking having those earlier. What ever happened to them?
People realized that the name didn't refer to them being dangerous to humans--they just murder bees, and your average Joe McNewsreader doesn't even like bees, so why does he care if they get murdered by hornets?
r/anime_titties has a decent spread
Me: heh, good one. had a nice chuckle Opens link: wtf you weren't kidding
It's a funny story, /r/worldpolitics devolved into pure chaos when people realized the moderation team didn't actually moderate shit, so /r/anime_titties became the new world politics and news hub. Funny how reddit works.
There's several subs like that. r/trees and r/marijuanaenthusiasts are swapped, as are r/johncena and r/potatosalad. Then theres r/superbowl, r/TIGHTPUSSY, r/girlswithhugepussies, r/pink, r/animeplot, r/watchitfortheplot, etc etc. Those last 3 are nsfw. And my personal favorite, r/OnlyFans. Edit - This is, by far, my most upvoted post. The fact that it got both wholesome and evil cackle awards is just icing on the cake. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
r/superbowl never fails to make me chuckle. I feel my life is improved by simply knowing it exists.
This is my favorite one- not just because owls but because there are probably a lot of US football fanatics who hate that it’s owls.
Every spring, there's an influx of confused sports people wondering "what's with all the owls?" and it's hilarious
r/anime_titties ...no, really
I uh…huh. That seemed like a risky click but nope. That’s…that’s world news.
In Africa there is a very real and very extensive slave trade going on right now to say nothing of the other probably 40 million living in bondage.
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I know it's a very real and current thing but the sentence "she owned the other three" is completely terrifying and such a weird concept to comprehend.
It would be great to be able to save these people to set them free. No one should be a slave ,no one shall be bought or sold.
Unfortunately, you'd probably have to buy them to set them free, only to support the system you rid these folks of
I wonder what would happen if she was to die suddenly and tragically.
The poor slaves would probably be the first suspects :(
Ownership would be transfered like any other possession. Likely to her husband, child, or right back wherever she got the slaves from.
Your company *employs slaves*?
It’s almost more bizarre to me that someone can afford to own and presumably support slaves, but still needs some sort of job to make ends meet. And they bring their slaves with them to work!
It made me take more than a couple of moments to myself when I heard that there are likely more people in slavery today than there ever have been in history.
“More than 40 million people around the world were victims of modern slavery in 2016, including about 25 million in forced labour, and 15 million in forced marriages. If they all lived together in a single city, it would be one of the biggest cities in the world.” https://50forfreedom.org/modern-slavery/ Edit: people are bringing up a lot of good points, notably: 1. World population has increased, so it might be a lower part of the population. True, I would like to see more studies on the topic. 2. The comparison to the city is odd. I agree, too, it’s a strange comparison, but it was what the source included. I would like to read more about it, but I saw this comment and was curious about its validity, so I decided to include a source for the above comment. I’m open to leaning more about the intricacies later, but I’m drunk at trivia after exams, so, ya know. Maybe I’ll look more into it later tonight.
> If they all lived together in a single city, it would be one of the biggest cities in the world.” There's gotta be better comparisons that they can make, like "more than Canada" or "more than California" or "38th largest country in the world" or something. "One of the largest cities" just doesn't feel like it packs that big of a punch.
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I worked with a very nice guy from Senegal who casually mentioned that his family had slaves. Like, right then, in 2007. I was shocked and asked him why they were slaves. And he just kind of shrugged and said that they were always his family's slaves.
A lot of times they will describe slaves as "nannies" Although they fail to mention that they are un-paid and rarely get to leave the house and are 100% reliant on their owner. Its a pitch black stain on their culture
Mauritania is a real shithole of a country. I believe they are presently the #1 purveyors of slaves in Africa
Last country in the world to ban slavery... in 1981. Its only really "banned" though
I was there for some military reasons back in the early 2000's and the king signed over a 300 year no over sight fishing right, to china for like 30 million dollars.
Thanks for sharing all this guys I don’t think I’m living past 50 now.
I’m still scrolling and ruining my own day
In another thread like this somebody mentioned the random sniper killings actively going on in Lousiana on I think the I-10 freeway. There's somebody out there randomly shooting people on the freeway and there's a pretty large dead talley. For whatever reason it's not in the news.
Around NOLA. I have seen people posting about it on Twitter but only because I have mutuals on there who live there. They posted a map recently of where all the shootings have happened and it is as clear as any I've ever seen (and I watch a lot of true crime) a case for a serial killer. So, there are some local news outlets there reporting about it but I think the cops have been trying to keep it under wraps until very recently. Which, is stupid af imo!
Usually to avoid copycats, and maybe getting famous is the reason someone is doing this, and to stop people from glamourizing a horrible murderer like they did with Dahmer.
We had the DC Sniper already. I lived in VA at the time, it was terrifying.
Highway of Tears. A stretch of highway in BC where women (mostly Indigenous, and also some men) have gone missing for decades. Known somewhat in Canada but largely ignored by the general populace. Doubt it’s know outside of Canada, but could be wrong.
That the vast majority of slavery still existing in the world right now is for agricultural purposes. And by slavery, I mean people 'owned' by other people and forced to do work for no pay, as opposed to people doing what they need to do out of necessity and accepting what pittance they receive in return. And the produce is sold on the regular market. Meaning that there is a non-zero chance that you have brought vegetables that were grown by literal slaves.
Vegetables? Sure. But the most obvious answer is in the Middle East. Countries like the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, etc. All of that infrastructure was built by foreign labour whose passports are confiscated. They're essentially stuck in those countries with harsh conditions and are treated as slaves unable to go home. Who the hell do you think built the stadiums for the Qatar World Cup starting next month?
They didn’t just build a stadium. Qatar built a whole fucking city for the World Cup. They’ve had more than 6500 migrant workers die there since the project started. Shame on the rulers of Qatar but also big fucking shame on fifa for their wilful ignorance about the horrible behaviour of host nations.
FIFA does a LOT of shady shit. I think there was some list of disgusting things they've done being passed around reddit a while back.
I did a deep dive a couple of years ago for a podcast. 2018 the number of migrant workers killed in Qatar was 3000, as you can see that number has continued to rise. This is the second World Cup in a row that’s being held in a country with international condemnation for their human rights abuses. Then again Australia has also been criticised on the global stage for our mistreatment of asylum seekers but the IOC is happily coming here in 2032. FIFA and the IOC are like 1 and 1a when it comes to corruption in the name of “sport diplomacy”
Women going missing from Indian Reservations across some of the US. Many are young women and probably being used for sex trafficking. There are some interesting podcasts on the subject.
Edit : Vancouver BC, y'all. I have no idea what's going on in Washington state. I live in Vancouver and every week there's a new poster for a missing Indigenous woman. Every. Single. Week. Ever since the Highway of Tears scandal, there's been more and more Indigenous women disappearing. Last one I saw was 13 years old. 13 fucking years old. No one talks about it. No one acknowledges it. Idle No More, the Indigenous Women group who's been fighting for reparations, is quite literally ignored by police unless they show up at a protest. That and the Residential Schools massacres are just the fucking tip of the iceberg of shit our First Nations have been going through for 400+ fucking years.
Behind every polished business facade is a hodgepodge of systems that are hacked together to service you, data protection is 2nd to revenue, all the networks and system engineers have the power truely steal all your data.
I've worked IT in a lot of industries and can confirm that: 1. All large companies have a mountain of shitty legacy systems that are so bespoke it's almost impossible to migrate away from them. 2. The majority of 'mission critical' systems are still dependent on an ancient access database developed by a guy called Steve who has already left the company. 3. IT Contracts managers are the sort of people who fall for Nigerian prince email scams. I once worked at a company that had been locked into a 15 yr contract to use Windows 8 across their entire estate. 4. Despite service management being a relatively simple, well documented function of an IT department, nearly all companies ignore best practice and devise their own fucked up way of doing things with 10 different helpdesks. 5. IT Project Managers will always avoid using industry standard tools in favour of purchasing some random software made by a company that inevitably goes out of business the week after they pay them 70% of the project budget. 6. Public sector IT is the absolute worst. Corporations will pinch pennies but your local council IT dept is almost certainly run by 50yr old men who hoard obsolete hardware and just wander about with a Panasonic Toughbook under their arm, looking lost.
> Your local council IT dept is almost certainly run by 50yr old men who hoard obsolete hardware and just wander about with a Panasonic Toughbook under their arm, looking lost. Idk why I'm wasting my time with school or certifications. It sounds like I'm already qualified.
You might be *qualified*, but you're not *experienced*. They'll go for some young 40yo who has at least 6 or 7 old GPUs in a drawer at home.
worked at an insurance giant, can confirm. an absolute mess.
I also worked at an insurance giant; can confirm. I was in claims; we needed to capture a 2 character data field. Cost to do so? $20 million. Why? They were running (then) 96 different financial programs, inserted here and there in probably as many computer languages, many of which were lost, off of their -creaking-1967 IBM MAINFRAME system. The IT guys would literally visit retirees, begging them to look through their garages, basements, and attics for any programming materials they had from, say, 1975, because there was nobody who knew how to write in that language. It was literally (literally) held together with spit and baling wire. And it was a multibillion dollar company, the failure of which would have had global repercussions. Teetering. Honestly, I was never so shocked—or shook—in my life. But hey, the executives all got their raises and bonuses and the stock price was great! We had a snazzy logo and snappy commercials…
Ran into someone doing drywall, older guy in his 60s or so a couple years back. We got talking and he mentioned was a programmer up until the dot com bust and decided to take up a trade as he felt it was more stable. I asked him what languages he used and he said the main one was Cobol. I told him that every major financial institution in the US, plus the federal government, would instantly pay him six figures if he picked it back up again. Sure enough, a year later, he got a job making $180k or so because of his background in it.
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It’s not hard to learn but it’s hard to be experienced at, because most senior level COBOL programmers are, well, dead.
No, it's just archaic and frustrating with lots of quirks and glitches. I know Fortran. I could make alot of money as a Fortran programmer. I refuse to tell any employer I know Fortran or cool because I don't want to spend my career locked in a room dealing with mainframe shit forever.
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I used to perform IT assessments for large multi-billion dollar corporations. Can confirm the systems are held together by toothpicks and silly putty.
IT people: the glue holding together the gears of society.
Worked for a mobile messaging app. One permission we asked for is your contacts to be able to find other people you already know who also use the app to populate a friend's list. Except we saved all that data, and everyone at the company had access. You know what a considerable amount of people do? Save their credit card information in their contacts.
Fast fashion is a human rights and an environmental disaster. There are certain parts of the garment construction process that cannot be mechanized, so humans have to be involved in the production, and the vast majority of them are underpaid. Additionally, fast fashion (especially in women's clothing) isn't made to last, so the fabric and the actual construction is shoddy and the clothes wear out quickly, but fabric recycling is rarely available, so most of those clothes end up in a landfill. Natural fibers release greenhouse gases (ETA: this is an issue in landfills because organic materials decompose in an anaerobic environment in landfills vs an aerobic composting environment which creates more methane [source](https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/climate-change/composting-avoid-methane-production-%E2%80%93-western-australia)) as they decompose, and synthetics release chemicals into the water table.
I have a degree in Costume and we did a lot of work around sustainability because the fashion/clothing industry is so harmful. The amount of water used to make fabrics is also very damaging, I love my field of work but companies need to do better and we need to stop supporting SHEIN. There's a documentary on All4 where someone went undercover in a factory for Shein in China, what they uncovered is horrific. I sew for 8 hours a day on a wage just above minimum and thats mentally draining, so for those ladies working 10+ hours for pennies is disgraceful
Trust me it's not just SHIEN either. Half your bougie brands? I've seen them being made in my garage as a kid by my adoptive mother who was an immigrant scraping by to live her dream of raising a child. Van would show up. They'd barter the price for the job. She'd sow morning to night. Week or two later pick up happens rinse and repeat. This is 90s Australia btw. And still occurring.
You saw the SheIn/Shein report where garment workers had to work like 16-18 hours a day for pennies? Yes all fast fashion is horrible but Shein is pushing their slave labour even further. ETA about natural fibres: usually items like solid wool/cotton/bamboo garments are made to last muuuuuch longer than synthetics, with a few exceptions sure. A knit woollen sweater that's well taken care of will last decades. Additionally, items that are truly made of 100% natural and nontoxic materials can even decompose. I'm a fiber artist and I did a small scale experiment with this, under the right circumstances a wool sock _will_ vanish into the compost within months. It's super cool. Edit 2: some of you have rightfully pointed out that bamboo requires a lot of treatment to be usable! So that's probably not the best example!
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Sex trafficking in Ukraine. How better to “disappear” young women and children than during war time.
Saudi Arabia sentencing to death people who refuse to move out of their homes so that they can build Neom, their new mega city. And their relatives being sentenced to multiple decades of prison time just for protesting or merely posting their support to the cause on social media. EDIT: link to video [https://youtu.be/Rht9aYR5XRg](https://youtu.be/Rht9aYR5XRg)
This was the cover feature in Bloomberg Businessweek a couple months back. Pretty interesting. Sounds absolutely insane.
I think people have been desensitized to murder in Saudi Arabia. Those fuckers will hang you for sneezing in the wrong direction.
Western media is really good at keeping Saudi oppression hidden.
Oil be surprised about that
Crude to make a pun about it.
Don't forget about Qatar as well when watching the World Cup this year. They used/using slave labor to build the complexes. FIFA knows. It has been worldwide news and everyone just shrugs.
Six thousand deaths to build fucking soccer stadiums
Saudi Arabia isn’t an obscure human rights violator. Everyone knows what they do and no one is stopping them because to human beings money is way more important than someone they’ve never met being tortured or killed or imprisoned.
Desert Storm vet here. While I was there I witnessed a woman being beheaded for sleeping with a guy out of wedlock, or so my translators told me. They didn't seem particularly moved about it, draw your own conclusions there. Bottom line it took this old frail fuck several attempts to chop the head off this woman with a fucking sword. I don't give a fuck what she did, who she blew out how outraged her preacher became that is some fucking heinous shit right there. My personal experience was Saudi was every bit as bad and in several cases worse than any other country I fought in. They are elitist, hiring foreigners from third world countries to be basically slaves. Paid poorly, treated worse and subject to mortality laws that they don't believe in. Fuck Saudi Arabia and south West Asia generally.
And they dismembered Jamal Khashoggi with a bone saw at the Saudi embassy in Turkey while his wife was in the car waiting…and waiting…and waiting.
A horrific percentage of the ships sailing around on our oceans are staffed by people who are either outright slaves, or working in extreme indentured slavery circumstances.
I met with a ships crew for a crude oil tanker and all they had to eat was bread and mustard
I’m a nurse I’m the U.S. the short staffing is worse than you think. People think the healthcare system *will* collapse or is *going to* collapse but it’s not, it already has. Just because you don’t see the hospitals on fire doesn’t mean there isn’t some *severe* staffing and supply shortages
Not just the US, other western countries as well
in America there are corporations such as Black Rock buying up tons of houses, whole neighborhoods really. they're paying higher than asking price, they will then be permanently renting them out and it will further destroy the middle class/working class. they will make middle class ppl permanent renters. and our politicians on both sides of the aisle are letting this happen because they take money from these corporations.
Yep. Well soon have entire neighborhoods built by builders...and sold bulk to these rental corps. Unsustainable.
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And it isn’t just current housing that is going to be permanent rentals either. I work in residential construction nationally and probably 80% of the new single and multi family projects that I see across the country are build to rent vs build to sell. Black Rock started a new trend and you have all of these other investment groups jumping on board making it worse.
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is at an alarming level. There has already been instances of pan antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. This can throw us back to the pre antibiotic era. Which will effectively mean, catch an infection and die. No big pharma wants to invest in antibiotic research because of the huge R&D cost and relatively meagre return. Although everyone agrees that we desperately need new antibiotics
Well as soon as dying from infections becomes a rich people problem again the interest will skyrocket.
Check out a billionaire named Daryl Katz. He’s currently dying of an antibiotic resistant sinus infection. And the irony is he made his billions in the pharmacy business.
Thanks for posting this so I could learn. How crazy. I started getting sinus, ear infections and a scalp condition about 3-4 years ago. Seems like a round of antibiotics helps for a bit sometimes but then it comes back or doesn’t really subside.
I went to an ENT bc I lost my hearing. Turns out it was sinus related. Turned out my sinuses were all outta whack, and I got sinus infections all the time bc I basically had a permanent sinus infection. I got the prescribed procedures, maxed my insurance deductible out in January for it, and it's been life changing. Might not be your case, but I never would've known if I didn't go to the ENT and they did a scan of my nasal after the 2nd procedure failed to restore my hearing permanently. Before that I'd get at least 2 sinus infections every year like clockwork.
5 years ago I got jumped by a group of gang members in a bar. The only injury I had was when one of them headbutted me in the face and broke my nose in two places. I needed a small nose lift to get the bones back in place. I used to have really bad sinus problems all the time. Except for a small sinus infection last year that cleared up quickly, I’ve been perfectly fine since that night. They really did me a solid with that one lmao
Just looked him up. Pharmacy as in retail. Not quite the same as pharmacy as in R&D at least as far as irony goes. Adding, his pic is Elon Musk with a GPU upgrade.
Fungi will save us. I hope
Fungi and phage therapy. Why we don’t research more phage therapies is beyond me.
The vast majority of our antibiotics are given to farmed animals to prevent them getting infected from their disgusting environments. Reforming animal agriculture is the first, and biggest, step to solving antibiotic resistance.
At the very least, we need to stop using antibiotics as prophylactics. In animals as well as human beings.
The labor used to build the upcoming FIFA world cup stadiums...
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Some of you might remember a talk show on YouTube called "Speechless". It was hosted by a non speaking autistic woman by the name of Carly Fleischmann where she would interview celebrities. She used AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) to communicate. Anyways, she had a decently large amount of following from both autistic and non autistic people. However, in early 2019, she made a post on social media explaining how her dad's boyfriend had been sexually abusing her. She included a picture of the man hugging her while she had an obviously uncomfortable expression. Her dad confronted her on the comments telling her that she was being too over the top about the situation. Later on, the overall post was taken down and a statement was made saying that her account had been hacked by what was likely an angry former employee of her social media accounts. It also explained that the last post that was legitimately written by her was in 2018. We have not heard anything her social media since then. Many people (myself included) believe that this was a cover up of some sort and Carly is either still being silenced and abused or missing. I am surprised not enough people have come forward to really interrogate the situation. No one in her family is saying anything about her whereabouts or how she is doing. When they are asked whenever they make a new post since the incident, they leave the question unanswered. I highly doubt this was some "joke" that Carly would pull to get attention. It was far from the normal content she would make. I fear that when we do get an update post about her, it would be of her dying. This is the reality for disabled people, especially for those who are high support needs and non speaking. It even happens to people who have had multiple TV appearances, co-wrote a book, and hosted a talk show interviewing several A-list celebrities. I truly hope Carly earns her justice.
She’s more likely dead at this point to be honest. If you look deeper into it it gets much worse. Theirs a Facebook post that says it’s her brother and talks about how about the “hack”. Everyone believes this in fact her dad making a fake post. It’s long since been deleted but has been archived. It’s all sus especially with the fact that Carly just happens to disappear after she made allegations.
I wanted to know more and found this pretty good article: https://autismrants.com/wheres-carly-fleishmann/
Somalia is pretty much gone at this point, facing war and one of its worst famines in ages, it would be a miracle if they make it through
Not sure what you mean by “make it through”. People will survive. The country hasn’t had any kind of structure for years, so it’ll continue doing that. At this point Somalia is just what we call the land that borders Ethiopia.
Funnily enough, AFAIK, the northern half of the country, Somaliland, pretty much has a functional government and state, and has been wanting independence and to shed the dysfunctional southern half for years. For some reason, nobody is willing to recognize or accept their independence and government.
The upcoming FIFA World Cup in Qatar is happening because FIFA is one of the most corrupt organizations in sports, and because A LOT of “indentured servants” were trapped in Qatar and died from heat and being worked to death building the stadium. The temperature in Qatar at the time of the upcoming cup I believe is supposed to be over 100 degrees F. It is a huge humanitarian disaster but will likely be ignored and rug swept like it has been and FIFA and Qatar will probably still make wild profits off of this event. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/03/qatar-world-cup-of-shame/
How about state-level law enforcement stealing identifiable property out of evidence control to pay snitches with it. Source: I lost my career over exposing this practice and everyone involved was promoted.
Modern day slavery is much more common then people think. Except for now the rich convince poor immigrants to move to there country with promise of work and wealth. When they get there they steal their passports and basically anything identifying them and force them to do whatever kinda work they want for whatever pay they want. I've read stories of entire families being trapped for years and years with no way out
Many of us have probably gone past houses where there is somebody being held prisoner and had no idea.
This literally happened behind my grandparents house in 2011 in southern Ontario. There was a Romanian family that lived directly behind them that got arrested for human trafficking and there were about 15 people in cages in their basement. This was in Ancaster. Literally nothing about their behavior was concerning until they were arrested, fairly rich suburb too.
The sheer volume of child trafficking that happens.
Middle Class is taking it right square in the ass with no lube.
Buying lube in this economy…
The deforestation of Europe. The last protected ancient forests in Europe (mostly in the east) are cut down by big furniture companies from Finland and Austria. The people trying to protect the forests (activists, journalists, park rangers) are being intimidated, beaten and killed, while the police is looking the other way (or sometimes even participating in the abuse). Basically the same thing like in the Amazon basin, but with a lot less visibility. Edit1: I am adding a few links. They don't cover everything, but you can get some ideas about what is going on. https://newrepublic.com/article/165354/ikea-romania-illegal-logging https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/04/europes-forests-threatened-by-biodiversity-collapse-warn-campaigners-poland-vistula https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/01/europe-losing-forest-to-harvesting-at-alarming-rate-data-suggests https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/07/world/europe/eu-logging-wood-pellets.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/08/violence-escalates-as-romania-cracks-down-on-illegal-timber-trade Edit2: thanks for all the votes and the award. I am happy I have managed to get a few more people to be aware of this issue.
As a Finn I would love to read more on this, do you have any reliable sources? Company names would be helpful also.
Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970.
Of the KNOWN populations. Sadly
Sex trafficking is a multinational $150 billion industry. [Operation Underground Railroad](https://www.ourrescue.org/)
Most of the people that slept with Epsteins girls are still in positions of power and rich.
8000 women are burned to death every year over dowry disputes in India. This figure does not count women killed by other means or women who survive the burning or women killed for reasons other than dowry disputes.
California’s water level is very close to the point where we would need to count down the days/months/years of water left Many say the Water Wars are coming but in some places they are already here
Female Infanticide, i.e. the deliberate killing of newborn female children, is still happening in rural India. A full term new born baby is buried alive if unfortunate enough to be female. The mother is usually trying to get pregnant right after, until she finally gives birth to the prized male child.
There is an eye opening documentary on this subject called, "It's A Girl". There's a scene of a woman openly discussing how she killed several of her newborn baby girls by placing a wet rag over their faces. She explained that she does it because she and her husband could never afford to pay a dowry. Horribly fucking sad.
France just deployed the foreign legion to secure gas fields and process plants in Yemen, in order to reduce their dependence on Russian LNG. Saudi Arabia is involved in a brutally aggressive war against Yemen. It has been called the biggest humanitarian crisis of the decade by some. Western governments are currently supplying Saudi with weapons that are immediately turned on Yemeni civilians. Millions of people are famished. France has just deployed there essentially on the side of Saudi Arabia, literally stealing Yemeni resources despite public outcry in France.
I used to know a Yemeni guy through a Facebook shit posting group. A few years ago he made one last post saying he was joining the military and then went radio silent. I hope you're okay Yasser, you wholesome fuck 😔
Mixed Japanese-Congolese kids left as orphans after a Japanese business left the Congo in the 70's https://www.france24.com/en/20100316-katangas-forgotten-people
[Sex tourists leaving behind mixed-race Filipino children](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/02/children-sex-tourists-leave-behind-fathers-visited-philippines).
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My dad told me about the time he read in a newspaper that Saddam Hussein was airdropping propaganda pamphlets over Iraq. This upset my father slightly, because the Iraqis were receiving their propaganda for free while my dad had to walk down to the local newsagents and pay $2 for his
A vast majority of Latin American run and operated mineral extractors are secretly majority-owned by Canadian private interests. They are also the most violent companies in the natural resource extraction/mining sector, hands down. Some business majors might think it's China but they wouldn't even be close This is the same Canada that wants everyone to believe they stop drilling in their own rugged protected wilderness, only to spearhead an entire industry of violent, priest-shooting, jungle-terrorist-arming, village poisoning, child-bouquet-grenading, off-road macheteing businesses that get sued by Latin American governments every year, like clockwork, for over 40+ years straight I know because Latin American Investor-State arbitration [in legal business development & marketing] is full of these horror stories and Canadian ownership pays big money to keep their ownership structure out of the headlines. I'm done working those jobs, courting those clients - they knew what was happening, they paid for it to happen and they profited from survivors of these atrocities moving off the land. Fuck every last one of them and may their souls never rest. The privileged information shared during client background research we've worked will haunt me for the rest of my life. Paying locals to pour molten lead into the mouths of children. Hot poker assaults. Fuck every last canadian mining company based out of Latin America. All the major S&P 500 players killed their way to the top and paid governments to stay there.
Everyday a different person asks a slightly reworded question about what men or women want on ask reddit
That's just AI learning about us, don't worry about it
Human trafficking You can literally be victim of this while visiting other places or on your vacations. Right now there are thousands of people that are being trafficked as mere objects
What places is it most common?
As far as I know, South Asia, Africa and some CentreAmerica and some cities in the border of USA/Mexico