Everyone should keep in mind: Besides the darkened tone of the world seeping into nearly everything, this place is probably crawling with shit-stirrers of a slightly subtler flavor than your typical obnoxious troll.

This effect might be from lemmy users in general hating everything about the world right now, or it might be the work of bots and/or illicitly paid humans fronting as the “general left.” The type that reflects your viewpoints pretty well but injects their comments with a little something extra, inflaming you or depressing more than what seems reasonable, maybe pushing you a little closer to the edge, whatever that edge may be.

We (or at least I) have no idea how much astroturfing is happening in the comments. It’s probably best to take anything that seems peculiarly provocative with a grain of salad.

Do not fucking trust the ends of these seemingly reasonable means.

Should we really count on this department and its affiliates to quality control and dole out these substances in a scientifically accurate and medically approved manner during treatment?

What’s stopping these purveyors from issuing you an altered or “experimental” version of these drugs, with or without your knowledge?

What happens if you “unexpectedly” experience a psychotic break or some other severe mental crisis as a result of these drugs and, buried somewhere in the fine print you signed, your rights to discontinue the regimen and seek further treatment independently are suddenly, simply, out of your hands?

Because this man and those around him will gleefully schlep you to a “wellness farm” instead.

You follow?

Just… Jesus Christ just please read the fine fuckin print of any drug “trial” you sign yourself up for.

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“I know Ron’s doing a second one… and probably a couple of more, and you know, at some point they might morph into a system where you’re going to keep it for a long time.”

Talk about burying the lede. Yet another plain-as-day admission by Trump that this is not and was never going to stop at immigrants.

How soon could one expect the g3stapo to storm one’s front door if one posted her home address for all her “constituents” to see?

But I mean, it is publicly available info, quite easy to find if you look in the right places… Plus she probably already has full-time staff sorting through all those shipments of syringes packed with puppy poop she must get… Probably.

Only asking for a friend.

Someone smarter than me needs to look at S*uth D@kota and help put the pieces of this odd puzzle together. (Made a new acct just in case I’m on to something here.)

This university is well known for its cyber-security work with the feds and happens to be working mighty closely with the current SD governor (probably with the help of crusty gnome herself) and some big-talking billionaire to try to buy Tiktk.

If you thought Amazon was bad… A “public-private partnership?” God knows what that would mean for controlling the algorithm and extracting data from unwitting users, i.e. a shitton of Americans.

Fun fact: Just up the road, a massive multi-billion-dollar data center is planned and the company, Applied Tech (which looks like a front tbh), is currently trying to get zoning laws passed in a county of a few thousand people, a county whose board of potential rubes doesn’t understand tech to the point their commission meeting minutes were auto-recovered according to the downloaded file name.

Wanna bet the new power plant planned to go up nearby exists almost exclusively to power this data center’s virtually unlimited crypto mining operation primarily publicized as “just doing AI stuff”?

A final fun fact for good measure: S.D. is a tax safe haven for corporations and is also one of only a few places where “dynasty trusts” can exist in perpetuity.

Maybe it’s all a coincidence, but it sure seems like all of this put together spells disaster. How much dark money stands to hide in SD and places like it? Exactly how would the state’s regulations (i.e. the lack thereof) facilitate this Tktk “rehoming” scheme seemingly filled with ill intent?

The TACO might just be pushing the deadline off so that the feds can get their ducks in a row in how they, too, can capitalize on this venture.

The crusty gnome clearly sold out the state for something. Technocracy perhaps?