So a lot of people here don’t realize that any kind of transplant outside of a waiting list is considered a trafficked organ (excluding Iran). Or how cheap it is.

I had kidney failure for many years (btw, being young doesn’t help with wait times except unless maybe if you’re a kid in some cases).

At some point after some years, my dad (who still has a Facebook) started asking for help for a kidney donor (for the swap program thing, basically you donate to someone else on a chain), and immediately started getting messages from people in places like the Philippines “willing” to sell their kidneys. In quotations because you never know how willing they actually are, and even if not under direct pressure, I’d say extreme poverty is still a forceful pressure.

Regardless, the prices they were asking for? Between 5-15k$.

You’d think it would cost more than a used car, but apparently not. I scolded him for even thinking about it - explained that just because you can live with 1 kidney, you’re still more prone to kidney failure yourself now.

I ended up on dialysis for a little over 8 years and essentially lost my 20s to that, but at least when I finally got a transplant I didn’t have to deal with any guilt (came from someone who was braindead - wear your dang bicycle helmets people).

And I’m glad I never even considered that offer - apparently I was destined to get an aggressive cancer after a kidney transplant because I’m part of a very rare estimated 5% of the world population never exposed to an extremely common virus (Epstein-Barr). That cancer would likely not have been caught by an overseas doctor who is doing shady surgeries, and I’d be dead anyways.

So maybe karma does exist (in the psychological/outcome sense at least). I got the good karma and Steve Jobs got the dumbass karma (look up the details of his liver transplant and death. I want to point out, he must’ve been a true asshole to not have a willing live donor for a liver transplant, as it’s actually the easiest of them all to get).

Just to put it in a way you might understand, your logic means you believe North Korea is a democracy.

*Euros

You know what’s funny, is that on Voyager, you can’t instantly see what instance someone is registered too unless you tap on the username or respond, but I could still tell your tankie ass was from .ml before doing any of that.

PS: hilarious that someone with a username pun of communist is defending the capitalist business owner so hard too

Assumption they were getting paid considering he wasn’t

There’s nothing morally wrong, but there’s definitely something physically wrong with taking fentanyl when you don’t need fentanyl, especially long term. Like just because someone is addicted doesn’t mean they should stay addicted. I doubt you’re advocating for alcoholics to remain alcoholic for example.

Also, I think you mean anyone against the usage of all drugs don’t have a valid opinion, not the creation of all drugs (there’s no good reason Krokodil should exist for example).

Dex_amphetamine_

Meth_amphetamine_

No, the thing linking the 2 is the amphetamine part. Which is the actual stimulant.

The drug meth is actually just methamphetamine - there’s no “nasty crap” in it unless the person synthesizing it doesn’t refine and purify it well, which is true of basically all chemistry.

A more apt comparison is a strong beer and wine - both technically different things, but both get you drink because of the alcohol ingredient in them. They’re both alcoholic drinks.

Same with amphetamines - both are stimulants that have essentially the same effect. That’s specifically why they both work in treating ADHD. The only significant difference is one is legal (with a prescription) and the other isn’t, which of course means good luck getting it really pure and at the correct dosage. The only other difference is how fast acting / long lasting they are because of that tail molecule, but the part that has an actual effect on people is the amphetamine part.

Yeah but it has the “amphetamine” part that gives meth it’s kick. And that’s what most people think of when it comes to the drug - the effect it has on a standard person, not the chemical name (otherwise they’d be calling methylprednisolone “meth” too. And let’s face it, the majority of the population doesn’t know why it’s nicknamed meth either).

On a legal scale, “amphetamines” are what’s regulated, not methyl groups.

I mean, you technically sort of are taking meth in a way, but that’s because you need it since you react differently to it.

I mean, there’s nothing wrong with someone with severe physical trauma being given fentanyl for example.

Could be useful for reverse engineering and decompilation though no?

*well-off ADHD tax.

Interesting, guess they’ve split since I was younger. Wonder if the split has something to do with the politicians too, considering the political connections now.

But “18th Street” (translated) is and has already been a gang for a long time. Revolucionarios is just “revolutionaries” in Spanish.

Is this then an off shoot? Sub group?

I was wondering what it meant because FMLN is a party that came from revolutionaries, and they seem connected to the FMLN.

There’s some confusing wording in this article.

Why are they calling the “gang leaders” revolutionaries? Different things, especially in El Salvador. And Calle 18 has never really been tied to the revolutionaries. What makes it more confusing is they supposedly supported the FMLN.

For those who didn’t grow up in El Salvador or reading the news there, that party was started by former (surviving) revolutionaries of the Salvadorian civil war, and didn’t explode in popularity but rather climbed to popularity over the years. The reason many members left that party is because eventually they did win power (they were pretty popular with the older generation after all, since the many were pro-revolutionaries during the civil war - which btw, the USA meddled in of course to quell), but once they won power they didn’t improve infrastructure and education, and the head leadership proved to be pretty corrupt.

Bukele among others then gained power by using the anger people felt at the betrayal of FMLN.

My point is you should probably read this straight from El Faro, because I think some things are being slightly misreported or lost on translation through the telephone game.

If you’re also looking for a different native news source for other reportings btw, there’s La Prensa Gráfica, but I think they only do Spanish.

MS13 is America’s Hamas

Depends what clothes I’m wearing when it happens.

If I’m wearing anything that could remotely be seen as fancy back then (which I mean a lot of modern clothes could pass off as), since I’m near the ocean, I’d immediately run into the water not seeing anyone, and then pretend I’m a royal foreigner who ended up shipwrecked. Since I usually wear a watch, have a tungsten (Wolfram) crystal wedding band as well, that would help me in passing off as royalty as well. This is assuming the people helping me aren’t brigands. There’s things we do and know of that we take for granted that could be used to pass off as someone upper class too, like reading.

Then next steps would be to get to an aristocrats home, and eventually I’d imagine somewhere where I could work with scholars so they can teach me the language and we can work on translation so we can understand each other. Would have to be extremely careful of smallpox during all this of course.

Once we could, that’s when I’d finally whip out my phone to trusted scholars and pull up my survival books, books on plumbing, etc specifically, and to explain that this is a special metal and glass book that can hold many books that’s common in the land I’m from, and that I can teach them how to build them. But that we’d need to build plumbing because I’d like a shower by then.

If we’re doing anecdotes, the Mexican side of my family loves Sheinbaum too and are not in Lemmy (+1 friend and her boyfriend as well)

Says the person who has only responded to actual data with propaganda

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I’d download this but I’m worried it could also contain some form of advanced spyware, and my “security computer” needs a new screen cable at the moment.