"Street value" per gram goes down significantly as the weight of the transaction goes up. If someone has 100 pounds of weed the cops go by the absolute highest street price for the absolute smallest unit sizes (~$20/g) and call it a $1M haul.
In reality, it's not really feasible to move 45,000 individual grams in a timely manner (especially with products like cannabis that noticeably degrade fairly quickly), not to mention that you'd be opening yourself up to 10,000x the necessary risk to do so.
So while it's true on a certain level that 100 pounds of weed can eventually be worth about a million dollars once it makes its way through a distribution network, in reality it'll only ever probably net maybe 1/4 of that and the majority of that profit won't ever make it back up the chain even in an organized criminal network.
But when the pigs inflate their numbers by pulling these kinds of disingenuous tricks it makes them look good, and they know they'll never get in trouble for doing it.
What? Fentanyl is so so so much cheaper and 100% does get added to heroin all the time. It also gets added, to a lesser extent, to meth, coke, fake xanax pills, ketamine, etc. Especially in many places in the US, it's actually hard to find heroin without at least a trace of fentanyl.
Fentanyl is synthesized in China or Mexico (with precursors from China) extremely cheaply and without the need to maintain large plantations. It can then be imported to the US much more easily than heroin (extremely potent by weight and doesn't smell as much) where it's then diluted/mixed with other drugs. This is easily provable, there's tons and tons and tons of evidence/documentation of all of this.
I don't understand the original posters point either though, because providing addicts with clean drugs and access to treatment is the only real way to curb the current fentanyl epidemic.
> I don't understand the original posters point either though, because providing addicts with clean drugs and access to treatment is the only real way to curb the current fentanyl epidemic.
You are right about that. When I was referring to fentanyl laced heroine, I was talking about black markets. If it's legalized and the production is regulated, then that problem won't occur.
Sure but the point is these already wealthy people gain all this wealth for doing literally nothing, while the people who slave away and actually keep the economy going work hard all year for much, much less. And then of course workers end up having to hand most of that "cash" directly back to the land-owning classes for rent (among other things).
Homeowners could cash out on their investments and remain housed by getting jobs and renting, like the rest of us, which of course they won't do, because they recognize how exploitative the system is and that they earn more just sitting on property.
Anyway you look at it homeowners come out way ahead every time, for doing absolutely nothing.
I never said they didn't... The point is they don't have to hand over a majority of their income to pay someone else's mortgage. Even if home prices stagnate in their area and they can't sell for years, they get to keep a roof over their head for much, much less than someone renting a comparable place.
More likely is that their property values are going up somewhat, so what they spend on property taxes/upkeep is likely preserved as equity. Renters pay more and keep nothing in the end.
I mean sure, and some "workers" make 500k/year, but these are obviously exceptions to the rule when we've established that California homeowners made more money in equity on average than workers made in income.
Also pretty sure there aren't many places in California where owning a home is such a liability that your annual losses would exceed those of one renting a comparable property. You might still have to work, but you're still ahead of someone who has to work and pay rent.
According to the testimony of Brandon Green (the victim), Cole actively participated in his torture and mutilation alongside Skinner, she apparently even paid Green's rent in advance so nobody would look too hard for him. The case is really fucked up: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ok-court-of-criminal-appeals/125...
She got off basically scot-free (she's on youtube and IG) because she most likely snitched, and it probably helped that she was a young white woman.
Not that Skinner doesn't deserve everything bad that could happen to him, he was the main torturer of Green, and a DEA informant and the reason Pickard got caught, and got life.
It describes a drugging, kidnapping alongside a torture, in part arising out of a love triangle and a clanenstine drug lab in an ex-Military middle silo.
I urge you to look into Krystle's story more. She's an absolutely vile person who participated in the torture and attempted murder of her boyfriend, Brandon Green.
The Caselaw link posted by masklinn provides a legal summary of the kidnapping and torture of Green by Skinner and Cole.
However, in contrast, I found the This Land article "Subterranean Psychonaut" by Mason, Sandel, and Chapman to be a fascinating and in-depth read. It's replete with endnotes and provides information about Cole's actions after the police picked up Green.
Live music industry is also bigger than it's ever been. Obviously not so much this year but booking fees for big artists run into the millions. They also get paid to feature in other peoples' music/content, and then again for access to their built-in promotional/marketing networks. They're selling hype. Anyone focused on milking profit out of the actual recordings themselves is stuck in the past, for the most part.
The modern model is to share the music freely as it serves primarily as a sales pitch for the artists brand. Young people want something of "value" for their money and they don't see a recording itself as having even $0.99 of value (even though they've mostly forgotten how to actually pirate media), like shitty overpriced merch and miserable "live music experiences" and "meet and greets".
Really what they're selling is hype. Which explains why an extreme manic depressive like Kanye has been so successful in this context. It's a system that directly rewards con men and effectively punishes any kind of caution or prudence. It also rewards drug addiction as many of these con men rely on drugs to maintain the illusions of their existence.
It's particularly sad because this system exploits the earnest passions of both the artists and the fans to manipulate them into participating.
Uh or just be a friendly, sociable person with at least something to offer. I'm also confused why you would need to use Tinder to find sex workers online, I'm sure there are plenty on there but why not just go on like Twitter?
Parent comment says "strippers or escort" (sp). Escort is a nice/legal term for a prostitute. "Strippers" (they're typically called dancers actually) also fall under the umbrella term "sex worker" though, for the record.
Oh yeah any interruption in Tesla's notoriously smooth repair process would totally cripple the state for sure. What with all the critical services reliant on ... checks notes ... luxury electric sports cars.
Yeah, I've had this discussion before. I'm not convinced that its any worse than a base 3 series, but I'm also not convinced that a base 3 series is a luxury car.
Sure, its a premium with premium perforance, but its not "luxurious". Conversely, you can get more "luxurious" cars with worse performance for about the same money.
Want luxury and premium performance? That's another 10k (at least) with most brands and Tesla doesn't really offer a car with both at all, IMO.
Outside of performance, what features does my Model 3 have that my Subaru BRZ didn't?
Heated seats are pretty standard these days. My TM3 has heated seats in the rear. The TM3 has a better entertainment unit for sure, but I could have certainly replaced the head unit in my BRZ if I wanted navigation and Spotify integration. There's self-driving features, but all Subaru's these days except the BRZ have lane-keeping and TACC, which makes it on par with the AP I have, since I didn't pay for FSD. My BRZ even had dual-zone automatic climate controls!
The only things I can think of that my Model 3 has that my BRZ didn't are the automatic wipers, the a power passenger seat, and profiles for the power driver seat.
What features would the TM3 need to be considered a luxury vehicle? I can think of a few things it doesn't have.
- Heated steering wheel
- Entertainment screens built into the back of the front seats
A Civic starts at under $21k per https://automobiles.honda.com/civic-sedan. It's Motor Trend's fault, not yours, but that must be the most decked out Civic possible at that price point. I actually went through the "Build" option for the 2020 Civic Sedan Touring CVT and could not get it above $32k, so I can't explain the $36k figure.
