The comment was about heroin. Were you offered heroin?
Is cocaine and marijuana available from the government too? If not, what relevance is your comment?
Was this the first and only time you were waiting at a bus stop in Switzerland? If so, perhaps a notable story, if not then we'll need more information to conclude how bad this thug problem really is in Switzerland.
Langstrasse is as close to a red-light district as you'll find in Zurich.
It's gotten a lot better over the last couple of years, but stating that you were offered drugs there is like being offended that you walked past a casino in Vegas.
Huh, I actually thought this particular piece of woo had mostly died out at this point; haven't heard much about it for a few years.
I'd vaguely assumed that it was bored anti vaxers looking for a new Big Bad, but apparently it was Joe Rogan in 2020. Per Google Trends, it seems to have peaked early 2025, which is _much_ later than I thought. Maybe this is a consequence of dumping twitter; I'm missing out on important Oil Discourse.
I came across a player piano in a charity shop - they really wanted rid of it and I bought it for cash I had in my wallet, and much less than it cost have a piano movers deliver it for me (which was surprisingly cheap itself tbh!).
It's in quite some state of disrepair, with most of the tubes rotted. I'm (very slowly) restoring it. It's fun but it's a piano too, so that part needs restoring first, and then the player mechanism next. So many small parts to attend to.
Anyway, they can be quite cheap to get if you're happy with a broken one, because they're hard to move (they are even heaver than a normal piano!). Just try get one that at least works ok as a piano!
Companies and banks aren't interested in investing where the people have power. They want to invest where the companies and banks themselves have power.
So long as the companies and banks can influence the gangsters, they don't care.
> So long as the companies and banks can influence the gangsters, they don't care.
There are powerful executives who thought they could influence the Russian gangsters. And they could. Until they couldn't. If they were lucky, they're still around to tell the tale but many are not.
Oppressed people do not make good consumers. Even Machiavelli realised that.
People are coming to them with sagging skin from Ozempic. Since 6% of Americans are on it now (according to that article), how is that competition for the plastic surgeons?
Not to be nitpicky but it's not quite that simple. BlueSky is a Public Benefit LLCs which is explicitly for-profit but does have some other limits - so it does count for something. I can't find exactly what BlueSky's public benefit is claimed to be though.
"Liu, who answered some of my questions, did not respond when I asked for the exact language the Bluesky PBLLC used to describe its public benefit mission when incorporating the company. She also didn’t say whether the company would publish its annual benefits reports — reports that PBLLCs are required to create each year, but PBLLCs incorporated in Delaware, where Bluesky was incorporated, are not required to make them public."
Is cocaine and marijuana available from the government too? If not, what relevance is your comment?
Was this the first and only time you were waiting at a bus stop in Switzerland? If so, perhaps a notable story, if not then we'll need more information to conclude how bad this thug problem really is in Switzerland.