CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@x41h Hopefully the fact that the DEA is heavily engaged in money laundering for the cartels and have resisted oversight until the OIG stopped paying attention after 2024 doesn't come as a surprise. Cartels are economic actors that respond to the environment, which, well, is created by American law enforcement. Also, there are things like: "In an AGEO that operated from October 2010 to April 2016, the DEA reported that it had seized over 115,000 kilos of cocaine. Yet, when we attempted to verify this, the DEA acknowledged that it misreported this figure by 100,000 kilos and attributed the mistake to a typographical error." which I don't know if it falls into the category of "hilarious incompetence" or "terrifying incompetence". Feel free to have a read: https://archive.org/details/a-20071-1/mode/2up

And the one drug that I think is pretty universally acknowledged as the worst drug to do can be found grown on the side of highways: Datura (Jimsonweed). It's a complete deliriant and you lose touch with reality for days if taken as is, but after processing it's where scopolamine (for motion sickness among other things) comes from. Nature sometimes does half the work and stops, but science is pretty neat and can do all sorts of added on shit to make other cool shit.

@x41h Better order twice the amount you planned cuz you'll end up with half and nobody knows *sniff* anything

@AVincentInSpace @r @munin Well, since I just found that an ex-DEA agent raised $10 million in VC money with provably false background and achievements in conjunction with software that I wrote and maintained on Github for free. The falsehoods can be proven because they do not match up with either OIG's audit on the very issue at the exact time she claimed to have accomplished things that did not occur, cross-referenced with Courtlistener's PACER database. In fact the services advertised on her site would be obtained in a manner that violates the 4th Amendment and kill any case it's involved in. Luckily, there's no docket that indicates that her startup or her was ever involved in any legal proceedings, which was only a handful, and I had RSS feeds on all of them and paid to populate the Courtlistener DB. All this came about from a Bloomberg article that was so outlandishly false that it was obviously a PR plant to rehab ICE-HSI and the DEA's reputation, which is a widely known practice. Except most people don't know this, except I practiced criminal defense and dealt with computer crimes and the DEA a plenty. and so, can do my due diligence between ordering Doordash and the food showing up.

So basically this is, well, potential fraud, which due diligence could have uncovered during a lunch break, but instead have netting ten million dollars of investment into services that literally exist for free and relies on a general lack of technical expertise in criminal law practitioners. Why vibe code when you can just make stuff up, right?