I've heard a lot of stories about bizarre adulterants, so I don't doubt that happened, but it's probably not commonplace.

It does sound like something an insurgent group would actually experiment with.

That being said, I'm pretty poorly informed with what happens in conflict zones north of the border.

Arms race

I live in South Africa. They call it Mandrax over here. They also call it "buttons" (singular and plural). Both formal and informal illegal drug naming systems as a whole are completely busted, but that's another story.

I don't have more context on production beyond that old Hamilton Morris documentary. I think at least some part of the production chain is still here.

The apartheid government's chemical weapons program, which involved large scale manufacture of the drug, probably left some instructions lying around.

The head of that program, Wouter Basson (also known as fucking Dr. Death), somehow still has a medical license and is practicing cardiology in Cape Town.

He'll even admit to the war crimes (which he officially denied) to patients who demonstrate a sufficient level of racism.

Meanwhile, some of the most desperate people in this country are still crushing those tablets, smoking them out of broken beer bottlenecks, and end up lying facedown in the street in the middle of the day.

I'm particularly amazed by the PCB company.

Did they not read the schematics and ask "bro are you fucking 100% sure"?

Or is it all fully automated?

Astounding in either case.

They didn't have any abbreviations ready for that sentence

I posted this yesterday in LemmyShitpost

Honest to god thought it was a horse barfing in a convenience store. Then someone pointed out that horses can't puke.

The jpegification and motion blur did a lot of heavy lifting. None of the shit in the background makes any sense. Back legs also look kinda weird.

Nations who recognise Palestine:

I miss this kind of confidence I got from cocaine

he almost has that perfect evolved-to-survive-car-crashes physique

ITT:

All other countries without sideloading mandates

We're as shitty as we're legally allowed to be
- Apple

Silver lining: some (possibly state level) bot farm operator considers Lemmy to be prominent enough to be worth spreading propaganda on.

We made it lads