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Ph.D. in AI. Sr. Foresight Analyst, Horizons. Coder, numbers whiz, foresight expert. Sworn to use Evil powers only for Good. He/they.
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Here is one:
bsky.app/profile/jame...
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I must admit, bills of materials are my very favourite teardown videos.
I love to know what things cost to make.
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"If you wanna import from China, make sure you visit the right places!"
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Humans don't behave like that unless they are tortured and threatened with no-consequences murder.
Especially tough guy guys.
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Can't wait for my first protest with the finbros holding "Calls on woke/Puts on broke" signage.
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Do not like
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... so far.
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This is much more damning than the text I had read before.
Also obviously propaganda, but that's why they let him in with a camera crew.
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This is going to be a nonstop shitshow to avoid having someone come back and explain to Americans how inhumane and illegal the conditions in the prison are.
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*cooperate fast enough and loudly enough
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I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to dump terrifying details in your replies, I'm just trying to keep all the research that I found in one place.
This is a horrible timeline.
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"'Conditions at CECOT might become inhumane and degrading because no-one has access to that prison,' says Zaira Navas, El Salvador’s former police inspector general who is now Cristosal’s legal lead.
'No lawyers, no ombudsman, not even the media can enter and verify the conditions inside.'"
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"A comment from President Bukele in May seemed to double down on this commitment.
'Let all the "human rights" NGOs know that we are going to wipe out these bloody murderers and their collaborators, we will put them in prison and they will never get out,' he tweeted."
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"'We have a commitment with the Salvadorans that (CECOT prisoners) will never return to the communities. And we are going to ensure we build the necessary cases (against them) to make sure they never return,' Minister of Justice and Public Security Gustavo Villatoro told the BBC’s Will Grant in May.
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"'But here it is understood that he is deprived of liberty to be punished inside the prison. And that is not only wrong but also criminal. It's torture.'"
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"'In a state operating under the rule of law, the deprivation of liberty is the punishment. The offender is punished by depriving him of his freedom,' [senior judge Antonio Durán] says.
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"The prison 'is a concrete and steel pit where there is a perverse calculation to dispose of people without formally applying the death penalty', Miguel Sarre, a former member of the United Nations Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture, told the BBC."
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The BBC did a helpful interactive with background information + interviews with an engineer who worked on the megaprison:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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Here's the Amnesty report:
amnesty.ca/human-rights...
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Looking into the background on this megaprison and yikes, the Amnesty International reports are much worse than the CNN report suggests.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/...
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*Salvadoran
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Yeah, Press is ahead of the Supreme Court if I recall correctly.
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Thank you so, so much. 🙏
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$12 billion a year is a lot of soy not to sell, Holler.
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You see any investigative reporting on this, Becca?
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Anybody got eyes on the size and scope of the El Salvadorian megaprison campus yet, Philip?
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Press corps laughing at illegal extraterritorial rendition planning.
Cool cool cool.
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Their platform is "we can do this without consequence."
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I am crying...