I don’t think you know how nicotine/tobacco products are used for money laundering. Just Google it.

You seem hell bent on trying to prove these are pointless raids. Maybe they are, but your arguments are just bad.

The core of this is anti money laundering and that, in many cases, is not victimless. You also point out that they have limited resources, but try to roll into an argument about how trying to preserve those resources is pointless?

Also, law enforcement isn’t exactly a “massive resource” spend when the cost of that should already be baked into yearly country expenses. The only real expenditure is time for investigation. If this really is tied into luxury construction money laundering, we could he talking about hundreds of millions of dollars saved or recovered by only paying the salaries of a few law enforcement officers that will need to work anyway.

Again, I think you missed a few words in the article. It’s an article about black market nicotine and the issues most countries have with controlling substances that are regulated.

Careful online though! With your interpretation of this news article, it seems you might easily be swayed by heavily biased or misleading information sources. Here is a good explainer of how to spot such things: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20250227STO27081/spotting-disinformation-six-tactics-used-to-fool-us

No, they aren’t. OP even copied the summary for you.

There are some fairly beast defense lines just past Pokrovsk the Ukraine has had plenty of time to build. Hopefully it works as advertised.

I would speculate that it’s related to Russia’s ability to retaliate and Russian allies willingness to help. Also, Russian reliance on the shadow oil trade is exponentially higher than it was a couple of years ago, so the investment loss is much higher now.

Most of all, politicians are just slow. I am not extremely familiar with EU politics, but my assumption is that decisions can take much longer to make when multiple countries are involved in taking actions like this.

You can interpret anything how you choose, kind of like we have to do with your grammar.

You are missing my point, but I also wasn’t clear enough. In proper context, we are saying the same thing.

I worded that sentence carefully, as to your point, I don’t actually want to tell people to go to Reddit. However, each platform is unique in its own way. If someone wants the Reddit experience, that is the only place they are going to find it. Reddit content is generally curated algorithmically while Lemmy content is not. It’s could be the same articles on the same day, but two different experiences.

OP was referring to reposting content for someone who seemed to be looking for the same volume of content that is on Reddit that is heavily sorted, unless I missed something. I was just saying that this platform doesn’t really support that kind of thing in a constructive way. The articles and the presentation combined make the platform “content”.

Something similar has been done before and it was really easy to spot. I won’t get into the details, but it was really trashy. There are other communities that try to copy Reddit already and I block most of them.

Communities driven by one persons posts or by a cluster of bots generally suck. Yes, communities must start with only one person, but if nobody else likes the idea and the community doesn’t drive participation from Lemmy as a whole, it’s simply noise.

Post content that you like, in communities that matter to you. If you like a particular strain of content, start a new community. People will join or they won’t. Read the room and continue driving the community, or don’t.

Automated posts have their place, but most people can spot it fairly quick. It generally doesn’t drive participation as much as organic posts.

Bluntly though, if you want Reddit content, go to Reddit. Lemmy isn’t Reddit and that is what people generally like about it.

Corruption is actually a feature in this case. Most of that cash is actually pumped directly into local economies. /s

I was teaching myself assembly language and C when I was in 7th grade, so sure. If a kid is self-motivated enough then the sky is the limit.

Kids are capable of some amazing things if given the right tools, enough time and plenty of positive reinforcement.

That’s neat, but kinda pointless if ancient Romans didn’t have any bits to cover up in the first place.

That’ll be interesting when Nintendo just turns around and sues YouTube for allowing videos of emulators on its platform or for every time a creator even mentions the name Nintendo in an unapproved context.

https://www.idahostatejournal.com/community/isu-researchers-use-cockroaches-to-search-for-narcotics/article_85a9e420-dece-537d-b124-9b1037296ef0.html

“It is a really simple design, but it takes a long time. We are just rewarding them sugar water when we give them drugs.”

They could probably just give them more lines of blow… just sayin’…

I wanted to help clarify that many fungi do actually produce anti-fungal compounds. It doesn’t make sense at first, but mycelium can be insanely competitive and it’s usually “at war” with other types of fungi where growing conditions are ideal.

Edible mushroom growers may have to deal with trichoderma infections from time to time. That little bastard fights mainly by mass multiplication and rapid growth. It’ll choke out and dominate other strains before they have a chance to produce any effective defense.

When starting a mushroom grow, it’s basically just tilting the initial mycelium battles in the favor of the strain you want so it has a chance to dominate and kill other strains of fungi.

It’s not a far stretch to assume that fungi developed odd chemical compounds if it even slightly increased survival odds. Any psychedelic aspects could be just an unintentional side effect that helped promote cultivation.

Just a quick note that many psychedelics were legalized in Colorado a couple years back. Anyone can grow and consume them, but we can’t legally sell them which is fine by me.

Usually, it’s spores that are 100% legal since mycelium can contain trace psilocybin, so legality is questionable.

Psilocybin is also produced by massospora cicadina, which is a fungus that infects cicadas in a manner similar to cordyceps. Not only are the cicadas turned into zombies, they are also tripping balls at the same time.

That isn’t particularly relevant to what you were saying but I was reminded of that when you suggested anti-insect.

Anti-fungal aspects of fungi are usually in metabolites excreted by mycelium.

Geez! I grow and eat some weird strains, but that is kind crazy. Did you eat them fresh? (I have never had the balls to eat any cubes that were fresh picked, but I hear it can be a potent experience.)

Cattle or other grazing animal would be a prime candidate for loitering and then for some extended loitering. (Sorry for the shorts link, but it’s for science and it’s a time lapse of cattle in a field: https://youtube.com/shorts/hXPw-mxEBIY)

A side thought is that kind of movement would be perfect for spore distribution in a smaller area with similar growing conditions. It probably would increase the chance that similar strain momma and daddy spores meet. (Large dung piles also happens to be a decent medium for some mushroom strains.)

That still doesn’t prove anything scientifically or even build a case, but at least you got a time lapse video of cattle in a field.

Fixation (being locked in a trance staring at pretty colors and shapes) could also be positive. There is a theory that it might increase the chances that spores get stuck to fur (or clothes) and be transported to a wider area.

If I could positively ID all mushrooms I found in the wild, those spores would absolutely be transported somewhere else. ;)