This was a very interesting article, thanks for sharing. Also, interesting visual story telling from Reuters who I feel generally lags in visual storytelling compared to NYT.
I had no idea so many different precursors could make fentanyl, that’s pretty wild.
They do very little visually interesting stuff with their normal news coverage, but their special reports tend to be quite visually interesting.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/
Oh, also, you’re welcome. If I do come across something I find interesting I generally try to remember to post it to lemmy, because I feel that we really can use the content.
Are you mocking my efforts of pasting random links into an app and pressing a button? Appalling.
Chemistry is fascinating, and if you look at molecular structures of things, you can make SO many things out of other things with the right reactions and filters.
The trick is making the reactions work without binding toxic chemicals to the end product.
So that limits what you can use, but there are still so many options for things.
You’d be surprised what you can use to make aspirin.
I get it Reuters, the profit margins are huge. Quit bragging and sell me that shit
So, you’re gonna stop running ads on your articles?
They do realize this could encourage some idiots to try this and end up hurting a lot more people?
Hopefully the same idiots who notice and try (who also read Reuters) are so bad at their first time of making pharmaceuticals that they don’t have product - only expenses.
And that’s ignoring any law enforcement who start to take notice of the precursor ingredients. Wanna guess how many RVs in the desert became suspicious to law enforcement after Breaking Bad? Showing folks how to do stuff works for both sides.
They got the concept of added value. Congratulations.
