I think Blackhat cursed me just when I went out into the living room and talking to my dad watching football the game Germany vs. Mexico. Mexico just shot the first goal at the moment. XD
On March 16, 2017, Albino Quiroz Sandoval popped out of the house around 5 p.m. for a little trip to the shop. The 71-year-old lives in Tepoztlán, a small colonial town with little crime, a weekend getaway from hectic Mexico City. Quiroz had been a public school teacher for 48 years. Everyone knows him.
By 8 p.m., he wasn’t home. His family grew worried. His son Juan Carlos Quiroz, who was a 90-minute drive away in Mexico City, got a frantic call from his sister.
“We didn’t know what to do,” Juan Carlos recalls. “My sister and I thought it could be a kidnapping.”
It is a reasonable assumption. More than 37,000 people have disappeared in the country since 2007, according to a Mexican government database. Independent monitors say the number is even higher.
The family quickly found Albino’s car just a few blocks from his house but saw no sign of him. Juan Carlos kept digging. He questioned neighbors and reported the disappearance to police. But searching for people who’ve disappeared isn’t easy in Mexico.
“People are afraid to speak out because they don’t know the consequences, who might be behind a certain action or if they might become implicated,” says Juan Carlos.
the reason that aesthetic-heavy cyberpunk is Big Shit right now is because we’re already living in a world where corporations have seized most functions of the State, directly control the whole electoral cycle from top-to-bottom and fund all the candidates, write their own laws to get rubberstamped by a government that would be described as ‘vestigial’ if not for the fact that it’s also being leveraged to ruin a vast number of human lives to support a military-industrial & prison-industrial complex, where our every movement and action is logged and filed and accessed a thousand times a second by algorithms we’re not allowed to see, by agents of the corporate state and the actual state that we aren’t allowed to know about, with no way to ever really opt out except in the most superficial ways
we have the shitty dystopian cyberpunk future but we have none of the aesthetic, none of the neon lights on every surface, no DOS interface hacking rigs, too few punks and not enough cybernetic augmetics
we got all the shittiest social commentary parts with none of the flashy futurist veneer so I can excuse people who want to explore cyberpunk for primarily aesthetic reasons because the social commentary aspect has done fuck all to prevent or inform any of this shit so far so why do you think it would suddenly matter now
There are long threads on twitter of doctors and nurses with literal decades of experience in pediatrics, trauma care, and emergency assistance talking about how they’ve tried volunteering their services at any of the centers where immigrant children are being held. Only they’re all being turned away and told DHS would prefer to work with volunteers who are ‘trained specifically for dealing with these situations’. One doctor with sixteen years of experience as a trauma doctor was told she was ‘overqualified.’
No. They’re turning away qualified medical practitioners looking to volunteer for the sake of the children, because said medical practitioners are mandated by law to report any child abuse they witness. The only doctors and nurses they want in those places are ones they can count on not saying anything about what goes on in there.
The fact that these doctors and nurses are trying to volunteer because they WANT to help these kids is literally what’s disqualifying them in the eyes of the evil pieces of shit who are running these places.
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Ashamed to be a coffee leftist || Both Rin and Kotori died for a man's character development how fucked up is that
