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Judge to approve $7bn settlement with OxyContin maker that requires Sackler family members to pay victims

Lol there's people who sold these on the street that got YEARS in prison, kids taken away, assets seized and exorbitant fines on top of that- lives ruined forever.

At least the consumers of people who sold them on the street knew they were addictive by then.

These fuckers straight up lied and said it was 100% non addictive which they knew was fucking bullshit and nothing happens to them.

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Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing

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This is just step one of them trying to absolutely ban VPNs.

A website can't determine VPN use very effectively, won't be long until they "need the governments help" for compliance.

Edited to add: they aren't going to ban business VPNs people use your critical thinking skills here.

China outlaws VPN use and has an exemption for businesses. It would be easy to follow the same guidelines anywhere else.

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Benadryl is good for immediate relief to allergies but doesn't last long.

Tbh if your allergist said this I'd probably find a new one.

Yes second gen antihistamines have fewer side effects but benadryl works faster (zyrtec takes about an hour and benadryl takes like 30 mins) so in some cases its called for.

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Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing

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You know how the FOIA isn't applied to Congress?

It'll be just like that, but with exemptions for businesses using VPNs.

China literally does this already. There is already a precedent set.

Everyone is always so obtuse when it comes to this discussion like they wouldn't absolutely protect economic interests while fucking over the ability for the common man to use VPNs and similar technology.

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If you're talking about advertising their Instagram or whatever it is yes, I think they should be allowed to do that because its only as successful as the meme is.

The creativity of a memes text has always been the most important angle of it so if someone is good at that why would you want someone to go out of their way to remove any credit to them?

If someone is a twitch streamer playing a video game and has a clip circulating based off of something funny they said in game or a skilled play they make in the game they should be credited too and this isn't really that different. They didn't create the game, they added a context to it that drove engagement.

The text the person came up with obviously get engagement or it wouldn't have ended up here. It isn't like this person made this all with AI or whatever it takes a moderate amount of skill to make a meme engaging enough to end up on obscure sites like Lemmy so why not credit the funny thing the person came up with?

I'm not saying they deserve a fucking award or a parade, but simply not removing their name to give them credit isn't asking too much. In fact, you'd have to spend 15 seconds or whatever to go out of your way to remove that.

Why?