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[LordBaal]

People are literally selling their kidneys for a ticket out from the country for their families...

The wtf part is that is something tempting.

[smjjames]

People are literally selling their kidneys for a ticket out from the country for their families...

The wtf part is that is something tempting.

By "out of the country", you mean Venezuela? That both shows how desperate things are and that people are exploiting the situation.

[Helgoland]

That's seriously a thing now? I'd love to have a quotable source, if you've got one - just to revv up ol' Reels :p

[smjjames]

I've heard of it happening in poorer places (India for example) for money (given black market organ harvesting IS a thing), but not to smuggle their family out.

[LordBaal]

Exactly what I mean.

Somebody posted that on a social network. For real.
Basically, he's giving up a kidney for help to emigrate to Chile (plane tickets to Chile for his family and a place to stay and a job there). Fuck sake's he's not even asking cash for it but for a opportunity for his family.

[smjjames]

That's just one guy who thinks it's a good idea, not a whole bunch of people doing it.

[LordBaal]

It's not the only one doing it. It's the first one doing it so publicly on a mainstream social network. There are more cases and offers however they are not that public because public reasons.

Prostitution is far more solicited and "simple" "solution". It ends bad generally.

[smjjames]

Prostitution =/= black market organ harvesting, at least in most peoples minds.

[LordBaal]

Prostitution =/= black market organ harvesting, at least in most peoples minds.

Well, organs exchange are involved either way.

[Sirus]

Eh, not really. One of those does not involve the permanent transfer of the involved organs, merely a temporary sharing.

[Egan_BW]

Well, hopefully not permanent anyway.

[LordBaal]

 

[JoshuaFH]

As Trump said: '[Venezuela's] socialism has been faithfully implemented' or something to that effect.

[smjjames]

Prostitution =/= black market organ harvesting, at least in most peoples minds.

Well, organs exchange are involved either way.

rofl. Gonna post that entire quote in the out of context and funny quotes thread.

[Frumple]

... huh. Apparently the last time I updated the tablet's browser was about half its development cycle ago. It has integrated ad block now, it seems. Which is nice, few of the sites I've been reading stuff on has particularly annoying ones that occasionally crash twilight (or the browser outright). Looking pretty fixed, which is good for both my eyes and my patience.

I... probably should pay more attention to things like that, really. Maybe some day it'll become habit more than something I do when things stop doing what I want them to...

Fake e: Al... also looks like it's fixed that complete five fold pain in the friggin' arse that some places like wordpress was pulling, where it'd repeatedly yank your focus back to the top of the screen until it finished dicking around with whatever it was doing (loading the follow button menu thing, near as I could tell). My literary quality of life just notably improved. Now I just need to see if there's a way to deep six any bright text/background combinations and I'll be pretty much entirely content.

Actual E: Aww hell, trying to access the bookmarks has even stopped crashing the browser. I really should have done this a while back