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  • Basically the scene in the Godfather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmucyqOOKZU
    by dayvid
  • And who is keeping it out of the other European countries?
    by dotcoma
  • I'm afraid some crime syndicates have found out they can just steal it from hospitals, some 80 vials went missing from the ospedale israelitico in Rome during the summer and there are already reports of an increase of users in the outskirts of the city..
    by genericacct
  • The Godfather overly romanticized the mafia and made them out to be "violent but in a principled way" people and nothing could be further from the truth.

    It's complete fantasy that the mafia didn't deal hard drugs.

    https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/the-pizza-connection-35th-a...

    Orson Welles said it best:

    "'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed."

    by mexicocitinluez
  • Did wastewater drug monitoring for a while, and the annoying bit was fentanyl metabolites sitting near the detection limit, so absence isn't proof.
    by hnrprtlpdb
  • This was the way it worked up here (in QC) with the 81s. If you sold shit that could draw attention to you, your organization or suppliers, you were swiftly taught not to. They had decent quality control, but as their grip slipped so did quality. Now we get fentanyl overdoses weekly.
    by pluc
  • I'm no expert, but I've always thought that adding much more risk to the lives of your customers unnecessarily is not good for business.
    by bilekas
  • It’s CLV (customer lifetime value): the integral of the MRR. Something most companies mentioned on HN should understand though it feels like Apple is the only one that takes it seriously

    (And with Apple’s new CEO, the early signs are that commitment is headed for the ash heap as well, but it seems the Mafia may have a longer horizon)

    by gumby

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