So here is my understanding of the Dodgers situation. I’m just trying to make sense of the 20k tweets I’ve seen today.
- Walter funneled insurance premiums from his insurance companies into other businesses ventures. Not illegal but there are limits as to how much is allowable.
- According to the Feds, he over shot that runway by $20 Billion.
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#BREAKING: The US Department of Justice has launched an investigation into MLB insider Jeff Passan’s coverage of the LA Dodgers, per sources.
I’m told Passan has been aware of the Dodger’s financial fraud for years, but has failed to report it to the authorities. Now, the DOJ is looking to file charges of misprision of a felony against Passan.
Sources say that a monetary payoff by the Dodgers may have been in play to keep Passan silent.
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When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.
The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.
India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.
Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.
The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.
So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.