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Conversations with a hit man

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146 points gmays | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 14:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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keiferski ◴[03 Jul 25 08:56 UTC] No.44453030[source]▶
Interesting story, worth reading if you’re interested in crime and corruption in the South circa 1960-1980. The atmosphere reminded me of the first season of True Detective, also set in Louisiana.
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genewitch ◴[03 Jul 25 17:31 UTC] No.44457350[source]▶
As someone who lives here now, the corruption is still alive and well. We're - the citizens - currently fighting against having CO2 "pumped in via pipes" and injected into "geological formations". Every citizen in the state gets their water from a well. Injecting refuse "CO2" into the ground will contaminate our water supply; but as the person at the meeting i went to on Monday said, "When there's money involved the politicians stop thinking about the citizens."

I don't know. I don't really like it here, but my kid's family live here. And on the other side of the coin, where isn't there corruption?

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1. akudha ◴[03 Jul 25 19:13 UTC] No.44458280[source]▶
If there are humans somewhere, that place is going to have some level of corruption. I suppose a more practical way is to look at relative levels of corruption. Countries like Singapore, Norway etc have lower levels of corruption (at least according to various rankings)