#superlab

[foxssie]

Heisenberg and Jesse playing chess november 2023 an appropriation of 19th century German school painting Mephistopheles and Faust playing chess

[kingoftieland]

Obtained directly from a member of the show’s production team, this super-rare film daily from Ep. 305 of Breaking Bad is the latest addition to my collection! Dated October 5, 2009, this DVD contains unreleased footage from the Season 3 episode “Más” – which features the introduction of the Superlab – that never aired and was never meant to be seen by the public.💽

Dailies are the raw, unedited footage shot during the filmmaking process. The term comes from when movies were all shot on film because at the end of each day, the footage was developed, synced to sound, and printed on in a batch for viewing the next day by the director, selected actors, and film crew members.

[malhare-archive]

Gus just died, my Breaking Bad rewatch is over now, bye 🚶

[otogariado]

i already knew that lalo and howard were gonna be buried under the superlab together, but man, is it super fucked up to see how it happened in full detail

[gemstarb]

Yes! TAKE THEM ALL DOWN!

[drcuriousvii]

Men will literally crash their car to avoid having to discuss things openly

[the-unofficial-village-idiot]

Also the fact that there's an entire ep of everyone being like 'oh no, where's Lalo' and then it cuts to Lalo chatting up a widow in germany

Watching Don Juan call Gus to tell him there's a traitor in their midst like 'so bcs is a comedy'

[gomosmorodina]

i'm sure they'll be best buddies since they are the same type of people haha. they would have the best time working at the superlab together!

[romulusfuckingroy]

breaking bad passes the gay man’s version of the bechdel test because

1. it has two gay male characters (gale boetticher, gustavo fring)

2. who talk to each other (flashback of gale setting up the superlab)

3. about a man (heisenberg)

[rynnthefangirl]

Cute first date idea!!! : get shot and buried together beneath a meth superlab with your corpses nearly holding hands for eternity <3

[lalito-gran-pito]

"This fly... is a major problem for us. It *will* ruin our batch. And we need to destroy it and every trace of it so we can cook. Failing that... we're dead."

100% positive they reverse-engineered this episode to come up with Lalo ending up in the lab

... watching the fly episode...... it hits different after BCS...

[el-michoacano]

I propose an AU that's every Breaking Bad scene that takes place in the superlab, but from the POV of Lalo and Howard as they comment like a couple of sportscasters 🖤

[seraphtrevs]

FIC: Sweet Tooth (13/14) PAIRINGS: Walt/Jesse, Lalo/Jesse RATING: E for Explicit - 18+ only WARNINGS: gaslighting, manipulation, canon typical violence, age gap, love triangle SUMMARY: In exchange for his life, Walt agrees to work for Lalo in the superlab, which now belongs to the cartel. Walt's sure that Lalo is plotting against him, but all of his attention seems to be focused on Jesse, for some reason…

This chapter - Lalo reveals all.

[thekimspoblog]

I'm just saying. Gus has killed people for...

Mentioning the existence of the superlab ("Winner")

General insubordination and to intimidate others ("Box Cutter")

One employee murdering another employee who was a child-murderer, even though Gus was probably going to murder the child-murderer anyway ("Full Measure")

I don't think it's insane to suggest that when Kim fled to Florida, Gus was planning to put a hit out on her, and Mike said "Leave her alone; she's not going to talk. She knows we'll kill her ex if she talks".

Other fans have argued that Kim didn't "know too much", but she did tho. Gus was undone by a fast food wrapper in an associate's apartment; it was worth everything to him that the DEA never suspected him, because if they started looking into him it would have all come crashing down. Having a woman who regularly works with law enforcement be out there able to finger him as connected to the Salamancas, seems like an uncharacteristically large risk for Gus to take.

Whether Jimmy feared this, and stayed in ABQ on purpose as collateral because of it, is more of a stretch. But I just don't like interpretations which assume the "She's in The Game now" line amounted to nothing of consequence for Kim.

[moistvonlipwig]

Last meme post and better call saul?

NICE

The first character I fell in love with: Hm, I don't remember! Maybe Kim? It took me a little bit to warm up to Jimmy because I actually did not like Saul in BrBa (I didn't like how he spoke to women).

The character who is my ‘baby’: That said Jimmy is now my lil guy. (I can't possibly say Kim, she would hate me for it. That woman is many things but she is not Baby.)

The character who I do not understand: I don't understand why Werner thought it was remotely a good idea to do Any Of That. Like, sorry, sucks that he died, but that was fully on him.

The character that I think the show ruined: Okay, I wouldn't say his character was 'ruined', I like some of what the show did with him, but I do ultimately think Mike did not really work as a main character in BCS and I came out of the show liking him less. He's better in small doses and when he's judging Walt.

The most attractive male and female character: Nacho and Kim are both so pretty! Though Lalo is also very pretty.

The character death that was the worst for me: I think Chuck's, even though I liked Nacho much more -- I have OCD and watching Chuck have a very OCD-reminiscent breakdown (I suspect his mental illness is actually a very severe case of OCD) where he tears apart his whole house before killing himself was just. So brutal. Good writing, but brutal.

The character that is the most like me: Um...Tuco because I love my grandma??? I don't really relate to most of these people lol.

The character I think the writer(s) love: I think they really loved Kim and Lalo. As they should.

The character that I just want to be happy: Nacho 😞 my little blue desert flower... Also Ernesto and Irene. I hope they're doing all right.

My four favorite characters, past or present: Kim Wexler, Nacho Varga, Lalo Salamanca, Jimmy McGill

My four least favorite characters, past or present: Werner Ziegler (sorry I hated the superlab plotline and his death was sooo telegraphed), Hector Salamanca who kind of just plain sucks, Kai I guess was annoying, and.....kind of Chuck McGill but it's complicated idk I feel very bad for him he's a very tragic character but he does also make me very angry a lot. I don't even know if he belongs on this list but also maybe he does actually...who can say.

[newstfionline]

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Canada’s largest drug ‘superlab’ in history has been taken down, police say (Washington Post) Canadian federal officers have dismantled what they described to be the largest, most sophisticated drug lab in the country’s history, seizing a massive cache of weapons and drugs intended for both international and domestic distribution. The facility, described by police officers as a drug “superlab,” contained enough fentanyl and precursor chemicals to produce more than 95.5 million potentially lethal doses of fentanyl, an amount that “could have taken the lives of every Canadian, at least twice over,” Assistant Commissioner David Teboul with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement. About 54 kilograms of fentanyl and 390 kilograms of methamphetamine, in addition to “massive amounts of precursor chemicals” and smaller amounts of cocaine, MDMA and cannabis, were discovered at the facility in Falkland, a small rural community in British Columbia, the police statement said, adding that the lab was believed to be behind the production and distribution of “unprecedented quantities” of fentanyl and methamphetamine.

Falling Back (NYT) The transition to fall is scattered with seasonal markers: The occasional chill in the air; the urge to make soup. These changes so far have happened like clockwork, and next comes the one that actually involves clocks. On Sunday Nov. 3, people in the United States and Canada will “fall back” to standard time, setting their clocks back an hour and signaling the end of daylight saving time. (Hawaii and most of Arizona, which are on permanent standard time, keep their clocks the same.) For now, most of us will be making the switch. And while many scientists maintain that standard time is better aligned with human circadian biology, even a modest time adjustment can take some getting used to—particularly when it means shorter, darker days. The extra hour of afternoon darkness can be especially hard for people who are “vulnerable to feeling down in the autumn and winter—which is an awful lot of people,” said Norman E. Rosenthal, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Georgetown University School of Medicine who coined the term “seasonal affective disorder.” “They may be low-energy, lethargic, prone to overeating and just out of sorts for a while.” Many people—if they’re not working the night shift or parenting a small child—will get an extra hour of sleep on the morning after the clocks change. And that’s “going to enable them to function better,” said Elizabeth B. Klerman, a professor of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

As data centers for AI strain the power grid, bills rise for everyday customers (Washington Post) Consumers in some regions of the country are facing higher electric bills due to a boom in tech companies building data centers that guzzle power and force expensive infrastructure upgrades. Companies such as Google and Amazon have ramped up construction of new data centers as they race to compete in artificial intelligence. The facilities’ extraordinary demand for electricity to power and cool computers inside can drive up the price local utilities pay for energy and require significant improvements to electric grid transmission systems. As a result, costs have already begun going up for customers—or are about to in the near future, according to utility planning documents and energy industry analysts. In the Mid-Atlantic, the regional power grid’s energy costs shot up dramatically, and data centers are cited as among root causes of rate increases of up to 20 percent expected in 2025.

Smuggling rings make billions from migrants (Washington Post) He called himself a simple onion farmer, a Mayan Indian with four kids and a fourth-grade education. U.S. prosecutors knew better. By his late 30s, Felipe Diego Alonzo had built a crime route stretching from Central America to Texas, allegedly paying off Mexican drug cartels along the way. He tooled around Guatemala’s western highlands in a loaded silver Ford Ranger pickup and had a show horse valued at $100,000. Alonzo’s business “was more profitable than drug trafficking,” said one of the Guatemalan officials who detained him. Alonzo was moving people. At least 80 percent of unlawful border-crossers hire smugglers. They guide people through treacherous jungles on the trek from Colombia to Panama. They whisk migrants over remote Guatemalan border crossings and up traffic-clogged Mexican highways. With revenue estimated at $4 billion to $12 billion a year, the smuggling of migrants has joined drugs and extortion as a top income stream for groups like Mexico’s Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels, increasing their economic clout throughout the hemisphere.

Bolivia’s president accuses supporters of former leader Morales of seizing 3 military barracks (AP) Bolivian President Luis Arce on Friday condemned the seizure of three military units by supporters of former President Evo Morales, saying that “the taking of a military unit is a crime of treason against the homeland and an affront to the country’s Constitution.” Earlier on Friday the Bolivian Armed Forces said in a statement that “irregular armed groups” had kidnapped military personnel and took control of military units in the center of the country, where police officers began to clear the roads blocked 19 days ago by supporters of former President Evo Morales. The conflict broke out three weeks ago when Bolivian prosecutors launched an investigation into accusations that Morales fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl in 2016, classifying their relationship as statutory rape. Morales has refused to testify in court.

In Spanish Town Devastated by Flood, a Grim Search for Bodies (NYT) Plates with half-eaten dinners were still sitting on the white tablecloths in the nursing home’s dining hall on Thursday, amid muddy and overturned wheelchairs and walkers. Six people died in the facility on Tuesday, as a raging river exploded out of its banks and swept through villages and towns around the Spanish city of Valencia, on the country’s east-central coast. Among them was the town of Paiporta, where residents said the water came without warning. It had not even been raining on Tuesday night when the water from the river swept in suddenly. The floods killed at least 205 people in Spain, in the deadliest natural disaster in the country’s recent history, with almost all of those deaths, 202, in the Province of Valencia, the authorities said on Friday. More than 60 of the victims were killed in Paiporta, a working-class town on the southern outskirts of the city of Valencia, according to the official, Vicent Ciscar, the town’s deputy mayor. Amidst the mud, the grim search for bodies goes on.

US is sending $425 million in military assistance to Ukraine (AP) The Pentagon announced Friday it was sending an additional $425 million in military assistance to Ukraine as Kyiv prepares to face Russian forces augmented by North Korean troops. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had said more aid was coming, and soon, during his visit to Kyiv last week. This aid package includes weapons that will be pulled from existing U.S. stockpiles, including air defense interceptors for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems, munitions for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and 155 mm artillery, and armored vehicles and anti-tank weapons.

Japan plans automated cargo transport system to relieve shortage of drivers (AP) Japan is planning to build an automated cargo transport corridor between Tokyo and Osaka, dubbed a “conveyor belt road” by the government, to make up for a shortage of truck drivers. A computer graphics video made by the government shows big, wheeled boxes moving along a three-lane corridor, also called an “auto flow road,” in the middle of a big highway. A trial system is due to start test runs in 2027 or early 2028, aiming for full operations by the mid-2030s. The plan may sound like a solution that would only work in relatively low-crime, densely populated societies like Japan, not sprawling nations like the U.S. But similar ideas are being considered in Switzerland and Great Britain. The plan in Switzerland involves an underground pathway, while the one being planned in London will be a fully automated system running on low-cost linear motors. In Japan, loading will be automated, using forklifts, and coordinated with airports, railways and ports.

Israel’s path of destruction in southern Lebanon raises fears of an attempt to create a buffer zone (AP) Perched on a hilltop a short walk from the Israeli border, the tiny southern Lebanese village of Ramyah has almost been wiped off the map. In a neighboring village, satellite photos show a similar scene: a hill once covered with houses, now reduced to a gray smear of rubble. Israeli warplanes and ground forces have blasted a trail of destruction through southern Lebanon the past month. The aim, Israel says, is to debilitate the Hezbollah militant group, push it away from the border and end more than a year of Hezbollah fire into northern Israel. Even United Nations peacekeepers and Lebanese troops in the south have come under fire from Israeli forces, raising questions over whether they can remain in place. More than 1 million people have fled bombardment, emptying much of the south. Some experts say Israel may be aiming to create a depopulated buffer zone, a strategy it has already deployed along its border with Gaza. Some conditions for such a zone appear already in place, according to an Associated Press analysis of satellite imagery and data collected by mapping experts that show the breadth of destruction across 11 villages next to the border.

North Gaza 'apocalyptic,' everyone at 'imminent risk' of death, warns UN (Reuters) The situation in the northern Gaza Strip is "apocalyptic" as Israel pursues a military offensive against Hamas militants in the area, top United Nations officials warned on Friday. "The entire Palestinian population in North Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence," they said in a statement signed by the acting U.N. aid chief Joyce Msuya, heads of U.N. agencies, including U.N. children's agency UNICEF and the World Food Programme, and other aid groups. Israel began a wide military push in northern Gaza last month. The United States has said it was watching to ensure that its ally's actions on the ground show it does not have a "policy of starvation" in the north. "Humanitarian aid cannot keep up with the scale of the needs due to the access constraints. Basic, life-saving goods are not available. Humanitarians are not safe to do their work and are blocked by Israeli forces and by insecurity from reaching people in need," they said.

Almost two dozen countries at high risk of acute hunger, UN report reveals (Guardian) According to a joint report by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program, 22 countries across the globe are expected to experience heightened levels of acute food insecurity over the next six months. Five of those countries—Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, Palestine, and Haiti—are expected to face famine or the risk of famine between now and May 2025. Situations are likely to degrade even further in some areas experiencing food insecurity as a La Niña weather pattern is projected to sweep the globe this winter. With unusually high levels of rainfall (and the accompanying risk of flooding) expected for some regions, “many countries experiencing humanitarian crises risk being further affected by La Niña, which could exacerbate food insecurity, increase human suffering and result in further economic losses,” added the representative.