For the same reasons that everything else is “enshittified” – It’s produced by people seeking maximum profits for minimum effort, and consumed by people who aren’t discerning enough to care.
Those sweet royalties from the Netflix exposé docs, maybe.
But then there would be no title.
Ugh, who has time for that? I need all of my waking hours to be devoted to increasing work productivity and consuming products. Computers can feel my pesky feelings for me now.
I was unaware of this until Stuff You Should Know did an episode about Unit 731 recently. It’s one of those terrible-but-necessary things to learn about, but they do a good job of covering it thoroughly and tactfully, so I’d recommend it in addition to the Wikipedia article.
I live real close to the house he lived in when he was a kid. There’s even a “Riders on the Storm Inn” here in town… 😌 I don’t know a lot about the man that he was and I’m too young to have seen The Doors play, though I really enjoy “People Are Strange,” and a few other songs of theirs. I’m glad he found a way out of this place, though, even if it was only for a short time.
There are pictures and videos of the aftermath, and they make it pretty obvious that it wasn’t lithium batteries alone.