According to #theeconomist being #insane used to legally bar you from being an MP in the #UK. That law has now been removed.... Now I can fully understand why the #conservative party and some ex-Tory MPs have issues.
Republicans are rooting against the economy here at home. They are rooting against democracy in Europe. They are rooting against fixing immigration at the border. And are working to take away individual rights.
In reality they are selling poison to the public and calling it medicine. And telling them the worse things get, the more hate “medicine” they need.
@kyleclark
This morning’s report has me so disheartened .
News headline saying rally on 12/30 in Colorado to call for charging Colorado Supreme Court Justices should be charged with treason. Weld county GOP candidate and allies from El Paso county advocating for this solution and for revolution. Go to 9News Denver for details. #insanity
I've grudgingly come around to the notion that there is only one way out of the ransomware problem: Make paying a ransom illegal. This is not very different from laws that make it illegal for US companies to pay bribes to foreign officials.
I really don't see any other way out of this mess. Yes, some victims will unfortunately ignore any laws that say they can't pay, but enforcement probably will not be hard.
What will be difficult are the situations where peoples' lives are at stake in ransomware incidents This sounds callous, but we can't afford to take the short view here anymore, and our other alternatives aren't great either.
I'm quite certain this is an unpopular view, but we have already seen the cost of doing nothing. At least in the interests of congruity for our financial sanctions vs Russia, we should probably make this change sooner rather than later.
According to Citizens United, Org A can pay Org B for ransomware via cryptocurrency money laundering, and because those orgs are people, this is a private transaction.
Thread is on the Hellsite, but here's the last part, via Scott MacFarlane:
There was a physical altercation, which toppled table and tossed federal agents on to the ground, during a hearing just now in the criminal case of #Jan6 defendant Vitali GossJankowski #legal
In Plainfield, IL, a 71 year old man is in custody for stabbing to death an 6-year-old Palestinian child named Wadea Al-Fayoume & nearly killing his mother.😓
The murderer stabbed the child 26 times & yelled "you Muslims must die!"😳
No charges filed yet. Police are investigating.
Please be safe my friends. Be diligent and look out for each other. God help us.
U.S. to recommend antibiotic pill after sex to prevent STIs
Sounds like a recipe for rich gernophobes to (very rapidly) create antibiotic-resistant STIs that we won't be able to afford increasingly hard-to-find cures for. Just sayin. #insanity#publichealth#sti#prophylaxis#antibiotics
Grand Old Fascist Party removes Speaker of the House because he had the decency to not let the government default on its responsibilities for, let me check notes, 6 more weeks.
And 1/3 of the population support these asshats because they want to burn everything down. But of course they get half the house seats because gerrymandering.
Sure, there was fraud, but that was long ago, the SoL happened, and there were no charges filed.
Clearly, Your Honor, that is precedent, and since there were no charges filed, we have demonstrated that we have been lying with impunity for so long, that we should be able to continue to do so.
1/ Mobilised Russian soldiers fighting near Bakhmut have recorded a video complaining about the brutal and incompetent behaviour of their commander. They reject orders to execute comrades refusing to fight and abandon the wounded, who they say are not being evacuated. ⬇️