Is it still legal to pay the ransom? That seems pretty stupid to me. Aside from anything else, you are financing organised crime. It shouldn’t be allowed.

Bitcoin is still a thing then?

I mean they are involved in it - stopping it going in.

I’m old enough to remember when Western governments were against genocide and ethnic cleansing, spoke out about it, and occasionally did something to stop it.

The Leave campaigns were largely funded with Russian money, and there were massive pro-brexit disinformation campaigns by Russia on social media. So, not caused by, but massively aided by Russians. Very much like Trump - both projects designed to cause division in Western countries.

I didn’t know she was in prison.

If your morals compel you to deny care to someone, they are shitty morals, you are a shitty doctor, and you are a shitty human being.

This is fascism plain as day.

How about a potato? On the minus side, it doesn’t do anything, but it has the advantage of not being an utter piece of shit that does nazi salutes.

100% Fascism.

There is evidence that there is a correlation between fluoride in water and lower IQ in children. It’s difficult to show causation, but it’s something that should be investigated. Pausing fluoridation while this happens would seem sensible.

I think this is the first time I’ve ever defended something these arseholes have done. Feels weird.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5285601/

You wish. As long as housing is seen as an investment, there will be enough people buying to keep the prices going up.

Much better than those visible radio waves.

Ubuntu. It’s boring but it all works.