Nobody Cares: PRS

[Innula Zenovka]

An encouraging development

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Weird how they went with leg amputation only for the title. The guy is chopping off his an other people’s dicks! You’d think that they would get more clicks with penis in the title.

Anyway, that’s my contribution to the discussion after reading the whole article in bed upon waking. What lovely images plastered all over my brain.

How about the Telegraph's headline?

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

There's a kink for everything, I guess.

 

[Free]

China skeptic wins Taiwan presidency in snub to Beijing

William Lai offers olive branch to Beijing in victory speech amid fears his win could stoke tensions in South China Sea.

www.politico.eu

William Lai, a China skeptic with a track record supporting independence, won the Taiwanese presidential election on Saturday in a result that risks inflaming tensions between Beijing and Washington in the South China Sea.

The election has been billed as the first major global geopolitical watershed of 2024, pitting the U.S. against China in a battle for regional influence. Beijing cast the vote as a choice between war and peace, and stressed the inevitability of the democratic island reunifying with the Communist mainland.

 

[Free]

Did someone perform a swatting on the White House?

Fake 911 report of fire at the White House triggers emergency response

A fake 911 call that the White House was on fire has sent emergency vehicles to the complex

abcnews.go.com

A fake 911 call that the White House was on fire sent emergency vehicles to the complex Monday morning, when President Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David.

Fire engines and other emergency vehicles responded to a report just after 7 a.m. that the White House was ablaze and a person was trapped inside, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person was not authorized to talk about the fake emergency call and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. Within minutes, District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services and U.S. Secret Service personnel determined that it was a false report and called off the response.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Free]

This is kinda the S in PRS, yes?

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

This is kinda the S in PRS, yes?

Her hair and makeup made her look like one of those Blonde Republican Sex Kittens on Fox news and it's ilk.

 

[Free]

Her hair and makeup made her look like one of those Blonde Republican Sex Kittens on Fox news and it's ilk.

It's a look the Miss America pageant likes.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

There's someone dumber than Sarah Palin?

 

[Casey Pelous]

There's someone dumber than Sarah Palin?

If Boebert was any dumber they'd have to water her twice a week.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Free]

When technology, and the people wielding it, is seriously allowed to fuck up.

Fujitsu apologizes for software bugs that fueled wrongful convictions in UK

Fujitsu exec: "Bugs and errors" aided wrongful prosecutions of UK postal workers.

arstechnica.com

Fujitsu yesterday apologized for its role in the British Post Office scandal, acknowledging that its buggy accounting software contributed to the wrongful prosecutions of hundreds of postal employees.

"Fujitsu would like to apologize for our part in this appalling miscarriage of justice," Paul Patterson, co-CEO of Fujitsu's European division, said in a hearing held by the UK Parliament's Business and Trade Committee. "We were involved from the very start. We did have bugs and errors in the system and we did help the Post Office in their prosecutions of the sub-postmasters. For that we are truly sorry."

The committee hearing focused on possible compensation for victims of what has been called "the worst miscarriage of justice in British history." Patterson said that Fujitsu has "a moral obligation" to contribute to the compensation for victims.

A BBC report explains that between 1999 and 2015, "more than 900 sub-postmasters and postmistresses were prosecuted for theft and false accounting after money appeared to be missing from their branches, but the prosecutions were based on evidence from faulty Horizon software. Some sub-postmasters wrongfully went to prison, many were financially ruined. Some have since died."

So far, "only 93 convictions have been overturned and thousands of people are still waiting for compensation settlements," the BBC wrote. The wrongful prosecutions have been linked to several suicides.

 

[Free]

Comma comma, down dooby doo down down...

Bank: Michigan GOP defaulted on $500K loan, hasn’t made payment in months | Bridge Michigan

Amid a leadership dispute, Comerica Bank court filing reveals more financial struggles for the Michigan Republican Party just weeks before the presidential primary.

www.bridgemi.com

The Michigan Republican Party is in default on a $500,000 loan and ignored a recent demand for immediate payment, according to a new court filing from Comerica Bank.

“The MRP has not responded to the Demand Letter and, as of the date of this Motion, has been in default for over 120 days,” bank attorneys wrote in an Ingham County Circuit Court response as the state party seeks control of its former headquarters for potential sale.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Quick, someone get into the Michigan GOP Facebook pages and start making claims that debt is the basis of communism.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

What has Christianity to do with Western values? - The Freethinker

Nick Cohen on Ayaan Hirsi Ali's conversion to Christianity and the problem with seeing Western values as inherently 'Christian'.

freethinker.co.uk

The two greatest threats to "the Christian West", he argues, are those posed by Russian Orthodox and US evangelical Christian nationalists (as someone once said, "they hate our freedom").

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Maybe the biggest burn of 2024. This is truly what "Nobody cares" means.

White House apologizes to Asa Hutchinson for DNC joke about end of his campaign

"This news comes as a shock to those of us who could've sworn he had already dropped out," DNC national press secretary Sarafina Chitika said in a statement.

White House chief of staff Jeff Zients called Hutchinson Wednesday on behalf of President Biden "to apologize for the statement that did not represent the president's views," said press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. "President Biden has deep respect for Gov. Hutchinson and admires the race that he ran," she added.

 

[Soen Eber]

What has Christianity to do with Western values? - The Freethinker

Nick Cohen on Ayaan Hirsi Ali's conversion to Christianity and the problem with seeing Western values as inherently 'Christian'.

freethinker.co.uk

The two greatest threats to "the Christian West", he argues, are those posed by Russian Orthodox and US evangelical Christian nationalists (as someone once said, "they hate our freedom").

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[Free]

Crazy people.

A climate conspiracy theorist said the government deliberately lit wildfires. He just pleaded guilty to starting 14 himself

A Canadian man who posted conspiracy theories on social media claiming the government was deliberately starting wildfires has pleaded guilty to starting 14 blazes that forced hundreds of people from their homes.

Brian Paré, appearing in a Quebec court Monday, admitted to 13 counts of arson, and one count of arson with a disregard for human life, relating to events between May and September last year.

Prosecutor Marie-Philippe Charron said one of the fires Paré set forced the evacuation of around 400 people in the town of Chapais, Quebec. The largest fire Paré admitted to starting destroyed more than 870 hectares.

14 is just the ones they have evidence for.