Nobody Cares: PRS

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Biggest money increase in a year ever.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Stuart Kirk, HSBC's Global Head of Responsible Investing Management Department, has been suspended by HSBC's CEO, after he said stuff like at the "Financial Times Moral Money Conference" during his speech "Why investors need not to worry about climate risk":

"Who cares if Miami is six metres underwater in 100 years? Amsterdam has been six metres underwater for ages, and that’s a really nice place. We will cope with it."

Kirk compared the climate crisis to the millenium bug. Yup. He also complained that throughout his career there had always been “some nutjob telling me about the end of the world”.

He told there are far more pressing problems right now on which HSBC should focus first.

HSBC suspends head of responsible investing who called climate warnings ‘shrill’

Bank investigating Stuart Kirk’s conference speech deriding flooding risks and climate warnings from UN and Bank of England

www.theguardian.com

 

[bubblesort]

Biggest money increase in a year ever.

I don't think that means what you think it means.

 

[Free]

Just put a trillion dollar bill into circulation. CRISIS SOLVED.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

*sigh* *sigh* *sigh*

Shkreli released from prison to halfway house after serving

His early release reflects good behavior and completion of rehabilitation programs.

arstechnica.com

Chaser:

Organizer of failed Fyre Festival is released early from federal prison

A lawyer for Billy McFarland, who was sentenced to six years behind bars in 2018, said he was transferred to a halfway house in New York on Wednesday.

www.nbcnews.com

So which one is the Keymaster and which one is the Gatekeeper?

 

[Free]

So which one is the Keymaster and which one is the Gatekeeper?

I'd have to be attracted to at least one of them, so...neither.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I'd love to hear the story behind that tweet

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

"I must discuss a very public part of my identity. This characteristic has probably become the first thing you think of when you think of me as a human being," he said. "As you know, I have curly hair…"

Watch: Florida student told not to say "gay" in graduation speech so he uses a code word that works beautifully | Boing Boing

Florida high school senior and class president Zander Moricz was told he could not say “gay” during his graduation speech at Pine View School in Sarasota County. If he did use the word …

boingboing.net

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Mercedes Lackey, one well renowened Scifi writer known for righting gay positive fiction in the 80s, was removed from the Nebula Conference at 22th of May immediately, after she spoke in one sentence about "coloured" instead "people of colour" obviously by mistake, which was considered by the event commitee as unforgivable racial slur. Her husband, who didn't say anything on the conference, was evicted as well for the sins of his wife.

She was not given any time to apologize or correct herself on the convention; she did later on the web.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Beebo Brink]

Umm, that looks completely bogus (and racist as fuck, too).

 

[Soen Eber]

Umm, that looks completely bogus (and racist as fuck, too).

Agreed, but I still laughed and rewatched.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A friend of mine tells the story of a burglary case she prosecuted years ago in London.

The defendant has been out drinking in the pub all evening and, on his way home, realises he's spent all his money and doesn't have any left for the rest of the week.

To remedy this, he decides to burgle a house. The householder is asleep in bed at the time, but is woken up by the sound of the defendant moving round downstairs, stuffing things into some bags from the kitchen.

At this point the householder does nothing -- he's just laying in bed frightened, and worried about what to do.

The burglar then realises he's got rather a lot of stuff to carry home, so -- as one would -- he phones for a taxi, using the householder's landline. The householder has an extension in the bedroom, hears the burglar picking up the phone downstairs (the extension makes a noise when this happens, which is how he knows) and picks up the phone to listen in.

Burglar puts the phone down and waits for the taxi to arrive. Householder quietly dials 999, explains what's happening, and the local police send an unmarked car round to the address.

Unmarked car pulls up and the burglar gets into the back, with his loot, thanking the driver for turning up so quickly, only to find himself whisked off to the local police station.

 

[Grey Mars]

A friend of mine tells the story of a burglary case she prosecuted years ago in London.

The defendant has been out drinking in the pub all evening and, on his way home, realises he's spent all his money and doesn't have any left for the rest of the week.

To remedy this, he decides to burgle a house. The householder is asleep in bed at the time, but is woken up by the sound of the defendant moving round downstairs, stuffing things into some bags from the kitchen.

At this point the householder does nothing -- he's just laying in bed frightened, and worried about what to do.

The burglar then realises he's got rather a lot of stuff to carry home, so -- as one would -- he phones for a taxi, using the householder's landline. The householder has an extension in the bedroom, hears the burglar picking up the phone downstairs (the extension makes a noise when this happens, which is how he knows) and picks up the phone to listen in.

Burglar puts the phone down and waits for the taxi to arrive. Householder quietly dials 999, explains what's happening, and the local police send an unmarked car round to the address.

Unmarked car pulls up and the burglar gets into the back, with his loot, thanking the driver for turning up so quickly, only to find himself whisked off to the local police station.

The police didn't storm the house in full tactical gear, executing everyone present under the cover of tear gas? Truely a different country with different customs...

 

[Free]

Did Florida Rep. Randy Fine just threaten the president’s life? Secret Service better find out

Here’s what Fine said on Twitter: “I have news for the embarrassment that claims to be our president — try to take our guns and you’ll learn why the Second Amendment was written in the first place.”

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

So he's going to form a militia to recapture escaped slaves?