The vast majority of Americans hate this, and will punish Republicans in the upcoming election, unless Democrats find some new and spectacular way to fuck it up.
But you know what’s amazing to me? The tiny percentage of dickheads who think this is good will tell you that they think that way because it makes liberals upset. Like, never mind that it fucks them in the face and will have unimaginably harmful consequences for them and their children; it makes liberals mad, so they love it.
In a new white paper, Consumers Union (publishers of Consumer Reports)
looks at the “consumer stake in the encryption debate”: they note that
governments want to ban working cryptography so that cops can spy on
crooks, but the reprt does an excellent job enumerating all the
applications for crypto beyond mere person to person communications
privacy.
Crypto, after all, is the way that manufacturers authenticate their
software updates for devices, secure the transmissions between those
devices, and protect the integrity of sensitive information like
financial transactions, vehicle telemetry, and health data.
Posing the crypto wars as finding a balance between your right to
privacy and cops’ ability to fight crime misses out on these important
equities. Asking us to give up working crypto is also asking us to give
up the certainty that our medical implants, cars and voting machines
aren’t being remotely sabotaged.
The Black Footed cat is the smallest wild cat in Africa and one of the smallest wild cats in the world.
Here’s an adult kitty for size comparison:
too smoll
OK but you can’t mention my all-time favorite cat without also mentioning that these little motherfuckers are legendary for being 1000% ready to throw down with anyone at any time, they’ve literally been seen trying to fight a giraffe and are known to successfully bring down sheep by getting underneath them and ripping their bellies open like what the fuck, chill
Their name in Afrikaans means “anthill tiger” because they’ll hide inside a hollowed out anthill and then jump out and try to rip your face off
Here’s a revolutionary thought: Letting people stay home when they’re sick without docking their pay could help curb the spread of diseases. Specifically, a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the flu rate “decreases significantly” when employees are given paid sick days.
