@bct Is it okay to have anti-Semitic opinions and publish those in the paper of record?

@miinx

#: 260
Article: crime
Guesses: 328
Accuracy: 43.90%

@miinx There goes the next two hours.

South Korea alleges that the sophisticated cyberattacks from North Korea have stolen USD$1.2 billion of cryptocurrency in the past five years, with half coming in the past year: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/22/1144996480/crypto-hacking-north-korea-billion

#npr #associatedpress #northkorea #hacking #blackhat #blackhathacking #theft #crime #cybercrime #cryptocurrency #kleptocracy #kleptocracies

@pattydee2000 For sure. I am actually on the fence about rent control: do you have good resources on its efficacy and public impact?

@bct Did you read the article?

The flying insect population in the United Kingdom has evidently dropped off by 64% since 2004: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/flying-insect-numbers-plunge-64-since-2004-uk-survey-finds

#patrickbarkham #insects #guardian #theguardian #populationcollapse #catastrphicdieoff #uk #unitedkingdomofgreatbritainandnorthernireland #unitedkingdom

Australia have redefined renewable energy to exclude burning wood: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/16/electricity-generated-by-burning-native-australian-timber-no-longer-classified-as-renewable-energy

I hope this does not include gasification and pyrolysis.

#australia #renewableenergy #appropriatetechnology #wood #bioenergy #biomass #biomassenergy #greenenergy #energy #adammorton

Climate change leads to increased gun deaths, automobile crashes, and suicides: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/16/almost-8000-us-shootings-attributed-to-unseasonable-heat-study

#damiancarrington #guns #gunviolence #guardian #theguardian #crime #climatechange #greening #greenspaces #suicide #violence #heat #globalheating #collisions #carcrashes #autocollisions #automobilecollisions #autocrashes

Starting in 2024, pet stores in New York can no longer sell cats, dogs, and rabbits: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/16/1143365678/new-york-bans-pet-stores-cats-dogs-and-rabbits

#newyork #cats #dogs #rabbits #petstores #puppymills #dogrescues #rescues #npr

After recent Fijian elections that seem to oust former coup leader Frank Bainimarama, the military takes to the streets:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/22/fiji-deploys-military-for-law-and-order-as-power-hangs-in-balance-after-election

#frankbainimarama #fiji #guardian #theguardian #democracy #intimidationtactics #authoritarianism #militarism #policing #sitivenirabuka #lawandorder

American cities will typically spend more on incarceration than health care and support systems, particularly if said cities have a large poor black population: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article

The children of some same-sex British couples living in Europe are stateless: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/21/children-born-outside-uk-to-british-parents-in-same-sex-couples-left-stateless

#nicolakelly #guardian #theguardian #childrensrights #discrimination #europe #unitedkingdom #uk #unitedkingdomofgreatbritainandnorthernireland #statelessness #citizenship

Electroconvulsive therapy (formerly known as electro-shock therapy) has great promise for treating mental illness: https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/electroconvulsive-therapy-ect-experience-bipolar-disorder.html

#slate #slatemagazine #sarahchaveraedwards #bipolar #ect #electroconvulsivetherapy #est #electroshocktherapy #bipolardisorder #manicdepression #treatment #therapy #psychology #stigma

Germany repatriates looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/1144666811/germany-nigeria-returns-benin-bronzes-looted

#npr #beninbronze #beninbronzes #nigeria #art #looting #postcolonialism #decolonialism #decolonization #decolonisation #postcolonialization #postcolonialisation #repatriation #ashleyahn

Popular COVID FAQ: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/12/20/1142006506/popular-covid-faqs-in-2022-outdoor-risks-boosters-1-way-masking-faint-test-lines

As the tripledemic surges, please be careful out there, friends.

#covid #covid19 #faq #npr #marsilver #goatsandsoda

In a bid to combat homelessness, Alameda County, California bans criminal background checks for renters: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/21/california-alameda-county-landlords-background-checks

#theguardian #guardian #alamedacounty #homelessness #restitution #justice #housing #rentals #renters #rent #renting #housing #samlevin #california

A possible carbon sequestration strategy is burying trees: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/15/1065016/a-stealth-effort-to-bury-wood-for-carbon-removal-has-just-raised-millions/

#mittechnologyreview #mit #massachusettsinstituteoftechnology #carbonsequestration #forestmanagement #trees #jamestemple #carbon

@bct You seem to have fundamentally and probably willfully have misunderstood. Did you read the article?

As many of you know, being poor is expensive: https://finmasters.com/cost-of-being-poor/

#finmasters #finance #poverty #oppression #class #classwarfare #eattherich #craiglandes #capitalism #latestagecapitalism