Reminds me of the mainframe in “The Desk Set”.

He is right. No other nation with self-respect should be granting any state visit from the FOTUS (Felon Of The United States). He is an adversary to us all and should be shunned on the international stage, period.

Tell your US Embassy representatives that you will be happy to reconsider engaging once the leadership has changed.

I do not assert that merely swallowing water with fluoride offers any benefit to do with dental health.

It should be obvious that the act of directly swallowing water containing fluoride would give the water little to no opportunity to interact with one’s teeth, which would be required for the intended preventative effect.

This is very similar to the decision by most nations to put low base levels of iodine in table salt. Given peoples’ daily habits and diet, it was determined to be a safe and reliable way of ensuring exposure to a needed substance for general health. Not everyone has or will have the discipline to apply fluoridated paste to their teeth regularly (hell, many people don’t even brush their teeth regularly!). Nor would many people take steps to ensure they had a recommended dose of iodine if they had to think about it, rather than just getting it through their daily meal …

It should be clear to anyone that it’s the incidental daily, weekly, monthly, yearly cumulative effect of fluoridated water, even in the brief interval before it is swallowed, swishing in the mouth and in direct contact with teeth, that can be of benefit.

Explain to me the science of how municipal fluoridation causes health issues so severe that it should be discontinued.

This is even more nuts than removing fluoride from municipal water systems. At least with that, parents who believe the science that their kids’ teeth will be better off with targeted fluoride treatment can buy the drops and tablets, and those who are afraid for some reason can choose to just not use it.

This is just trying to ban access to fluoride entirely, despite research showing its benefits and the distinct lack of significant harm. Madness.

What next, are they going to criminalize sending fluoride drops/pills through the mail, like mifepristone?

Calgary, AB Canada removed fluoride and a decade later added it back after seeing the effects of its absence.

Beat me to it. Anand Giridharadas has spoken on the general scam of billionaires white-washing their legacies like this… their philanthropy seldom approaches, much less exceeds, the harm they did in getting so rich in the first place.

Still love my Acer Aspire v151, core i5. 11" is a great size, just big enough for a standard keyboard. I wish they would have updated models like that. A Ryzen 9 version would kick ass.

Countdown until Krasnov EOs it to be revoked, forgetting he was the one who signed it into law? Would not surprise me one iota.

Damn, I wish someone would make a 68k based version of this.

The IA needs to relocate out of the US, now. The EU and Canada should be convinced to fund them.

I’ve donated to them and am willing to do so again, but I’d like it to be after they show they have a concrete exit plan.

None More Black, Hotblack Desiato’s preferred fowl.

It may become the duty of every software engineer at this time to offer their services to those who need security, to make custom solutions for those who require it.

Cypherpunks, arise!

You’re such a cute chocolate bunny!

Now who’s that glum one on the left?

Good questions, and important that we crowdsource verification of this. I saw some other posts on bsky that other people have received these emails, suggesting it is not a single instance. Implication is that it’s a new automated effort, perhaps “by AI”, to intimidate people en masse. But it could be fake, so the more examining it, the better.

EDIT: Link here to a thread, indicating others have received these emails: https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmljpkrdj22h

I was trying to sound the alert that this might be a thing – BUT if it turns out to be fake, please by all means shout to the hilltops that it is bunk.

US is a no-go zone until further notice AFAICT.

Credit Unions! At least I hope in your country they exist, and are better than banks which, where I live, they most DEFINITELY are.

There’s a dedicated tool named sshguard which works nicely.

Main lesson: NEVER EVER SIGN ANYTHING even if you are tired, desperate, or afraid. Classic interrogation railroading there. NEVER just think “Oh if I go along with this it’ll end sooner.”

… but allegedly based on stolen source printouts from the college dumpster, and written using stolen time on their timeshare mainframes.

… where is the footage of police dragging this ICE agent in cuffs to contempt jail? It means nothing if he is not jailed. Was he? Will he be?

Steve Jackson Game’s warehouse23.com/basement

… used to spend hours there, opening random boxes. Basically SCP, before SCP was a thing. (And it was ripped off to make an SF show, ‘Warehouse 13’).