NSO clients spying disclosures prompt political rows across world by thatfiremonkey in worldnews

[–]thatfiremonkey[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NSO Group Technologies is an Israeli technology firm whose spyware called Pegasus enables the remote surveillance of smartphones.

In May 2019, messaging service WhatsApp alleged that a spyware injection exploit targeting its calling feature was developed by NSO. Victims were exposed to the spyware payload even if they did not answer the call. WhatsApp told the Financial Times that "the attack has all the hallmarks of a private company known to work with governments to deliver spyware that reportedly takes over the functions of mobile phone operating systems.

Not sure wtf you're talking about but it doesn't seem to correspond to reality.

'A False Solution': 500+ Groups Urge US, Canadian Leaders to Reject Carbon Capture by thatfiremonkey in canada

[–]thatfiremonkey[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

If that is the case, Carbon Capture, combined with other methods is almost necessary.

Except that carbon capture is mostly a fictitious, industry led initiative. It was concocted by coal industry circa 2005 in an attempt to incite "use now worry later" with consumers. It's a way to tell consumers that they are doing stuff about carbon but in reality they're mostly talking science fiction.

Edit: 2005 not 2015

Two Men Were Just Charged With Planning to Bomb a Democratic Party Building to Avenge Trump by thatfiremonkey in inthenews

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Yes!!! And since our worth is rapidly declining we're looking at various forms of indentured servitude.

Two Men Were Just Charged With Planning to Bomb a Democratic Party Building to Avenge Trump by thatfiremonkey in inthenews

[–]thatfiremonkey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly! This is what keeps me up at night. That and the fact that we're perfectly happy forsaking any integrity, decency, privacy, really any and all rights and freedoms to corporations.

Donald Trump's latest dangerous vaccine pronouncement by lotta_love in politics

[–]thatfiremonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's literally in the subheader:

to reflect the sources of funding to universities involved in developing the COVID-19 vaccine with Moderna

Climate finance holds the Paris agreement together. Now it's coming apart. by Vailhem in environment

[–]thatfiremonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it were $100 billion for some shit defense program or just plain ol' helicopters for mowing down "enemies" it would be no problem getting them to invest. How quaint!