Remember, none of this ransomware is possible without the fake money known as crypto. Nuke the means of paying these murderous criminals from orbit and no more 911 outages. Why aren't these scum charged with murder when an ambulance can't be called because of their hackery? None ever seem to be caught and jailed. Where FBI? Where NSA? Paid off to never manage to catch these scum? Rank incompetence?

Russians will believe anything.

I have poor browsing habits, lots o' pr0n etc. And I never get spam on any of my 3 Gmail accounts. Or rather the small spam I get is in the Spam folder. I must be lucky. Otoh I never subscribe to anything.

You deserve whatever you get using phone-home corporate malware like Google Chrome or Google anything; or anything at all from monopolistic bad player Microsoft, rent seeking us to death with 'software as service' and ADVERTISEMENTS on the operating system FFS! Download the latest Linux Mint then use Brave, Firefox or Opera browsers. Like me, you can then laugh while eating popcorn as Godzilla fights Mothra. Oh no, there goes Tokyo...

Maybe I should drop by, see if they're hiring. Naw, retirement is too sweet. Think I'll drink that 3rd coffee instead, the Peet's dark roast.

No need to look for eventual "some kind of useful function" for crypto, It's used every day and is essential for criminals worldwide. For tax evasion, money laundering, hacker and blackmailing and kidnapping payoffs, arms, drugs and child porn sales, and hideous 'art' scams involving monkey jpegs. The deluded greed heads buying it as an 'investment' before it is inevitably stolen is just the frosting on the cake. Nuke it from orbit, it's the only safe way.

Both my pretty good credit unions offer savings account interest rates of about 1/4 of 1%. I had to buy a 3-year CD to get 5%. Not that I'll ever use any Apple product, that's for low confidence scared volks with money to burn seeking big daddy to protect them. I'm too tightwad to ever buy Apple anything.

The US DOD is well aware of the effects of climate change and is active in adapting to it: "The planet's changing climate has a significant effect on Defense Department missions, plans and installations. DOD is elevating climate change as a national security priority, integrating climate considerations into policies, strategies and partner engagements." www.defence.gov Conspiratorial traitors such as Trumpite Republicans can ignore science but the military must deal with reality.

War is extremely wasteful of artillery shells, drones, jets, trucks, tanks, fuel, food and people. To keep the Russian fascists out of Eastern Europe the (semi) democratic US will continue to support Ukraine and will ramp up production. Paying for it by mildly increasing taxes on our domestic fascist oligarch class. No recession.

And Elongated Musk says whatever his BFF Putin tells him. These are days of treason.

Yes, crypto performing as it was intended, can't say that for lots of software. And driven by greed, what a hook. Nuke crypto from orbit, it's the only safe way.

Home schooled kids turn into fragile helpless adults. Without the rough and tumble of school they are more likely to actually believe their parents who are usually religious fanatics. They love their kids but are idiots. Part of growing up is splitting from your foolish parents asap and learning the reality of dealing with strangers who don't give a crap about you but also teach you what your crazy parents don't. OTOH the home-schooled are probably better shots.

Analogy it's called. It's the only way humans can understand things. Handy.

Sure, you'll be able to charge your electric car at Walmart. But you'll only get half the mileage because of the usual crappy electrons imported from China.

Yes, it's called Sheik Bonesaw, where gamers see who can be the fastest to dismember journalists and dissolve the sawn up body parts in acid. The kids will love it.