Ah! The joys of belonging to a corporate vet practice.
It's 9:50pm and we're sitting in the waiting room of an emergency vet clinic in the city over an hour drive from home.
We've been over an hour so far with no idea how much longer this will be. We'll be paying the big bucks to get Badger seen at the emergency clinic because our own vet has been at a conference and can't see their own patients. The exam fee is $180+ and then they'll 'draw up a plan of treatment and see where we go from there.'. Oh. And there will be a long wait because... It's an emergency clinic.. 5, 6, 7 hours?
😖
Badger's not that sick, she's not critical, it's just not advised to wait as it could become worse.
And I just heard someone saying that they had paid $30,000 on treatment for their Guinea pig.
??? What can you say?

Meanwhile we wait.

#EllieKPosts #Caturday #Badger #CornishRex #corporations #CorporateVets #catstodon #extortionRacket

A look at Ukraine's minerals and rare earth elements, which Trump wants as payback for wartime aid

Does anyone else think felon Trump is particularly slimy in his protection racket scheme concerning Ukraine?

#uspolitics #ukraine #corruption #extortionracket #crime #felontrump

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-trump-minerals-russia-war-rare-earths-deal/

@james
Its a terrible idea to use a #extortionRacket like CloudFlare even once or for a short time, any data passed to and from the server is intercepted and assessed during that time.

Does #Mastodon have any default #DDoS protections? Such as temporarily blocking #IPaddresses, and other measures?

Agree, anyone involved in #foss ought to know to use #I2P.

@bbbhltz @fosstodon

@bot
Sweet mother of GordanRamsey, gleasonator itself is CF'd!

:(

This is really sad news. Yes, it basically means we cannot DM #Gleasonators.

How long has this been a thing?

Someone later wrote CF fixes SSL and it made us chuckle because Cf is designed as a MITM that completely undermines any encryption.

Sad news. We will recalibrate things in weeks ahead.

Cf is not a service, its an #extortionRacket — an old #mafia-style #extortion scheme for digital.

@alex @realcaseyrollins @batalanto

This is just a theory but hear us out.

What if Cloudflare CEO, #MatthewPrince, is either connected to #JeffreyEpstein or exposed in the #InsuranceFiles protecting #Assange.

In either case, having Prince as CEO of the #extortionRacket makes sense. He has a lot to gain in terms of being able to continue his #sexAddiction, similar to that #Icelandic creep, and a lot to lose if it fails including unable to cut #theInternet when Julian is killed and files are released.

Worthy theory?

#childAbuse