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To recap - It is just over a week since the Pentagon issued an agency-wide email advisory on March 18th warning all staff that Signal was a potentially insecure communication platform, and should not be used, even for communicating *unclassified* information. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability According to this NPR article, their concerns related to known phishing attacks by professional Russian hacking groups embedding malicious QR codes into spoofed webpages or group chat invites which exploit the ‘Link Device’ mechanism (also found in WhatsApp). It is just 5 days since the New York Times reported that Pete Hegseth had arranged for Elon Musk to attend a top-secret Pentagon ‘O-Plan’ briefing about a potential war with China last Friday 20th March. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/musk-pentagon-briefing-china-war-plan.html The furore aroused by the impropriety of inviting a private businessman with extensive financial exposure to pressure from China to such a sensitive meeting then forced the White House into walking back these plans, and denying that Musk’s visit to the Pentagon had been about anything other than discussing ‘efficiencies’. The Roman Emperor Claudius (AD 41- 54) who suffered from a limp, deafness and a stutter only became Emperor because he was the last surviving adult male of the Julio-Claudian family, once the Praetorian guard had slaughtered his predecessor Caligula and his family. Claudius was a scholar and antiquarian who had been tutored by the historian Livy as a child, and was the last known Roman of high status who could read and speak Etruscan - he actually wrote a long-lost complete grammar of Etruscan - something modern scholars would sell their souls for. He turned out to be a competent ruler and adminstrator of the Roman empire until his demise in AD 54, when he was allegedly poisoned by his wife Agrippina the Younger with toxic mushrooms.

You may be overthinking this a bit. I sympathise, but that's what "flooding the zone with shit" is intended to do to people, so that they have no idea what to make of anything and give up trying to follow it all. The Kremlin does this. I think it went like this. Consider: this bunch of goons has the mindset that all the systems and procedures they have inherited are the cumbersome, bureaucratic and needlessly costly products of a bloated civil service. Consequently, seeing themselves as breath-of-fresh-air iconoclasts, I suspect they thought this is all balls, there are perfectly good commercial encrypted messaging services, so why bother with rules that say we have to use this state-developed[boo hiss] secret squirrel system, we'll just use Signal from now on. And so they did........ BOOM!! 😁 I was very much amused by Waltz preposterously suggesting that Goldberg had deliberately got his phone number into Waltz's address book (how?) and saying he would have to "consult Elon" about how to stop this happening again. What cock! The solution is, er.............to use the special secure system that already exists and whose use is, er, in fact mandated by the current regulations they saw fit to ignore. Waltz's performance put me in mind of particularly unconvincing schoolboy with the feeblest of "dog ate my homework" excuses. Mind you, I think Goldberg might want to make sure his tax affairs are in good shape and that he doesn't get so much as a speeding fine for the next few months. These people now control everything and are extremely vindictive, with the object of scaring everyone into not probing what they are up to.

There is also a broader issue that you do not want to have uncontrolled bacterial growth in your products. If it is not safeguarded against "safe" bacteria, they may also be vulnerable to harmful ones. And generally speaking, it is better to prevent issue rather than letting it run its course until someone is harmed. That is, unless the penalty is cheaper than safeguarding, which then would be a regulatory issue.

The recalled products can contain Pseudomonas species bacteria, including Pseudomonas oleovorans, an environmental organism found widely in soil and water. People with weakened immune systems or external medical devices who are exposed to the bacteria face a risk of serious infection... Immunocompromised folk tend not to roll around in the dirt while they have a break in their skin. The danger is presumably them putting on an article of clothing that recently came from the washer and retained live bacteria. Very low probability but, as with many such threats, a weakened immune system can experience as lethal something most of us wouldn't be affected by. Corporations have an interest in avoiding the reputational harm (and punitive damages awarded by courts) that comes from customers suffering death or serious illness from their products. Many recalls are like this, where a recall is conducted in order to forestall a low probability harm.

The point is, if you can't want your spouse to get a 2,then you're too self absorbed to get married. Be single and do what you want all the time.

Ingredients list benzo and methyl isothiazolinones. Maybe left out but more likely contaminated water system