we had to put down our cat today. his name was Dub, shortened through various paths from what my dad called him when we first saw him out in the woods by our house, "Tailless Wonder", and we had him for 17 years after coaxing him back to our place by tossing food to him from afar. vet said he had to be at least 20. he had a stub tail and extra toes on all of his paws and was the most memorable cat ive ever met. there'll never be another one like him
we had to put down our cat today. his name was Dub, shortened through various paths from what my dad called him when we first saw him out in the woods by our house, "Tailless Wonder", and we had him for 17 years after coaxing him back to our place by tossing food to him from afar. vet said he had to be at least 20. he had a stub tail and extra toes on all of his paws and was the most memorable cat ive ever met. there'll never be another one like him
You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike. So, uh, whenever I hear about Telegram, it’s always in relation to something bad. What gives? At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Stocks closed in the red Friday as investors weighed upbeat remarks from Russian President Vladimir Putin about diplomatic discussions with Ukraine against a weaker-than-expected print on U.S. consumer sentiment.
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