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Somebody hacked the supermarket freezers and turned them into ovens. Last month attackers got into the refrigeration controllers at hundreds of French supermarkets and ran them hot. Staff opened the freezer doors and got a blast of warm air. Meat, dairy, produce, spoiled by the ton. Millions of euros in losses, straight into the dumpster. Then the same trick showed up in Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Ireland, Estonia, Finland, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal and Germany. Within days the same method hit three French blood storage sites. Setpoints on plasma freezers got pushed hot. Staff caught it and moved every unit to safe refrigeration before anything was lost. City Prepping walked through the whole picture this week, and the lesson goes past hackers. The cold chain is the food supply. Kill the cold and the food is gone inside a day. All it takes is one weak login. The European Commission just handed out household guidelines asking people to cover 72 hours on their own. Britain launched Be Ready in October, telling families to plan for three days of disruption. Two governments, same message, same month. I raise cattle for a living. Beef is a cold chain product before it is anything else, and the flimsiest link in that chain is now a username and a password somebody forgot to change. I would rather my customers have a full freezer and a generator than a store card and a prayer. Your rancher, Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478

Florida voters just cut local property tax collections by $11.8 billion a year. The homestead gets the discount and the renter gets the invoice. Amendment 3 passed November 3rd with 62% of the vote, past the 60% Florida requires for a constitutional amendment. It lifts the homestead exemption to $150,000 in 2027 and to $250,000 in 2028. A typical homesteader keeps about $2,085 a year once the full exemption lands. Counties, cities and special districts lose $4.93 billion in the 2027-28 tax year alone, climbing toward $11.8 billion a year as the exemption phases in. The amendment does not require Tallahassee to backfill one dollar of it. The money comes from millage rates pushed to their legal limits, new fees on water, trash and permits, and the non-homestead side of the roll. Renters are first in line. Real Estate Mindset pulled the county charts: apartment units backfill around $406 a year, and small single-family rentals take up to $1,100, close to $100 a month, which lands on the tenant's rent. His read was blunt. At a 6% rate over 30 years, that $11.8 billion compounds to roughly 508% of itself, and the exemption saves you nothing if the county moves the mill rate or raises your assessed value to get around it. School taxes were left untouched. That part of the bill still comes due. I pay property tax on ground I bought, fenced and graze. The number moves every year, and nobody at the courthouse has to ask me first. Your rancher, Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478