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Event |
| 12:33a |
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver?
Guber is still running at a loss,
even after raising its prices.
Guber is unjust to workers because it pay them peanuts. It is unjust
to customers because it (1) requires them to identify themselves and
(2) requires them to run nonfree software. I can never be a customer
of Guber, and you should refuse too.
Please join in wiping out Uber!
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| 12:33a |
Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals
Chronicling the corrupter's campaign to reduce US military leaders to
give their loyalty to him personally,
rather than to the United States.
When the corrupter demanded a military parade in Washington DC,
General Selva (who grew up in Portugal under the rule of a dictator)
told him, "That's what dictators do." Alas, I doubt that convinced
the would-be autocrat the parade was a bad idea.
After this, various officials worked hard repeatedly to block the wrecker
from launching a coup, a war, or bloody repression in the streets. |
| 12:33a |
We Must Seize This Opportunity to End the War in Ukraine
Ukraine has fought the Putin forces to a standstill. Some American
progressives want to stop the fighting before
Ukraine can retake any of
the conquered provinces.
That would pull Ukraine's defeat from the jaws of victory.
The article speaks of using diplomacy to make Putin return captured
territory, but it would never work. Putin is doing very well at
standing up to western diplomatic pressure and sanctions. |
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| 12:33a |
'Final text' to revive Iran nuclear deal is ready, says EU's Josep Borrell
European countries have given the US and Iran a "take-it-or-leave-it"
final text for the
non-nuclear deal.
Let's hope they take it, because that will be a victory over nuclear
proliferation. And a step towards reducing hostilities between the US
and Iran. |
| 3:03a |
Climate defense plans undermined
Australia's new government has undermined its climate defense plans by
encouraging new natural gas extraction projects and describing natural
gas as an "ally" of decarbonization.
A precipitous gas shortage and price spike would cause a crisis; that
is not desirable. What Australia needs (like the rest of the world)
is a planned, steady and predictable rise in the price of gas.
That's easy to do with a tax, scheduling tax increases annually
until decades from now. |
| 3:03a |
Accounting tricks
*[Australian] Greens urge Labor to reject international carbon offsets
as "accounting tricks."*
Sometimes they are accounting tricks; sometimes they are outright
fraud. Sometimes they are mere gambling. We can't predict global
heating well enough to know which "carbon offsets" will really deliver
emissions reductions in future. |
| 3:03a |
Intolerable UPS working conditions
UPS drivers face intolerable working conditions, including 14-hour shifts
working in heat that endangers their health. |
| 3:03a |
Covid problems
About 5% of the people who catch Covid-19 have problems with taste and
smell for at least 6 months afterwards — bad enough to make life horrible.
Waiting 6 months for my enjoyment of food to recover, I could live
with. Waiting years would be a fate worse than death. I wonder what
fraction suffer loss of taste and smell for years? |
| 3:03a |
Fossil fuel limits
There are limits on the amount of fossil fuel energy that we can effectively
extract and usefully combust.
If we decarbonize rapidly, those limits may not matter.
Otherwise, we may actually hit peak oil. |
| 3:03a |
IRS audits
*Yellen directs IRS not to use new funding to increase chances of audits of
Americans making less than $400,000.* |
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