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Sanna Marin
Do female politicians have a right to go to a small party with friends
and dance?
"Some critics of Marin have said a leader who is drinking would be
unable to take important decisions for their country," Never mind
that Marin denies being drunk. More important is that they never
seemed to apply that rule to male politicians. Those could get as
drunk as a lord, in a party or a club, without criticism like this.
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Obstacles to vaccination and treatment of Covid-19
In poor countries, many practical obstacles impede vaccination and
treatment of Covid-19.
Six of these obstacles are not a matter of "hesitancy". One of the
obstacles is a historical cause of understandable distrust, and thus
hesitancy.
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Republicans who won primaries with antiabortion beliefs trying to disown them now
Republican candidates that won Republican primaries by professing
bellicose opposition to abortion are trying to disown those views to
win the final election.
So, did they seriously mean the positions they took before the primaries?
Or do they seriously mean the positions they take now?
Or neither one?
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Federal Reserve plans to keep increasing interest rates
The Federal Reserve plans to keep increasing interest rates until inflation goes down.
Low interest rates are not causing today's inflation, so this tactic
is not going to achieve the goal until it creates lots of unemployment.
It strikes me that Powell's real goal may be to undermine the wave
of unionization. His business cronies will surely appreciate that.
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Israel's apartheid-like occupation
Recognition of the apartheid-like nature of Israels occupation of Palestine
is spreading around the world, among human rights organizations, world leaders,
and even some former Israeli officials.
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Sensors to determine emotional state
New sensors are being developed to determine a person's emotional state
from per skin.
Based on recent fashion, I forecast that the sensor will connect to a
snoop-phone, and the data will all be sent to some cloudy company
from which many companies and governments will get it.
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Virtual reality and manipulation
Virtual reality, backed by high computational power, makes possible
subtle forms of manipulation that influences people but that they
won't notice.
For instance, a political speech can be altered slightly for each
person watching, making the speaker's face subtly resemble the
viewer's face. This has been proven to make viewers, on the average,
have a more favorable attitude toward the speaker.
The author proposes developing systems for detecting the use of this
technique and other manipulation techniques.
I fear that nonfree software, combined with remote attestation,
will be used to make it impossible to run the software to do this.
It will be "unauthorized."
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Indigenous tribe murdered
An uncontacted indigenous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon has been
murdered one by one. None remain alive.
The massacre may have started when murderous colonizers got the tribe
used to eating gifts of sugar, then gave them poison (mixed with
sugar?).
The last survivor refused all contact. We do not know the tribe's
language, or even its name.
*Invasions and illegal exploitation of indigenous lands in Brazil tripled
under Bolsonaro, says advocacy group.*
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Pop star arrested over joke
*Turkish pop star Gülsen arrested over religious schools joke.*
The joke clearly suggested religious schools have undesired effects
on some students, but is not a direct accusation of wrong, Nonetheless,
she has been denied bail.
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