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Ukranian Crimea
Ukraine's plans to reconquer Crimea militarily may be impossible or unwise.
The places that Russaian troops were stationed since 2014 include, as
a fact, parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but Putin always
denied that this was the case. He should not be invited to
acknowledge it belatedly now and reap any benefit.
To negotiate the fate of Crimea is more sensible. An honest election
would have been a legitimate approach in 2014, but Putin drove out or
exiled those who supported Ukraine, then (according to this article)
lost anyway and lied about the result.
Putin's elections in Russia are blatantly dishonest.
The population of Crimea today is different from the population in
2014. If an election is to be held now about which country Crimea
should belong to, which people should vote in it? To give the
decision to the current population would mean that Putin (or anyone
else) can conquer territory and legitimize that with an unfair
election. To give the decision to the 2014 population might be asking
for further violence. |
| 9:03a |
Drivers force "Just Stop Oil" protesters off road
Drivers in London forcibly moved Just Stop Oil protesters out of the
road.
I agree fully with the Just Stop Oil's arguments for these protests.
If you think being delayed for half an hour is painful, wait and see
what food rationing feels like, or a flood or wildfire smoke or heat
prostration.
But if this approach to protesting inspires the passersby to fight the
protesters, it is not useful or constructive.
Here are suggestions for new tactics for climate protesters. |
| 11:48a |
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Suspicion of vote-counting fraud in Fiji's election
There is a suspicion of fraud in the vote-counting of Fiji's election.
Fiji has a history of real trouble in its elections. I wonder whether
it will be possible to assure the honesty of this election. |
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Chinese doctors and nurses told to work while infected
*Chinese doctors and nurses reportedly told to work while infected as
Covid surges.*
In the US, this is achieved by denying workers paid sick leave. They
can't afford to do the right thing and avoid infecting follow workers,
even customers.
The infection is spreading very fast. I presume it is one of the
recent Omicron variants. At least that will reduce the number of
deaths and serious injuries. |
| 11:48a |
Ukraine's plans to reconquer Crimea military
Ukraine's plans to reconquer Crimea military may be impossible or unwise.
The places that Russian troops were stationed since 2014 include, as
a fact, parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but Putin always
denied that this was the case. He should not be invited to
acknowledge it belatedly now and reap any benefit.
To negotiate the fate of Crimea is more sensible. An honest election
would have been a legitimate approach in 2014, but Putin drove out or
exiled those who supported Ukraine, then (according to this article)
lost anyway lied about the result.
Putin's elections in Russia are blatantly dishonest.
The population of Crimea today is different from the population in
2014. If an election is to be held now about which country Crimea
should belong to, which people should vote in it? To give the
decision to the current population would mean that Putin (or anyone
else) can conquer territory and legitimize that with an unfair
election. To give the decision to the 2014 population might be asking
for further violence. |
| 11:48a |
Deception of "Crisis pregnancy centers"
"Crisis pregnancy centers" look like abortion clinics, but their
mission is to confuse females so that they don't get abortions. They
get away with lies because they are almost exempt from regulation.
The right-wing extremists on the Supreme Court have protected them
from regulations intended to protect women from being deceived. |
| 11:48a |
Campaign to prevent nondisclosure agreements to prevent cover up of abuse
The world-wide campaign to prevent nondisclosure agreements from
being used by employers to cover up any abuses, from harassment to
rape, is making substantial progress, but not in the UK.
You can't expect the Tories to eagerly pursue this goal, because they
represent the rich who commit the abuses and want them covered up.
My first experience with a nondisclosure agreement was when I asked
someone at CMU for a copy of the Xerox laser printer software source
code. He said he had actually promised in advance to refuse to share
that code with me and other colleagues at MIT. Shame on him! He had
made a commitment to be a jerk and deny his cooperation to his
colleagues.
From this I learned that signing a nondisclosure agreement for
generally useful technical information, such as software, was
betraying the whole world — so I vowed I would never agree to one,
and I never knowingly done so.
That led me, a year or two later, to the conclusion that nonfree
software was an injustice, regardless of whether the nonfreedom was
brought about by a nondisclosure agreement. |
| 11:48a |
Australia revoked rule on burning of wood waste counting as "renewable"
Australia has revoked a rule, made by the previous planet-roaster
government, that permitted the burning of wood waste from native trees
to count as "renewable".
In practice, native forests are not renewable under present conditions. |
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Ouster of Peru's President Castillo as "legislative coup"
The presidents of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, and Mexico
condemned the ouster of Peru's President Castillo as a "legislative coup",
saying it was backed by the US.
This is not an absurd idea; the US backed such a coup in Bolivia a few
years ago,
and in Honduras
a few years before that.
Information in the article suggests that the poor voted him into
office and still support him. They are now protesting vigorously, and
the "forces of law and order" are shooting and gassing them from
helicopters.
It sounds like the thugs support the right wing and treat
the people as the enemy.
This does not necessarily imply that the coup story is the whole
truth; there are valid reasons to argue that it is Castillo who tried
to overthrow constitutional order, as President Boric of Chile said.
It seems clear that there was a process of reciprocal escalation. In
such a situation, it is easy to perceive the escalations by the side
you oppose as injustice, and the escalations by the side you support
as legitimate self-defense.
To judge the right and wrong of such a process requires a lot
of facts about the actions and the background. All I can do is try
to judge which of the other presidents to trust. |
| 11:48a |
A world tailored to Men
Article talking about how the world is tailored toward men.
For the most of the issues listed, I agree that we should change
practices so that they serve women as well as men. I disagree in
regard to office temperature, though, for the simple reason that you
can wear more clothing without limit, but there are limits to how much
you clothing can remove in an office with other workers. If at that
point some people are still too hot, the only solution that can
satisfy everyone is to make the office cool enough for them, and for
those who find that too cold to wear another layer.
There were times that my office in the Stata Center was so hot that I
needed to be nude to be comfortable. I kept the door locked so that
visitors would knock and I could ask them to wait a minute. I did not
usually explain that this was so I could put my shirt and pants on. |
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QAnonenties are transferring worship from wrecker to Musk
QAnonenties are starting to transfer their worship from the wrecker to Musk.
They are mostly authoritarian followers
and it isn't crucial to them which authoritarian leader they can follow. |