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Racial profiling
Statistics show California thugs practice racial profiling when
deciding whom to search and which drivers to stop. They also pick on
trans people.
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and
normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make
exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important.
That article is one of the exceptions.
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Minors' prison philosophy
*Teaching philosophy in a [minors'] prison has shown me the meaning of anger.*
It's a side issue, but please don't refer to 15-year-olds as
"children".
They are teenagers -- adolescents.
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George Santos prosecution resumed
Brazil has resumed prosecuting across-the-board liar George Santos of
a fraud that he more or less admitted committing,
now that the prosecutors know where to find him.
They plan to ask the US to extradite him.
Santos embodies more than any other person the spirit of the
Republican Party.
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| 1:46a |
Noise pollution
Aquatic plants have a sense of hearing, which they depend on for
simple orientation. Loud noises generated by human activity can
damage their hearing and perhaps kill them.
Loud sounds can also kill zooplankton and fish embryos.
Since any additional fossil fuel reserves are useless (to extract all
the reserves we already know about would be suicidal), and since
mining the sea floor causes other dangers,
Prohibiting seismic surveys in bodies of water seems indicated as a
first step. Other not-quite-so-loud sounds may also require action.
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Covid imports
Scientific advice on what countries should do to avoid being harmed by
Covid-19 cases imported from China.
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Jordan Trengove
Jordan Trengove, a man with no particular power or fame, was falsely
accused of rape in 2019. Eager cancellationists joined in hounding
him everywhere, driving him to move to a different town, and almost to
suicide.
They ignored him when he said that accusation was not true -- until
it was proved in court that it was totally a lie.
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| 1:46a |
Automobile security
Hackers discovered dozens of flaws in the security (in the usual
narrow sense) of many brands of automobiles.
Security in the usual narrow sense means security against unknown
third parties.
I am more concerned with security in the broader sense -- against the
manufacturer as well as against unknown third parties. It is clear that each
of these vulnerabilities can be exploited by the manufacturer too,
and by any government that can threaten the manufacturer enough to
compel the manufacturer's cooperation.
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Chagos Islands control negotiations
Mauritius and the UK are negotiating over control of the Chagos
islands.
The Chagosians, who were kicked out of their home in the
1960s, want to be consulted.
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| 10:16a |
The House, a Republican fiasco
*The House speaker fiasco shows that Republicans are unable to govern.*
Their approach to governing is the terrorist's approach: "Give us all
we demand or we will wreck everything we can reach." Now 20
Republicans, the extremest of the extremists, are using that approach
against against the not-quite-so-extremists.
Does the US Constitution give us any recource against terrorists that
control the House of Representatives, before the next congressional
election?
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| 10:31a |
National healthcare, UK
Staff of the UK's NHS say that
the fewness of staff and lack of facilities
is overloading them unbearably and driving them to quit.
I say "fewness" rather than shortage because Tory policies preclude
having more staff.
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| 10:46a |
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| 11:31a |
Global heating, litigation
Around the world, people are suing governments for failing to defend
the climate from human activity, and suing fossil fuel companies and
their investors for attacking the climate.
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MAGA, shutdown the US
The MAGA maggots are demanding an advance commitment to shut down
the US government rather than increase the debt ceiling, as a precondition
for voting for anyone for speaker.
They are dead-set on sabotage.
I read, years ago, thet the Speaker of the House cannot absolutely
block a bill from being voted on. If a majority of the House wants to
vote for a bill, they can sign a discharge petition to bring it to the
floor.
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