Wednesday, March 27th, 2024

Time	Event
5:54a	Urgent: Break up UnitedHealth US citizens: call on the Department of Justice to break up UnitedHealth's medical treatment almost-monopoly. (Comment on this)
5:54a	Landlords and housing crisis In the 1970s, Britain had policies that rendered owning houses and renting them out unprofitable; private landlords sold their rental houses to cities for use as public housing. Then in the 80s the Tories specifically set out to promote private landlords again and to eliminate public housing. It is clear how the private landlords made rental housing far more expensive. What I to not see is how this created a scarcity of housing available for rental. However, the practice of building mansions which rich people will buy only as investments has certainly taken much housing space off the rental market. (Comment on this)
5:54a	Thug impunity Republicans openly demand impunity for official thugs; they demand prosecutors resign for prosecuting thugs. If we don't want thugs to maim, kill and imprison with impunity, we must stand firm against it now. (Comment on this)
5:54a	US's asymptotic approach on Gaza Russia and China vetoed the US security council resolution on Gaza complaining that it did hold back from actually ordering a ceasefire. I agree that this is a shortcoming. Biden is playing the asymptotic approach again. Russia and China complained about this, validly. (Quite possibly they were also trying to deny the US any credit.) Nonetheless, I would have approved it because it is a step forward, even though not quite as much as to end the asymptotic approach. (Comment on this)
5:54a	Starbucks union talks Starbucks has decided to negotiate with the employees' union. (Comment on this)
6:53a	Fake mushroom book risk Various companies and even unknown individuals publish mushroom identification books, or offer online dis-services that purport to identify them, falsely claiming these are based on "artificial intelligence". In fact, they are based on bullshit generators, and taking their advice can leave you sick or even dead. But people call these "artificial intelligence", which suggests that the output they generate is based on knowledge or understanding of the subject matter. I urge people to criticize writers and companies that stretch the term "intelligence" to cover the capacity to fabricate plausible-sounding bullshit. (Comment on this)

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