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| 2:55p |
Banning masks in subways? NYC
A horrible idea: New York Governor Hochul is
thinking
of banning masks in the New York City subways.
Everyone in the subway (or buses) should wear a mouth and nose mask! Policy should encourage
everyone to do so. To ban or discourage masks will cause real infections and real deaths
— merely so people will feel less worried.
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| 2:55p |
Ships' waste-plastic: a story, CHL
Enormous amounts of plastic debris wash ashore on Easter Island.
They have to
clean
the beaches repeatedly.
Over 5 million pieces of rubbish wash ashore there each year. They have no way to dispose of it all.
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| 2:55p |
Obscuring-antics, CHI in AUS parliament
At a signing ceremony in Australia's Parliament building, Chinese embassy personnel tried to
hide views of formerly imprisoned
journalist
Cheng Lei from Chinese cameras.
Australian
personnel had to physically stand in their way.
The Chinese government made itself ridiculous by doing this, but think about the process that
must have led to it. The least powerful of those given the duty of going to Australia's
Parliament were surely not of the lowest rank, and some higher official must have ordered them
to do this. That displays the rigidity of a self-important dictatorship, and the dangerous
hostility latent in its arrogance sense of entitlement to power.
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| 2:55p |
Urgent: Rescind Netanyahu's invitation
US citizens:
call on
Democratic leaders to rescind their support for Netanyahu's speech to Congress, and all
Democrats to boycott the speech.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 2:55p |
Blind, restaurant patrons out, JAP
In Japan, many restaurants have required customers to order
using the restaurants' tablets, or even with their own snoop-phones.
This makes it
impossible for blind
customers. The restaurants have cut staff drastically, so blind customers find no one who
can help them. They are effectively excluded.
If the restaurant requires customers to bring a snoop-phone, or to pay using a digital system
that identifies the user, that would exclude me, too. Even the task of reading the menu can
exclude me — if I would need to have a snoop-phone to see it, or if it is so high up that
I can't make out the letters. (My eyes are not as good as they were a couple of years ago.)
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| 2:55p |
Criminalizing gas pipeline-dissent
Politicians bought by fossil fuel companies are
working
on laws to make protesting near pipelines a crime.
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| 2:55p |
Uyghur cultural erasure, CHN-XJ
China is erasing the Uyghur past
in
the region they have lived in.
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