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Opposing the fascist in public
Several important US business leaders privately oppose the fascist but
refuse to say so in public.
That means, to be blunt about it, that they are too scared to oppose
his threats of retaliation if they do. They are giving up a free society
without a fight.
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Musk's claim of living on Mars within years
* Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's book overturns Elon Musk's claim that we
could live on the red planet within years while stressing the good
reasons to pursue space settlement.*
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Flooding train station
An "amorous couple" have been accused of flooding parts of train
station by setting off the sprinkler systems.
They must have been very hot lovers to have that effect.
The article does not suggest that they did this intentionally, but if
it was not intentional, it makes no sense to punish them.
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Views on reparations for slavery from Britain
Interesting views on the idea of reparations for slavery from Britain
to descendants of slaves.
Although the individuals who participated were responsible for their
own actions, the state was responsible for maintaining the system of
slavery for denying equal rights to those who were slaves. The state
does properly owe these reparations — and that British state still
exists.
To get the reparations from those who are wealthy today because
ancestors invested in slavery would be very just, but figuring out
who should owe how much may be very difficult — and may not be
necessary.
In the case of Britain, I have the impression that nearly everyone who
was rich from the 1600s to the 1800s got much of that wealth from
slavery. Those whose business had nothing directly to do with slavery
nonetheless did profit from the greater wealth of the country that was
due to slavery.
So I think it would be sufficiently just, and much simpler, to get the
money for the reparations by increasing taxes on income and wealth
today,
I've reached a similar conclusion for reparations in the US,
through a similar system.
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Views of attendees at fascist's rally
Greg Palast reports on the views of attendees at the fascist's rally:
they are convinced that they will rebel if he loses.
I think they are nerving themselves to start shooting.
I hope that, if they start actually pointing guns at people, US troops
will not hesitate to use guns to vanquish them. In their way of
thinking, they are entitled to shoot people who won't support them,
and if you aren't ready for a gunfight, that implies they should bully
you. They will bully the US army if commanders seem hesitant to
order "Fire!"
But if they see that the Army is prepared to return fire if they
shoot, they may still hesitate to start actual shooting.
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Collapse of carbon sinks
* The sudden collapse [last year] of carbon sinks [of forests and
land] was not factored into climate models — and could rapidly
accelerate global heating.*
This seems to be caused by changes in the climate big enough to disrupt natural processes on a large scale.
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US professors fired over activism over atrocities against Palestinians
US professors at various universities have been fired, or are being
"investigated", based on activism against Israel's atrocities against
Palestinians.
Columbia university Katherine Franke criticized Israeli ex-soldiers in
the Columbia campus for harassing Palestinians there. Other
professors then accused her of creating a hostile environment for
Israeli ex-soldiers.
This shows the absurdity of this system, in which any statement
alleging harassment can be taken seriously as harassment. This can be
twisted to target anyone who is not a nebbish.
I do not approve of Kanazi's poem, which aims to polarize society and
turn the political disagreement over Israel and Palestine into an
uncrossable rift between two camps. I don't shun individuals for
developing nonfree software, and I certainly won't shun anyone for
disagreeing with me about this.
However, freedom of speech about political issues includes the right
to make statements such as that poem, and people should not be
punished for redistributing it. People deserve the freedom to share
copies of any published work.
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Battery backup for power grid
The US is building battery backup for the power grid so fast that it
makes all talk of needing nuclear power for that purpose absurd.
Nuclear power is simply inferior to these batteries, in cost and in
time to construct.
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PAC pitting Arab and Jewish voters against Harris
*Mitch McConnell Funneled Cash to a PAC Pitting Arab and Jewish Voters
Against Harris.*
Another article said that the stir up hostility between those Arab
and Jewish voters while using them all.
This is one of the problems with political ads funded by anonymous
rich people — they can easily pat to say one thing to group A and the
opposite to group B, while keeping it secret from the public.
Targeted advertising makes it easier to do this. It also fuels a
motor for pervasive tracking and surveillance — "surveillance
capitalism". I think we should abolish it.
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Urgent: Elon Musk's illegal campaign events
US citizens: call on The FEC to investigate and prosecute Elon Musk's
illegal campaign events now.
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