Wednesday, January 8th, 2025

Time	Event
6:39a	Hybrids with no power plugin! Pushing for requiring new hybrid cars to have chargers. (Comment on this)
6:39a	Decarbonization regression, UK Labour has retreated from another plan to accelerate decarbonization with a deadline date. I can understand the pressure to do this. Such changes always cost money. They may reduce he income of some businesses, which generally oppose the change by cherry-picking and exaggeration. Once a government decides to keep the country poor by allowing some individuals to be giga-rich, it keeps encountering a "need" to abandon the attempt. (Comment on this)
6:39a	Tariffs as hijacked, weaponized, US *Firms that donated to Republican party avoided tariffs in [the corrupter]'s first term.* Republicans don't miss a chance to extract the moral equivalent of a bribe. (Comment on this)
6:39a	Mainstream journalism pressures, US Can the bully silence the US mainstream media? It looks like he is already succeeding. (Comment on this)
6:39a	New pun: the swarm of gnats New pun: The swarm of gnats (Comment on this)
10:36p	Crime is going down, UK, US Most kinds of physical crime have decreased steadily in Britain (and likewise the US) since the start of this century. So why do most people think crime is going up? A few kinds of crime, such as theft of portable phones and shoplifting, have increased, but the total has decreased enormously. (Comment on this)

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