British Columbia will provide gratis prescriptions of various contraceptive products to female residents. I fully support this policy.

It is amusing how the article struggles to describe which residents the offer applies to. It faced a struggle because it has accepted a limited version of English in which there are no words for an individual's physiological sex, only words for gender. Contraception knows nothing of gender roles; it is concerned only with physiological sex.

The article does not entirely succeed in specifying who the offer is meant for. Does the offer include all transpeople (even trans-women)? Does it include all people who identify as non-binary? My guess is no, because that would be absurd in practice, but I can't be entirely sure. Maybe trans-women will be offered female contraception that they don't have a natural way to use.

(satire) *Los Angeles Warns Residents Not To Touch Poisoned Food Left Out To Deal With Homeless Infestation.*

How US supermarkets collect lots of valuable data about customers.

They can track you if

• You use a frequent buyer card which identifies you.
• You identify yourself to the store's web site.
• You carry a snoop-phone with the store's app.

I don't do any of those things, so I think I am safe, but I can't be entirely sure.

*On How Tech Lobbyists Lobotomized NY’s Right To Repair Law With Governor Kathy Hochul’s Help.*

Hochul seems to be quite a plutocratist; she tried to put a right-wing judge on the state supreme court, and Democrats rejected the nominee.

A neurologist has found patients suffering from some unidentified malady and suspects it is due to exposure to glyphosate.

There is also evidence that glyphosate in farm runoff water is causing toxic algae blooms in the ocean and even in reservoirs.