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Do later school start times make teens happier? California’s about to find out

dimanche 18 septembre 2022 à 04:17

California will stop high school classes from starting at the insane hour of 7am. They will instead start at the painfully early hour of 8:30am.

Biden says US democracy is under threat. Here’s what he can do to help fix it

dimanche 18 septembre 2022 à 04:17

Biden has acknowledged the right-wing threat to US democracy, but he has not dared to call for solutions that would change it.

Pieper Lewis killed a man that she accused of raping her.

dimanche 18 septembre 2022 à 04:17

Pieper Lewis killed a man that she accused of raping her. She has been sentenced to 5 years' probation, with the requirement to pay $150k to the man's family.

She can't possibly make that much money, because nearly good jobs are off limits to people with criminal convictions. So this would be an impossible demand, and that cannot be just. By luck, she raised the money by asking for donations, but that doesn't excuse an impossible demand in a sentence.

In California, Jay Jordan has won a campaign to change that policy of excluding convicts from good jobs.

Down With the Corporate Bean-Counters Who Spy on Their Workers

dimanche 18 septembre 2022 à 04:17

* When overpaid corporate boneheads … substitute slogans and computer metrics for real solutions, they're admitting that they are the problem; they simply don't know how to motivate and manage a creative workforce. They should resign in shame.*

They have the power, so they won't resign. We should demand laws to prohibit measuring workers moment by moment.

Private equity still investing billions in dirty energy despite pledge to clean up

dimanche 18 septembre 2022 à 04:17

Some large private equity funds are still investing billions in into increasing the use of fossil fuels.