*Deadly, cheap and widespread: how Iran-supplied drones are changing the nature of warfare.*

What makes them so dangerous to the US now is that the religious fanatics that use them cannot be deterred by the expected losses from a probable counterattack.

Small, cheap drones have destabilized warfare, but I don't think the instability will last. Every country now needs a defense against drone-bearing fanatics. I expect the US will have a cheap counter-drone weapon a few years from now.

The Biden administration is trying to stop insurance companies from going too far in refusing to cover specific medical treatments.

The "approvals" process is meant to save the expenses of procedures and medicines whose effectiveness would be dubious, but it is too eager to say "no". The people who do this are not doctors and do not know the patient -- they are working from rules,

My doctors have had to spend time dealing with the approvals process to get authorizations for medicines they have prescribed for me. The authorization come from a CVS company called "Carelon", and I don't know why it mails me a copy of authorizations for procedures. I worry that under some circumstances some clinic will demand I prove a procedure has been "authorized."

Every medicine-related organization seems to use "care" in its name, which seems to me like a marketing campaign. So I generally omit or replace that word. I call that company "Scarelon",

* [Governor] Abbott is using the same misguided legal arguments once used by the Confederacy. Some of the supreme court is listening.*

*Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under [existing law, the] Telephone Consumer Protection Act.*

The trade pluses and minuses of taking Britain out of the EU add up to an enormous minus.

This is not to count all he suffering that the Tories have imposed on Britain by restricting immigration, and the sadness of people who cannot go to work or retire across that border.

I forecast that leaving the EU would be a disaster for Britain if the Tories were in charge, and that it might be beneficial if Labour were in charge. The first one is what happened, and my forecast come true, and for the reasons I gave. A plutocratist party would use all "opportunities" for dooH niboR. By contrast, it is clear that Corbyn's preference to maintain a customs union with the EU would have avoided a big part of the harm, and he would have encouraged foreign workers to come and keep the NHS and other public services functioning.

As for Starmer Labour, he is almost as plutocratist as the Tories were then, so that party would not reduce the harm much.