Stuart, a food delivery subcontracting company which handles delivery for Just Eat in the UK, uses a driver-guidance map system which occasionally sends drivers to the wrong place or via impossible routes. As a result, they fail to complete the job on time, and Stuart fires them.

If violations of workers' rights were punished vigorously, companies would not dare treat their workers like this.

*Growing Food for Fuel Is Starving People.*

*[biofuels], used on a large scale, … are no more sustainable than whale oil.*

Having enough additional food production to feed 2 billion people does not mean we should be content to see 2 billion more people! We can't afford that either way.

Part of that increment production could enable us to give every living person enough food. Part of it we could discontinue, preserving wild lands or rewilding some.

*Evidence contradicts [Putinite] claims about Kremenchuk mall attack.*

I've seen report of a rumor that these missiles are inaccurate, so maybe the missile was fired at the repair factory and hit the mall by mistake, If that is true, it means another Putinite claim (that it was accurate) is false. And it is a war crime to bombard civilian areas with inaccurate weapons.

Poland's abortion restrictions killed Izabela Sajbor. Her doctors knew she needed an abortion to survive, but they had to wait until the fetal heartbeat ceased; by then, it was too late.

Pszczyna is around 1-2 hours' drive from the border with the Czech Republic. I wonder if it was possible to save her, while she was in labor but not dying, by putting her in a car and taking her to a Czech hospital. Doctors surely would have said it was too risky for her to travel, and I suppose it was; but I think they were not reckoning with the risk for her of staying put.

Texas "educators", fearing the law restricting schools from teaching about racism, proposed to rename slavery as "involuntary relocation".

That reminds me of "detained".

and "rendition" two other terms designed to hide the reality of what they refer to.

If properly taught, comparing voluntary immigration with the transport of slaves could teach students a lot about what slavery was. But teaching that properly would be illegal in Texas -- so they must have been planning to downplay the truth.

Historically, slavery in British colonies was achieved by forced transportation of Africans. But that was not true everywhere else. Slavery in Spanish colonies started with the indigenous people Spain had conquered. It did not involve transporting them, since they were worked as slaves in the land where they lived. That didn't make it less horrible.

Millennia earlier, the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt also occurred in the place where they already lived.