Oregon has allowed people who live elsewhere to come there for assisted suicide. This right is slowly spreading around the US, but it is limited to people who are expected to die soon anyway. Those who can look forward to years of helpless agony are still condemned to a life sentence.

*Trump brazenly asks Putin to release dirt about Biden's family.* The alleged dirt may or may not exist, but the corruptor's coziness with Putin shows what he stands for.

IC manufacturing has hit another obstacle: a shortage of neon. The main producer is Ukraine.

It is very important for the industry to develop redundant supplies, both for raw materials and for manufactured goods, to cope with breakdowns 30 and 40 years from now when there could be many happening each year. If industry learns to plan for redundancy now, and incorporates this into planning, it may enable technological civilization to survive.

Tunisia's president is trying to crush its parliament.

He decreed parliament "suspended" last year; but Parliament met anyway and canceled that decree. So he made another decree to "dissolve" parliament, and now the question is whether he will arrest the members of parliament and revert explicitly to tyranny.

Mining peat and using it implies releasing its stored carbon. We must stop that practice.