China is planning to protect individual rights against automated discrimination that companies implement to increase profits.

I suppose that the official system of discrimination by "social credit score" will continue.

This illustrates the paradox of China. The state is powerful enough to keep companies from oppressing people; but, because it is nondemocratic and does not respect human rights itself, it does the oppression itself.

Laurence H Tribe and Jeremy Lewin: The right-wing majority on the Supreme Court is prepared to attack climate defense on ideological grounds.

Let's stop trying to figure out what aspects of people's minds are shaped by genes and which by their environment. The genes and the environment work together in such complex ways that there is no simple way to separate them.

If a conquered country has an organized people, it can often use nonviolent resistance to compel the conqueror to make some compromises. In addition, if other enemies continue fighting the conqueror, this nonviolent resistance can help them defeat the conqueror so they can liberate the conquered country.

Nonviolent effort to reduce the oppressiveness of an occupation can do some good. But the occupation of Norway and Denmark lasted only 5 years. Ukraine could be occupied for decades.

I think that the fact that Ukraine is fighting bravely is the reason why NATO countries have chosen such strong nonviolent actions against Russia. If Ukraine had surrendered without a fight, it would never have stirred up such a response.

After writing that, I saw that Hariri said something similar.

Now we can say, "Strike a blow against Putin -- decarbonize!"

The Tories have decided to conceal most of the companies that got big loans to help them deal with the pandemic. comes from Russia nowadays.

Many of them committed fraud, but those whose names are secret can't be investigated to see whether they did so.