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Leader of PISSI

samedi 5 février 2022 à 00:05

The US raided the house of the leader of PISSI, who killed himself to avoid capture.

He used a large bomb that destroyed the upper floor of the house, and killed his own family.

Killing the leader will not cripple the organization. Guerrilla movements can always find new leaders.

Squeezing budgets out of poor people

samedi 5 février 2022 à 00:05

Over and over we find US cities that squeeze their budgets out of poor people by fining them over and over while threatening them with jail.

It's easier to do this than to make the rich pay fair taxes. Which is why we need to defeat their power.

Going very slowly through a stop

samedi 5 février 2022 à 00:05

Tesla programmed its cars to go very slowly through a stop sign rather than completely stop, in very limited circumstances, much as many drivers do. This is regarded as "unsafe", but given the special conditions required for the car to do it, I think that officials are exaggerating that danger.

I know of two real reasons why the Tesla car is unsafe.

The "full self-driving" feature is unsafe because it's based on the pretense that the driver will pay full attention to the driving all the time, just as one does while actually driving. Lots of drivers will say they will do so, then not do it.

The computer systems are not safe for drivers because they contain nonfree software, and that is always an injustice to the user.

Havana Syndrome

samedi 5 février 2022 à 00:05

Most people who think they have Havana Syndrome have various problems and misattribute them, but the original victims may have been injured by "pulsed electromagnetic energy", or maybe ultrasound.

It should be possible to build detectors for the various frequency bands that are suspected. I wonder if they have done so.

Fear of the unmasked

samedi 5 février 2022 à 00:05

People who don't dare risk getting Covid-19 describe what it is like to be frightened to leave their homes, knowing that in stores and transport many refuse to protect them by wearing masks.