*Colorado trucker’s 110-year sentence reduced to 10 years after outcry.*

It is not clear to me that his losing control of the truck deserves to be punished at all. He didn't decide to lose control; he tried to regain control, and failed.

Is it just to punish people for being the instrument of misfortune? Does it make society safer? I don't think so.

Delta has jumped on the CDC's truncation of the recommended isolation time, and gone even further.

Some workers will be sick enough that they shouldn't or can't work after 5 days. Indeed, some of them may stay sick for weeks.

The new German government plans to eliminate retention of telecommunications metadata, in the absence of a specific reason.

Many US citizens need to renounce their citizenship — often to avoid paying US taxes as well as the taxes of the country they live in, sometimes in order to become a citizen of that country. But the US is not cooperating with the process, and that blocks them all.

Many Uber drivers who work in San Francisco can't afford to live there, so they live in another city and stay in San Francisco for a few days, sleeping in their cars between work shifts. One of them was murdered. What responsibility does Uber have in the matter?

Uber does wrong to all its drivers by paying them so little and by stopping them from organizing a union that can demand better working conditions. Uber is totally responsible for that.

They also suffer from the political pressure of many well-off citizens who demand to keep housing density low, even though the result is to drive millions into poverty. Uber is not responsible for that, but it is responsible for the low pay and bad working conditions.

(Don't forget that Uber mistreats its customers too, by making them identify themselves and run nonfree software. This is why I refuse ever to be a customer of Uber — I won't even get into an Uber car.)

But is Uber responsible for the murder of one of its drivers? I don't see the connection.