(satire) *Higher Prices May Force Americans To Eat Reasonable Portions On Thanksgiving.*

Pfizer has licensed its new Covid-19 treatment for generic production -- for countries containg half the world's population.

The other half, around 90 countries, it will probably gouge to get the most possible money from each. The way to do that is by setting, for each country, a price that many of its citizens can't afford.

The planet roasters' new alternative to cutting fossil fuels is to promote use of natural gas and call it "low carbon" fossil fuel.

It doesn't actually result in less greenhouse emissions, though.

The article compares this to "low tar" cigarettes, which putatively reduced the danger of smoking but actually didn't.

Europe's bird population has declined by 16% since 1980.

Some TikTok influencers are spreading functional neurological syndrome (a disorder including unconcious tics) by showing videos of them.

I believe showing these videos should be prohibited. People must be free to express any ideas or points of view, but a tic is not a point of view. People who see the tic videos and start imitating them are not making a decision based on the video, they are falling prey to it.

The famous US court decision that it is a crime to shout "fire" in a crowded theater was based on the argument that in such circumstances people cannot take time to judge rationally how to respond.

This also reminds me of Triolet in "How to talk to girls at parties."