How can you trust that an app really won't send some company your location data, when you tell it not to?

The only way you can trust a program not to do something it isn't supposed to do is if it is free software, so that the user community can check it.

West Virginia has problems due to global heating: floods often block roads and cut towns off from travel. They also often cause long power outages. It needs both infrastructure improvements and a curb on global heating.

Thus, Manchin is serving his state badly.

A campaign aims to clear the name of the thousands of European women (and some men) who were executed for imagined witchcraft.

We should not allow fantasy about magic and witches, whether good or bad, to distort our idea of reality. In reality, there is no such thing as magic. There is advanced technology which can appear "indistinguishable from magic", but it isn't really magic, and doesn't involve devils.

There are real poisons, and are occasionally used for murder or attempted murder, but they are physical substances and always administered by non-magical means.

Manchin may have doomed civilization by killing hope of adequate US climate action. Years before that, the first consequence could be a big economic gain for China at US expense. Perhaps some businesses and investors, too hard-nosed and short-signed to care about the future of civilization 40 years from now, will care enough to try to prevent that.

*Doctors and medical experts say private equity firms and profiteering corporations are putting American lives at risk and compromising the practice of medicine.*