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Stay in the ground

vendredi 15 octobre 2021 à 02:00

*EU calls for Arctic’s oil, coal and gas to stay in the ground.*

It is encouraging to see governments propose the measure that is obviously correct, even if they propose it just for one part of the globe.

Borrowing to invest

vendredi 15 octobre 2021 à 02:00

The rapid increase in the value of cryptocurrencies and the suspicion that people are borrowing money to invest in them makes them a source of financial instability. The value of a bitcoin could drop by 10 or 100 in a day.

Suing school with no mandate

jeudi 14 octobre 2021 à 02:00

*Mothers sue after children catch Covid at Wisconsin schools with no mandates.*

Polis

jeudi 14 octobre 2021 à 02:00

An experiment with Polis, a democratic discussion system, found that it helped people find points of agreement and did not magnify polarisation. Of course, it could not eliminate points of real political disagreement — nor was it intended to — but it seems to avoid artificially magnifying them or producing them.

This shows what a corrected Facebook might be like. If it does not fit Facebook's business model, we should abolish Facebook's business model.

Cryin'air

jeudi 14 octobre 2021 à 02:00

Another reason not to fly Cryin'air. During the pandemic, it refused refunds to passengers who were forbidden to travel, and they got their credit cards to refund their payments. Now they had bought new tickets, and just as they arrived to board those flights, they received a last-minute demand to return those refunds.