Even in Singapore, people are bothered by an increase in the already-pervasive surveillance.

Singapore's government says the robots will not try to identify people during the trial of these robots. Perhaps it's true, but so what?

I am in favor of reminding people to keep their distance and wear masks. Identifying them is another matter — it moves towards a society in which unsurveilled activity is impossible.

Global heating disasters will cost Australia an enormous amount, estimated at 73 billion dollars (Australian dollars, I am guessing) per year by 2060, even in the scenario where we curb global heating.

Since global heating often goes faster than was predicted, we should take that as a lower bound.

Enbridge, the company building the Line 3 pipeline, paid thugs in Minnesota over 2 million dollars to crush protests against its construction -- often in especially thuggish ways.

(satire) *Mark Zuckerberg Vows Employees Responsible For Facebook Outage Will Be Bullied To Suicide.*

To shut down the international system of wealth-hiding and tax evasion would not be complex. The difficult part is not the writing of new laws, but to get them adopted.

I usually group lawful tax avoidance and illegal tax evasion together under the term "tax dodging" because, morally and structurally, they are very similar. They often function through the same intermediary countries.