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GOP Oregon lawmaker

mardi 8 juin 2021 à 02:00

*In a secretly recorded video, GOP Oregon lawmaker tells protesters how he will help them enter closed state Capitol.*

Will the legislature expel him?

(satire) Partially demolishing Brooklyn Bridge

mardi 8 juin 2021 à 02:00

(satire) *Biden Offers Infrastructure Concession By Partially Demolishing Brooklyn Bridge.*

Amazon customers demanding arbitration

mardi 8 juin 2021 à 02:00

75,000 customers of Amazon filed cases demanding arbitration, so Amazon withdrew the rule saying that customers can't do class-action suits.

Companies should not make their customers or employees use arbitration instead of suing. If what happened to Amazon convinces companies to stop, that will solve the problem. But if arbitration requirements continue, we need laws to negate them.

Oil industry fraud

mardi 8 juin 2021 à 02:00

*How Third-Party Auditors Make Oil Industry Fraud Possible.*

Informing on drug mules

mardi 8 juin 2021 à 02:00

The US informs other countries about drug mules so that those countries can catch them and imprison them. Most of these drug mules are old, and many have been tricked into carrying drugs.

Aside from the special case of cognitively impaired old drug mules, what about drug mules in general? Many of them claim to be duped, too. Some of those are lying, some are telling the truth.

What of those who participate knowingly? Indeed, they are committing crimes. But what purpose is served by practice of imprisoning them? As far as I can see, it does a lot of harm to them, and achieves little good for anyone else. The whole War On Drugs does more harm than good, even when it concerns drugs that are dangerous.