Hungary says that the proposed Budapest branch of the chinese university Fudan has not been approved, and suggest it could be cancelled if local people don't like it.

It could be an excuse to silence controversy and quietly proceed with the plan.

*Swiss to vote on whether to become first European nation to ban synthetic pesticides.*

It turns out that Victoria (a state in Australia) does not requires everyone to use an app to "check in" when entering a supermarket (or any other store). People are allowed to use other methods, including pencil and paper. Thus, this system does not require customers to run nonfree software.

It does track their movements. Whether that is acceptable, for the very importat purpose of eradicating outbreaks of Covid-19, depends in my view on how much that data is available to be used for other purposes.

Victoria (a state in Australia) reportedly requires everyone to use an app to "check in" when entering a supermarket (or any other store).

The app is nonfree software and runs on a portable phone. Since I won't run a nonfree program and refuse to carry a portable phone, I wonder what I what I would do there to get food.

I have imagined standing outside near the door with a sign, "Will pay cash for food," but I don't know whether that would work.

*Psychopath-Driven Inequality (grab-it capitalism) Is Making Our Society Sick.*

Rewarding the "move fast and break things" approach makes the US even more psychopath-favorable today than it was before.