*At a Time When America Faces Cascading Crises, Republicans Just Say No* — to every constructive action.

Pharma companies spent $$44 million last year on lobbying EU countries, and much of it was to oppose generic vaccines.

Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft are lobbying to kill right-to-repair bills in many US states.

Some of the arguments they use amount to, "We designed these products to be tricky to repair," and the obvious response is, "You had better not do that any more."

Looking at the information in the article from the standpoint of users' freedom, we see that Chromebooks (some of them? all of them?) are designed not to work unless it can spy on the user.

When cruise ships start operating again, they plan to destroy coral reefs around Gran Cayman Island to build a bigger harbor and unload far more tourists every day.

Since Covid-19, ambulance crews in the UK have been attacked enough times that they will now wear body cameras to document the attacks.

What's the cause of this, I wonder?