Bill Gates says, have faith in the Invisible Hand and assume technology will prevent global heating.

When confronted with the political issues about which way the world will go, he plays dumb.

New Zealand's Labour Party is sliding into establishing two classes of citizenship with two different laws.

It may well be that the Maori deserve compensation for being mistreated in the past by European colonists. That sort of thing has happened in many colonies including the US, Canada and Australia. I don't know enough about New Zealand history to have a firm opinion about that case.

But this compensation should not take the form of a permanent division of society between two kinds of citizens, with different rules and privileges.

Rep. Liz Cheney is the one Republican leader in the House of Representatives that refuses to be a puppet of the bullshitter. So the puppets are planning to replace her as a leader.

*Cut methane emissions to rapidly fight climate disasters, UN report says.*

Amsterdam's mayor wants to move the visible prostitutes' windows to an out-of-the-way place where tourists will not see them. This change is supposed to "protect" the prostitutes, but the prostitutes do not want to be protected in this way.

I think the mayor is motivated by prudish disgust.

It would be better to consult the prostitutes and see what sort of protection they would actually like.