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Regulation of PFAs

mercredi 20 octobre 2021 à 02:00

The EPA has announced a plan to regulate PFAs more strictly.

Contradictory needs

mardi 19 octobre 2021 à 02:00

Supposedly China needs coal mining to provide employment in future decades.

Supposedly, China needs to encourage more births to avoid a shortage of workers in future decades. These predictions directly contradict each other, so at least one is false. But I think that both are false.

If China remains prosperous, and doesn't need everyone to work, it will have the resources to support everyone with jobs in taking better care of the old, the young, and the sick, and entertaining each other.

On the contrary, if China has an insufficiency of workers, it will be able to accelerate the use of robots, delay retirement, and make do with less conveniences.

What China cannot do is remain prosperous while beset increasingly by extreme weather, crop failures, and rising seas. The rice-growing areas of South China are close to sea level and will be inundated, including major cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, Nanjing and Hangzhou. To the east of Shanxi is the North China Plain which will encounter fatal weather. China had better focus on avoiding the catastrophe it is creating with fossil fuels.

Urgent: no bullying of Department of Justice

mardi 19 octobre 2021 à 02:00

US citizens: call on Congress to stop future presidents from bullying the Department of Justice.

Threat of imaginary debt

mardi 19 octobre 2021 à 02:00

The cable company Charter is making veiled threats against ex-customers — threats to harm their credit ratings by alleging unpaid imaginary debts.

Response to interest

mardi 19 octobre 2021 à 02:00

Research found that TikTok responds to users that demonstrate interest in antitransism by showing them right-wing extremism.

This gives some confirmation to the idea that the recommendation algorithms are what we should demand to regulate and control.

Antitransism is a kind of bigotry — please don't call it a "phobia".

Please don't call publications "content" — that disparages all publications.

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