Covidiots in the UK are rapidly spreading Covid-19 by disregarding even the most basic precautions to avoid it.

Stores should be padlocked if the staff fail to call the cops when anyone enters without a mask.

There is no basis for federal prosecution of the thugs that killed Tamir Rice as he was holding an air rifle.

One article argues that there is enough proof that they lied and they could be prosecuted for that. I don't know whether that is so, but if it is, they definitely should be prosecuted for lying.

Another article says nothing about that point, but explains why the federal government could not prosecute them for the killing.

This is an instance of a repeating pattern in which white thugs shoot blacks after making erroneous snap judgments that they are a threat. Snap judgments are often erroneous, thus many of these blacks are killed for no legitimate reason. This amounts to an aspect of systemic racism — but it is hard to come up with a step in of making a snap judgment that could be defined as a crime. The whole process takes place inside a person's mind.

Defining some action that the thug is required carry out before shooting someone could slow down the snap judgment, thus providing an opportunity to think, and to decide not to shoot. It might also provide a basis for prosecuting a thug who fails to take that action. "Turn on your body camera and study the person and the scene until it clicks, which it does after three seconds" might be a suitable action to require.

The killing of Tamir Rice is an example of another recurrent pattern: losing a piece of crucial information in the dispatch process. I have an idea for how to make that dangerous problem less frequent.

Currently those pieces of crucial information are treated as miscellaneous details. When such a thing is dropped, it does not leave a gap — there is nothing to tell the thugs that they are missing something they needed to know.

Suppose any information suggesting "Person in question is probably not threatening or hurting anyone" were represented by use of a different dispatch code. This distinction could not be lost, because it is impossible to drop the dispatch code, and changing it would go against all habit.

This would not eliminate the tendency to misjudge based on unconscious racism, but could make it happen less often.

Argentina has legalized abortion.

I showed my support for this cause during my last visit to Argentina.

New cars collect a lot of data about the people inside the car, even aside from their use of the navigation system and phones. For instance, with the accelerometer it may be possible to reconstruct the car's trajectory, even if you disable the GPS.

The data can be used for solving nonpolitical crimes. They can also be used for repression. Laws about how the data can be used are ineffective for resisting repression. Drivers must have the option to disable these systems in their cars.

What's so bad about Neera Tanden.