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Directed pulsed radio waves

mardi 8 décembre 2020 à 01:00

The US claims that directed pulsed radio waves injured diplomats' brains in Cuba and China.

It should not be hard to equip embassies, and diplomats' homes, with detectors.

Review thugs' body camera videos randomly

mardi 8 décembre 2020 à 01:00

A proposal: allow members of the public to review thugs' body camera videos randomly.

I can see how this would do a lot of good, but it would also violate the privacy of everyone that cops momentarily look at. We need to limit what footage gets uploaded and saved, to make sure it includes violent encounters, and does not include most other things.

Spending and regretting

lundi 7 décembre 2020 à 01:00

Online stores manipulate people very effectively into spending and regretting. Some people, with psychological problems, find it very hard to resist this.

Setting up a national state marketplace site which does not get funded by a share of what people pay would make it easy to fix this problem, as well as many others. It could allow people to specify spending limits for themselves, which the site would then enforce, even limits on various categories of products.

It could have clear rules set by law and official regulation. It could completely refuse to allow use of personal data for profiling. Even better, the site could offer anonymous payment through Taler and anonymous product pickup at post offices and elsewhere.

This system would eliminate the tax-dodging of Amazon and the lobbying power of Amazon.

Crime against democracy

lundi 7 décembre 2020 à 01:00

*Corporations Paying Lawmakers to Outlaw Protest Is a Crime Against Democracy.*

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid that bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I object to bigotry, and normally I decline to link to articles which promote it. But I make an exception for articles which give important information, in this case about an attack that threatens the human rights of all members of my race — the human race — as part of a greater danger that threatens the lives of all the young members of the human race.

Moral rules for businesses

lundi 7 décembre 2020 à 01:00

Adam Smith called for the owners of businesses to obey the moral rules of their religions. Today governments must impose moral rules on businesses.