Amazon faces prosecution in Europe for keeping track of other companies' sales through Amazon's platform and using that to compete with them.

Fines won't be enough to make Amazon stop this unless the fines are billions of dollars.

If Biden fails to push to give non-rich Americans a better life, the Democratic Party will become even weaker.

The next right-wing authoritarian might be more competent at ruling, and more vicious, than the bullshitter has been.

Farming large numbers mink, or civets, or other animals that can catch human respiratory diseases, risks making pandemics more deadly. We must take precautions.

"Ethical investment" funds often provide good returns, but there is a catch.

"Ethical" companies are typically judged based on mainstream ideas of what is, and what isn't, ethical. Around 20 years ago I invstigated an ethical investment fund and found that its principal stock holding was Microsoft. And that made sense. Microsoft treated its employees well, and did not produce physical pollution. Microsoft must have seemed quite ethical, if one disregarded the injustice of nonfree software, and the issue of having a near-monopoly.

Biden said, a week before election day, that he would announce before election day where he stood regarding expanding the Supreme Court.

As far as I can tell, he never made any such announcement.

The issue will be moot if the Democrats do not win the Georgia runoffs in January. But that would mean a bigger disaster, as Senate Republicans will block all the laws necessary to help the non-rich in America.

It will also block efforts to prevent global climate disaster.

*There's a massive risk that Biden becomes a failed president unable to appoint any judges or enact any progressive policies.*

Biden was not enthusiastic about many progressive policies anyway, but we might have been able to pressure him to pass the needed laws. But not if it is blocked by obstacles beyond his control.

This means that much of the damage Republicans have done -- or might do before Jan 20 -- will be impossible to reverse. Regulatory changes could be reversed, one decision at a time. But even that will be impeded if Republicans block appointments of heads of agencies, and why wouldn't they do that?

Americans have a foolish tendency to judge a president's achevements on an absolute scale. A president who is thwarted by an opposition which holds a majority of the Senate is described as "failed", as if that were per own fault.