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Digging foxholes

jeudi 12 novembre 2020 à 01:00

Trumpets in the US government are digging foxholes to do damage during the transition or to make it hard for Biden to replace them.

Amazon faces prosecution in Europe

jeudi 12 novembre 2020 à 01:00

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 give non-rich Americans a better life

jeudi 12 novembre 2020 à 01:00

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 animals that can catch human respiratory diseases

jeudi 12 novembre 2020 à 01:00

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

jeudi 12 novembre 2020 à 01:00

"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.