The bullshitter has invited employers to collect the payroll tax for Social Security and Medicare for the rest of 2020 next year instead of this year. When they do so, it will increase workers' pay this year, and decrease it by the same amount next year, for no net benefit.

I wonder what will happen if a worker is fired at the end of the year. Will they get an actual one-time benefit? Or will they be forced to repay this advance anyway?

A company that makes airships presents them as a way to reduce the emissions of air travel.

However, that company's airships apparently won't reduce emissions the tiniest bit, since it plans to use them as a sort of aerial cruise ship.

I am puzzled by the claim that they will travel faster than trains. Fast trains today sometimes take passengers station to station averaging 175 miles per hour, while these airships seem to be tested only up to 50 knots.

Pope Pius XII stayed silent while Mussolini let Nazis round up Italian Jews in order to murder them.

Recently opened Vatican archives show he was persuaded by an advisor who argued that it would appear inconsistent for the Catholic Church to object to oppression of Jews, after having itself oppressed them for centuries.

The archives also show that later, after the war ended, the pope ordered followers to keep Jewish orphans away from their relatives so as to raise them as Catholics.

Calling for Canada to offer addicts a legal supply of opioids.

This approach has reduced the harm that they do in the Netherlands, and in Portugal. I think it even reduces the number of people that become addicted.

We might wish that opioids had never been invented — but the real effect of prohibiting them is nothing like that.

This article projects a tremendous danger of surveillance and manipulation in cameras to scrape and understand everything a person looks at.

Unfortunately, the author doesn't recognize that free software offers at least part of a way to avoid the danger.