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Spied from home

jeudi 9 avril 2020 à 02:00

Working from home, nowadays, often means that the employer monitors everything that you do, via the nonfree software they make you use.

Concentration camps

jeudi 9 avril 2020 à 02:00

Concentration camps have existed for a century; the US and China both operate concentration camps today.

US concentration camps do not kill prisoners directly, but often deport them to a high probability of death.

Checks for the non-rich

jeudi 9 avril 2020 à 02:00

Republicans reluctantly agreed to a law to send checks soon to non-rich Americans. Then they cheated on the deal, by making an arbitrary rule that poor people who live on government pensions or aid, and don't file tax returns, would not get checks. Unless they find out about this and file a return solely for this rule, they will get shafted.

Yielding to a wave of criticism, Republicans dropped the new requirement only for those who receive Social Security pensions. They must hope that this will divide the opposition, so they could get away with shafting the other affected people: military veterans, and those whose income is small enough to qualify for the existing income assistance.

Why deny this aid to the poorest? Those politicians' overriding goal is to transfer money to the rich, so they take advantage of any opportunity,

I do not submit my tax returns on line because it requires nonfree software. I use xournal to write my data on the PDF form, and print that. As I have no printer, I will visit a copying store to do the printing.

I do this because keeping safe means protecting our freedom as well as our health.

Biden delegate lead increase

jeudi 9 avril 2020 à 02:00

*The Coronavirus Paradox: Biden's Delegate Lead Increases as the Need for Bernie's Politics Adds Up.*

Invisible hand giving the finger

jeudi 9 avril 2020 à 02:00

*When the Invisible Hand Gives You the Finger* — (1) failing to provide medical supplies and equipment, then (2) saying that you should go back to work just to keep the profits flowing.

The cult of the invisible hand seems to be as absurd as any other religion.