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African countries are compelled to choose between coping with global heating effects, fighting poverty and paying debts. I suppose the greenhouse emission rate of African countries is small enough that reducing those countries' emissions is not urgent.

Users report that Microsoft has installed popups that tell users not to use Chrome.

That is entirely valid advice. Chrome is nonfree software, which implies it imposes unjust control over the user (see fsf.org/tedx). It also has has malicious functionalities.

What I wonder is, does Microsoft single out Google's malware, or does it also warn about malware from Apple, Microsoft and other countries?

The UK has been greatly exercised by the conviction of a nurse for murdering 16 babies in a hospital. Of course, we must prosecute murder; but the 170,000 excess deaths in Britain 2022 ought to be a 10,000 times bigger public concern.

Some thousands of these deaths were caused by Covid-19 but not attributed to it. Some were caused by insufficient funding of the NHS, which the two main plutocratist parties (Tory and Starmer-Labour) have committed to continuing because they refuse to tax the rich even to save thousands of lives,

Paying prisoners 23 cents an hour to work for private businesses is supposedly justified to teach them job skills so they can get jobs after release. Except that nobody will hire them no matter how well they do the job.