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Exporting prudery

jeudi 13 février 2020 à 01:00

The US is spreading prudery to workplaces around the world.

If your main way of meeting and getting to know people you could hope to find love with is at work, and you're forbidden to have a relationship with them, you may have no way at all.

Proposed Budget

jeudi 13 février 2020 à 01:00

*[The saboteur in chief’s] Proposed Budget Cuts Disastrous for Public Health, Clean Energy Investments.* He is going to subsidize coal instead.

He also wants to cut support for food and water.

The house will not pass this budget, but since the bully has said he wants it passed, we can judge him by it.

Driving insects to extinction

jeudi 13 février 2020 à 01:00

Many different kinds of human activities are together responsible for driving insects to extinction, and if they die, we die.

Proprietary encryption

jeudi 13 février 2020 à 01:00

A company that sold encryption systems to 100 countries was controlled by US and German intelligence, and the equipment spied on the governments that used it.

Of course Huawei equipment will do likewise.

Moral: never trust a nonfree program, especially not for encryption.

Cutting healthcare costs by flying out

jeudi 13 février 2020 à 01:00

*Utah cuts healthcare costs by flying employees to Mexico for prescriptions.*

Medicare for All, with its plan to negotiate an overall quantity price for drugs (as most European countries do), would eliminate this problem once and for all.