PROJET AUTOBLOG


Richard Stallman's Political Notes

Site original : Richard Stallman's Political Notes

⇐ retour index

University market model

jeudi 28 novembre 2019 à 01:00

The market model of the university is pushing professors into poverty.

There are some exceptions in that pattern. In some fields, a professor can raise lots of research grants, especially by selling per research to business. But that isn't good either.

Replanting coral reefs

jeudi 28 novembre 2019 à 01:00

Replanting coral reefs in Kenya has brought back fish and invertebrates for people to catch.

Alas, when the ocean gets acidic enough to kill all coral, replanting won't work any more.

Military dictatorship in Bolivia

jeudi 28 novembre 2019 à 01:00

"Only two weeks since seizing state power, the evidence is clear: this is a rightwing, military dictatorship. The telltale sign for a country like Bolivia is the outright Indian killing."

Fossil fuel propaganda

jeudi 28 novembre 2019 à 01:00

"Whenever you read a newspaper article claiming EVs are worse than diesel or petrol cars, that article will be based on a report that deliberately makes EVs look worse than they are."

Gang enhancement

jeudi 28 novembre 2019 à 01:00

You might suppose that a "gang enhancement" is intended to make a gang larger. Actually it is a euphemism for lengthening a prison sentence based on claiming the prisoner belongs to a gang. Most prisoners in California have their sentences increased in this way, but generally it happens only to blacks and Hispanics.

While in prison, the prisoners can be put in solitary confinement for long periods based on flimsily arguments that they belong to gangs.