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Electric cars

mardi 24 septembre 2019 à 02:00

Labour to commit to big increase in charging points for electric cars.

Labour supporters, please talk to party organizers about offering anonymous charging. See the recent note about how Orwellian they are.

Bribing Ukraine

mardi 24 septembre 2019 à 02:00

The cheater may have bribed Ukraine's President Zelensky to relaunch a criminal investigation of Hunter Biden, Senator Biden's deceased son.

No Shame at School Act

mardi 24 septembre 2019 à 02:00

US citizens: support the No Shame at School Act, which would pay poor families' debts for school lunches.

I don't think students should be charged for lunch at school. The cost of meals, like the cost of everything else at school, should be paid by the state, out of taxes that fall mainly on the rich.

Planned greenhouse reduction

mardi 24 septembre 2019 à 02:00

Countries' greenhouse reduction commitments need to be tripled just to limit to 2C of heating, and avoiding disaster (under 1.5C) requires 5 times the planned reductions.

Data collected by charging stations

mardi 24 septembre 2019 à 02:00

Charging stations for electric cars, in the UK at least, require motorists to identify themselves.

The article focuses on the fact that the charging IDs are not secure against third parties. However, I think the fact that the charging station identifies the motorist is the worst injustice. We need laws requiring charging stations to allow anonymous use. This should include paying cash or with an anonymous digital system such as GNU Taler. Drivers on a plan that covers the cost of charging should be able to demonstrate digitally that they are members without revealing their identities.

Some charging stations collect a lot more data than that.

We need laws to require them to offer anonymous charging, for cash, without collecting any information except the price charged.