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The next G7

vendredi 30 août 2019 à 02:00

"We need to cancel the next G7. Let's resume them when Trump is gone."

The point of the G7 meetings is cooperation (even if only partial) among the most powerful countries. The bullshitter has no interest in that. It is useless to make a deal with him, since he may break it the next day or the next month.

He will attend the meeting only to sow discord — he is the drama queen that would be king. Why make an opportunity for him?

Money for Amazon fires

vendredi 30 août 2019 à 02:00

Burner Bolsonaro rejected the 20 million dollars to help put out fires in the Amazon, not for being too little, but for being too much. (More than zero is too much.)

The latest idiotic distraction is to call this "colonialism". The Brazilian government claims the power to burn every tree in Brazil.

Google's browser dominance

vendredi 30 août 2019 à 02:00

Google uses its dominance over browsers to defend its ad business.

This exactly what antitrust law was designed to deal with. It suggests that breaking up Google would do some good. It would not go far enough, however, because it would not put an end to surveillance capitalism.

Private social credit system

vendredi 30 août 2019 à 02:00

Private companies including Uber, Airbnb and WhatsApp are building a private social credit system, in which anyone can be banned arbitrarily from the very dis-services that people say they "can't live without".

If a bar or restaurant insisted on knowing who I am before letting me in, I'd leave pre-emptively.

Hostages in Kashmir

vendredi 30 août 2019 à 02:00

India is taking hostages in Kashmir, kidnaping people in order to exchange them for specific people that the occupying forces could not find.

The US did something similar during the occupation of Iraq.

Israel has done something similar in the occupation of Palestine.