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TSA traumatizes transgender passengers

vendredi 30 août 2019 à 02:00

Transgender passengers often find an encounter with the TSA traumatic.

Bogus Johnson acting like monarch

vendredi 30 août 2019 à 02:00

Bogus Johnson has openly told Parliament it has no authority over what he does.

He is trying to act the absolute monarch. The last time someone tried that, Parliament had him executed. The death penalty is wrong, but Parliament could sentence Johnson to life in prison.

Regulation on face recognition

vendredi 30 août 2019 à 02:00

The EU is considering a weak regulation on face recognition. All it would do is give people the right to be informed when their face was recognized — and not always even that.

This by itself would not protect society from massive surveillance, but the information obtained could aid campaigns to do that.

Stretching the term "autism"

vendredi 30 août 2019 à 02:00

The term "autism" has been stretched so far that it is incoherent: to stretch from the mild abnormalities or Asperger's syndrome to mentally crippling disabilities.

It may be the case that they all result from the same biological cause — does science know? But even if so, we can distinguish them for moral, social and legal purposes.

Useless G7 meetings

vendredi 30 août 2019 à 02:00

The G7 meetings have become useless, ineffective at doing pretty much anything.

The fact that the bully uses them only as opportunities to humiliate other countries' leaders is only part of the reason. But next year, when the US hosts the meeting, he will reduce it totally to a manipulatory event, once he has filled his pockets with government money by holding the meeting in his own hotel.