Should all crewed space missions be run by private business?

In some cases, there is no harm in that. But if we let them build settlements in space or on the Moon, those will be "company towns" in which no one can do anything except under the control of the company. Working there will be like working in an Amazon warehouse.

Thanks to contraceptive pills, women do not have to menstruate at all.

This reminds me of a story by James Tiptree (Alice Sheldon) about a woman whose daughter decided to join a movement for natural menstruation. She couldn't convince her daughter to abandon this foolish idea, but the experience of menstruating did the job pretty fast. (What is the story's name?)

Thailand's military rulers have gone beyond charging democracy activists with crimes. Now it is sending non uniformed thugs to club them on the head.

Masked non uniformed thugs attacked protesters in Hong Kong.

Protesters say that the uniformed thugs took a suspiciously long time to arrive, but the article does not indicate how long that was.

Proposing a mega project to make snow on top of the west Antarctic ice sheet.

I think it would be better, and less practical work, to curb the CO2 emissions. What's more, that would also end ocean acidification and avoid heating the land. But if the plutocrats block that, it would be better to do this project than not do it.