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Divesting from fossil fuels

vendredi 17 janvier 2020 à 01:00

The campaign to divest from fossil fuels has won support from half of the UK universities.

Relief of abortion

vendredi 17 janvier 2020 à 01:00

A survey of women who had abortions, asking them across five years how they felt about the abortion, found that 95% of them felt relief.

Harassement of Facebook moderators

vendredi 17 janvier 2020 à 01:00

The moderators Facebook employs to moderate postings suffer regimentation comparable to the Amazon warehouse. Facebook counts the seconds of their toilet breaks.

It also punishes them for the time they spend looking up the rules they are supposed to judge by.

They need a union. However, the worst of this should be illegal for any employer.

Please don't call people's communications or works "content". That term disparages all communications indiscriminately.

Preventing extinctions

vendredi 17 janvier 2020 à 01:00

A report proposes that the US spend $100 billion (over a period of many years) to prevent extinction of hundreds or thousands of endangered species.

The proposal does not include curbing global heating, but it depends on doing that. Without that, preventing a mass extinction is hopeless. In addition, without curbing global heating, technological society is likely to take such a big hit that it will no longer have the capacity to do the things proposed in this plan.

We must do both.

Dibs on murder

vendredi 17 janvier 2020 à 01:00

(satire) *[the bully] Warns Iran Not To Kill Any Protesters Who U.S. Already Has Dibs On.*

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