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Cash bail abolished, IL

mardi 25 juillet 2023 à 05:32

The Illinois supreme court has abolished the practice of demanding cash bail for accused criminals to wait for trial at home. It is unjust because it treats rich suspects better than all other suspects.

Covid-19 shut down nonpretentious yoga schools

lundi 24 juillet 2023 à 12:17

Covid-19 made the nonpretentious yoga schools shut down, at least in England. The ones that remain are expensive, gimmicky, and designed for people seeking dabble.and distract themselves.

I have never practiced yoga, and never intended to try it, but I am nonetheless sad about the loss of something that others found good and useful.

Robert Kennedy Jr's racist, antisemitic and xenophobic views

lundi 24 juillet 2023 à 12:17

*Robert Kennedy Jr’s racist, antisemitic and xenophobic views go back decades, report says.*

Cheap flights in Europe encourage heating of planet

lundi 24 juillet 2023 à 12:17

According to Greenpeace, * cheap flights [in Europe], made possible by tax breaks for airlines, are encouraging people to heat the planet.*

Push for small nuclear reactors

lundi 24 juillet 2023 à 12:17

There is a push in the UK to design small nuclear power reactors to build in addition to a few misguided large ones. Here is an article that grasps at straws to justify the plan.

It may be faster to build 24GW of nuclear generation using small reactors than using big reactors, but it will still be slower than the renewable alternatives.

Many smaller nuclear power reactors might be cheaper to build than a few large ones, but probably not cheaper than solar or wind.

Also, they do not cure the other problems of nuclear power.

These include the pollution from the mining and refining of uranium. the problems from the waste, and the danger of having a pre-exploded nuclear weapon inside a building on your territory.

Is the real issue that the UK doesn't build its own wind turbines? I am sure it would be cheaper and easier to change that, than to build any sort of nuclear reactors.