In the 1970s, Britain had policies that rendered owning houses and renting them out unprofitable; private landlords sold their rental houses to cities for use as public housing. Then in the 80s the Tories specifically set out to promote private landlords again and to eliminate public housing.

It is clear how the private landlords made rental housing far more expensive. What I to not see is how this created a scarcity of housing available for rental. However, the practice of building mansions which rich people will buy only as investments has certainly taken much housing space off the rental market.

Various companies and even unknown individuals publish mushroom identification books, or offer online dis-services that purport to identify them, falsely claiming these are based on "artificial intelligence".

In fact, they are based on bullshit generators, and taking their advice can leave you sick or even dead. But people call these "artificial intelligence", which suggests that the output hey generate is based on knowledge or understanding of the subject matter.

I urge people to criticize writers and companies that stretch the term "intelligence" to cover the capacity to fabricate plausible-sounding bullshit.

US citizens: call on the Department of Justice to break up UnitedHealth's medical treatment almost-monopoly.

Xi thought he could crush the spirit of Hong King and still benefit from it economically. He crushed its spirit, indeed, and ended up with a wreck of a once-great city.

Food delivery companies can only be profitable if they exploit their workers by underpaying them.

This is in addition to the ways they exploit restaurants and their customers.