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New UK exams

mardi 26 juin 2018 à 02:00

The UK's new extremely difficult one-time exams for 16-year-olds made many of them sick with stress.

Perhaps they could help themselves cope with this stress by holding protests after and between exams. They could hang Mr Gove in effigy, for instance. If crowds of students did this all across the UK, it could have a political effect.

Students should not limit their condemnation to one single Tory minister. The whole Tory party deserves the blame.

The exhilaration of the protest could also help them feel less hurt by the stress.

Reminder to journalists

mardi 26 juin 2018 à 02:00

The Onion: Sarah Huckabee Sanders reminded journalists Friday that children under the age of 14 are unable to experience pain.

Methane leaks

mardi 26 juin 2018 à 02:00

Measured methane leaks exceed the EPA's estimate of methane leaks by about 60%.

Since methane contributes heavily to global heating for the next few decades, this has a big effect.

Better EPA regulations could make fossil fuel companies greatly reduce leaks, but if they spent the money to do that they might not make a profit. So they tell the EPA not to bother them.

Relatives as hostages

mardi 26 juin 2018 à 02:00

Tories propose to put whole families on the street if one person in the family is a gang member.

This would be self-defeating, since the whole family would be forced to turn to some sort of crime, but it's worse than that: it is fundamentally unjust to use people as hostages for their relatives.

The US has already done things like this.

Unsurpassed power trip

mardi 26 juin 2018 à 02:00

Ralph Nader: The Unsurpassed Power Trip by an Insuperable Control Freak.