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Brazil's truck drivers on strike

samedi 2 juin 2018 à 02:00

Brazil's truck drivers are on strike against increases in the price of fuel.

The price of fuel must increase so society will use less of it. But I suspect that some details of the way the government imposed this put the burden on individual drivers rather than on companies and rich people that can cope with it. For instance, if drivers have to pay for fuel and what they can charge has not increased, the whole burden falls on them. There is no justice in that.

Australia's native forest

samedi 2 juin 2018 à 02:00

Australia's extractivist government has allowed farmers to cut down a substantial part of the remaining native forest. The greenhouse gas emissions from that have erased Australia's investment in reducing emissions, some of which were wasted anyway.

Impulsivity training device

samedi 2 juin 2018 à 02:00

The insidious danger of the impulsivity training device, or iTrainer, which is designed to make people want what its designers wish them to want.

Nonfree software plays a crucial role in this scheme harmful, since that is what stops users from altering what the system does.

Face recognition repression

samedi 2 juin 2018 à 02:00

The dangerously creeping state of face recognition repression.

Floods in Ellicott City

samedi 2 juin 2018 à 02:00

Ellicott City had a "1000 year flood" in 2016. It just had another flood, even worse.

This seems to be global heating at work.