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Teacher loses gun

vendredi 20 avril 2018 à 02:00

A teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who advocates arming teachers left his pistol in a toilet. It was picked up by a drunkard who shot it (not hitting anyone and probably not trying to).

Charging them with crimes is absurd. It is clear that the teacher did not intend to leave the pistol in a toilet, and as for the drunkard, punishing him will achieve nothing. Any sensible person already knows to try to avoid these things.

The right lesson to draw is that arming teachers is a foolish and dangerous policy (though we already knew that).

Zuckerberg

vendredi 20 avril 2018 à 02:00

Zuckerberg, testifying to Congress, pretended ignorance of Facebook's collection of data about people that don't have Facebook accounts, and its other data about people which it didn't get from their own Facebook accounts.

Potential financial crash

vendredi 20 avril 2018 à 02:00

Big US banks have lent billions to companies that make loans, such as auto loans. Some of those companies are going down the tubes now because their own clients are defaulting.

This could potentially lead to another crash.

'Blighted' houses

vendredi 20 avril 2018 à 02:00

Corrupt politicians in Wisconsin are designating people's houses as "blighted" as an excuse to kick them out and not really compensate them.

This is to bring in a factory run by the company that drove Chinese sweatshop workers making Apple products to commit suicide.

Unionized programmers

vendredi 20 avril 2018 à 02:00

The software company Lanetix fired all its programmers after they agreed to unionize. They have not given up, because it is illegal to do that.