Chopping down (or drying up) a large forest can alter the climate all around the world.

CO2 released by melting permafrost could add .5C extra heating in this century. The methane released could add even more, for the short term.

Arleen Matthews worked for a local government in the UK taking care of temporary housing. She couldn't pay her own rent, and became homeless, so she made arrangements with one of those tenants to let her sleep in a garage.

When her employer found out, it fired her. What callousness.

Where other large banks have agreed to pay billions in penalties for cheating millions of American homeowners, Barclays bank decided to fight the charges.

I wonder if Barclays Bank has made a deal with the troll. Perhaps to lend one billion dollars with no collateral as part of a scheme like the one he did decades ago, in exchange for being let off the hook.

I don't have enough faith in the honesty of either party to regard this as impossible.

I expect the penalties are insufficient to deter banks from doing such things in the future. I don't have any specific knowledge about that, but it's the usual weak practice of the US.

Now that thugs have killer robots to use, we have to consider the danger that their use will become attractive and frequent.

Does concern about that eventuality seem like borrowing trouble? In 1970 it might have seemed silly to worry that SWAT teams would be used 50,000 times a year, and often against suspects not known to be armed.