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Education for girls in Cameroon

mercredi 28 décembre 2016 à 01:00

Mosques in Cameroon are starting education for girls as a campaign to turn the social climate against Boko Haram.

Uber's autonomous cars

mercredi 28 décembre 2016 à 01:00

Uber's autonomous cars frequently violate traffic laws.

Uber tries to put the blame on human safety monitors, who could in principle intervene to stop this.

That's the general Uber attitude: profits to the company, burdens to the drivers.

I would guess that the safety monitors would be hard-pressed to react fast enough to prevent these maneuvers -- which would mean that they are an excuse and a scapegoat, not a real safety system.

500 climate scientists join rally

mercredi 28 décembre 2016 à 01:00

500 climate scientists joined a "stand up for science" rally.

Persecution of the homeless

mercredi 28 décembre 2016 à 01:00

1/3 of US cities prohibit homeless people (and others) from "camping" on sidewalks, and use this as an excuse to steal their possessions.

When business owners and rich people demand that the city persecute the homeless, the response they deserve is, "How would you like to be homeless?"

Debtors prison in Jennings, Missouri

mercredi 28 décembre 2016 à 01:00

Jennings, Missouri, a suburb of St Louis comparable to Ferguson, jailed 2000 people for not paying fines. In 2014 it issued more arrest warrants than it had adult residents.

Basically, it set up a scheme to fund the city by squeezing money out of the poor and weak.