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Propaganda in schools

lundi 13 février 2023 à 08:47

Florida schools are still allowed to teach about the Rosewood massacre, in which just about a whole town of blacks was massacred, but they are now forbidden to use the term "reparations" to describe the money that the survivors eventually received.

Manuel Páez

lundi 13 février 2023 à 08:47

The thugs killed forest protector Manuel Páez, but the resulting outrage has drawn many others to oppose to building the thug training center in place of the forest he was defending.

Spying on brainwaves

lundi 13 février 2023 à 08:47

*A world in which your boss spies on your brainwaves? That future is near.* Employers use many systems to snoop on workers and their physical and mental state; these would essentially robotize most people.

A safety device that measures brain waves could be acceptable in some limit circumstances: if it is illegal to use that sensor's output for anything other than safety. and provided that if the safety system says you can't do your work, you should get a day of sick leave that day.

The existing "bossware" should be prohibited too.

Right-wing antiabortion argument

lundi 13 février 2023 à 08:47

The arguments that right-wing antiabortion fanatics will use with a favorable judge in seeking to ban mifepristone, and counterarguments that the FDA will use.

Blocking incoming sunlight

lundi 13 février 2023 à 08:47

Scientists have proposed another method of blocking a fraction of incoming sunlight from the Earth.

Like all methods of doing this, this one would depend on humans to continue running the geoengineering system; if we ever stopped, the suppressed heating would return soon.

And all such methods would fail to stop the ocean acidification that results from having more CO2 in the air. That itself would cause disaster.