A court blocked the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.

We should not have allowed Penguin and Random House to merge. And we should not have allowed a giant conglomerate to buy either Simon & Schuster. The bigger a company is, the harder it is to keep it from harming people, intimidating people, or cheating people.

Automated car control features supposedly will make the car safer, but they can just as easily backfire.

Melting permafrost in the Arctic leaks CO2 and methane, and promotes large wildfires. That can make the difference between survival of civilization and destruction of civilization.

Secondarily, the melting causes buildings to sink into the melting permafrost underneath them.

Countries can continue scientific cooperation even when they are at war, if they decide to. It is important for the US and Russia to agree to do this. The US can make an exception to its sanctions for specific research projects.

Faux News brings up distraction pseudo-issues to swing elections. The mainstream media pick up the same pseudo-issues.

*Tasmanian salmon farms used more than a tonne of antibiotics in 2022 disease outbreaks.*

This tends to make bacteria evolve resistance, which can kill people. Bacteria can share genes even between species, so resistant bacteria infecting salmon can transmit resistance to other bacteria that infect humans.