Supposedly China needs coal mining to provide employment in future decades.

Supposedly, China needs to encourage more births to avoid a shortage of workers in future decades. These predictions directly contradict each other, so at least one is false. But I think that both are false.

If China remains prosperous, and doesn't need everyone to work, it will have the resources to support everyone with jobs in taking better care of the old, the young, and the sick, and entertaining each other.

On the contrary, if China has an insufficiency of workers, it will be able to accelerate the use of robots, delay retirement, and make do with less conveniences.

What China cannot do is remain prosperous while beset increasingly by extreme weather, crop failures, and rising seas. The rice-growing areas of South China are close to sea level and will be inundated, including major cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, Nanjing and Hangzhou. To the east of Shanxi is the North China Plain which will encounter fatal weather. China had better focus on avoiding the catastrophe it is creating with fossil fuels.

US citizens: call on Congress to stop future presidents from bullying the Department of Justice.

The cable company Charter is making veiled threats against ex-customers — threats to harm their credit ratings by alleging unpaid imaginary debts.

Research found that TikTok responds to users that demonstrate interest in antitransism by showing them right-wing extremism.

This gives some confirmation to the idea that the recommendation algorithms are what we should demand to regulate and control.

Antitransism is a kind of bigotry — please don't call it a "phobia".

Please don't call publications "content" — that disparages all publications.

British expat Billy Hood made the mistake of living in Dubai. A friend visited him and then sent him a message about having left behind some CBD vaping fluid. The thugs of Dubai saw the message, arrested Hood, and tortured him into signing a confession he could not read.

Why torture and lie to imprison someone for what they knew was unintentional possession? Is it that the emir of Dubai set them an example of sadistic brutality? Is it that they have to meet a quota of convictions per month?