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Negotiating ceasefire

mardi 23 mars 2021 à 01:00

Salafi Arabia and the Houthis are negotiating about a cease fire and end to the blockade.

I don't see any reason to insist that the Houthis receive no arms. Nothing stops Salafi Arabia from receiving arms. In my view, Salafi Arabia is in no way morally superior to the Houthis; one can argue it is inferior.

Withholding aid

mardi 23 mars 2021 à 01:00

* We have to act on the Rwandan regime’s human rights abuses, but withholding aid is unlikely to help the general population.*

Handcuffed until after his wife was dead

mardi 23 mars 2021 à 01:00

Thugs in Georgia kept Mario Gonzalez in handcuffs in a squad car for four hours after his wife (and others) were shot. They didn't release him until long after they had caught the killer — and until after his wife was dead.

Trawling

mardi 23 mars 2021 à 01:00

The UK has banned trawling in a coastal area, hoping that this will enable kelp to regrow.

Smartphone tracking apps

mardi 23 mars 2021 à 01:00

Japan now requires people entering the country to have or acquire a smartphone and install some tracking apps on it.

This is not as bad as it first appears, because the requirement is only for the duration of the mandatory quarantine. Tracking your movements is not harmful when you never go anywhere.

The harm that remains even if you're staying always in the same place is that the phone can listen to your conversations all the time.