“No poisoning people” is a good regulation, actually.
Tag: it's just business
“We are not monsters, we are only following orders.”
Amy Goodman mentioned on Democracy Now that one of the lawyers of Rümeysa Öztürk reported that among the hooded figures who did the abduction, who said they were police and turned out to be ICE agents, one of them said to Öztürk at the time, “We are not monsters, we are only following orders.”
Feeding the trolls maybe gets you clicks, but rewarding stalkers with attention is dangerous.
Just don’t do it, it’s not worth it.
“We need to forget about infectious disease because it’s all about food safety, yo!”
RFKJr ran for his position on “food safety” or so I’ve heard. Republicans are bent on cutting funding to local health departments, and now they’re floating in press ending routine food inspections.
Scare tactics in online ads.
Online marketing is a mess. I’ve been seeing a lot of scammy commercials online.
We need buttons & dials in cars – and far less screens.
When I saw that cars were coming with no buttons, dials, or switches – just touchscreens I started panicking. I probably won’t ever buy a new car if touchscreen controls are the only option on new cars. I don’t find touchscreens to be easy to use, not at all accessible. Having to go through 3 […]
It’s imperative to inform politicians about tech scams that target their ideological hopes with false promises.
Crypto mogul donors lure politicians to betray their communities by saying they’re doing it to benefit their communities. It’s a trick.
Crypto-printing power plant in PA poised to “pivot to AI”
Bitfarms bought the bitcoin printing power plant in Pennsylvania and now there’s speculation that it’s part of the so-called “AI revolution” while Bitfarms is accused of misleading. This news came out the day after my last post about this Panther Creek facility. Data Center Dynamics – Bitfarms gets $300m debt facility from Macquarie for Bitcoin and […]
Crypto-printing power plant in Pennsylvania changes hands.
These cryptocurrency operations with their data centers and power plants contribute NO POWER TO THE GRID, provide nothing to the community other than various forms of pollution and higher prices.
The right-wing opposition to proxy voting is the same old opposition to remote anything.
There’s a bill in Congress to allow proxy voting for representatives with new babies. Mike Johsnon has gone so far as to just shut down everything for the week just to stop this bill, because there are Republicans who support it.
Treasury Secretary says federal job cuts necessary because the US government was crowding out the private market.
“And this is an opportunity to right-size the federal government and unleash the private sector again, because it’s been hemmed down by excessive regulation, and it’s been crowded out by the government.” — Scott Bessent
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the other forms of government?
Politics is always involved in healthcare, and always should be. Doctors and scientists are humans and should not pretend to be above the rest of us or operating outside of the reality of our communities.
‘Tax Return To Office’ is a political policy platform that can maybe go places.
HiFi – Welcome to WWIII, the stupidest internet war. Mar 11 at 1:56 PM Policy thought: If I were a politician, I’d tax corporations who required work from office at a higher rate, as their plantation mentality requires their employees to consume valuable resources such as petrol and time.
Just what we need especially during stock market turbulence & a shock to The Economy — another big bank merger.
I’m concerned about the merger of Capital One taking over Discover and the monopoly situation with too big to fail banks. I think consolidation is bad.
AI generated fossil fuel pollution must be opposed.
The air pollution from power plants dedicated to noise pollution generating data centers are currently running roughshod over communities already.
Trump pardoned a cryptocurrency corporation as if it was human.
I’m appalled that our American President actually “pardoned” a corporation. Especially a shady cryptocurrency company.
The authoritarian eugenics plans of tech moguls and the religious far right.
The far right may seem to be, and in many ways is, made up of a lot of different factions, but some of them have similar goals of living in their own segregated network states based on eugenics.
Why is Gavin Newsom giving tech tycoons burner phones?
There’s no way to interpret this but that there’s some kind of corruption going on with burner phones between a government official and various business moguls.
Outrageous data center bullying.
People are being asked to destroy the value of their property by putting huge power lines through them, claiming it’s akin to an eminent domain issue or “community” when really it’s about one utility company catering to just one customer – a data center. Big Take: When a Small Town Gets a Big Data Center Feb […]
Kevin Hassett has been wrong a lot and who knows what’s going to happen because of the economic disruption and corruption going on.
Talking about economic uncertainty due to the continued tariff related fruit basket upset, Kevin Hasset told CNBC that things will clear up after April 2nd. This is the same Kevin Hasset who has been repeatedly and outrageously wrong.
AI doesn’t exist, but Republican politicians really want to replace human doctors.
I’m sure not for themselves, but certainly for the general public according to some doctor politicians.
Energy Secretary embraces climate collapse as having benefits.
There are no pluses to climate collapse, and preventing, stopping, and mitigating ecological disasters is something that should be prioritized.