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Comment · 3 years ago
South Africa reverting back to just Africa.
Comment · 3 years ago
High in-group preference and no feelings of camaraderie with 'legacy' workers.

Looking at levels of corruption in India, this 'takeover' is not a good thing for America.

Comment · 3 years ago
Regulatory action is needed - specifically, to ban polyesters from Clothing.
Comment · 3 years ago
Straight out of the WEF playbook: https://www.weforum.org/impact/online-safety/

> "We penetrate the cabinet. So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I know that half of his cabinet, or even more than half of his cabinet, are actually Young Global Leaders."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Schwab

The ultimate objective is the complete de-anonymization of the internet, so that all dissenters can be identified and unpersoned.

Comment · 4 years ago
And all will come with convenient back-doors for warrantless tapping by Government agencies.
Comment · 4 years ago
Can we just ban fluorine compounds from being used on clothes, household objects, food packaging or preparation, firefighting, de-icing?
Comment · 4 years ago
Facebook is for old people.
Comment · 4 years ago
If not working in a mine, these children will be working subsistence agriculture, which is equally as back-braking.

The underlying problem is an excess of manual labor in Africa, caused by excessive birth rates. Take fertility rates down to sub-replacement like they are in the rest of the world, and mining will just be automated.

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Comment · 4 years ago
Road tax needs to be morphed into road-usage tax, based on time of day, location, axle weight, and distance.

It should be prohibitively expensive to use congested freeways and city streets during peak hours, but free at all other times.

Road expansion is justified based on peaks of usage - so by smoothing out these peaks, we can save significantly on the need to build more roads. Trip length can also scale non-linearly based on congestion: 10-20% more cars than capacity can result in 50% longer trips.

Comment · 4 years ago
Just allow the elderly to accrue property/land tax debts against the value of the property, redeemed when sold/transferred or on death.

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