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Month: November 2024

  • Assisted dying or compulsory suicide?

    Do your duty, prepare for your departure. — Tl;dr: Our medical/care system is screwed, governments are all efficiency- and cost-obsessed. They’re fixated on ageing and on the explosion of the…

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  • People worried about mobile phones, what’s the actual problem?

    (hint: it’s the predatory corporations) — I don’t want to be too pedantic. When people – some of whom are well-informed, even brilliant – become hysterical about the alleged damaging…

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  • How do you fund a monarchy?

    There are only two ways: taxation or plunder — In modern monarchies it’s tricky. The sovereign can no longer send soldiers from town to town to extract funds and, since…

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