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Who’s Assange’s handler?

Here’s hoping Australia can get Biden to listen to reason. Just because Wikileaks, as the messenger, embarrassed the US gov’t doesn’t mean Assange was wrong. As in many cases America was by doing stupid shit in the first place.

#FreeAssange

It did in parts of Canada. America just wasn’t paying attention.

“The allegations shocked me. In criminal law, the presumption of innocence also applies here. Nevertheless, the allegations are so serious that after examining each individual case, I immediately banned the three officers from conducting official business,” Friederike Zurhausen, the police chief of Recklinghausen, said in a statement.

This police chief did more than most do.

Offices already have plumbing on every floor for bathrooms.

And the idea to change over offices to residential is gaining traction … so go talk to them about how it can’t be done.

You seem to think that everyone would want what you want.

If it’s not to your taste, don’t live there. But there are thousands of unhoused people who may very well enjoy that vs living in a shelter or on the street.

Yet other engineers have said it can be done by refitting the window-facing offices as sets of single/double units with the interior of the floor as communal kitchen/gathering spaces, and separate floors for larger family units and spaces.

It’s not that hard to figure out ways to do it but companies will have to be forced, either by threat of bankruptcy or gov’t rules.

Cory Doctorow is a smart man and I’m glad he’s around to educate us.

The upside to these empty buidings is they can - and should be - transitioned to housing. It’s just the rich companies who own the buildings don’t want to have to invest any money in that.

Gov’ts should force them to, but that won’t happen either. :/

Neither do I guess. 👋

Here’s an article that explains it well.

And yet current worldwide politics shows us it does work for the benefit of politicians, military juntas and Big Business.

Time to eat the rich for real.

Australian media saying the quiet part out loud.

As the privatisation craze swept the developed world in the 1990s, governments looked around to sell almost anything that wasn’t bolted down, until they discovered the bolted-down stuff was worth even more.

But to extract the best sale price for the assets, governments began including clauses that effectively guaranteed a decent annual return, regardless of how the economy was performing.