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Despite the potentially confusing name, Care2‘s Population Growth group was meant to bring together those who are worried about overpopulation, and recently it has enjoyed some amount of activity. During one of these conversations, somebody mentioned advocating measures to control population despite not endorsing eugenics, which prompted me to say that I do support eugenics […]

Good enough for a short SF book. Shows that it was meant to be an even shorter story, as it says at the beginning, because it basically only follows a character, with a second added in a couple of places, and gives little detail about the world, but it does its job and sends some […]

I was initially planning to write yesterday’s post on Monday and a second one on Thursday or Friday, so I could do this month’s computer “maintenance” work right away afterwards. That didn’t quite work out, but it’s pretty much the only thing that failed to work out this week, while a few others went quite […]

This post is quite connected to the last one and could have been called “Circus Animals and Slavery”, but it was, in fact, inspired by Bolivia banning the use of animals for circus acts. But while the similarities are obvious, both being utterly exploited by humans, the difference between farm animals and circus animals is […]

A new series of regulations coming from the Romanian Ministry of Agriculture and dealing with the comfort of farm animals, especially those raised in factory farms, has prompted a series of very amused reactions from the media and a good part of the population, who feel that it’s simply idiotic to think about the comfort […]