If you're one of the fediverse influencers who sees Threads arrival it as "historic" and "a glimpse of the future" ... well, you might want to skip this post.
But if you're one of the many many people on the fediverse who doesn't want to deal with Threads, read on!
Is this an anomalous one-off, or just the beginning? San Franciscans have had enough with Waymo.
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San Francisco Mob Lights Driverless Waymo Car on Fire
"A person jumped on the hood of a Waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield..." reports the Verge, "generating applause before a crowd formed around the car and covered it in spray paint, breaking its windows, and ultimately set it on fire."
I assume you are arguing that abortion is not about a woman’s body, but rather, it is about the “life” of the fetus.
OK.
I present to you a different scenario:
Say you have a brother. You are estranged at birth and you never meet him or talk to him.
One day, your brother, a person you never met, but share some DNA with, came to you and told you his kidney is failing and you are a match. He asked if you could donate a kidney to him.
Without your kidney, your brother will die.
But kidney transplant carries a lot of risk for the donor. The procedure itself is risky. You will suffer many complications even if the surgery is successful. You’ll never fully recover. You’ll always feel tired and your own kidney function will suffer.
Do you think this procedure is about YOUR body or is it about your brother’s life? Do you think it is YOUR choice to donate the kidney, or your brother is entitled to your organs simply because you share some DNA?
More importantly, do you think the state has the right to force you to donate your organ to save a life?
It’s a life! It’s your family, your blood!
If you think the state should not make laws that regulate your body even if your organ can save a life, you understand why the state should not make laws that regulate women’s bodies, even if you think a fetus is a person.
Cory Doctorow at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, Mon 2/26 at 7pm
The Bezzle: A Martin Hench Novel
A seething rebuke of the privatized prison system that delves deeply into the arcane and baroque financial chicanery involved in the 2008 financial crash, The Bezzle is a sizzling follow-up to Red Team Blues.
Cory Doctorow returns to Third Place Books for the next book in his Martin Hench series, a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares. This event is free and open to the public.
"Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction authors."
—Kim Stanley Robinson
"Cory Doctorow doesn't just write about the future—I think he lives there!"
—Kelly Link