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Criminal justice reform is a big issue for me so I'm glad someone has gone to the trouble of reading all the things the various presidential hopefuls have said about it and giving the digested version here.   And relatedly, a group associated with Black Lives Matter has released some generally good and necessary proposals for police reform.   Here's a take on them I'd endorse.  But here's a post on how a citizen review board is harder than it seems I'd also endorse, for reasons I went into here  and here . If we want to be sending missions to Mars or thinking about colonizing the Moon we really have to learn how humans respond over the long run to gravity that isn't Earth normal or free fall but we haven't been researching this even though we should . Remember that post I did on electric rockets ? Someone on the internet was nice enough to give a lot of details about the various sorts that are being built now. I'm sure we've all noticed ...