Interesting Links for 07-05-2018

[andrewducker]

"My little Step-Children" - for your child who really wants to be a wicked step-mother

(tags: children funny )

Sometimes people's lack of understanding of difference boggles me

(tags: People wtf )

SkyKnit: When knitters teamed up with a neural network

(tags: knitting ai )

The UK has fewer beds per head compared to virtually all other EU nations, fewer doctors and nurses, reduced access to investigations such as MRI scans, and is spending less on medications

(tags: nhs UK health money )

What did Marx have to say about "sexual redistribution"?

(tags: sex communism )

Possibly the worst password advice of all time

(tags: passwords OhForFucksSake )

Turns out it mostly isn't automation which is costing Americans their jobs

(tags: usa jobs automation )

Deadlock in a divided country - what the local election results mean for the UK

(tags: uk elections politics )

Comments

[coth]

Now that article about manufacturing statistics is _really_ interesting.

[skington]

I appreciate that you have absolutely no free time at the moment, so just add this to your wish list: it would be quite useful if your link-sharing tools realised links from your tumblr are nearly always you reblogging stuff, so would fetch the original tumblr post instead.

[calimac]

Stepchildren: My favorite story involving the "wicked stepmother" stereotype comes from a woman who said that her small son, thinking he was being crafty, asked her, "Are you my real mother or my stepmother?" When she replied, "Oh, I'm your real mother," being even craftier he asked, "How do you know?"

The mother's account didn't say whether she then fell on the floor laughing, but I did.

Understanding differences: I'm reminded of the conservative US Supreme Court justices not grasping that non-Christians see crosses on graves as a Christian symbol. To these guys, that's just normal, what you always see on graves.

Local elections: Does UKIP run in local elections? (I'm tempted to ask snarkily, why?)