Interesting Links for 31-08-2020

[andrewducker]

Diary: In Ashgabat (bribery and corruption in Turkmenistan)

(tags:corruption oil business turkmenistan )

A set of ADHD coping tools

(tags:technology adhd advice )

Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They're finding QAnon instead.

(tags:religion conspiracy politics usa )

Revealed: How, on every measure, Britain's response to the Covid pandemic has been woeful

(tags:UK pandemic doom ViaDrCross epicfail )

How technologically advanced are Britain's ports?

(tags:UK trade technology Doom )

How the world has changed since the 1970s

It baffles me that anyone thinks things haven't progressed. Good to get a list!
(tags:society time science technology viaDanielDWilliam )

The Legend of GayBlade (an early example of LGBT computer games, long thought lost)

(tags:LGBT games history computers )

Independent local shops enjoy business boost due to commuting drop.

(tags:business pandemic )

Now this is an obituary

(tags:obituary )

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

Off topic: somewhere somewhere you mentioned a test that chimps do better than humains. Somewhere somewhere I saw this linked today: https://humanbenchmark.com/dashboard

I believe there is a non-timed version of this test there (I got 19 pts but certainly couldn't have done it if had been timed).

[ironyoxide]

>...exploded into glitter and bats.

As one does.

[andrewducker]

Twice a day.
Thrice on Thursdays.

Obituaries

[anna_wing]

Currently, 'The Economist' has the best obituaries, in the sense that they are always of interesting people, or at least people who died in interesting circumstances. I recall some speculation in my circle that they had a special ninja assassination unit to ensure a good obituary subject every week...

Coping tools sadly don't work for someone who is (a) too disorganised or otherwise mentally incapable to even use them ; (b) unwilling and unable to even recognise that they have a problem. Do I speak from painful experience dealing with someone like this? I do. Not all jobs are for everyone.

[jack]

The Turkmenistan article and the shipping port article are fascinating in that they're a window into things I didn't know ANYTHING about. It's sort of scary how much of that there is, and society is made of all of it glued together.

[anna_wing]

Yes! So many people have a mental image of how modern societies work that would be excessively simplistic if applied to a small hunter-gatherer family in Papua New Guinea.