Interesting Links for 23-09-2020
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andrewducker- How legendary weekly British comic, 2000 AD, survived Covid-19 and thrived
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- How to choose the ideal form of government
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- Insurance firms will be forced to give renewing customers the same price as new ones (banning introductory offers)
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- Coronavirus in the UK: Boots suspends new flu jab bookings due to unprecedented demand
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- China sharply expands mass labour program in Tibet
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- The Tech Behind the Mind-Reading Pangolin Dress Could Lead to Wireless—and Batteryless—Exoskeleton Control
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- Covid in Scotland: Indoor household visits now banned
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- Covid-19: Scottish surge in cycling continues (43% up on last year)
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- Ranked-choice voting will be used in Maine's presidential election
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- Older people have become younger: physical and cognitive function have improved meaningfully in 30 years
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- Serco Have Subcontracted Contact Tracing Jobs To The Company Embroiled In The Tax Credits Scandal And Debt Collection Companies
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- Loose Ends: A Literary Supercut of Sci-Fi Last Sentences
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- "Every Streaming Service" - a funny look at the various services looking for your money
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- In case you were wondering how long it takes trucks to get in to the EU from outside...
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thanks for the info
Date: 2020-09-23 12:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-23 06:46 pm (UTC)3. This is going to have interesting consequences.
5. Crimes against humanity being scaled up!
7. *crying while knowing the tears aren't going to help anyone*
8. My lungs are grateful for this, despite living in Canada rather than Scotland. It all adds up, after all.
10. Seems like a genuine improvement on several fronts after having read that report, despite still having its own costs.
11. What are these people running these operations thinking???
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Date: 2020-09-27 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-04 05:00 pm (UTC)I am amused that they refer to Rebellion as a "children's publisher", given that 2000 AD has long been one of the best (and darkest) sources of serious satirical science fiction.
Massachusetts currently has a referendum for ranked-choice voting on the ballot, and it has the unique characteristic that, as far as I can tell, nobody is publicly opposing it. I've seen a lot of support, and so far not a single ad, billboard, or lawn sign against it.
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Date: 2020-10-04 05:02 pm (UTC)... and an interesting side-effect of switching to Markdown is that DW now screws up my attempt to number my items...
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Date: 2020-10-04 05:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-04 06:58 pm (UTC)Nothing surprising in retrospect: in Markdown, if you start a line with number-dot, it just turns that into an HTML numbered list starting with 1, and ignores the number you actually provided. So it fails for trying to correlate with your entries...
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Date: 2020-10-04 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-04 05:20 pm (UTC)I really hope ranked voting is an idea whose time has come.