Interesting Links for 07-05-2021

[andrewducker]

Why What3Words is not suitable for safety critical applications

(tags:data safety location )

Liz Cheney's important statement about constitutionalism and politics

(tags:politics constitution USA republicans )

Biggest ISPs paid for 8.5 million fake FCC comments opposing net neutrality

(tags:USA fraud internet )

Judge throws out LGB Alliance founder's fight to ban trans women from women's single-sex spaces

(tags:transgender LGBT law UK GoodNews )

The Hartlepool result looks really terrible for Labour (Conservatives mostly hoovered up Reform UK votes)

(tags:labour elections UK Doom )

The amazing true story of the RMS Carpathia, and how they went to the rescue of the Titanic

(tags:Titanic history )

Labour's strategy on Brexit is to keep schtum in the hope voters will move on. They are not.

(tags:UK Europe labour politics Doom )

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

What3Words is such a total pile of wank. It's also anglo-centric. They do have words for locations in other languages but they TOTALLY UNRELATED to the other language words for the same location. The whole thing thing is epically stupid.

[danieldwilliam]

Voters might not have moved on, but I think the more pertinent question is whether they will have moved on in 2024 when the next UK election is due.

[andrewducker]

Really hoping I have!

[movingfinger]

On the What3Words thing, merely on that short list there are a lot of words that are members of multinym (or nearly-so) triplets in English!

wants, once, ones
census, senses, censes
incite, insight, inside
versus, verses, furzes

caught my eye immediately, and there are likely more, given the variety of English-speakers' accents.

[dewline]

2. She remembered her principles late in the day. She is, after all, still very much her father's child. That is a mixed blessing...but it might yet serve the United States, and the wider world, in this instance. Many other Republicans have foresworn their earlier oaths to the US Constitution in favour of an oath of fealty to the one who chose them to become the cult of his personality. I hope that she and others of like mind still win this particular struggle.

Either way, the rest of us humans had best beware the consequences.

3. And now Ajit Pai's backers stand exposed to the light of day. Good. May the consequences continue to properly befall them.

4. Good. The LGB Alliance deserved to lose this one.

6. When I saw that story elsewhere on the Net, I cried. The crew and passengers of the RMS Carpathia on that voyage did what they could, and indeed attempted what some still argue they should not. For that alone, they should all be remembered with some honour.

7. So it's "punish the Remainers for all time and Labour is to be damned as Remainers", then?

[melchar]

The Captain, the crew and the passengers of the RMS Carpathia embodied the determination to do their absolute best to help others. This is what gives me hope that humanity is worth saving as a species.