Interesting Links for 02-11-2021

[andrewducker]

Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete. It's time for the endgame

(tags:google corruption )

Sea appears to boil in unexplained 'water eruption' off the coast of Scotland

(tags:Scotland Doom sea wtf )

How much of China's CO2 production is for making goods for export? And how much CO2 is the UK effectively importing?

(tags:co2 manufacturing trade )

Johnson rejects calls by standards watchdog to toughen up rules on ministers’ conduct

(tags:BorisJohnson corruption politics UK )

Researchers discover way to breed ‘good’ mosquitoes that do not spread dengue fever

(tags:disease mosquito GoodNews )

Has an American court recognised a ‘cocaine hippopotamus’ as a legal person?

(tags:law people animals USA )

COP26: Wheelchair-using minister unable to attend summit. (The venue is normally accessible, so the UK government has clearly fucked this up)

(tags:disability uk OhForFucksSake )

Pushing renewable power immediately could save trillions in health costs

(tags:renewables health economics )

Comments

[dewline]

1. Yeah, I think we've had enough of this crap.

4. One more bit of evidence of the "protect organized crime" nature of the pro-Brexit team, right?

7. Worrying, and I wonder if anyone else in any of the delegations have had similar obstacles in their way.

8. One more reason to do the right things...and more reason for cruel people to resist doing the right things as well.

[calimac]

7. It looks like, from the article, that the way the govt fncked things up was by not having a wheelchair-accessible shuttle to take the minister to another entrance. That this one entrance to the building isn't accessible shouldn't be a killer problem as long as there's a way to get to another entrance, and apparently there isn't. But blaming the delegation for not informing the organizers that they had a wheelchair-user isn't on; organizers should be flexible enough to deal with this.

Also ... waiting there two hours, and then having to return to the hotel - in Edinburgh? Surely Glasgow has enough facilities to house an entire conference?

[andrewducker]

Apparently there are around 30k people involved. So I can see Glasgow being a little overwhelmed.

[cmcmck]

I know there are people staying in Stirling for example!

[chess]

Not an entire conference and a lot of protesters who were more organised than the attendees and booked things out early, I think...