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

[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...