Interesting Links for 14-01-2022

[andrewducker]

In bad news for US cloud services, Austrian website's use of Google Analytics found to breach GDPR

(tags:privacy usa europe )

Covid in pregnancy linked to birth-related complications (but vaccination isn't)

(tags:Pandemic pregnancy )

New external system for complaints against Scottish ministers

(tags:Scotland complaints government )

A collection of Simpsons/Watchmen mashups

(tags:funny Simpsons mashup Watchmen comics )

The Inside Story of Politics for All, Twitter's Infamous UK News Account

(tags:UK news Twitter )

Beautiful butterfly dresses!

(tags:clothing insects )

How to communicate with difficult doctors

(tags:doctors language )

What If…. the Scottish Conservatives once more become a separate party?

(tags:scotland Conservatives politics viaDanielDWilliam )

Unvaccinated in New York 13 times more likely to get hospitalized

(tags:vaccination pandemic newyork )

Orwell on Political Correctness

(tags:GeorgeOrwell language )

Putting cows into the Mootrix increases their milk production

Prior art http://pvponline.com/comic/mon-may-12
(tags:cows TheMatrix VirtualReality weird )

Comments

[dewline]

"Orwell on Politeness" might be more accurate.

I'll want to read the rest and comment on those later.

[calimac]

It's been observed before that behavior derided as "politically correct" really is just politeness.

[nancylebov]

I have doubts about the Mootrix. It seems possible, but if it were true, I think more people would be trying it, and more importantly, we'd get to see at least a screenshot of what the cows are seeing.

[andrewducker]

I find the whole thing very silly. And it seems unlikely that they've got it adjusted so the cows can see well or that seeing fields increases milk production significantly.

But I may well be wrong.

[jack]

I think it's the sort of thing where, I'm not surprised there might be something there, but on average I'd expect to see a bunch of ill-conceived attempts without very meaningful results first.

[cmcmck]

Those dresses are gorgeous.

Nice to see something nice for once!

[andrewducker]

Agreed. I used to have more nice things. The last couple of years haven't helped on that front.

[calimac]

"once more ... a separate party"? Well, no. The Scottish Unionists of the past were administratively separate from the rest of the Conservative party, but they never politically split. What we're talking about now is a political split.

Closest past equivalent in Scotland would be the Scottish Labour Party which split in 1976, and quickly sank into oblivion. The argument here is that a separate Scottish Conservative party would have more support than that, and maybe it would.

For clarity: the Ulster Unionist Party has always been administratively separate from the rest of the Conservatives as well, but it didn't politically split until 1972, at which time it itself was also splintering into separate groups like the DUP.