Interesting Links for 20-01-2022

[andrewducker]

If you're poor then the cost of living has gone up by a *lot* more than 5%

(tags:economics UK poverty )

A NASA Probe Went and Touched the Sun

(tags:sun space NASA )

Coffee can't fix all the cognitive impairments caused by a bad night's sleep

(tags:caffeine psychology sleep )

Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them

As a friend put it "This is how you get Terminators"
(tags:ai abuse misogyny hate )

The gender wage gap is really a child care penalty

(tags:children patriarchy wages gender society )

New rules passed for short-term lets in Scotland

(tags:rental housing Scotland )

Comments

[aldabra]

I've been expecting for a long time that the thing that will burst the housing bubble is food and fuel price rises. Housing has absorbed all the spare money while food and fuel have been absurdly cheap by historical standards, but food and fuel are much less elastic. And the housing market is highly leveraged; when it contracts it can contract a very long way.

But I expected it to be triggered by peak oil and climate change; I thought the pestilence would be along later.