Interesting Links for 10-05-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Levelling up funding bids rejected in 28 of England's most deprived councils

(tags:inequality uk )

2. The police do not care about death threats to women

(tags:women abuse UK police OhForFucksSake )

3. The USA is not a functioning democracy

(tags:democracy USA epicfail )

4. How candles work

(tags:physics light )

5. Labour attacking the Green Party from the right...

(tags:GreenParty labour politics )

6. Nobel disease

(tags:Nobel mentalhealth conspiracy )

7. Electing a wheelchair user to Edinburgh council highlights how little accessibility is considered

(tags:accessibility disability Edinburgh politics )

8. Edinburgh council coalition talks: Other parties frustrated at lack of clarity over what Labour can and cannot do

(tags:labour politics scotland edinburgh )

9. Labour councils refusing to go into coalitions, still want the benefits of one

Seriously, what are they up to?
(tags:labour Scotland OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[booklectica]

General reaction: so exhaustedly angry about everything.

[doubtingmichael]

To be fair to Nobel Prize winners, that's quite a small proportion who seem to come down with the disease.

It's also possible that this afflicts many other old/white/smug scientists, but nobody listens to them (or reports on it) if they don't have a Nobel.

[andrewducker]

Very possible.

IT's just a generalisation of Engineer's Disease, after all.

Which might be even more generalisable!

https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/59vw3d/cmv_engineers_syndrome_is_not_specific_to/