Interesting Links for 31-03-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Clues to the Lives of North America's First Inhabitants Are Hidden Underwater

(tags:usa prehistory archeology ocean )

2. Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation

(tags:work family remote Technology society )

3. The Uniquely American Future of US Authoritarianism

(tags:usa authoritarianism )

4. "If you want to watch games on your tractor, please use your own iPad"

(tags:funny Technology farming )

5. An Unusual Finding of a Ladybug on Screening Colonoscopy

(tags:healthcare insects unlikely )

6. Quarter of British renters don't report repairs over eviction fears

(tags:uk rental OhForFucksSake )

7. DeSantis, the Disney board and King Charles III: A power struggle, explained

(tags:law Disney republicans LGBT USA Florida )

8. A Greek and Roman Mythology Walk around London (I've been on one of Tony's walking tours and he's an academic who really knows his stuff)

(tags:London Greece Rome history UK walking )

9. Growing a chicken in an open egg

(tags:chicken life eggs video weird )

10. Finland clears its last hurdle, will join NATO in July

(tags:Finland NATO )

11. UK-Asia trade deal to boost UK economy by...0.08%

(tags:trade UK pacific )

Comments

[aldabra]

I had a letting agent who routinely threatened to evict us for mentioning repairs were needed. The landlady ended up evicting us anyway, three months before K's GCSEs, on the grounds that she had done no repairs in the twelve years we were there and the house was now falling apart. (One of the windowsills broke off in her hand.)

[channelpenguin]

Huh?. Surely the logical response would have been SACK THE AGENT?

[aldabra]

They were as bad as each other. We did report the large patch of mouldy damp in the bathroom, and they spent five years economising on fixing the roof by intermittently painting over the damp patch themselves. If my employment had been secure enough we would have moved, but by that stage it wasn't.

[aldabra]

... but, more importantly, there is no legal responsibility on anybody to behave logically. (I think, as a tenant, it is my ethical duty to report problems with the property, but my rational priority is whether I can afford to risk a forced house move if I do.)

They ended up doing a massive renovation including a new roof and are now letting it out at 50% higher rent, through a different agent.