Interesting Links for 12-04-2023
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andrewducker- 1. How Nicola Sturgeon's departure has helped to open the floodgates for anti-trans policy in UK politics
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- 2. 'Alien Calculus' Could Save Particle Physics From Infinities
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- 3. Russia's civilian economy is down around 50% as the country shifts to a war economy
- (tags:russia war economics )
- 4. Voters want more compassionate politicians, survey suggests amid Labour ad row
- (tags:politics uk OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Wind turbine blades recycling breakthrough
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- 6. No, current AI is not the solution to healthcare
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- 7. Europe and Ukraine have repulsed Russia's attempts to weaponize energy - so far.
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- 8. UK economy to shrink by 0.3% this year, the worst performance in the G7
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- 9. Nearly three quarters of Conservative voters want the UK to build more social housing
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- 10. Truck carrying 40,000 pounds of toxic soil from East Palestine train derailment site crashes on highway (if you made this up then nobody would believe you)
- (tags:environment usa incompetence WTF pollution )
- 11. Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find, like all right-thinking programs?
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- 12. Traffic police roll out new way to catch reckless motorists - drones
- (tags:drone traffic driving safety police UK )
- 13. EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off the biggest heist in the game's history (by buying shares and voting themselves into management)
- (tags:games crime mmorpg EveOnline )
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#10 Truck carrying 40,000 pounds
Date: 2023-04-13 07:35 am (UTC)"The rail operator said that as of April 10, nearly 20,000 tons of waste soil have been removed from that site, but according to the Ohio Emergency Management Agency, there is still more than 17,000 tons of soil that needs to be removed. "
20,000 tons = 1000 truckloads
So 1000 truckloads have already been removed and there are 850 more to go. I wonder where it is all being moved to.
At those numbers, it doesn't seem that unusual to me for there to have been a crash. But they should at least put covers on the tops of trucks carrying toxic soil.