Interesting Links for 12-04-2023

[andrewducker]

1. How Nicola Sturgeon's departure has helped to open the floodgates for anti-trans policy in UK politics

(tags:politics uk transgender lgbt OhForFucksSake bigotry )

2. 'Alien Calculus' Could Save Particle Physics From Infinities

(tags:quantum mathematics )

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

(tags:windpower recycling GoodNews )

6. No, current AI is not the solution to healthcare

(tags:healthcare ai )

7. Europe and Ukraine have repulsed Russia's attempts to weaponize energy - so far.

(tags:energy russia europe ukraine war )

8. UK economy to shrink by 0.3% this year, the worst performance in the G7

(tags:uk economy doom )

9. Nearly three quarters of Conservative voters want the UK to build more social housing

(tags:UK housing conservatives polls )

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?

(tags:software ux )

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 )

Comments

Re: 3. Russia's civilian economy

[andrewducker]

Which headline?

Re: 3. Russia's civilian economy

[trailer_spot]

The one that shows up in your entry: "Russia's civilian economy is down around 50% as the country shifts to a war economy"
I'm also not sure where it comes from. The link first goes to the Russian version, but you can then switch to the English one. I was wondering if maybe the headline changed later. The article then provides a number of statistics. But I don't think it's fair to extrapolate from those numbers that a large part of the civilian economy is down by half.

Re: 3. Russia's civilian economy

[andrewducker]

Re-reading it, you're right - 20-30% would have been more accurate. That's what I get for writing headlines on the fly!