Interesting Links for 06-09-2023

[andrewducker]

1. The End of Airbnb in New York

(tags:housing newyork GoodNews )

2. The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction

(tags:NorthKorea society scifi )

3. Stalker found Japanese singer through reflection in her eyes

(tags:stalking location japan )

4. Study of over 80,000 UK couples finds that in love opposites don't actually attract

(tags:relationships psychology )

5. "AI took my job, literally"—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to glitchy AI translator

(tags:ai translation jobs OhForFucksSake )

6. Misinformation about contraception on social media may be contributing to Scotland's record high abortion figures

(tags:disinformation contraception Scotland abortion OhForFucksSake )

7. The Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Detection Explained

(tags:gravity research space )

Comments

[andrewducker]

We have a team of gardeners. They come round for about half an hour every three weeks, and charge me about £35 for blitzing the garden back into shape.

[channelpenguin]

They are woefully underpaid! There is no way the ones here would charge so little. How can they live? How can they even afford tools?

And I guess you did know people who had gardeners, cleaners etc. when you were a child? I never did. I know people who *were* those things. It seems a stubbornly hard mentality to shift for me. Sigh.

[andrewducker]

I don't think we knew people who had gardeners when I was a kid. Or at any point up to about three years ago, when we got one.

I assume they afford to live because they go round a whole bunch of places and spend almost no time at each one.

[channelpenguin]

Half an hour of hour many people's time? They need tools, fuel, a vehicle (or transport fares) just to operate. They spend time traveling. Maintaining tools. I'm almost certain the economics cannot work out unless (and maybe even if) they live in overcrowded squalor far from town.

:-) still more than me :-)