Interesting Links for 13-10-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Misery for motorists as Rishi Sunak's HS2 cut set to put half a million more lorries on the road

(tags:transport doom uk hs2 )

2. Bentham's Mugging (a short play, wherein moral purity is found wanting)

(tags:morality philosophy funny )

3. WordPress makes its posts available via the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc)

(tags:WordPress socialmedia )

4. 'Brahmastra Part One: Shiva' - for those people who like a very pretty religious superhero musical

(tags:religion movies trailer video india )

5. On Whataboutery in response to Hamas.

(tags:israel palestine terrorism )

6. Breakthrough in reading unopened ancient scrolls by scanning them

(tags:archaeology ai technology prehistory )

7. France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations

(tags:France Palestine protests )

8. Covid can cause our brain cells to fuse together causing cognitive impairment.

(tags:Pandemic brain Doom )

9. Edinburgh Princes Street closed due to 'incident' as buses and trams affected

(tags:Edinburgh transport buses trams )

10. Edinburgh's Princes Street closed and buses and trams disrupted after man found dead in early hours

(tags:death edinburgh )

Comments

[hutchingsmusic]

It's not half a million more lorries, that's a terrible headline. It's 500,000 additional lorry *journeys* per year. "...figures crunched by transport firms predict there will be 500,000 extra lorry trips on the roads as a result of cancelling the rail line to Manchester – roughly equivalent to an extra journey a year for every single registered HGV in Britain." It's not good, but it's not awful - if on a typical day you see 300 lorries while driving, you might now see 301. It's a less than 1% increase.

[andrewducker]

Ah, thanks. I hadn't realised that as a proportion it's not that high.