Interesting Links for 11-11-2023

[andrewducker]

1. 'At 43, I've woken up and realised the world is antisemitic'

(tags:Jews bigotry )

2. The courtesan who brought down a cult, and other unsung women of ancient Rome

(tags:history rome women )

3. China is building a wind turbine taller than the Eiffel Tower

(tags:china windpower impressive )

4. What effects is AI having on jobs so far?

(tags:ai jobs )

5. How to Solve the Israel/Palestine Problem

(tags:Israel Palestine history )

6. Edinburgh to be first Scottish city to ban pavement parking

(tags:cars Scotland Edinburgh )

7. Putin rakes in extra €1B for his war chest via Bulgaria sanctions loophole

(tags:Russia Bulgaria oil war money Ukraine )

8. Why cutting 70%+ marginal rates should be a Government priority

(tags:tax uk OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[cmcmck]

1. Given my own family history, I've known it for quite some time..........

[calimac]

5) An earlier installment in this series is the only commentary on the history I've seen that points out, even in passing, that instead of establishing a Palestinian state in 1948 as the UN directed them to do, Egypt and Jordan occupied Gaza and the West Bank (respectively) illegally for nearly 20 years.

[cmcmck]

Crusading armies were all over Gaza and built a castle there and my own father fought through the area in the fifties during the Suez crisis.

People don't always realise how old a community Gaza is.

[andrewducker]

Yup. There are many people acting in bad faith.

[channelpenguin]

Wind turbine - go big or go home!

[bens_dad]

Indeed, these will be some of the largest moving parts ever built. Can you think of anything else with visible moving parts this big? Nothing in the mining mega-machine category comes close

The trucks no, but the conveyor belts ?

If this 51km belt
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/69405-longest-conveyor-belt
is 1.5m wide the top surface of the belt is the same as the swept area of the 22MW turbine.
But a belt has a return half, so 75cm. And no this is not a series of linked belts, just the one.

They also compare it to CERN's Large Hadron Collider, but the tunnels don't move. Do you count the magnetic fields as "moving parts", or just the particles which are no bigger than atoms ?

[ Getting silly. If you do count the magnetic fields, what about a laser beam bouncing off a reflector on the moon ? I believe it widens out to 2ft and is 1/4 million miles each way. Hmm. https://www.nasa.gov/missions/laser-beams-reflected-between-earth-and-moon-boost-science/
says that the beam is 10ft wide when it leaves earth and more than a mile wide at the moon. Not sure those figures make ense for a laser. ]

2. The courtesan who brought down a cult, and other unsung women of ancient Rome

[anef]

I was excited to see this, as I thought her previous book (A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) was terrific*. Then I was confused as she seems to have written the same book twice! https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0C5Y6YTX6/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0. Oh well, maybe it's a new edition, or a complete rewrite, or a different 21 women.

*although nauseating in parts.

Re: 2. The courtesan who brought down a cult, and other unsung women of ancient Rome

[andrewducker]

Could be that is just now getting an American release, and so there's some publicity for it.

Also, very amused that it's #1 in "Historical Greek Biographies".