Interesting Links for 14-02-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Why the UK's Public Finances are in Even Worse Shape than You Think (A different measure of the economy that shows how bad things have gotten over the last few decades)

(tags:UK economics video doom )

2. What language do the British people find offensive?

(tags:language offensive UK swearing viaPatrickHadfield )

3. Statement on Ukraine by Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the European External Action Service and the European Commission

(tags:Ukraine Europe uk )

4. US Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.

(tags:USA economics statistics poverty )

5. The one true test of whether something is a sandwich

(tags:ontology food )

6. A 'True Crime' Documentary Series Has Millions of Views. The Murders Are All AI-Generated

(tags:crime fraud ai lies viaPatrickHadfield )

7. German Navy Says Warships Were Sabotaged, Warns of Russian Threat

(tags:germany navy russia sabotage ships )

Comments

[simont]

I enjoyed this bullet point from #2:

It often generated strong personal reactions, and participants had mixed views about its acceptability, even late at night.

Of course I know that they really mean "even when the word appears on a TV programme shown late at night", but it's irresistible to reinterpret the sentence as "even when you ask someone their opinion late at night, maybe after they've had a few, they're still not sure what they think of it."

[andrewducker]

"We tried asking them at 3am, and they *still* weren't sure!"