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Slippery slope. What's next? Reading the paper before writing a referee report?

That's not enough. We need crime rates by: - Parent income/education - Voting preferences - Height - Attractiveness - Local Authority at birth - Hair colour - Preferred football team I'm not pointing at anything, "just asking", what does the government has to hide?

EU Commission fines:. Apple is standard: abuse of dominant position, blocking users from learning about the world outside the app store Meta is uncharted territory: Facebook has a "paid" option in exchange for privacy. EU seems to say it should be free -- kind of strange to me

Best way to avoid tariffs is to sell things for free. Even with 145% tariff, still free.

let's build the impossible Boris Johnson tunnel! Still easier than getting new tracks between London and the North.

Google's platitude hallucinations are absolutely great

New long post by me: The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking. Many factors — including improvements in diagnosis, medical and surgical innovation, vaccination against cancers — have had a very real impact. scientificdiscovery.dev/p/the-decline-…

It's funny that the same people often want to block the free movement of people and the free movement of goods. But by not allowing workers to move, you increase the benefits of trading goods.

If that's not enough to convince people to finance fundamental research I don't know what you guys need

I urgently call for a standardisation of takeaway boxes and lids. The current situation creates a lock-in effect: either ordering always from the same curry house or spending hours finding the right lid when reusing the box for leftovers