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Literally been saying this for a year now. Has anyone checked so far? I can say for certain that legal *communications* (ie those letters and emails they charge £200 each for) are getting absurdly, imparsably long and verbose. Idealistic bureaucracy will push the bureaucratic load up across the board, but especially down the income distribution. Will an agent become required? Another subscription just to be able to interact with the information state.

American teens are becoming straight again, with - especially - female bisexuality in sharp retreat in the youngest cohorts. via @jean_twenge: generationtechblog.com

I went on a plane recently and it was a good example of there being so many warnings that the ones that really mattered were ignored. It surely doesn't really matter if you switch your phone to airplane mode. And yet that was warned with the same urgency as the power bank thing.

Classic blunder, easy mistake to make

Urdu was one thing but campaigning in FRENCH is simply beyond the pale

This is a bit farcical really. "Until you get the proper briefings you can only know so much." UK's dodgy fiscal position is not a state secret! It's not like entering Home Office or MoD and finding out all the security intelligence.

Throwing rubbish in a landfill is (usually) better for the environment than recycling it. With few exceptions, recycling ends up emitting more CO2 and costing more money, while landfills are cheap and secure. - Recycling mid-tier plastics (like plastic bottles or butter tubs) costs thousands of dollars per ton of CO2 saved. It's cheaper to do direct air CO2 capture than that! And there is no shortage of plastic, nor any problem with sequestering it in the ground once we're done with it. - Modern landfills are extraordinarily secure and are *much* more than just big piles of trash. They capture 75%–95% of methane gas. Groundwater contamination is doesn't really happen with landfills built since 1990. A study of 31 landfills built since 1988 in NY found no adverse effect at all on local groundwater quality. - The crusade against single-use plastics has driven us to products that use far more materials and energy and would need to be used an absurd number of times to actually be an improvement. A steel straw needs to be used 150 times to be worth using. A ceramic mug needs to be used 1,000 times to beat a polystyrene cup. A cotton bag needs to be reused 173 times to beat single-use. - Some things ARE worth recycling. Recycling metal saves a huge amount of energy and material – recycling aluminium saves 95% of the energy spent on making fresh stuff. So we do a lot of it already: about 30% of steel worldwide is recycled. Modern, well-run landfills cause minimal environmental damage. We have plenty of space for them – less than 0.01% of the US is used for landfill and only about 0.02% of Germany. We can even build on top of old landfills, so the land area is not spent permanently. New in @WorksInProgMag, @robertwiblin and @chalmermagne on why it's usually best to just bury your trash. worksinprogress.co/issue/jus…

Good example of misleading polling. I don’t doubt two thirds have sympathy for refugees. But most don’t consider channel crossers to be genuine. And any plainly worded poll question shows enormous majorities for us taking in less than we do now and being stricter

I genuinely think that putting signs in all train carriages saying "do not play sound from your phone's speaker" would be beneficial. This is not because offenders will obey it on its own, but because it gives people telling them to stop something to point to. When people first started doing this a few years ago, I always felt confident in telling them to stop because they were clearly violating a social norm. I still do tell people to stop today, but it's no longer so clear that they are violating a widely held social norm, as it's now so common. So having signs makes it clearer what the social norm is, giving backing to people who tell offenders to stop.

This is so funny, the English parliament abolished the monarch in 1649. So upon the Restoration, instead of repealing it, they just said it was invalid because it hadn't received royal assent 💀

Similarly, between 2005 and 2008, London lowered the threshold at which developers were required to provide affordable housing from 15 units to 10 units. Here’s what happened to the size of new developments.

Este es, quizás, el vídeo más descarado de la Final de la Copa del Mundo. Todos vimos cómo Enzo Fernández casi mata a Pau Cubarsí, pero si te fijas, más abajo, un jugador de Argentina, Nicolás Tagliafico, ve la tremenda patada de su compañero y, sabiendo que la ha cagado, se le ocurre tirarse al suelo y fingir una lesión. Enzo recibe la tarjeta roja, pero Messi se acerca al árbitro señalando a su compañero argentino caído (a Tagliafico) diciendo que está lesionado. Afortunadamente no coló. Son delincuentes, no jugadores de fútbol.

Inglaterra descubre que si sigues atacando después de hacer un gol, puedes hacer incluso más goles.

This is shocking. At an EU Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, Lynn Boylan lamented that it was “a pity we can’t use our own language.” When it was pointed out that she could, in fact, speak Irish, she backtracked almost instantly: "I wasn’t prepared, so I’ll use English."