On the Beat

1. Canada, Australia and UK recognize Palestinian statehood (France soon)

(tags:Palestine France UK Australia Canada )

2. Among UK Jews, opposition to Palestinian political autonomy is vanishing

(tags:UK Palestine Israel )

3. Examining overlap and homogeneity in ASD, ADHD, and OCD: a data-driven, diagnosis-agnostic approach

(tags:ADHD autism psychology )

4. South Korea's President Lee says U.S. investment demands would spark a financial crisis

(tags:usa korea economics doom )

1. EU Data Act — What Businesses Need to Know (no more lock-in!)

(tags:Europe data regulation )

2. Troubles legacy: Mixed reaction to UK-Ireland deal on addressing cases

(tags:UK Ireland )

3. Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or pay $100k fee

(tags:USA migration OhForFucksSake )

4. Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (a headline from 1939)

(tags:nazis censorship society history )

5. We have invented the vibroblade! (The World's First Ultrasonic Chef's Knife for Home Cooks)

(tags:Technology knife video )

1. Labour's plan to jumpstart city building after Rayner's 1.5m homes drive stalls

(tags:housing uk )

2. Chimps consume a pint of lager's worth of alcohol every day in fruit

(tags:alcohol chimpanzees )

3. Man with Covid for over two years became virus incubator, as it evolved into new variants of concern

(tags:pandemic virus evolution )

4. Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads (and so I will never buy one)

(tags:advertising Samsung technology OhForFucksSake )

5. Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms (in Canada)

(tags:Canada girls sports school LGBT transgender bigotry )

6. Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

(tags:politics Child_abuse satire usa uk royalty )

7. An "At The Mountains Of Madness" game, where you play as a penguin.

(tags:penguins hplovecraft games wtf )

Ooh, I thought, that's a really cool t-shirt! And the price is only £24, that's actually pretty reasonable!

Except no, it's £24 plus £6 tax plus £7 shipping *that takes up to 6 weeks*.

And this for an item that's print on demand. Which means, theoretically, they could print it in the UK in the first place and not have to presumably ship it to me by alpaca from Kazakhstan!

Shame, really, it's a nice t-shirt. But not £37 nice.

A week and a half ago I ordered a couple of K-Pop Demon Hunters hoodies for the kids from Amazon. I didn't realise quite how much of a trip they'd be making:

8th - Taken from warehouse in Shenzhen (China) and handed to massive chinese shipment company SF Express.
8th - Driven an hour up the road to Dongguan shipment centre.
11th - Transported (presumably by road) 1,100 km to Ezhou (SF Express hub airport, also China))
12th - Flown to Liège Airport (Belgium), stopping over in Almaty International Airport (Kazakhstan)
14th - Flew in to Heathrow
14th - Then arrived in Stansted for customs
15th - Then handed to Hermes in London
16th - Who got it to me in Edinburgh the next day

Total cost, including shipping: £24 (£12 per top).

I am both impressed and somewhat aghast.

1. Channel 4 To Air Marathon of Trump Lies Amid UK State Visit

(tags:USA UK politics TV lies )

2. Hundreds of firms warn new guidance on single sex spaces is 'unworkable' and would cause 'significant economic harm'

(tags:lgbt uk transgender bigotry )

3. Edinburgh trams: Part of line to close for three days while engineers replace track points

(tags:edinburgh trams )

4. Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

(tags:israel gaza genocide )

1. The way that English schools measure success makes life worse for the schools and troubled students

(tags:school england doom )

2. 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'

(tags:nintendo patents intellectual_property OhForFucksSake games )

1. What holes are there in the Big Bang theory?

(tags:BigBangTheory physics science history )

2. "Gender Ideology" Is a Conspiracy Theory

(tags:transgender bigotry conspiracy LGBT )

3. Would you like some reasons to have hope about the environment?

(tags:hope nature history environment )

4. Pharmaceutical companies are pulling out of the UK because the UK government isn't investing in life sciences

(tags:UK healthcare investment doom pharmaceuticals )

5. Factsheet: The immune system and ME/CFS

(tags:ChronicFatigueSyndrome health immune_system )

6. Hyundai is now delaying its EV battery plant that was raided by ICE

(tags:manufacturing usa racism doom korea )

7. You have a chance to collect meteorite fragments from Scottish highland hills for first time in 100 years

(tags:scotland space rocks )

1. New Mexico is first state in nation to offer universal child care

(tags:childcare usa )

Sophia is having her evening snack while sitting on the window ledge watching the world go by.
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