Interesting Links for 13-11-2020

There's Something Super Weird About Netflix Anime

(tags:Netflix anime )

How did "Defund the police" stop meaning "Defund the police"? - Why mainstream progressives have a strong incentive to 'sanewash' hard leftist positions.

(tags:police politics USA )

Alcohol ban introduced on Scotland's railway

(tags:Scotland railways alcohol )

Mapping the connections between Tory politicians and companies being awarded government contracts during the pandemic

(tags:conservatives corruption visualisation )

Not Too Scary, Not Too Tame: Horror Experiences Need To Hit A "Sweet Spot" To Be Enjoyable

(tags:fear fun horror scary psychology )

Louisville Metro Police concealed at least 738,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of Explorer Scouts by two officers — then lied to keep the files from the public

(tags:police abuse USA OhForFucksSake )

Government refuses to guarantee COVID vaccine supplies won't be impacted by 'Brexit disruption'

(tags:UK pandemic vaccine Europe Doom )

New invention helps people sober up by exhaling alcohol

(tags:alcohol )

Dominic Cummings theory/prediction

Biden said "sort the Good Friday Agreement or no trade deal".

Johnson knows how fucked we'll be without a trade deal of some kind.

Cummings wanted to go full steam ahead and assume the other side would blink first (a tactic he's espoused in the past)

Johnson has realised how fucked he'd be if we have food riots.

So Cummings is out and over the next week we'll magically find ourselves with a deal.

One that sucks compared to membership of the EU, but at least some kind of a deal.