Interesting Links for 21-10-2017

[andrewducker]

The CEO of Goldman Sachs on Brexit

(tags: UK Europe thefuture doom )

Famous Irishmen subject of Westminster Wikipedia editing spree

(tags: Wikipedia Ireland UK history )

The U.S. Is Retreating from Religion

(tags: religion thefuture usa )

Disney's new solar farm shaped like Mickey Mouse

(tags: Disney solarpower )

How to have lucid dreams

(tags: dreams psychology )

US University defends fascist posters telling gay people to kill themselves

(tags: usa University abuse OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )

A lovely story about a very sick girl and a photographer

(tags: sick illness children photography )

Other people not being such twats ‘can help treat depression’, finds study

(tags: satire depression funny )

Britain thinks Germans care about Brexit — they don’t

(tags: Germany Europe uk doom )

Student speech to be censored at UK universities

(tags: university uk freespeech students )

The problem with starting a new centrists political party

(tags: politics uk )

Why the next general election will be in 2022

I'm still hoping for a split in the Conservatives. But it's terribly unlikely.
(tags: politics elections uk )

A Fire Story (A Californian comic artist's tale of evacuation)

(tags: fire california usa comic )

It's _really_ important to care for your cookware right

(tags: food comic funny )

Guest blog: Ethical porn - is it real?

(tags: porn morality )

Awesome spooky plants!

(tags: scary plants awesome )

Comments

[calimac]

The argument that the next General Election won't be until 2022 is exactly the same as the argument that the 2017 election wouldn't be until 2020.

[andrewducker]

Except that in the halcyon days of 2017 the Conservatives thought that a new election would give them extra seats, because the polls looked good for them. No such illusions at the moment, as far as I can tell.

[calimac]

But nobody thought she's actually do it until she did. I remember the prognostications of those days. And the guess of what would happen once she did were totally wrong, so what price "illusions"?

How to have lucid dreams

[doug]

I'd advise care with this. I got in to lucid dreaming, and the quality of my sleep went down so I was exhausted all the time. That meant my waking time was fuzzy and dreamlike and I was just killing time until I could reasonably go back to bed and lucid dream again.

[dewline]

6. Disturbing as Hell.

Just Disturbing as Hell. I worry that the leadership at that university is worried about the wrong things.

[starwatcher]

.
<sniffle> The photographer & girl is indeed a lovely story -- but it's no longer on the page you linked to. You might want to post the direct link --
https://notalwaysright.com/not-always-right-tenth-anniversary-favorite-story/98071/
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[danieldwilliam]

Mike Smithson at Political Betting might not have the best handle on how the SNP would behave in the event of a vote of ne confidence or a vote for an early dissolution of Parliament.