Interesting Links for 02-12-2017

[andrewducker]

Kellogg's UK prompts anger by branding Frosties an adult cereal

(tags: food children sugar )

Could the Irish border bring down the Conservative government?

(tags: uk ireland NorthernIreland DUP funny politics )

GM says it will put fleets of self-driving cars in cities in 2019

(tags: automation cars driving thefuture )

Teens get more sleep when school starts later

(tags: school teenagers sleep )

Mobile mindfulness: An unscientific review of the Headspace meditation app

(tags: meditation mindfulness apps )

The Icelandic Translation of 'Dracula' Is Actually a Different Book

(tags: Dracula history viaNeilRodger )

My Herky-Jerky Ride in General Motors' Ultra-Cautious Self Driving Car

(tags: driving automation cars )

Alternate suggestions for Time's "Person of The Year"

(tags: time satire funny media )

'Perfect' diet might be dictated by your DNA

(tags: genetics diet health )

A Timeline of Everything We Know Happened After Return of the Jedi, Up to The Last Jedi

(tags: StarWars )

After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrusters

(tags: space technology awesome )

Comments

Kellogg's UK prompts anger by branding Frosties an adult cereal

[jack]

This would be a lot funnier if they were putting lascivious tiger pictures on the packet :)

I hadn't really thought about it. I mean, it does seem rice crispies are more for children and cornflakes are more for adults, but I always just ate any cereal without really thinking about it.

[dewline]

3. The push to end trucking and taxi driving as income-earning options is really on, isn't it.

(Punctuation intentional.)

10. Interesting. I haven't been following the new extended universe novels, games, and comics.

[andrewducker]

Yup. There won't be many people employed in driving in a decade. Possibly sooner.

[dewline]

I have an semi-instinctive sense that we need more astronomers, more programmers, more teachers, more people for ecological recovery work, even allowing for automation...

[calimac]

The article on the political fallout of the Irish border issue has, let's say, some unique interpretations of FPTP: "the opposition parties will always look stupid if they decline the chance to replace the government."

That's certainly a complete turnaround from what everybody thought it would do when it was passed.

The article also says that "some form of checks for people, goods, food and animals ... is by any sensible definition of the word a 'border'", which I find interesting, because there's agricultural inspection stations on all the main roads into California from neighboring US states, to keep hitchhiking pests from wandering in. For instance, when I drive to Oregon, I have to remember to finish up any apples I bought there, or they'll get confiscated and discarded. Especially after budget cutbacks the stations are pretty desultory and not always staffed, but the principle is there, and I guess we have a border.

[dewline]

A lot of Brexiteers really didn't think it all the way through, did they?

In Canada, we have a certain amount of interference with interprovincial trade by the several provinces for similar reasons, although it's not quite so detail-oriented as you describe in the California-Oregon example.

[agoodwinsmith]

Technically, *technically*, we're not supposed to buy alcohol or cigarettes in one province and take them to another province. I have never seen a stop at a border, so personal transport is not an issue, but I suspect commercial transport might be more touchy. It is probably caught by audit trail - where was it bought, where was it sold. Suspicions are probably only raised when companies get creative with their records.

And, you know, probably a lot of international companies are exempt based on local country's laws not being permitted to prevent an external company from making a shit load of money, with our NAFTA, RAFTA, LAUGHTA, and ETCETERATA trade agreements.

[movingfinger]

As a sometime city cyclist, I guarantee you that the bicycle rider who was tailgated by the self-driving car that refused to slide over a yellow line to go around him or her was entirely creeped out and-or annoyed by that behavior. Motorists who do this read as being passively threatening.

[andrewducker]

I'm wondering it a symbol on the car to make it clear it's automated would be a good thing.

[agoodwinsmith]

I had thought I had seen a report showing that most RTE (ready to eat) breakfast cereal is now eaten by the millennial age group (young and youngish adults) as snack food.

I can't find that now, but I found this:
http://www.agr.gc.ca/resources/prod/Internet-Internet/MISB-DGSIM/ATS-SEA/PDF/6238-eng.pdf
which I find odd because it is Canadian, but all about American eating habits. I guess it is because, like it or not, that is the biggest market for our grains.

[agoodwinsmith]

More cereal:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/28/death-breakfast-cereal-figures-reveal-us-eating-snacks-coffee/

I think what I read was something about the above trend, and how manufacturers were hoping to *direct* advertising towards making RTE cereal as a Netflix binge snack.

PS - sugar - it may be being removed from RTE cereals - but check your muffins and caramel macchiato lattes, oh yeah.