Interesting Links for 12-02-2019

[andrewducker]

Fox News host: 'Germs are not a real thing -- I can't see them'

(tags:bacteria wtf ignorance news FoxNews usa )

Universal credit to blame for soaring food bank use, government admits after years of denial

(tags:UK welfare food OhForFucksSake )

Laziness does not exist, but unseen barriers do.

(tags:psychology productivity )

Newspaper quietly retracts claim that Ian Huntley is transgender

(tags:lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake murder )

Drone swarm squadrons to be deployed by British military

(tags:UK military drone )

Why A No-Deal Brexit Is Now May's Fallback Plan To Save Her Party ??? And Herself

(tags:UK europe doom Conservatives )

Edinburgh Airbnb hosts using key-storing padlocks in city parks to avoid legal issues

(tags:Edinburgh housing rental park )

The Most Famous Image in the Early History of Computing (1839)

(tags:history computers technology craftwork art viaFanf )

It turns out autistic people aren't robots

(tags:comic autism )

A Smartphone Exploded at St Pancras (gloriously written article)

(tags:phones explosions transport )

Some gorgeous pieces of product design

(tags:design furniture video )

Comments

Padlocked Keysafes

[danieldwilliam]

I@m not quite sure that I see what the specific mischief is with regard to padlocked keysafes (cf abandoned bikes) or that there is a missing remedy given that the council can legally remove them already.

Drone Swarms

[danieldwilliam]

It will be news I think to the people who make miliatry aerial drones swarms that they are available off the shelf for about £7m.

They are more likely to be able to supply ferries. Or pizza.

Re: Drone Swarms

[andrewducker]

I hear drone swarms are the answer to the Irish backstop.

Re: Drone Swarms

[danieldwilliam]

For us, or for the Irish?

Re: Drone Swarms

[andrewducker]

Definitely.

[cmcmck]

So the TERFS manage to dive to a new low eh?

Why am I not surprised?

[calimac]

The article on procrastination touches on some good points, but the suggestion that "executive functioning" can be a problem (organizing your ideas and breaking the task down into chunks) can be perilous, because suggestions I've seen for breaking the task down usually misunderstand the nature of the task. For me the problem in writing a complex piece isn't breaking the task down, it's the challenge of putting the pieces back together again so that they connect and are not just one after the other.

[randomdreams]

I think the line about "they are the ones in control because they are willing to blow the house up" is relevant to a lot of conflicts besides Brexit right now. There are a lot of suicide bombers in high positions, and the rest of us need to find tools to deal with suicide bombers.