Interesting Links for 23-09-2019

[andrewducker]

Is this what you'd expect one hundred wind chimes all being released all at once to sound like?

(tags:sound video )

"Grassroots" anti-Amazon nonprofit turns out to be its competitors in disguise

(tags:Amazon competition business fraud )

DOJ blocked report showing white supremacists responsible for all race-based domestic terrorism incidents in 2018

(tags:racism terrorism usa )

Woman treated by doctors after her blood turned blue

(tags:blood wtf )

Clearly the best cover of a Guns N' Roses song

(tags:GunsNRoses song video cover korea )

Corbyn suggests UK could be better off after Brexit if deal is right

(tags:UK Europe Labour OhForFucksSake )

Anthony Stewart Head is just lovely

(tags:LGBT transgender )

Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D, performed on rubber chicken

(tags:music video viaJennieRigg )

Labour votes to abolish private schools at party conference

(tags:Labour schools )

Labour set to give all foreign nationals living in UK right to vote in general elections for first time

(tags:voting immigration UK )

Majority of 2017 Labour voters think Jeremy Corbyn should step down as leader

(tags:Labour politics )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

If all foreign national living in the UK have the right to vote, doesn't that in practice make them UK citizens.

I'm not aware of any other meaningful differences between residents and citizens that make a difference to most people. (Most people not intending to stand for election to Parliament etc.)

[errolwi]

'etc' including serve in armed forces (this impacts a reasonable number of NZers in Australia), senior civil service positions?

[danieldwilliam]

I don't think there is a nationality requirement for serving in the UK armed forces. See Ghurkas and the many Republic of Ireland men who signed up during the second world war.

Senior civil service - yeah you might run in to problems if you are working in a sensitve area and handling "eyes only" stuff. Again, I don't think there is a nationality bar.

[andrewducker]

You have to be British, Irish (but living in the UK) or Commonwealth (limited places):
https://apply.army.mod.uk/how-to-join/can-i-join/nationality

[dewline]

3. Yep. Trump has his Roy Cohn. This report-suppression is one more symptom of that.

[dreema]

I shared the rubber chicken link (which i thought was awesome) with a few friends. The main response was pretty much 'Wtf did i just watch?'