Interesting Links for 10-11-2019

[andrewducker]

Benjamin Franklin: Reanimator

(tags:USA history frankenstein )

Last Christmas's twist ending, explained (and it's nothing to do with the genocide)

(tags:Christmas spoilers wtf movies )

Boycott Instacart

(tags:work OhForFucksSake )

Night Has Come is remarkable work of genuine found-footage horror

(tags:movies editing belgium )

Why Mordor Failed: Sauron's hegemonic collapse holds potent lessons for the Trump administration.

(tags:lotr politics USA )

Who is the real Dice Man? The elusive writer behind a cult novel

Personally, I'm pretty shocked there were people who took it seriously!
(tags:novel satire history society psychology )

Brexit: The long hard road to a future relationship

(tags:UK Europe trade )

Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart

(tags:empathy psychology politics )

Military veterans demand Tory minister apologises for calling white poppies 'attention seeking rubbish'

(tags:war UK history )

'Bangin' Breakfast' - The five best places in Edinburgh for fry-up breakfasts (I'm on my way to one right now)

I can confirm that the Painted Rooster does good breakfast.
(tags:food edinburgh )

There's something particularly glorious about ripping a bad film to shreds. (Midway in this case)

(tags:movies wwii epicfail review USA )

Inside A Warehouse Where Thousands Of Robots Pack Groceries

(tags:robots shopping automation video )

Comments

Ocado robot warehouse

[fanf]

That’s the one that caught fire spectacularly earlier this year...

Re: Ocado robot warehouse

[andrewducker]

Robots moving too fast?

Re: Ocado robot warehouse

[fanf]

Battery charging fault, apparently https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-48094801

The local angle for us is that Cambridge Consultants had a hand in the engineering. I kind of wonder if using lead acid instead of lithium batteries would have been a better safety / performance tradeoffs...

[chickenfeet]

The Scotsman website seems to be a swamp of malware

[andrewducker]

Oh dear. I have UBlock Origin set up, and so don't notice such things. (Looking at it now, it's blocking 23 requests on the page.)

If you aren't running an adblocker I strongly suggest that you do.

[calimac]

No true Scotsman would do such a thing.

[andrewducker]

Thank you, that made me giggle.

White Poppies

[dewline]

The people currently running the Royal Canadian Legion, last I read, would still agree with Minister Mercer's argument. But they also hold a trademark on the classic Remembrance Poppy's look with an eye towards keeping their Poppy Fund operations going.

[calimac]

Mordor article says: "Historians agree that Sauron should have instead sought a strong political and economic partnership with Rohan, thus giving Mordor’s armies a steady supply of horses."

That's either ironic or ignorant, because the Rohirrim say in the book that Mordor asked to buy horses from them, but the Rohirrim refused, expecting that the beasts would not be treated well over there.

[ginger_rude]

Instacart: this does not surprise me. Shoppers have seemed increasingly harried and hurried. And just on general principle. I'll be calling them.