Interesting Links for 31-03-2020
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andrewducker- The slice of bread here was made with leavening cultures sampled from ancient Egyptian baking vessels, using ancient Emmer wheat, with an ancient Egyptian recipe, using ancient Egyptian baking tools, and no oven!
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- And now the police are getting overexcited about Easter eggs!
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- "Panic Buying" was about 15% higher than normal shopping levels. And spending has already returned to normal levels
- Of course, my local supermarket had no pasta and almost no bread when I was in last...
(tags:shopping money ) - Hungary hands unlimited power to Orban, with no time limit
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- Alex Salmond was a bully and a sex pest, his own QC says on train
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- "Whatever it takes." Getting into the specifics of fiscal policy to fight COVID-19
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- FactCheck: how many people are dying from Covid-19 in the UK?
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- UK faces cardboard shortage due to coronavirus crisis
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- This is terribly cute and I must do something similar for Sophia when she's older
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- The Empire State Building looks amazing right now
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- Orangutans and otters pictured playing together in photos shared by Belgian zoo
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- Posiopaths: Positive only attitude can be toxic
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Positivity and panic buying
Date: 2020-03-31 12:04 pm (UTC)Bah, humbug.
Everyone who has strong views about what their world is and should be, will try to promote it (I refuse to use 'progress' like that, ugh), and all of them think they're trying to do good. Including, obviously this person. Who also, obviously, has no clue at all what 'fascism' actually was and is, except "stuff I don't like and people who disagree with me".
People mostly wash their bottoms with water here,and most people can't afford supermarkets, so it was mostly Western expats doing the toilet roll thing. Similarly wheat flour and tinned tomatoes disappeared very fast, whereas there was zero shortage of rice (the supply chain for which is made of titanium and which is in any case mostly sold loose in wet markets in the traditional way). Oatmeal there was in plenty, for some reason.