Interesting Links for 08-04-2020

[andrewducker]

Turns out pandas will breed in zoos... if you leave them the hell alone

(tags:zoo panda pregnancy pandemic )

Spike from Buffy reacting to the Lockdown

(tags:Buffy funny pandemic )

The Assassination of Professor X: The Destruction of Marvel's Most Famous Disabled Character

(tags:xmen disability marvel comics OhForFucksSake )

Trump has a personal financial interest in the French drugmaker that makes generic hydroxychloroquine

(tags:drugs politics pandemic )

The rise and fall of Web 2.0

(tags:Web data video history )

"'Bees are good,' Obama says as children scream" is my new favourite headline

(tags:headline barackobama bees )

80% of Steam games earn under $5K in the first two weeks

(tags:games business valve steam )

Comments

[rmc28]

I had an image of Obama saying:

"Bees are good, bees are good, bees are good, Ebenezer Good"

But sadly no.

The Assassination of Professor X

[claudeb]

Excellent read! Reminds me of something I wrote in a recent blog post:

For that matter, dare to imagine a world where people are tolerant of their respective differences. We need that kind of vision. And forget realism. The genre is called fantasy. If you can more easily imagine flying mountains than tolerant people, have a mirror.

Clearly, mainstream media is less and less capable of doing so. It's up to us now.

[dewline]

1. We should have anticipated this one with the pandas. Right?

2. Looks fun.

4. We should have expected this, too. *sigh*

6. Now, Trump will want all bees to die. Unless he likes the beer their honey goes into?

[naath]

Pandas> we (work) had a guy come to talk about panda genetics; he was from China, where they have solved panda breeding, and yeah, pandas breed just fine in captivity, if you treat them how they like to be treated. [fascinatingly the better (red) panda is not at all related (well, both mammals...) and independently evolved the same mechanism for eating bamboo, a rather useless foodstuff to most critters]

[slemslempike]

if you treat them how they like to be treated

Who'd have thought!