Interesting Links for 19-04-2020

[andrewducker]

Quarantine baking: forget banana bread, here's how to make an IRN-BRU cheesecake

(tags:food Scotland viajoexnz )

Behind The Scenes Of YouTube's Secretive Top Kids Channel

I found this because I was wondering who created the videos Sophia loves
(tags:YouTube children business )

Second African locust swarm of the year 20 times bigger than the first

(tags:insects Doom Africa )

UK's coronavirus science advice won't be published until pandemic ends

(tags:Pandemic advice science UK viaSwampers )

This does a great job of explaining the American "civic religion" which looks so strange to most of the rest of the world

(tags:USA nationalism religion society )

Here's a police officer totally destroying any trust in police people might have, in full view of his colleagues

(tags:police corruption OhForFucksSake uk )

What most American liberals don't realize about Republican voters

(tags:politics USA society )

An overview of the damning Times investigation into how the government failed to take the pandemic seriously until far too late

(tags:Pandemic UK epicfail BorisJohnson )

Boris Johnson hasn't changed in 40 years

(tags:BorisJohnson OhForFucksSake )

Thinking of farming as "The food industry" is a mistake

(tags:farming food )

Just when Italy really needed some unity, the EU failed it - and continues to do so

(tags:Europe italy OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[andrewducker]

Good point. Encouraging Democrats it's in their interests to vote is definitely the best strategy.

[cyprinella]

It's a bit less of that and more of keeping the GOP from erecting a shitton of barriers for people who vote Democratic. See also the recent WI election where the GOP took the state to court to prevent extending mail in voting in the middle of a pandemic and also closed all but two in person polling places in a major city. Because they know they lose when the voting opportunity is fair.