Interesting Links for 23-04-2021

[andrewducker]

Greens see no contradiction over independence and recovery

(tags:independence scotland GreenParty )

Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. - Trailer

(tags:marvel tv comedy animation )

The kind of joke I didn't know Alexa told

(tags:jokes AI Amazon )

Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

(tags:Ocean shipping law Egypt wtf )

Why we need dark stories

(tags:stories writing comic mentalhealth depression )

Comments

[dewline]

1. Scottish Greens are a mixed bunch, and dealing with a metric tonne or five of crap right now. Got it.

2. Not for me, I think, but I expect that someone will have fun watching.

4. Glad that Mohammed Aisha finally got to go home again. And his story does highlight the pains that other sailors are still enduring across the planet.

(Also, filing this away for future projects!)

5. Yep! Exactly this!

[jack]

I love the cartoon about the dark story plowing off the cliff so much. I keep seeing it shared, and going to see if the author did anything else I'm excited to read, and it keeps not being anything particular. But it's still a really glorious explanation of dark stories.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, his other stuff doesn't really grab me either, but I'm glad he made this!

[danieldwilliam]

I'd expect the economic recovery from COVID to be pretty rapid.

[andrewducker]

Me too. Although things may shift around a fair bit. I'm not sure what percentage of city-centre workers will return and what effect that will have on city centre businesses

[danieldwilliam]

The consensus seems to be gravitating towards 3 days in, 2 days out. So that implies a 40% drop in turnover for eg sandwich shops.

[andrewducker]

With interesting implications for town-centre rents.

[danieldwilliam]

Yeah. I think most of the value in running a city centre sandwich shop goes in rent.

Mind you,not all of the businesses affected by a change in working from home driven changes in turnover will have the same cost profile as a sandwich shop.

And over the medium term I'd expected good areas for offices to end up with the same number of people in them and less good areas to see large reductions.