Interesting Links for 08-06-2021

[andrewducker]

Should we hold people's awful opinions from a decade ago against them?

(tags:opinion sexism history twitter )

David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98

(tags:Auschwitz Jews genocide history death )

French set to replace English as EU's working language

(tags:language France Europe )

This reverse city-builder is all about making the world green again

(tags:games nature )

I have a new favourite maths joke

(tags:maths jokes pi pirates funny )

Are you most helped by science, magic, or chicken soup?

(tags:psychology therapy counselling )

Spontaneous Period Drama (I assume this will be on Netflix next year)

(tags:drama history funny satire janeausten )

non-Amazon shops don't make it nearly easy enough to buy from them

(tags:Amazon shopping internet OhForFucksSake )

Rates Of Postnatal Depression Among New Mothers Rose Sharply During Lockdown

(tags:depression babies pandemic loneliness )

How Neil Gaiman kept control of the Sandman characters

(tags:sandman dc comics intellectual_property )

Is it possible to overturn a US election?

(tags:usa elections )

What's the state of phone calls in 2021

(tags:phone Technology communication )

Comments

French as the EU's working language.

[ironyoxide]

And yet they, apparently with no irony, refer to the version of English the EU uses as ersatz.

[supergee]

The science/magick post was a major nostalgia trip for me because I was a huge Eric Berne fan in the 60s and 70s. A lot of his ideas still work.

[calimac]

5. Not getting the joke. Is this something to do with Bitcoin?

[mlknchz]

My dad fought in WWII, in 1993, a few years before he passed away, I learned his unit helped liberate Falkenau, one of the subcamps of Flossenburg concentration camp. I asked him about it. He resolutely refused to talk about it, almost 45 years after the fact. But the look I saw in his eyes told me everything I needed to know.

[mountainkiss]

Do you think we should hold people's awful opinions from a decade ago against them?