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andrewducker) wrote2021-10-20 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 20-10-2021
- The Tragedy of The Last Duel Flopping at the Box Office (I do actually fancy this. But I'm not going to a cinema until cases are 1/20 of what they are now)
- (tags:movies pandemic viaSwampers RidleyScott )
- The British ambassador to Afghanistan repeatedly warned Dominic Raab that Kabul would swiftly fall into Taliban hands
- (tags:uk afghanistan epicfail OhForFucksSake )
- New Delta sub-variant is 15% more transmissible
- (tags:pandemic )
- New Edinburgh primary school to get one of three names as shortlist unveiled (Sophia will be there in 2 years)
- (tags:school Edinburgh names )
- The time Claudia Black gave James McAvoy advice
- (tags:acting scifi advice )
- So You Want To Abolish Time Zones...
- (tags:time )
- Android 12's Extra Dim Feature is One of My Favorites
- (tags:Android darkness light phones )
- An interesting fact that political campaigners ought to know
- (tags:politics marketing comics )
- Memes of classical history
- (tags:history meme funny )
- Engineers know who is to blame for the Trolley Problem
- (tags:philosophy engineering )
- Surgeons perform first successful transplant using pig kidney in a human
- (tags:pigs humans organs )
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I do think holding this one six months or so would have benefited it, I am in the target demographic, it sounds like exactly the sort of movie I like, and I remain reluctant to go to live events and movie theaters.
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"Uncomfortable subject matter", my arse.
And I am exactly the target audience for grown-up films without superheroes - looking forward to the French Dispatch and Never Gonna Snow Again.
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The solutions I was told for the trolley problem were (a) find a way to derail the trolley; (b) find something to jam the wheels. The lesson was actually about not letting other people trap you into thinking your choices are only binary.
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And don't realise how complicated the world would be without them.
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