Interesting Links for 17-11-2021

[andrewducker]

Racism Is Institutional In British Cricket

(tags:UK cricket racism OhForFucksSake )

Supersaurus: Scientists realise dinosaur might have been the longest ever after fixing fossil mix-up

(tags:dinosaurs )

Chile wants to export solar energy to Asia via 15,000km submarine cable (losses would be just under 50%)

(tags:solarpower chile Asia )

Joanna Cherry's popularity is not going up

(tags:LGBT SNP transgender politics Scotland )

England’s austerity-hit courts losing days of work to collapsing ceilings, broken lift and arctic conditions

(tags:justice UK OhForFucksSake )

There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada

(tags:Canada transport roads weather )

Remarkably accurate neurosurgery residency interview

(tags:medicine USA surgery doctors funny satire video interview )

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick told an employee he would have her killed. He kept an exec from being fired after a sexual harassment claim. He didn't tell his board of alleged rapes and other misconduct.

(tags:games rape abuse misogyny OhForFucksSake )

John Carmack on Steve Jobs

(tags:Doom games Apple stevejobs johncarmack history computers graphics opengl )

Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in UK

(tags:UK Amazon visa credit wtf )

The students losing thousands in an Edinburgh rental scam

(tags:edinburgh property fraud )

‘Clear risk’ UK joining Pacific trade deal will raise drug prices for NHS

(tags:uk nhs trade )

The FTC is moving to end “click to subscribe, call to cancel”

(tags:business usa )

Netflix has started publishing its top 10 watched movies and TV shows

(tags:netflix )

Dogs! Being! Kissed!

(tags:dogs behaviour )

Comments

[armiphlage]

I'm surprised but pleased that an undersea cable that long would have only 50% losses, without having to have such a huge diameter that it would be unwieldy.

Of course if battery storage prices keep dropping, long-distance transport won't be needed.

Joanna Cherry

[danieldwilliam]

I think the most recent and most comprehensive polling on GRA suggests that Joanna Cherry's position is supported by the majority of SNP voters.

[dewline]

1. Because, of course it would have racism baked into its structure. It was never envisioned that sports ought to be for everyone who wants to play.

4. At least Canada gets new courthouse buildings set up from time to time. We even manage to refit them occasionally to keep up with the times re: accessibility, internet support, etc.. We're still a young enough country for that, and the anti-tax fixation hasn't taken permanent hold in our national "brain" yet.

5. True. Disturbingly so. We have at least one entire small city - Merritt - fully evacuated, as well as smaller towns and villages. Highways and railway lines washed out and/or flooded at several points, partially isolating metro Vancouver. Air and boat travel is still practical, but it's going to be more difficult.

7. Disgusting and unsurprising. The cruelties just keep adding up there, don't they?

Cricket

[danieldwilliam]

I wish I was more surprised by the failure of cricket in the UK to address racism than I am.

I remember, many years ago now, being really irritated by a fellow cricketers continued inability to pronounce a Sri Lankan player's name whilst having no problem with getting his mouth around "Auchtermuchty" "Ecclefechan" "Kirkcaldy" "Cholmondesley-Warner" and the like. Sri Lankan names are often quite long and have some unfamiliar combinations of sounds, and a bit a of run up the first couple of times the first couple of times I think is not unreasonable so I was prepared to give the guy the benefit of the doubt but by fourth meeting where he got mentioned several times and this guys "struggled" with his name it felt rude at best.

[calimac]

So let me see if I understand this. A guy rents a flat on AirBNB, and pretends to be its owner and advertises it for rent, collects deposits from numerous tenants each of whom he tells will be getting the place, and then disappears with all the money. That is truly evil.