Interesting Links for 21-11-2021

[andrewducker]

TDoR 2021: Remembering the 462 transgender people killed in the last year

(tags:murder transgender LGBT viacmcmck )

Wired's 90s predictions of how the future could go wrong have basically all happened

(tags:thefuture predictions Doom )

I see the Labour purges continue

(tags:Labour OhForFucksSake )

The "Great Green Wall" Didn't Stop Desertification, but it Evolved Into Something That Might

(tags:trees desert viaNancyLebov )

There are times when being a rules lawyer is a wonderful thing

(tags:rules )

Families in Cornwall offered £1,200 to take relatives out of NHS hospitals and free up space as crisis deepens

(tags:Cornwall UK NHS Doom )

SpinLaunch Flings a Test Vehicle Kilometers Into the air. Eventually, it'll Throw Them Almost all the way to Orbit

(tags:space )

Comments

[cmcmck]

Thanks for reminding people about TDOR.

Not a single politician here of any stripe said a dicky bird yesterday.

That tells me all I need to know, I suppose. :o(

SpinLaunch Positives

[danieldwilliam]

Very much looking forward to much much cheaper space launches.

And I note the development of the 3D printed aerospike nozzle recently.

SpinLaunch Negatives

[danieldwilliam]

I reckon one could repurpose SpinLaunch as an intercontinental ballistic missile system relatively easily.

[dewline]

1. An ongoing sadness...

2. Prediction # 3 seems to have been proven out as "Russia did both of those things, and is working on exporting the cruelty model to the rest of the world". We may yet succeed at defeating Prediction # 8, though. As for the rest...well...

4. Well, there's one more bit of progress for the new fascist international to want to undermine.

rules lawyer

[cellio]

I can't believe that worked either! Perhaps the person handling the scheduling thinks it's a dumb rule, too.

Great Green Wall

[anna_wing]

Also a lesson about foreign development agencies that don't pay attention to local circumstances.

I still remember the woman from an aid organisation that shall remain nameless, parachuted into Myanmar in the afternath of Cyclone Nargis from, I believe, Sudan, asking what the military government was doing about clearing the "rubble" from the storm surge. This after a half hour presentation with lots of pictures showing very clearly that most of the structures in the villages affected had in fact been built from bamboo, coconut or nipa palm trunks, or mangrove wood.

The "Great Green Wall" Didn't Stop Desertification, but it Evolved Into Something That Might

[anef]

This made me feel happy, and hopeful.