Interesting Links for 26-12-2021

[andrewducker]

There are two reasons not to judge people for wanting what they want. This is the other one

(tags:life trauma mylittlepony childhood children )

Clearly the best way of doing jigsaw puzzles

(tags:puzzles awesome funny )

The costume design in Muppet Christmas Carol is far better than it needed to be

(tags:costumes clothing design history muppets Christmas )

New York City is banning natural gas hookups for new buildings

(tags:gas heating newyork globalwarming )

Having fun in a Northern Chinese winter

(tags:China winter video fun )

Where did Britain get half its genes from? France...

(tags:France UK genes genetics )

Huge rise in first Covid jabs as vaccine refuseniks come forward

(tags:vaccine GoodNews UK Pandemic )

Comments

[calimac]

1) is very touching. Young Seanan was lucky, if her mother would confiscate cash gifts, that mom didn't confiscate her other gifts and sell them. There was a letter in a Slate advice column from disappointed grandparents who learned their daughter had been doing that to the children's gifts. However, I guess McGuire's luck ran out when she was 16 and lost it all ...

2) Underneath this tweet is one which (I hope sarcastically) reads "Famously, Christmas is a time to not offer vulnerable people refuge." At this point I must introduce Mike Royko's brilliant 1967 column on that phenomenon, "Mary and Joe, Chicago style."

[gingicat]

Just so you know, "refuseniks" was a Soviet term for Jews, meaning "garbage people" - don't encourage the antivaxxers to feel persecuted, please!

[lilysea]

I think there are *some* reasons to judge people for what they want,

but it's only when what they want =

"I want 18 giant yachts, rather than 2 yachts + donations to charity" [eg Betsy DeVos]

or

"I want to take rhinoceros horn/tiger penis as a medicine, even tho the animals are endangered, and there is zero scientific evidence that it helps"