Interesting Links for 30-12-2021

[andrewducker]

1 in 14 people in the Bay Area have Covid

(tags:Pandemic usa Doom )

What Enters The Public Domain in 2022? (Winnie The Pooh, for a start!)

(tags:copyright )

Do *you* open doors correctly? (subtitles necessary)

(tags:funny video doors Finland wtf )

Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant within Tightly Monitored Isolation Facility

(tags:newzealand Pandemic Doom )

Lib Dems asked Tony Blair to rebuild Commons chamber to make it less confrontational

(tags:libdem parliament UK history )

Comments

[adrian_turtle]

I thought the video about opening doors correctly was going to be instructions for the Dutch Reach. It's a way for a driver to open the car door that supposedly reduces the risk of hitting cyclists with it.

[calimac]

5) There is no greater nonsense in British political history than the belief that the shape of the Commons chamber is responsible for the two-party system or the confrontationalism thereof. Aside from anything else, the US Congress sits in hemicycles, and we have both a more rigid two-party system than the UK has almost ever had, and currently a thoroughly toxic confrontationalism.

[andrewducker]

I don't think it's responsible, but I do think that the general setup and behaviour of parliament is pretty rubbish.

[calimac]

And always has been. Remember the Hughligans.

[andrewducker]

Yeah. If people behaved like that in a work setting they'd be out fast.

[cellio]

Today I learned that in Finland, doors require instruction. Or at least did, at least once. :-)

[andrewducker]

I really would like to know if this was a satire, and (if so) whether it was made in the 70s or if it's a loving homage!

[jducoeur]

It feels so very Pythonesque to me that I could totally believe it dates to the 70s...