Interesting Links for 02-01-2022

[andrewducker]

100 Hue Color Vision Test (I scored 4, how about you?)

(tags:quiz colour )

How effective are the booster vaccines against Omicron?

(tags:vaccine vaccination UK Pandemic )

China's Ban on 'Sissy Men' Is Bound to Backfire (as well as being genuinely awful)

(tags:China society gender OhForFucksSake )

Lothian buses reduces services until the 22nd because of covid-related staff absences

(tags:Edinburgh buses transport )

The ice grizzlies of Yukon (they look stunning and sound like chandeliers)

(tags:Bears ice photos )

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

"100 Hue Color Vision Test (I scored 4, how about you?)"
Got a 0. But I've played I Love Hue quite a bit, so I'm used to this kind of game.

"China's Ban on 'Sissy Men' Is Bound to Backfire (as well as being genuinely awful)" Hm. I'm afraid what repercussions 'well-educated and financially independent women' are gonna face. I doubt the government's crusade will stop here.

[andrewducker]

I'm worried about it too. I hope it doesn't get too bad.

[dewline]

No, it is not going to stop there. This focus on definitions of masculinity looks like one more symptom of what I suspect is Xi Jinping's quest to take Zhongguo/China into full-on Han-specific fascism.

[aldabra]

I got a zero. But, what an infuriating interface!

[hilarita]

Yes - I lost some points because the drag and drop was hard to use.

[ljgeoff]

I also got a zero and was quite surprised.

[melchar]

I also got a zero - and was also surprised, since some of the shades were very close to others.

[calimac]

I hope this is a feature of my browser and not my vision, but I only saw 40 boxes, not 100, and all 40 of them were completely blank.

WTF, China? Earrings are extremely macho masculine when men wear them. A century or more ago in the West a man who wore earrings was stereotypically a longshoreman or an equally big tough sailor. The only thing that makes us think of earrings as exclusively feminine is that increased mechanism meant there was less need for muscle work with ships so that style went out of fashion.

[darkoshi]

I scored 2. There are only 40 boxes (not blank for my browser). It seems that other versions of the test have 100 boxes.

It would have helped if the instructions were at the top of the page so I wouldn't have had to wonder why dragging the first/last boxes wasn't working.

China's Ban on 'Sissy Men' Is Bound to Backfire (as well as being genuinely awful)

[jack]

I feel like I must be missing a lot of context for this. The writer is apparently IN Beijing, so I don't know how much she's constrained in what she can say. I guess partly, I hadn't realised that had happened except by reading the article, which is probably important by itself :(

I can't believe that the edict is genuinely supposed to have an economic benefit in the first place :( But it's possible that saying it does harm to the country is an argument against it that might be acceptable in China? I don't know :(

[symbioid]

0 on the hue test, yay. not colorblind yet! :P (but I wouldnt' mind having sharp vision again).

Hue color test

[mair_in_grenderich]

God, it's just like trying to do the sky in a jigsaw

Re: Hue color test

[andrewducker]

I very rarely have enough pieces the colour of television tuned to a dead channel.

[cellio]

Never seen that kind of hue test before and got 0, cool! I know that I have some color-perception problems, but they take the form of a shift, not certain ranges dropping out or fuzzifying, so that makes sense.