Interesting Links for 18-03-2022

[andrewducker]

Amazon completes $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM

(tags:amazon movies business )

P&O extracted a lot of money from Britain before sacking all their staff

(tags:business ships OhForFucksSake uk )

We are currently facing some massive problems as a society

(tags:society Doom energy gas farming food Ukraine viaDanielDWilliam )

Do Texas Prison Conditions Violate Human Rights Standards? One Scottish Court Says Yes

(tags:Scotland Texas prison USA rights )

Reminder that the Conservatives blocked a law to prevent "fire and rehire"

(tags:Jobs conservatives )

Russia faces IT crisis with just two months of data storage left

(tags:Russia data Doom )

Comments

[anna_wing]

I suspect that many if not most people have no idea of what goes into keeping an industrial society functioning at the basic physical level.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. You see people talking about a self-sustaining society on Mars, and they clearly haven't thought about how many tens of millions of people you need in order to have a society that can, for instance, produce its own computer processors.

Well!

[lsanderson]

Everybody knows that science and fabrication are just a bunch of handwaving that occurs behind closed doors.

Re: Well!

[andrewducker]

The nanobots will do it for us!

Re: Well!

[lsanderson]

Nobody seems to connect the war with planting season and how impossible that's going to be with a war going on -- of course, the effect won't be felt until harvest, but before then, most of the rats will have been eaten.

Re: Well!

[snippy]

We're stocking up on flour, rice, and oatmeal right now out of fear of the winter.

Re: Well!

[andrewducker]

I'm seeing a fair bit about how it's going to cause chaos. But mostly in pretty niche places.

[lilysea]

Yep.

Floods in China caused power shortages in China

power shortages in China caused factory shut downs in China, including factories that made urea

factory shut downs in China caused urea shortages in Australia

urea shortages in Australia meant a shortage of AdBlue. AdBlue is made using urea and is needed for long haul freight trucks...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-08/adblue-shortage-a-serious-threat-to-australias-supply-chain/100683230

[andrewducker]

It is quite incredible how fragile the system is.

[hilarita]

That's one of the reasons Brexit is such a disaster. We've upped the difficulty level on this.

[symbioid]

"Russia faces IT crisis with just two months of data storage left"

Simple - just "disappear" all those records of torture and FSB data that might indicate any crimes against humanity, and look at all this disk space!