Interesting Links for 18-05-2022

[andrewducker]

1. The surreal, but also real, problem of Britain's gas glut

(tags:gas UK Europe electricity economics )

2. Getting past the anxiety/avoidance cycle

(tags:anxiety advice )

3. Doctor Who: Any Colour You Like Provided It's Not Black

(tags:racism drwho )

4. Movies that change genre halfway through

(tags:movies genre )

5. EU warns 'all measures at its disposal' if UK overrides Northern Ireland Protocol

(tags:europe uk trade doom NorthernIreland )

6. Coca-Cola introduces built-in bottle caps in bid to boost recycling and help prevent litter

(tags:coke recycling )

7. How Beatboxing Was Invented (mostly because I spent half an hour looking for this and nearly didn't)

(tags:games music video funny )

8. Why I love the new labour movement

(tags:unions economics viaDanielDWilliam )

9. Statement by the EU on the UK threatening to break its agreements

(tags:UK Europe Doom )

10. Surely Thatcher would approve of this enterprising young man?

(tags:margaretthatcher vandalism funny )

11. The Open is the oldest golf tournament in the world, it has a prize pot of over $11m, and apparently they need people to work for them for free

(tags:work golf money volunteers viaLizzieCassMaran OhForFucksSake )

12. Twitter turns the tables on Elon Musk, will "enforce" merger

(tags:Twitter ElonMusk funny )

13. The trailer for Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice looks like fun

(tags:terrypratchett cats movies trailer video )

14. Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox?

(tags:fermi aliens civilization apocalypse )

15. Can your characterafford to be without a Non-Fungible Trident?

(tags:blockchain funny dungeonsanddragons satire )

16. MRI images of foetuses are terrifying

(tags:MRI babies scary )

Comments

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[danieldwilliam]

I think I'd be okay with the Open asking people to work for free at the actual golf, given that tickets to the Open have a value and there is a trade of value - entry to the golf for work as a guide.

Less okay about the Open asking people to work for free in the carpark.

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[danieldwilliam]

The question isn't "Is Musk up to something?" The answer is always yes.

The questions are "What is Musk actually up to" and "Is what Musk is actually up to as clever as he thinks it is?"

Gas!

[rhythmaning]

Thank goodness the UK has sufficient gas storage to store all this cheap, excess gas for the winter when we really need it! Oh hang on, we got rid of all our storage and moved to a JIT model? Doh!!!

[calimac]

4. In every instance of the movies that change genre partway through, at least one of the two genres is one I have no interest in watching.

8. I want to tell this writer, don't apologize for the labor movement. Sure, unions can do bad things, but if we're going to criticize an institution for that, ten times the amount of obloquy that goes on unions should go onto corporations. What, ten? More like a hundred.
However, I like the writer's "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die" attitude towards the robot apocalypse.

9. Nothing in this statement surprises me in the slightest.

10. *chuckle*

14. What, these people think a civilization could change course in response to an impending crisis? Not in human experience it wouldn't.

[bens_dad]

6. Black plastic is recyclable, but last I heard most recyling centres c/wouldn't recycle it.

[qilora]

"4. Movies that change genre halfway through"

this brings to mind a film about Ophelia (the entire filmed from her perspective) and it was "okay" for me until we got to the last few mins where she didn't
*really* die but woke up again ––– i nearly reached thru the screen and did it myself! don't f*** with my Billy Shakes! haha

[mountainkiss]

That thing about anxiety and avoidance is exactly right, but you have to find the momentum to keep doing it, which is cumulatively draining.

[cmcmck]

8 The Victorians beat them to it with the 'Codd' bottle.

[armiphlage]

LNG facilities are scary, and not something you want near a port, city, or other area of value.

Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE), asphyxiation, cryogenic burns, and vapour cloud explosion (VCE), not necessarily in that order.

[mellowtigger]

#6. It seems like it was 20 years ago (edit: it was!) when I first heard of a new aluminum can design that would use carbon dioxide to eliminate the need for refrigeration of soft drinks. Why did that never happen? Oh...