Interesting Links for 18-05-2022
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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
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- 3. Doctor Who: Any Colour You Like Provided It's Not Black
- (tags:racism drwho )
- 4. Movies that change genre halfway through
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- 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?
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- 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
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- 13. The trailer for Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice looks like fun
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- 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 )
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Date: 2022-05-19 06:19 am (UTC)Yeah, that added cost is unacceptable. Back when I first heard about it, the design was far less involved than Chill Can's. The can interior had a chamber with a small aluminum pipe through the top, smaller than a straw. Snap off the top bit of "straw", wait for the CO2 to outgas, then pop the usual tab to drink your cold beverage. It was estimated to add only $0.05-$0.10 to the cost at the time.
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Date: 2022-05-19 06:24 am (UTC)