Interesting Links for 06-06-2022

[andrewducker]

1. What are Conservative MPs saying about Johnson when they call for him to go?

(tags:Conservatives BorisJohnson )

2. Some advice about sex

(tags:sex relationships )

3. The Light That Shines When Things End

(tags:life )

4. Severe Covid cases more likely in places with high air pollution

(tags:pollution pandemic inflammation )

5. UK ivory ban comes into force today

(tags:elephants uk law )

6. London's police are guilty of systemic sexism, racism and homophobia

(tags:sexism racism homophobia police london uk )

7. Your Personality, Explained by Your Annoying Household Habits

(tags:tidiness personality funny psychology )

8. Excellent uses for a time machine: #5663

(tags:timetravel funny philosophy gravity physics comic )

9. This is what ignostic arguing looks like

(tags:consciousness comic philosophy funny )

Comments

[dewline]

1. Wow. They are really fed up with him.

2. Thank you.

3. Thank you. (tears)

4. Unsurprising and disturbing.

6. Interesting to note that the Mayor of London's opinion has to be respected here.

[qilora]

"7. Your Personality, Explained by Your Annoying Household Habits"

thank G-d, they didn't mentioned habitual re-filtering of a pitcher of water, so now NO ONE needs to know that i do this.

[andrewducker]

Your secret is safe with us!

[calimac]

1. Did you see the post below it with a briefing defending BJ? He's a proven vote-winner! Yeah, that's not too impressive an argument: so was Thatcher.

2. What interests me about this is that locutions like "people without clitorises" and "people in possession of a vulva" are actually better-directed to the point than the traditional sex labels that they're designed to avoid.

3. I'm not sure this is a good idea. I'm thinking of long satisfying conversations I had with friends whom I didn't see very often and who died unexpectedly some time later before I could see them again. I didn't know, as these ended, that I was saying goodbye forever, and I would have been considerably startled if such a light came on, and dashed if I can think of how it would have made the situation better.

5. The US ban on ivory doesn't have the exemptions of the UK ban. Our local university's music dept. bought some old pianos from Australia (why is a long story) but they had to strip the keyboards off. No ivory, no matter how old.

8. I suspect that Aristotle's beliefs about gravity derive from the fact that, if you do drop a feather and a rock simultaneously, the rock will fall faster. He's not wrong, he just had the wrong reasons.

[calimac]

8. Here's something that comes to mind that I wonder about. If, before you drop a feather and a rock simultaneously by holding one in each hand and letting go, you tie the feather to the rock with a piece of string, would Aristotle have been surprised at the result?

[andrewducker]

An excellent question! I suspect that he would have argued that they were not one object, even if they were tied together. But I'd love to hear what he had to say.

[andrewducker]

1) Yeah. And I'm actually pretty happy that he won, because we can now watch the Tory party lose two by-elections very badly and then tear themselves apart!

3) I agree that in real life it would not be great. I'd love to see a science-fictional exploration of it though.

8) I agree. It wasn't a ridiculous thing to think, just needed a bit more work.