Interesting Links for 11-06-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Watch from Inside the Nest as a Pair of Kestrels Raise a Family

(tags:birds video )

2. The COVID Event Horizon (or: How many Covid infections can a person have?)

(tags:pandemic disease doom )

3. There are early signs of Covid infections trending back up the way

(tags:pandemic doom )

4. Jacob Rees-Mogg refuses to debate why he blocked bill that would have spared elephants from torture

(tags:elephants torture conservatives OhForFucksSake )

5. 40% of the UK is heading for fuel poverty

(tags:heating poverty electricity gas )

6. Green light for £21m Scottish plastic-to-hydrogen plant

(tags:plastic hydrogen energy )

7. The best book ever about computers is getting a second edition. I may need to update

(tags:books computers )

8. The Sriracha Shortage Is The Next Harbinger of Climate Change

(tags:globalwarming food )

9. Sex with your distant ancestors: bestiality or not?

(tags:bestiality sex prehistory evolution )

10. The perception of rhythm in language (read it out loud)

(tags:poetry language research awesome )

11. How Tesla tries to avoid its autopilot being on for crashes

(tags:Tesla automation OhForFucksSake cars driving )

Comments

[dewline]

2. "It is now no longer in question that our collective disinterest in doing the most bare minimum to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus pandemic is perpetuating mass disablement."

4. Of course he won't debate why he did this.

[channelpenguin]

2. ...and the resulting poverty, since support for the long term sick in UK is shocking (Europe prob not better, US ... well, poverty ++ due to medical debt). 2 PLUS 5 will be a perfect storm.

Irony in that in order to keep making profits by getting the workers back to work, the capitalists will likely have to deal with labour shortages ... long term. Logically, that should drive up wages, but I expect "you're faking it - get back to work you lazy peasants" rhetoric to wind up a few notches instead, and some sort of horrible force exerted to try to *make* sick people work and make the rest accept below-living-wage pay.