Interesting Links for 23-06-2022

[andrewducker]

1. The Western Balkans' want to join the EU. How's that going?

(tags:Europe )

2. Some thoughts on what makes a diversity culture

(tags:Diversity work society )

3. Anyone want to buy a Scottish Island, complete with mansion?

(tags:Scotland property viaMyBrotherHugh )

4. Covid cases increase by more than 30% in Scotland over the last week

(tags:Pandemic Scotland )

5. Poliovirus may be spreading in London; virus detected in sewage for months

(tags:disease UK London )

6. The time Life and Death swapped jobs

(tags:life death comic funny )

7. Six Brexit problems six years after the EU referendum

(tags:uk europe trade doom )

8. The electricity in a lightning bolt is only about 5c worth

(tags:electricity lightning )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

Honestly you could not pay me to live on Shetland.

I'm sure that people who like it there like it very much but it is not for me.

[andrewducker]

Too remote for me too. I like Edinburgh's size and facilities.

[dewline]

1. Yeah, we need to get things moving further along than has been managed so far. Montenegro in particular deserves the respect that putting in the work at their end has earned them. As for the current "management" in Serbia...they're as problematic in their way as Hungary right now.

2. That is, ideally, part of how countries and their governments should be able to function.

3. Looks great, but I'm not sure how much longer that island will remain above the waves given the prospects of climate derangement over the next century.

4 + 5. Yikes! And we're still being told to act as if the Pandemic is over. (In Ontario, it seems, as in London and Scotland!)

No to polio

[agoodwinsmith]

If people are finding that the amount and duration of these normally consequence-less sewer counts are disturbing enough to talk about - please freak out and protect yourself and others.

[qilora]

"3. Anyone want to buy a Scottish Island, complete with mansion?"

i could see my hubby wanting it but he is pretty lazy about mowing...

[andrewducker]

Clearly you'd have to buy him a goat.

[naath]

3 - bit more than we can afford (and almost certainly not wheelchair accessible)

[simont]

Your wheelchair would have to become a hovercraft.

[naath]

Ambulatory people probably use boats...

[simont]

They just aren't awesome enough.

[anna_wing]

The island looks nice, but rather draughty. The absence of trees indicates worrying things about the climate...

[qilora]

i would name him "George III"

[bens_dad]

Not just overgrazing ?

[channelpenguin]

Pretty much yes, probably overgrazing https://www.shetland.org/blog/treeless-thats-changing

[bens_dad]

Interesting.
Different archipelago, but I remember my supervisor and his wife discussing that someone had driven into the tree in Kirkwall.

[anna_wing]

Ah, I didn't think about that, not being familiar with that kind of agriculture. I think in terms of wind and lack of water to sustain forest cover.