Interesting Links for 04-07-2022

[andrewducker]

1. A chipmunk having its mind blown by a flavour explosion

(tags:cute video food )

2. A "Chinese Borges" wrote millions of words of fake Russian history on Wikipedia for a decade.

(tags:wikipedia Russia China fake )

3. Fun! With! Science! (be better if there were explanations of each of these though)

(tags:video science )

4. Innovative lung-imaging technique shows cause of long COVID symptoms

(tags:mri Pandemic Doom viaPatrickHadfield )

5. Daily Mail to turn against Boris Johnson

(tags:DailyMail BorisJohnson conservatives )

6. Neil Gaiman speaks honestly about the quality of the Sandman TV show

(tags:neilgaiman TV sandman )

7. How do politicians respond when asked whether Scotland is allowed to leave and what the democratic route to them doing so.

(tags:politics independence Scotland video )

8. When truth is another casualty: Why Ukraine is losing ground in the war by not telling the whole story

(tags:Russia Ukraine censorship war )

9. If I was 20 years younger and still had the time/energy to watch terrible movies then I'd love to see Assassin 33A.D. (Time traveling Muslim assassins go after Jesus!)

(tags:religion timetravel awful Jesus Christianity movies review )

10. Transphobic LGB Alliance condemned by Trades Union Congress in near unanimous vote

(tags:LGBT transgender unions GoodNews )

11. The British class system is a delight

(tags:class UK politics )

12. England's population is ageing. Our deeply substandard politicians ignore what this is going to cost us

(tags:UK aging politics )

Comments

4. Innovative lung-imaging technique shows cause of long COVID symptoms

[jack]

Hopefully knowing is a positive step!

Re: 4. Innovative lung-imaging technique shows cause of long COVID symptoms

[andrewducker]

Fingers crossed they can do something about it.

Re: 4. Innovative lung-imaging technique shows cause of long COVID symptoms

[jack]

Even preventing it in future infections would be a plus even if it can't be easily reversed yet. Even just knowing there a real problem helps somewhat...

Re: 4. Innovative lung-imaging technique shows cause of long COVID symptoms

[channelpenguin]

Yes. A scan that can show a real physical issue as a superplausible cause of the symptoms is absolutely good news. No more justifications for dismissal as "all in the head" or "just exercise more". (2nd actual quote from Danish Dr to a pro sports person suffering from long covid since the very very beginning - caught from the Austrian ski cluster).

5. Daily Mail to turn against Boris Johnson

[jack]

Wait, the daily mail had an owner who doesn't like Johnson? Why now? Did he just wake up after a coma? Or did he genuinely believe Dacre was being independent? Or did he not care? Or did he suddenly realise which way the wind was blowing?

I also wonder where the wind is blowing TO :( This decades conservative party has a lot of frying pans and Johnson isn't the worst:(

Re: 5. Daily Mail to turn against Boris Johnson

[andrewducker]

I do wonder why they allowed things to go on so long.

9. If I was 20 years younger and still had the time/energy to watch terrible movies then I'd love to

[jack]

So you want to be younger just to have more time? That does sound hilariously awful

Re: 9. If I was 20 years younger and still had the time/energy to watch terrible movies then I'd lov

[andrewducker]

More that 20-years-ago watching terrible movies was terribly entertaining.

But having more youth to have more time would be good too.

Re: 9. If I was 20 years younger and still had the time/energy to watch terrible movies then I'd lov

[jack]

Possibly watching it with younger people is the solution :)

Re: 9. If I was 20 years younger and still had the time/energy to watch terrible movies then I'd lov

[andrewducker]

I'm growing them as fast as I can!

Re: 9. If I was 20 years younger and still had the time/energy to watch terrible movies then I'd lov

[jack]

:)

[simont]

9: the terrible Jesus movie I'd be somewhat amused by would be the mash-up one in which everybody who's ever made a movie about Jesus collides in a huge mess. Those Muslim assassins would run smack into the Judean People's Front, for example.

[cmcmck]

Or the People's front of Judea.....

Oh wait......are you Roman :o)

[simont]

Actually, the Kennedy assassination might be even more chaotic. I've always felt that if you were actually in Dallas on the day JFK was shot, you wouldn't be able to move for time travellers, all trying to prevent the assassination, commit the assassination, find out who did it, impede each other on purpose or by accident, or otherwise make a nuisance of themselves.

[calimac]

I've seen it argued that the proof that time travel will never be possible is that this hasn't happened.

6. Neil Gaiman speaks honestly...

[dewline]

This is where I become far more interested in actually watching the show, should I be able to do so.

[calimac]

I've been assured on various occasions that the class system as described in #11 is a thing of the past, obsolete, not around any more. I began to have doubts about that when I saw the rise of David Cameron.

[andrewducker]

I think that if you're isolated from it it's very easy to think it's a thing of the past. And, of course, if you are privileged by it then it's in your interests to make it seem that you aren't.

[jducoeur]

(2) reminds me of the oldest book I own, a 16th century edition of the Historia Augusta, a gloriously odd 4th century history of the Emperors of Rome, which freely mixes fact and fiction. (And like the Wikipedia thing, uses a variety of fake authors in order to make it sound more plausible.)

(3) -- yeah, really. I can explain most of those, but several leave me scratching my head.