Interesting Links for 31-07-2022

[andrewducker]

1. This is very nearly exactly what you don't want to happen while rock climbing

(tags:rocks Doom video )

2. Confusing British words: a very abbreviated list

(tags:language UK English )

3. Apparently "doing your job" is now called "quiet quitting"

(tags:work wtf )

4. The Sandman Creator Explains Why He Tears Down Online Trolls

(tags:neilgaiman racism )

5. The benefits of special interests in autism

(tags:autism psychology )

6. Covid cases could give just 28 days immunity as scientists warn of shorter, sharper Omicron variant waves

(tags:Pandemic Doom )

7. Genetically engineered rice needs less fertilizer, makes more food

(tags:food rice genetics )

8. I approve of arming orangutans

(tags:ape funny )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I think there are ways of addressing the very real concerns about how capitalist organisations are behaving without restricting the EU's ability to use GM crops or to develop GM crops within the EU.

I think we (for a given value of we) are certainly reducing the amount of useful R&D in this area through these restrictions and probably handing over significant technological, commercial and ethical space to other economies.

It's a little like Prohibition, in that, the EU is sort of handing over regulation of how GM crops are developed to people who are not incentivised to obey EU regulations - by virtue of them being foreign with no commercial downside for not obeying them.