Interesting Links for 14-08-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Price Of Bread, Cheese, Milk And Biscuits Is About To Soar

(tags:food UK Doom )

2. UK needs 30 new reservoirs to protect water supply from drought after failing to build one in 31 years

(tags:water UK infrastructure )

3. How long will it take to understand long COVID?

(tags:disease research Pandemic )

4. And Alexander Wept - Tracing the origin of Hans Gruber's quote in Die Hard

(tags:language history )

5. Bioengineered cornea restores sight to the blind and visually impaired

(tags:blindness organs technology )

6. I had no idea how the Portuguese discovered Brazil

(tags:Brazil Portugal history )

7. Office chairs are better than gamer chairs

(tags:chair furniture gaming )

8. UK could face blackouts after drought causes European hydropower output to plummet

(tags:UK Europe electricity hydroelectric doom )

9. The children who don't flourish at school

(tags:children school mentalhealth )

10. Amusing screenshots

(tags:funny )

11. "We asked the Chancellor why Wales is missing out on HS2 funding and the answers show they still simply don't get it"

(tags:Wales trains money conservatives )

Comments

#7 -- Office vs Gaming Chairs

[lsanderson]

Gamers Nexus ran a YouTube on chairs about a year ago: https://youtu.be/9Yhc6mmdJC4

They also had some blowback: https://youtu.be/NI-_r8GPbuU

Re: #7 -- Office vs Gaming Chairs

[andrewducker]

Thank you!

[skington]

Regarding #6: I clicked through another of the guy's threads, this one about why France is weird, and a French historian took him to pieces (there's a translation at the bottom of the thread). So while it's possibly true, beware of some of the more sensationalist claims.

[greenwoodside]

New reservoirs could be pretty controversial in Wales. Cofiwch Dryweryn signs have been popping up all over the place. I saw one in Wrexham the other day.

[andrewducker]

I can certainly understand that.

Maybe it'll spur Welsh Independence.

[armiphlage]

As restrictions on sewage treatment plant emissions rise, I wonder if recycling sewage as potable water will become common outside of drought-stricken areas?

[added] It's cheaper than desalination, after all, and you're already spending most of the cost in treating your sewage in the first place.

[channelpenguin]

9. I think many people are confused about what state school is actually about. Teaching kids to be the next generation of slave-minions of the rich toiling obediently to make them even richer. So the conformity stuff is EXACTLY what's important. Any actual education beyond the basics needed to take orders and perhaps learn a basic "craft" is a bonus.

[anna_wing]

The cornea news would be fabulous if it can be cheaply and widely implemented.

[andrewducker]

I suspect that like most of these things it'll be a while before it's cheap.