Interesting Links for 14-08-2022
Aug. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm- 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
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- 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 )
#7 -- Office vs Gaming Chairs
Date: 2022-08-14 01:41 pm (UTC)They also had some blowback: https://youtu.be/NI-_r8GPbuU
Re: #7 -- Office vs Gaming Chairs
Date: 2022-08-15 10:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-14 03:20 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2022-08-14 06:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-14 06:22 pm (UTC)Maybe it'll spur Welsh Independence.
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Date: 2022-08-14 06:33 pm (UTC)[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.
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