Interesting Links for 20-10-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Netflix: Big hits reverse subscriber losses

(tags:netflix tv business )

2. Men Can Be Single Without Murdering Anybody

(tags:murder men misogyny relationships sex )

3. In case you were wondering where all the masculine men are

(tags:masculinity video funny )

4. Sleepy lions playing ball

(tags:games lions video )

5. A new AI colorizer does very impressive work (I tried it out on B&W photos of my parents)

(tags:ai colour photos )

6. Baby VS Intimacy

(tags:babies sex comic funny )

7. Brexit reduced overall EU-UK goods trade flows by almost one-fifth

(tags:uk europe trade doom )

8. "Liz Truss laughed at me as she sacked me … and sold our 2.2million veterans down the river"

(tags:military uk Conservatives OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[ckd]

(8) The lead-in is amazing all by itself.

"The interview was set for the November edition, to coincide with Remembrance Sunday. But given the Truss Premiership is likely to be over by then, Men’s Health are running the interview online from this evening, and in the magazine later."

[andrewducker]

And terribly accurate!

[dewline]

Her premiership ended faster than most expected, I think.

[cmcmck]

Well Truss is gone.

They calls it Karma in the trade!

[hairyears]

(8) is a fascinating long read into the beliefs of a 'small-c' conservative who has become disillusioned with Conservative politics.

But on re-reading, it seems to me that he is, in fact, 'tribally' loyal and maintained his support for many years by painful feats of moral elasticity in the face of appalling cynicism and successful politicians taking a sadistic pleasure in breaking promises...

There's something pathological there: and we all heard it in that sneering, jeering, baying triumph in the backbench mobs who drowned-out every opposition MP who spoke up for the disabled in the face of coalition cuts to the Welfare State in 2010 and 2011.


...And, everywhere he looked, he saw exploitative attitudes that are only distinguishable from corruption by the surprising fact that someone in authority legitimised the perpetrators' actions and made them into policies.

Which is to say: I don't think he has fully followed-through in his thinking when he uses the term 'Libertarian'.

Nevertheless, it's an illuminating and educational read: and I recognise the party he describes, as a natural progression of the Conservative politics I remember from the 1980's.

[andrewducker]

I totally agree. It's someone who thinks of themselves as "A Conservative" without having thought that through very far or observed what actual Conservatives are like.

[hairyears]

A hint: whenever you see trade figures for goods, assume that half the relevant data has been excluded.

Those figures won't capture micro-businesses (kitchen table enterprises whose export agent is Etdy or eBay) at all, and they are nowhere close to capturing embedded components for re-export.

And they explicitly exclude service sector 'invisibles'.