Interesting Links for 27-11-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Transporting liquid hydrogen is never going to be effective

(tags:hydrogen energy storage viaDanielDWilliam )

2. Photochemistry happening in an exoplanet - found for the first time!

(tags:space planets chemistry light )

3. It amuses me no end how much people can't understand that different people have fundamentally different experiences

(tags:imagination vision psychology brain experience )

4. How is the China chip embargo going?

(tags:China USA trade Doom technology processor cpu computers )

5. Half of Twitter's top advertisers have left the social media platform

(tags:Twitter advertising )

Comments

[nancylebov]

3. I'm thinking of writing something pretty savage for ACX about people who don't realize that experiences vary. Oh, no, it can't be true. Everyone can enjoy exercise! I know the perfect diet!


I will presumably tone down the savagery, but it's a strain to see people who just don't hear it when they're told clearly that their perfect idea of how other people should live isn't generally applicable.

[andrewducker]

See also "Everyone is poly deep down" and "sexuality is a choice".

[nancylebov]

I supposed I should invite added examples.

[andrewducker]

Let me know when you've written it!

[bugshaw]

We're all a little bit on the spectrum!

[nancylebov]

See also "No one can make poly work" and "There are no real atheists".

[andrewducker]

Also awful.

[lilysea]

A few years before COVID existed, I used to wear an N95 Vogmask on trains because otherwise people's body spray/spray on deoderant/perfume gave me migraines that could last for 1 to 3 days.

Someone who I had known for many years saw me at the train station wearing the mask and got really weirded out by it - she was acting like I was Howard Hughes.

I explained that perfume/strongly scented spray on deoderants gave me migraines

and she said "Well perfumes don't give ME" migraines, in a tone of voice that implied that if she didn't experience something, no one experienced that thing.

I snarkily said to someone else later "Does she go up to people who are allergic to peanuts and say 'Well I'M not allergic to peanuts' in a tone of voice that implies that all peanut allergies are fake because she personally does not have a peanut allergy?"

[nancylebov]

It's possible, or at least I see people complaining about fake allergies.

[dewline]

I am finding more and more reasons to stay masked post-Pandemic.

This may be another one to add to the list.

[armiphlage]

I usually suffer from seasonal allergies.

Since I started masking, I haven't.

[hairyears]

There are actually people like that.

They are incredibly dangerous to children and the ones who work in schools are only dissuaded from feeding alkergen-contaminated foods to children by fear of disciplinary sanctions which they resent as an arbitrary and unreasonable restriction with no basis in fact.

See, also, people who don't believe mental illness is 'real': an offensive idea at the best of times and very damaging when they gravitate to public policy and HR positions.