Interesting Links for 28-01-2023

[andrewducker]

1. I want to know how you construct a lighthouse like this without it being washed away halfway through construction

(tags:architecture Ocean video impressive )

2. Wizards Of The Coast backs down massively, puts the D&D standard reference document under Creative Commons license. I am surprised and delighted

(tags:creativecommons dungeonsanddragons GoodNews intellectual_property roleplaying )

3. I see the transphobes are just making up numbers about sex offenders now

(tags:fraud bigotry LGBT prison transgender OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[cmcmck]

3.They always have!

[qilora]

and then they broadcast it on Fox News.

[ninetydegrees]

#1 Building it took 11 years and only one man died apparently (Source: https://mondedesphares.fr/?Phare-de-Kereon-Men-Tensel.html) although both engineer and workers nearly all drowned at some point. What's even more impressive is that there are like 5 or 4 other lighthouses like these around Ouessant.

[andrewducker]

Thank you!

[dewline]

1. With a lot of patience, it seems. The French-language Wikipedia on Phare de Kéréon mentions that it took nearly a decade to build it, from 1907 to 1916.

2. Well, then!

3. When were they not making up numbers about such things?

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[conuly]

Well, if the facts aren't on your side, what else can you do? Concede?

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[danieldwilliam]

You build a big wall around the construction site...