Interesting Links for 17-05-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Today, I crossed the Wilford Brimley Line. And I think I'm doing okay. (Although I've been up since 4:30, so on the inside...)

(tags:age movies )

2. If you fancy any of the Dragon Age or Mass Effect games they're currently 90% off on Steam!

(tags:steam games money viaSwampers )

3. What The BBC's Rory Carson Got Wrong About Private ADHD Treatment.

(tags:bbc adhd OhForFucksSake epicfail )

4. The BBC Panorama adult ADHD investigation is awful

(tags:adhd bbc documentary OhForFucksSake )

5. Churches lose voting rights on Highland education policy

(tags:religion scotland GoodNews Education )

6. JP Morgan are spying on their employees to a ridiculous extent

(tags:surveillance work OhForFucksSake )

7. Large Language Models are inherently vulnerable to privacy and keyword manipulation attacks

(tags:ai fraud doom )

8. The Perfect Balance - and how we sometimes enjoy being thrown off it. An interesting look at vertigo.

(tags:psychology Edinburgh literature bodies )

9. What did we learn from Biosphere 2?

(tags:earth nature research viaDanielDWilliam )

10. Vauxhall-maker warns Brexit threatens electric cars in UK

(tags:uk europe cars manufacturing )

11. Where in the world are men most likely to sit down to wee? (Germany. UK in the "least likely" group)

(tags:toilets urination polls )

12. Why [x] should be regulated.

(tags:regulation satire politics uk )

13. Labour would build on green belt to boost housing, says Starmer

(tags:housing construction labour GoodNews )

14. Steam Now Offers 90-Minute Game Trials, Starting With Dead Space

(tags:games steam )

15. Russia at 'turning point' as missiles run out and West ups sanctions on Chinese firms sending weapons parts

(tags:russia ukraine weaponry )

16. ADHD diagnosis: Patients waiting for assessment by specialist for up to four years in parts of UK

(tags:adhd healthcare OhForFucksSake uk )

17. Butterfly tree of life reveals an origin in North America

(tags:viaNancyLebov insects paleontology fossils America )

Comments

[simont]

#12: one of the comments made me laugh even more than the main article.

Hmm, was this produced by chat gpt or open AI? if not, then it will be.

"You will, Oscar, you will."

[andrewducker]

That's an excellent response!

[hairyears]

Among all the earnest replies on David Allen Green's blog, there are beatiful gems of dry wit!

11 WieWeWee

[channelpenguin]

Can confirm. German men sit by default at home. Obviously alfresco peeing and using urinals are perfomed standing. My BFs son was 5 (I think) when he needed a pee when we were out on a walk. Jean had to give him an emergency lesson in the standing technique, he had no clue (he lives with his mother).

It is SO normalised that when some Italian tenants spoiled a marble bathroom floor by the typical mix of bad aim, drips and sprinkling that are the hazards of the standing pee, the landlord easily won his damages case on the basis that they should have been sitting to pee.

Sailors may also develop the habit, especially if used to small boats in lively seas. Sobering fact - some ridiculous proportion of man overboard deaths at sea happen when peeing off the deck. Sometimes you really might need both hands to hang on!

Re: 11 WieWeWee

[andrewducker]

When the bathroom is redone I'm tempted to get a warm toilet seat of some kind so that it's not freezing to sit on. It's the coldest room in the house, and in winter it's regularly barely above freezing. Given a warm seat I wouldn't avoid it!

Re: 11 WieWeWee

[channelpenguin]

How bodies differ! My bum must be cold proof. That would never even enter my head as a possible issue - even with totally unheated toilets. Plastic or wood seats never get cold enough to register as uncomfortable for me.

I will totally agree that a cold seat WOULD be off-putting!

Re: 11 WieWeWee

[channelpenguin]

Better, get underfloor heating in there!

Re: 11 WieWeWee

[andrewducker]

At the moment the issue is a lack of decent insulation. Definitely getting that sorted. I'll ask the builder how much doing underfloor heating would cost as a change to the plans.

Items 4 + 16 in Tandem:

[dewline]

The two reports are married in terms of topic.

I have been limping through my life trying to deal on my own for the most part, and the way Ontario currently treats ADHD diagnosis as a luxury item for Ontario Health Insurance Plan purposes - to the best of my knowledge - is an obstacle to safety and prosperity.

Re: Items 4 + 16 in Tandem:

[andrewducker]

As if being able to live your life was a luxury!

Re: Items 4 + 16 in Tandem:

[dewline]

Well, they seem to also be treating avoiding reinfection by COVID-19 as a luxury item, too.

Right-wing provincial governments, huh?

[hairyears]

(17) Is overselling the diversity of 'butterflies' - the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) are the third-largest taxon of insects, with an estimated 180,000 species...

But 90% of the Lepidopterae are moths.


Hymenoptera - wasps, ants, bees and sawflies - have an estimated diversity of 150,000 species.

Coleoptera and Diptera (Beetles and the 'true' flies with halteres and a single pair of wings) have over a million species each, and the upper boundary of our estimates for Coleopterae is four million.