Interesting Links for 14-07-2023

[andrewducker]

1. I missed that Biden terminated federal private prison contracts 2 years ago

(tags:prison business politics usa )

2. How crab sticks are made. (Sophia loves those things)

(tags:factory food video )

3. Phones with replaceable batteries to be required by 2027 thanks to the EU

(tags:Europe phones batteries )

4. ChatGPT owner in probe over risks around false answers

(tags:ai fraud regulation usa )

5. Magnetic drive has the potential to silence submarines

(tags:magnets submarine usa )

6. Nearly every home in the UK will need a heat pump by 2050 as plan for hydrogen to replace gas is ditched

(tags:hydrogen uk GoodNews heating )

7. Studios demanded the ability to scan actors once, owning their image forever

(tags:actors faces scanning )

8. FDA approves the first over-the-counter birth control pill

(tags:usa contraception )

9. Participating in genetic studies is in your genes

(tags:research genes )

10. London faces a measles outbreak of tens of thousands of cases unless vaccination rates improve

(tags:vaccination london OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

Maybe because the submarine movie is MUCH better than the space one?.:-)

[calimac]

Really?

Gravity: 96% approval on Rotten Tomatoes, 4 stars from Ebert.com, won 7 out of 10 Oscars

Red October: 88% approval on Rotten Tomatoes, 3.5 stars from Ebert, won 1 out of 3 Oscars

Not a bad film, but hardly "much better" by any of these accounts. I liked them both.

[channelpenguin]

I thought it might have been obvious that by "much better" I meant "in my opinion". :-)

[calimac]

No, it wasn't obvious, because you were trying to explain their appearance or nonappearance in articles which were not written by you and therefore not subject to the judgment of your opinion.

I guess you meant it as a joke, but I've seen enough really bad arguments in my time to be insensitized to jokes disguised as bad arguments.

[channelpenguin]

Yup, it was meant as a joke.

I thought it would be funny to invite the assumption that the researchers share my opinions.

I don't know that you can actually sensibly have any case for or against, "is this good or bad?" when it comes to art of any sort, it's all just our opinion and what we personally like. But that's just my opinion of course :-).