Interesting Links for 24-05-2024

[andrewducker]

1. New pylons to be installed across the UK in National Grid's £30bn green upgrade

(tags:uk electricity infrastructure )

2. For whom Good Omens is being written

(tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett alzheimers TV writing )

3. Football Association resists government pressure to change its transgender inclusion policy

(tags:football UK transgender LGBT GoodNews sports )

4. The next food marketing blitz is aimed at people on new weight-loss drugs

(tags:food weight drugs )

5. Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking for first time in US

(tags:marijuana alcohol usa )

6. The Suit Died, but for Good Reasons

(tags:history clothing UK monarchy class USA )

7. Managers - what are they good for?

(tags:management engineering software )

8. Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue

(tags:Reddit Google ai OhForFucksSake safety advice headline epicfail )

Comments

[nancylebov]

6. Leaves out that more casual clothes are more comfortable, though prioritizing comfort over dignity has its own cultural implications.

[mountainkiss]

I really like the post about managers, thank you!

[andrewducker]

My pleasure!

[anna_wing]

The plain black suit that Brummell popularised was itself considered a pretty revolutionary garment in its simplicity compared to previous styles for upper-class European men.


Portion sizes in the US were bizarrely huge even decades ago, and by all accounts have got even worse. If people can't or won't cook for themselves, it's not a bad thing for convenience food manufacturers to focus on normalising portion sizes for healthy-weight people. It might help them to stay that way once they are off the medications.

Managers

[bens_dad]

I worked at a software house for a few years in the nineties.

The owner believed that the wrong manager was worse than having no manager, so preferred gaps in the management tree when he did not have the right appointee.

I left on the companies tenth birthday, and I think they lasted most of another decade.