Interesting Links for 07-08-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Bionic Bay looks like a gorgeous platformer with fascinating puzzles and high-speed physics-based gameplay.

(tags:games video )

2. The anti-islam riots in this country are a product of the media, Tories, and Labour. All should be held responsible.

(tags:Labour conservatives media UK bigotry Islam riots )

3. Russia and Ukraine both have drones controlled by really really long fibre-optic cables

(tags:drone fibreoptics russia ukraine )

4. Tim Walz Took Historic Action To Protect Trans People, Now He's The Dem VP Choice

(tags:democrats GoodNews transgender USA politics LGBT )

5. If your workplace doesn't have a Muppet ethics AI then you are *totally* behind the times

(tags:ai muppets ethics wtf )

6. JD Vance's Wife: My Husband Only Meant to Insult People Who Actively Choose Not to Have Kids, Not People Who Are Trying but Are Unsuccessful

She did not touch on his claim that people who don't have kids are more sociopathic.
(tags:relationships politics USA EpicWTF )

7. How to Survive Mercury in Retrograde

(tags:astronomy astrology mercury )

8. In hospital emergency rooms, female patients are less likely to receive pain medication than male patients who reported the same level of distress

(tags:misogyny pain healthcare OhForFucksSake )

9. The wife of a Conservative councillor has been arrested after she called for hotels with asylum seekers to be set on fire.

(tags:UK racism conservatives )

10. Wind and solar overtake EU fossil fuels in the first half of 2024

(tags:renewables solarpower windpower electricity Europe coal gas hydroelectric )

11. COVID-19 making worrying comeback WHO warns, amid summertime surge

(tags:pandemic doom )

12. I did not know it was possible to make friends with a moray eel!

(tags:fish video friendship )

13. Scottish wildcat kitten caught on thermal imaging camera

(tags:scotland cats nature video )

14. Ukrainian forces take Russian border city that they don't want

(tags:russia ukraine war )

15. Elon Musk believes advertisers should be forced to spend money on him

(tags:ElonMusk advertising twitter wtf )

Comments

9

[channelpenguin]

*waves from the childless cat lady corner*

It's nice here. Far away from strange right-wing idiots.

Re: 9

[andrewducker]

Do you not have any of your own right wing idiots?

Re: 9

[channelpenguin]

Oh yes, sadly. But I try to metaphorically stay in a different corner.

[nancylebov]

12. More flexible than a cat!

[andrewducker]

And apparently just as snuggly!

[nancylebov]

So far as I know, morays fail at purring.

[channelpenguin]

Far less fluffy though.

[mellowtigger]

That's amazing. I never would have imagined a moray eel behaving like that.

[andrewducker]

Me either!

[armiphlage]

3. Low-hanging wires are already a safety hazard for people driving, motorbiking, or bicycling in warzones. The military vehicles I saw at a defence conference a few years ago all had notched bars intended to sever wires. They might need to create something similar for bicycles (although the bike and rider might not have enough inertia to sever a wire or fiber optic cable, it'd at least keep it from cutting into the bicyclist's throat).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_catcher

[armiphlage]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_strike_protection_system

[andrewducker]

These wires are for guidance, to prevent the drones from having their controls blocked by interference.

For it to be that long in that size the wires are about the width of a hair, and unlikely to be strong enough to do serious damage.

I assume they have to fly pretty high to avoid being tangled in things before they reach their target.

[armiphlage]

We use fiber optics at work. Glass fiber is stronger than fishing line, and that's enough to seriously injure a cyclist. After a drone attack, you'd have kilometers of nearly-invisible threads draped across roads and paths, held up off the ground by shrubbery and nearby power lines.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2019/05/07/fishing-line-tied-across-bike-path-in-ormond-beach-slices-mans-throat/

[andrewducker]

Ooh. Thank you, I stand corrected!

[redbird]

6: WTF indeed. I'm not "offended" that he insulted me, I'm angry and scared that he wants to discriminate against me for not having children, along with supporting policies that would make it scary to be pregnant.

There are a lot of things the government could be doing to make life easier for parents--things like free meals for all schoolchildren, which the Republicans attacked Walz for signing.

15. Elon Musk believes advertisers should be forced to spend money on him

[jack]

I guess HE was forced to spend money on Twitter

Re: 15. Elon Musk believes advertisers should be forced to spend money on him

[andrewducker]

True. So that must be how it works.

[haggis]

I am very glad that racist woman was arrested. I hope that every child is withdrawn from her 'care', not just the Somali and Bangladeshi ones but every single one. She is actively harming every single one.

[haggis]

From Twitter, her account on Childcare.co.uk has been permanently removed.

https://x.com/Paul10376555/status/1820567991370862755