Interesting Links for 14-11-2024

[andrewducker]

1. I no longer trust opinion polls

(tags:polls fail )

2. Secret Level - an anthology TV series based around various computer games

(tags:games TV animation viaSwampers )

3. The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916

(tags:communication history USA engineering )

4. AOC Shares Reasons Why Her Supporters Voted for Trump

(tags:voting usa doom )

5. Sure, I Voted for Someone Whose Policies Might Kill You, but Now's the Time to Put Aside Our Differences

(tags:politics satire funny doom )

6. Baby red panda dies from firework stress, says Edinburgh Zoo

(tags:panda fireworks death )

Comments

[bens_dad]

Does Edinburgh have a law and order problem ?

I am sorry to hear about the pandas, but Edinburgh seems to have it in for fireworks.

I've read a couple of things suggesting fireworks are being misused in ways that sound like lawlessness to me.

If fireworks were silent and used appropriately there would not be a problem.
Last time I tried to by meths you had to be over 18 and sign for it; we could do the same thing for fireworks. That way it would be easier to trace misuse.

[andrewducker]

Edinburgh has some areas of severe deprivation, and people from those areas have rioted on Fireworks night for the last few years. I think that banning them for personal use is on the way.

[channelpenguin]

I hope it works. I have wanted this in Germany for a decade.

It's crazy here, not really so many riots, but bigger nastier fireworks and often bought in from Poland. (Yes, A&E is very busy on those nights and everyone knows someone who got hurt holding or handling fireworks when they were kids).


Ah Germany, where they berate you for crossing an empty road on a red man but happily let children throw fireworks!

[andrewducker]

A very odd approach to safety!