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

Polls

[lsanderson]

At some brief shining hour, we decided polling could give better answers to what the future was going to be than the Oracle of Delphi. Then along came cellphones, and suddenly we're back to reading chicken bones fresh out of the fire. (If people really need to know the future, they can contribute to repairing my time time machine.)!

Re: Polls

[andrewducker]

Bring back Oracles!

I mean, there are so many methods of divination, everyone can find one they love!

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

Re: Polls

[hilarita]

At least opinion polls are easier to clean up after than tea-leaf reading, or especially entrails reading.

Re: Polls

[channelpenguin]

It's actually interesting that taking auspices to decide where or what to do actually has a mechanism that CAN work ... as it's a much better "random number/direction/location generator" than humans are (we are pretty rubbish).