Interesting Links for 18-12-2024

[andrewducker]

1. 'Warhammer 40,000' TV series locked and loaded at Amazon with Henry Cavill set to star (and much more to come by the sound of things)

(tags:Warhammer Amazon TV movies )

2. 'Bluey' Movie Set for 2027 Theatrical Release From Disney, BBC Studios

(tags:children TV movie Disney bbc dogs )

3. Silver amulet unearthed in Frankfurt grave Is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps (230-270 CE)

(tags:religion rome archeology europe christianity )

4. Companies forcing their employees back to the office lose their senior people and women

(tags:work office )

5. 20% of people are just dicks

(tags:society psychology empathy narcissism )

6. Fife to Edinburgh driverless bus service to stop in 2025 (because nobody was coming in that way)

(tags:automation driving buses transport edinburgh )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

5. I have always estimated higher. Feel humans are 1/3 unashamed assholes, 1/3 pretty decent, 1/3 undecided/inconsistent/can go either way.

[simont]

I misparsed #4 for a moment: "people and women"? Don't they think women are people?

But then I realised it meant (senior people) and (women). You lose your senior people (whether women or not) and your women (whether senior or not). All you have left are non-senior non-women.

[andrewducker]

You don't lose *all* of them. So you'll still have some senior women left. Probably. If you had any to start with.

[juan_gandhi]

20%?! These guys are so optimistic. Or they've never been to Russia.

[ninetydegrees]

I wonder if they'll go the glorified fascism route with the 40K movie or stick to the original intent of the book series.

[calimac]

6) I have a lot of questions about this one. Are the non-driverless buses from Fife to Edinburgh also under-ridden? Do they take the same route? Fife is a big place; if you drive all the way to the park-and-ride lot, might you figure that it's less time and trouble to keep going than to wait for the pokey bus? That might depend on what parking is like in Edinburgh and on how much time and trouble it is to get to your workplace from wherever it is the bus stops.
Lastly, what's the point of a driverless bus if it still needs two people to staff it?

[bens_dad]

Lawyers

I remember when a bus had a driver and a conductor; sounds as if the captain serves a similar role.

Since it is an experiment they still have a driver who can take over if necessary, but I guess he will go when the experiment is declared a success and the lawyers are happy.

[andrewducker]

This appears to be a bus from a particular Park & Ride in Fife that's not very used to Edinburgh Park, which is quite remote from the centre of town. So it's possible it's just not a very popular route. There are people who work near Edinburgh Park, but I'm not aware of it being a massive destination.

And yes, the driverless bus was clearly more for testing than it was for actually carrying people. I'm not sure who is doing the testing, but they seem to be significantly behind other driverless vehicle organisations.

[anna_wing]

Behaviour and personality aren't the same thing, which has always been my problem with this approach to psychology (never mind the pure quackery like Myer-Briggs).

This "dark empathy" thing is just an excessively melodramatic way to describe the rather basic fact that understanding how or why other people feel the way they do has never been the same as agreeing or even sympathising with them.