Interesting Links for 03-02-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Why would people rate a ten hour film about paint drying so highly, and how does the creator feel about it?

(tags:painting movies video weird community viaSwampers )

2. EU patience 'wearing thin' in Brussels over Starmer's Brexit reset

(tags:UK Europe doom )

3. How the UK's biggest solar project could be shaped by sheep farmers

(tags:sheep solarpower UK )

4. USDA orders removal of climate change mentions from public websites

(tags:USA globalwarming viaElfy OhForFucksSake censorship )

5. Platypus venom is what led to Ozempic!

(tags:viaDrJon diabetes )

6. The four questions from the Lucy Letby case as defence to unveil new evidence

(tags:murder law evidence )

7. Reminder that working more than 40 hours per week produces *negative* marginal gains if you do if for more than a few weeks.

(tags:work working_hours efficiency )

8. Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space

(tags:books visualisation )

9. basically every video essay (in 14 seconds)

(tags:funny video videos satire )

Comments

3. How the UK's biggest solar project could be shaped by sheep farmers

[jack]

Can we build the panels in an artistic pattern?

I originally thought, "like a union jack, or a flower or something" but I realised, you could non-sarcastically improve the look as well.

In some ways I despaired. I feel like the future gave us a device which produced free energy with no moving parts, no noise, no waste emissions, and was literally shiny and people said "We don't like the colour, do you have it in green?"

It feels like it OUGHT to be more efficient to use the good land for agriculture. But presumably the owners will get more money for the solar than they would have got for sheep, even if I don't know why. I guess for growing grazing grass the land doesn't need to be *that* good? Or there really is a lack of "useless" land cheaper than farmland? Or are there weird planning issues on grey field land?

Re: 3. How the UK's biggest solar project could be shaped by sheep farmers

[andrewducker]

Grass land is pretty much by definition not good land. Grass will grow on anything that's not bare rock, and then you just let sheep wander around it and hopefully not fall off into any spiky pits.

If the ground was flat enough and dry enough then it would be turned into a field and they'd grow something in it.