Interesting Links for 21-05-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Avenge yourself on the icebergs that sunk you in Titanic Re-Christened: Maiden Vengeance

(tags:stupidity games titanic review )

2. UK Suspends Trade Talks With Israel Over 'Abominable' Situation In Gaza

(tags:uk israel gaza )

3. What happened to American manufacturing is not unusual - here's what experts says helps

(tags:manufacturing economics )

4. Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

(tags:newspapers ai OhForFucksSake )

5. How many carers does it take to afford a flat? The answer is Labour's big problem

(tags:economics labour care precariousness migration )

6. The Hive - a glorious piece of art in Kew Gargens

(tags:bees art gardens viaKenny )

7. Flying dinosaur fossil with intact feathers reveals how first birds took flight

(tags:birds dinosaurs flight fossils paleontology )

8. The Default-Parent Problem (I am delighted that both school and nursery have now mostly learnt to call me first)

(tags:parenting sexism society )

9. Israeli MP Yair Golan hits out at own country for 'killing babies as a hobby'

(tags:Israel genocide )

10. The mayfly's lifecycle: a fascinating, fleeting story

(tags:life insects )

Comments

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[danieldwilliam]

If the Labour Party can get a million homes built before the next election they will win a landslide. If not, not.

[calimac]

4) So if the imaginary list was in a promotional insert produced by a syndicate, and not done by the paper's staff, then the paper's staff cuts aren't really relevant to the problem (as inserts of this sort long predate recent staff cuts).

8) Two related, though less serious, problems: 1, the "can only store one phone number in the system" problem manifests for me as figuring out which phone number to have businesses phone me at (as I prefer to use my landline at home); 2, which person in a party does the server give the bill to? Here it's default male, often even if the woman has signaled desire for receipt.