Interesting Links for 23-05-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Why are Scotland's councils so short of cash when tax is going up?

(tags:scotland tax )

2. Greenland Signs Lucrative Minerals Deal with Europe in Blow to Trump

(tags:Europe USA materials Greenland trade )

3. How I Beat NES Mario in 0.000005 Seconds (the nerdiest video I have ever watched. If you've seen something nerdier then do let me know)

(tags:video games programming technology mario )

4. Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa

(tags:USA politics Africa southafrica )

5. Programmers spend 5% of their time editing code, the rest is mostly understanding it/the issue they're trying to solve..

(tags:programming research )

6. Which word made you old? (Mine was GOAT)

(tags:language age change comic )

7. Explaining "what a species is" turns out to be very very tricky

(tags:video ontology life )

Comments

[gingicat]

"Yeet" was my old word, but I've found it very useful. (The best word I can think of that means the same thing is "huck" but I've only seen that in books.)

[cellio]

I felt like I'd entered an alternate reality when somebody said, of another friend, that she was going to "yeet the yute", which is the strangest way to talk about a hysterectomy that I've ever heard. (I had not heard "yeet" before and had to look it up.)

[simont]

I mean that at least has the ring of deliberate word play. That's not a thing you'd say because you think it's the clearest expression of your meaning (surely?), it's because it's the silliest. :-)

[cellio]

I assume the alliteration was the goal, yes, and if I'd known the word "yeet" at the time I probably would have laughed. :-)