Interesting Links for 22-04-2026

[andrewducker]

1. Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"

(tags:solarpower renewables GoodNews )

2. Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

(tags:cigarettes law uk age )

3. Define "Jewish State"

(tags:Israel Jews nationalism )

4. Hungary's anti-LGBTQ+ legislation violates EU law, court finds

(tags:Hungary LGBT Europe law bigotry )

5. There should be a biopic about Jim Henson, in his biggest flop!

(tags:biography tv muppets )

Comments

[nancylebov]

3. Weirdly, it doesn't mention the right of return.

[juan_gandhi]

#2 - how the fuck can they ban smoking to someone who's 40 but allow to someone who's 41? Etc. Say, a group of leisurely French or Spanish tourists... In any case they'll need a smoke break after the first 10 minutes of driving in the wrong direction. And the brave bobbies will come over and tell them like "you sir can smoke, and you ma'am can't because you are too young, at 40"? I can't believe your weird kingdom can do something like this. And like declaring the salt produced from the ocean water to be the property of the king. So weird.

[andrewducker]

They aren't banning smoking. They're banning the sale of cigarettes.

Which just moves the same difficult question to the point of sale.

(In this case the French people would either have to bring cigarettes with them or get older people to buy them for them.)