Interesting Links for 26-02-2017

[andrewducker]

Why Ever Stop Playing Video Games (tags: games ) Check Out An Interactive Map Of Every Dinosaur Fossil Found On Earth (tags: dinosaurs map viaPatrickHadfield ) Why Millennials Are Lonely (tags: loneliness psychology viaSwampers ) The One Crucial Thing to Do When Your Partner Is Upset (tags: happiness psychology emotion relationships viaSwampers

Comments

[mlknchz]

Denial shouldn't be a crime, but it should be vigorously de-bunked at every opportunity

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. People shouldn't be able to get away with spouting dangerous nonsense unchallenged.

On emotional validation

[luckylove]

I'm kinda glad I got past the irritating clickbait headline

RE: On emotional validation

[luckylove]

Not sure why that posted twice. I swear I only clicked once. :/

RE: On emotional validation

[andrewducker]

All fine. And glad you said it!

[agoodwinsmith]

I haven't read all of the automation in farming article, but I don't doubt that more and more work will be performed by automation. It is important to remember that this always has social consequences - people without work. Who buys the auto-picked strawberries when there are no wages

[andrewducker]

Well, hopefully there will be other jobs to move into, for a while. And eventually we end up with automation doing the majority of the work and we'll need a citizen's income of some kind.

[agoodwinsmith]

Nope. I think we'll do what we're already doing: sell munitions to each other and bomb the shit out of some place everyone else is too afraid[1] to help.

[1] - "immigrants coming here, taking our jobs, bringing their troubles with them" blah de blah de blah

[soon_lee]

Wait 2000AD is 40? How?

[andrewducker]

Well, I'm 44 - how did _that_ happen?

[soon_lee]

ObPratchett: “...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”

[danieldwilliam]

The 21st Century equivalent of a U-boat is a bit of malware that takes down the wifi coms in your agricultural areas for two weeks.

[andrewducker]

Hah! The more I think about that the more I like it!

[andrewducker]

Of course, once we're all renewables, does that remove Russia's importance as a global power?

[danieldwilliam]

I think it probably adversely affects Russia's ability to be brute. Partly because renewables are probably relatively adverse for Russia and partly because they are adverse in one several of the ways that Russia seems to operate