Category: Misc
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Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare
[…] [migrant workers] labor and their identities are clearly commodified, something which is, at times, heartbreakingly visible. In a country that’s notoriously obsessed with safety, where jaywalking and failing to wear a seatbelt can be punished with jail time, migrant workers can be transported on the expressways in the back of goods vehicles. Calls for…
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#PGHomeStories | Yeri Tiete & Shan Wong’s Home Refinancing Journey
Shan and I recorded this a few months ago for PropertyGuru. Didn’t know it was also on YouTube (they were mostly using it in ads and on facebook/Instagram). Keeping it here as archive. 🙂
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Science YouTuber Philipp Dettmer: ‘Getting cancer was super-interesting’
Probably my favourite YouTube channel. My poor parents sent me to a school outside the system, where people like me are put by worried parents to get any sort of degree. And there I had one teacher, an older lady, probably in her 60s, and my God I was afraid of her. I was 17…
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King Air spins
Some damn scary shit right there. The jumpers blocked the airflow and shifted the gravity balance: The stall and subsequent spin happened when we allowed too many jumpers on the outside step, causing an aft center of gravity and excessive blocking of the airflow to the left horizontal stabilizer. The nose then pitched up beyond…
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You Are Immune Against Every Disease
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How The Immune System Works
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Ocean Plastic
Seeing it summarised like this, is quite depressing. Definitely time for humanity to act, ban one-use anything, stop dumping trash left and right, or exporting it to poor countries. There’s some hope with ongoing projects that attempt to catch (bigger) plastic before they reach the oceans, or fish it out when floating in patches —…
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River Trash Interceptors
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Singapore Metro
For the Metro nerds among us…
