Guilty pleasures
Do you get Quora Digest? I think you automatically get signed up to it when you open a Gmail account, because I get mailings from them to each of my several Gmail addresses. Interestingly, the topics on each are slightly different, which either means they try different versions at random, or they’re targeting my topics based on which account I was logged into when I clicked something.
Yes, I click. Quora is one of my guilty pleasures. I’ve always been a sucker for ordinary people telling me pointless stories. I never realized until just now, though, how hard they make it to link to an individual story directly. Phew!
Have a look at the picture. It’s an overhead shot of something in China. For scale, the objects on the right hand side are electricity pylons. It is not a crop.
You’ll find the story here. For maximum amaze, scroll slowly past the pictures as the camera moves closer and closer to the subject.
And do read the article. The sheer scale of what happens when things go fuckup in China is astonishing.
Happy Monday!
May 10, 2021 — 7:10 pm
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