Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-6-2009

[andrewducker]

• Transphobic tirade costs KRXQ ad dollars
  Asshat radio hosts in California went on a half hour tirade against transgender youth.
  
  Ten major companies (including AT&T, McDonald's and Bank of America) pull their ads.
  
  It's fantastic that these companies have policies to deal with this. Definitely a sign of an improving world.
  (tags: transgender advertising usa)
• Note to employers: Better sex = happier workers
  In the case of the gals, if the domestic situation was good, they were happier at work, In the case of the guys, however, those admitting average relationships said they were the most harassed in the office.
  
  Andersson kind-of explained: "When we talked to the men, they said that when it's in-between, you have to put more effort into it. You keep doing that until the relationship either becomes better or hopeless. When you get to that point, it doesn't really affect your health anymore.â
  (tags: sex relationships work)
• Men 'live longer' if they marry a younger woman
  Wives with husbands older or younger by between seven and nine years increase their chances of dying early by 20 per cent.
  
  This rises to 30 per cent if the age difference is close to 15 and 17 years.
  
  This is, of course, why I'm dating Julie.
  (tags: marriage health women life men sex)
• Blaming: Some Advanced Techniques
  If you assign blame it's easy: that person's yelling at you. Yelling is always wrong. Therefore, that person is wrong, and until they apologize for their actions, you don't have to do a damn thing.
  (tags: relationships advice people argument)
• Could we be the generation that runs out of fish? - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
  In my parents' lifetime, we have killed 90 per cent of the world's fish. In my lifetime, we will finish off the rest â“ unless we change our ways, fast. We are on course to be the people who wiped fish from the earth.
  (tags: ecology economics environment fish)

Comments

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

Definitely a sign of an improving world.

Isn't it tho? Thank heavens the fish are all dead or I'd wind up having hope for the future. ;-)

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

I really hate all these cod science "you are happier and live longer if you are in a good, preferably hetero, relationship having great sex" I might as well just go and kill myself now and save the universe the trouble of wearing me down into an early grave.

Good job it's all nonsense :D

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

Oh and I can't even get started ranting about the fish. Once you've removed an entire branch of life, and a pretty important one at that, it won't take long for the entire tree to die.

[erindubitably.livejournal.com]

No, no, Sarah... Fish live in the ocean.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

Oh god it's even worse than I thought

[kurosau.livejournal.com]

Two things. First, that article on Blaming has already disappeared, as it looks like that journal has been deleted.

Second, I think that 90% fish statistic is kinda misleading. The article is referring primarily to the atlantic cod stocks, which did get depleted that badly, more than that badly, and are one of the primary reasons the fishing industry was restructured so we won't do that again. It isn't perfect yet, but the industry is changing so that we won't do to any other species what we did to the cod.

From what I was reading, and watching, what happened to the cod is something called a trophic cascade. Fish stocks will replenish themselves incredibly quickly, but only if their position in the ecosystem remains stable. The cod were overfished for so long that they under went said trophic cascade (probably), and lost their status as a dominant predator fish, allowing their prey to become predators in their wake. As a result, there is speculation that the cod stocks will not recover.