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andrewducker) wrote2017-04-10 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2017-04-10 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 10-04-2017
- Flat-Earthers Have a Wild New Theory About Forests
- (tags: forests conspiracy wtf )
- People prefer fairness over equality
- (tags: inequality psychology society )
- 15 honest British seaside postcards (Some of you will particularly appreciate Whitby)
- (tags: UK funny holidays goth )
- When having separate bank accounts is the opposite of independence
- (tags: relationships money )
- Ikea's smart-lighting system is not a terrible apocalypse of security failure!
- (tags: ikea security )
- LJ to Dreamwidth in a Hurry
- (tags: livejournal dreamwidth )
- Want to find an old LJ friend? Linking DW and LJ identities
- (tags: livejournal dreamwidth )
- On the Women’s Petition Against Coffee of 1674
- (tags: coffee history )
- What is this colored fiber in my chicken?
- (tags: chicken food wtf )
- The connection between short and long-term memory is not what we thought
- (tags: memory brain mice )
- I took a feminism test. I'm not sure how I feel about the results
- (tags: feminism )
- Borders Railway extension prospects studied
- (tags: rail scotland )
- Third of cohabitants believed they had same rights as married couples (or did not know). 75% think those rights should exist.
- Scotland is, as usual, ahead of the curve: http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed2365
(tags: uk scotland law relationships )
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What are you unsure of?
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Like several of your commentators on FB I'm not sure I see Radical Feminism as as benign as the description.
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I very much hope this upgrade to the East Coast Main Line goes ahead with re-instated stations at East Linton and Reston.
https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/info/20030/public_and_community_transport/449/reston_station_project
http://www.rages.org.uk/LatestNews.html
I also wonder if re-opening the Berwickshire Railway is worth considering - it ran from Reston near the Berwickshire Coast to pretty much Melrose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwickshire_Railway
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I may even take the occasional train out for the day!
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Gut feel says there would be demand for the extension of the Borders Railway to Carlisle. Demand on the current route seems at the upper end of the business case. Connecting Hawick to Edinburgh seems like a good idea.
That said, Carlisle is about twice as far from Tweedbank as Tweedbank is from Edinburgh and it's population is only about 75k so it's a different proposition as a communter destination.
Whether it's the top best use of limited capital funds I'm less certain.
The running of commuter trains on the East Coast Main Line with stations at East Linton and Reston looks to be going ahead with funding from East Lothian and the Scottish Borders Councils for the stations. I think the next decision point is the timetabling exercise for the whole of Scotland due in 2018 which should determine if their are train paths between Berwick and Edinburgh or perhaps between Berwick and Alloa.
Sadly I can't see the Berwickshire Railway being viable anytime soon unless there was a large new town built along the route. I think only the Chinese are in the business of building railways in order to support the building of new cities.
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I do hope that the East Coast line opens up more. Anything to move a bit of the demand for housing in Edinburgh.
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I am the breadwinner for my house, my partner is disabled (and has been bureaucratically bullied out of the benefits he deserved). We have separate accounts - I pay for the bills and groceries and transfer money to him each month for him to spend on whatever he chooses. I am deeply and viscerally disgusted with the men quoted who apparently do not consider themselves responsible for supporting their families apart from in the most grudging and controlling of ways.
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Some of the situations in that article do sound pretty grim. For one thing, surely clothes are a household expense?
It's a tough line to get exactly right though. At one point, it felt like she was out in a cafe every day while I was sitting at work, and that did rankle a bit.
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However there comes a point, somewhere after the twentieth pair of shoes, where my clothes shopping is just as much of a hobby as his Lego collection.
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If you have joint finances, you have to check that you're on the same page as to what it reasonable spending.
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Relatedly I'm under no misconceptions about the non-existant rights of cohabitees, if I wanted the protection of the divorce court I'd get married, I don't want to find myself effectively married without getting a say in it! Better education clearly needed if so many people are confused.
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We seem to operate a tacit arrangement where I pay for any meals out. Between me formally picking up a bit more of the housekeeping and generally funding ad hoc fun vouchers I believe that MLW feels that she is appropriately compensated for the work she does in our home.
She's effectively self-employed. When she was on maternity leave she'd saved up a bit of money to live on whilst she wasn't earning and the way her statutory maternity leave worked she got some decent support from the state.
Our incomes are different. We're both well paid senior professionals. She does client work 3.5 days a week usually. I'm at my job 5 days a week. I'm salaried with a bonus, she's self-employed. When she has a good year she earns more than I do. When she has a slow year at work or is busier Captain Wrangling or doing non-work things she doesn't. I shall be interested to see how things look when the Captain hit secondary school and MLW can go back to client work 5 days a week.
Roughly I think our arrangement is both fair and approximately equal.
But I think the main point is that we're both earning sufficient money that we can shrug off temporary imbalances without one of us having to do without.
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