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andrewducker) wrote2017-07-25 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2017-07-25 12:00 pm
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- cleanliness,
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- europe,
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- microsoft,
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- movies,
- ohforfuckssake,
- phd,
- politics,
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- scotland,
- shipping,
- software,
- thefuture,
- time,
- trains,
- transport,
- uk,
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Interesting Links for 25-07-2017
- A chart that shows where robots are going to replace humans on Wall Street
- (tags: automation finance )
- Chicago SlutWalk joins in with anti-Semitic ban
- (tags: Jews feminism OhForFucksSake usa )
- Wings Over Scotland increases defamation claim against Kezia Dugdale to £25,000
- (tags: lgbt law scotland independence politics )
- Brexit: Theresa May refuses to rule out weakening of food standards in trade deal with US
- (tags: food health usa uk europe )
- How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers
- I remember reading an article where the author pointed out that the hallmark of good science was the discarding of failed theories.
And noting that economics never discards a theory.
(tags: history economics fail ) - Brexit is dying – don’t worry about how we finish it off
- (tags: europe uk )
- If you want to understand where Corbyn is coming from on free movement of labour, Asquith Xavier has the answer. But you won't like it.
- (tags: immigration racism Labour history unions )
- Peter Davison is wrong about a female Doctor Who, but he's not sexist
- (tags: drwho feminism )
- Crewless electric cargo ships may be on the horizon in Norway
- (tags: automation shipping transport )
- When you think about it, Lord of the Rings is the only appropriate metaphor for the PhD Journey. Let me explain....
- (tags: lotr academia phd awesome )
- Money can buy you happiness (by paying to get out of negative things)
- This is on top of, of course, the "Money as a way of not being hungry/homeless" and "Money as a way of not letting your lifestyle decrease", both of which impact on happiness.
(tags: money time happiness ) - Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder
- Which seems odd to me. I can't quite figure out what they'd do with it.
(tags: privacy cleanliness automation ) - India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs
- (tags: jobs cars India automation OhForFucksSake )
- Essex nursery 'closes because of universal free hours scheme'
- (tags: children money UK government )
- How Nolan forgot the Indians at Dunkirk
- (tags: India wwii history movies )
- Snopes Faces an Ugly Legal Battle
- (tags: law business facts fail )
- Microsoft Paint avoids brush with death
- (tags: software art microsoft )
- Food security in a post-Brexit world
- (tags: Food UK europe )
- 22 reasons the hyperloop and driverless cars don't mean we don't need HS2
- (tags: trains transport thefuture )
Re: I don't think what he said was as bad as people make out
I also have some concerns about the loss of role models for boys. This is not to say that my concerns are correct or that, from a societial point of view my concerns outweigh the opportunities for other people to have particular role models. However, I am the father of a small boy.
I look at some of the other role models on offer for him and they are not great. Heavily monitised footballers, wrestlers, unsubtle presentations of super-heroes in endless reboots of origin stories. Can I punch it or kick it and get paid for it?
So I'm going to go a bit of an audit of the Captain's role models and see if I think the Doctor is as rare today as I think he was when I was the Captain's age.
Re: I don't think what he said was as bad as people make out
Suitable for 7+ which I think is slightly older than The Captain though.
Re: I don't think what he said was as bad as people make out
He's 7 and pretty smart and wise (mostly) so he should be fine with something that is 7+
We had to stop him watching How I Met Your Mother as he started to get old enough to understand what was going on. Barney Stinson is no substitute for the Doctor.
Re: I don't think what he said was as bad as people make out
(I won't watch the Avatar:TLA film. Tis a travesty.)
Re: I don't think what he said was as bad as people make out
But we probably need to have conversations we don't yet have the shared language for before he can watch How I Met Your Mother again.
Re: I don't think what he said was as bad as people make out
Re: I don't think what he said was as bad as people make out
And it gets 6% on Rotten Tomatoes.