andrewducker | Interesting Links for 15-09-2017

From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones: An interesting one. Redemption is something I find fascinating, and something I can see people really struggling with here.
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Labour MP appointed to Parliament's science committee is part of climate change denial think-tank: (tags: globalwarming labour OhForFucksSake )
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Teen sends dick pic to 22-year-old woman, now he’s a child pornographer: (tags: children sex photos OhForFucksSake law usa )
Mechanism behind calorie restriction, lengthened lifespan revealed: (tags: life food diet health )
The Importance of the Oxford Comma (a poem}: (tags: poetry grammar language funny )
Iceland's government falls over child molester coverup: (tags: Iceland Child_abuse OhForFucksSake politics )
Sports Direct using fingerprint sensors to detect unhappy employees and then question them: (tags: OhForFucksSake work happiness )
Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent: (tags: spain facebook privacy )
Youtube Continues To Hurt Independent Animators, Bans Award-Winning Animated Short: (tags: animation youtube censorship )
Burger-flipping robot has its first day on the job in California: (tags: cooking automation )

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I think it's really funny, but I'm still upset by people who smugly point out that there are potential ambiguities present if you omit an oxford comma, while conveniently neglecting to mention any ambiguities present if you use one. If they think using an oxford comma is *less often* ambiguous, then fine, they're probably right. But giving ten examples doesn't prove that.

I think it was you who suggested the parallel:

"To my parents, Ayn Rand and God"
"To my mother, Ayn Rand, and God"

doug

I'm a big fan of those examples. And many of the examples in that poem still admit of ambiguity if they do have an Oxford comma:

"the Queen, a well-known madam and a prostitute" vs
"the Queen, a well-known madam, and a prostitute"

One can read the latter as referring to two individuals.

Very cool, if true

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