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andrewducker) wrote2018-01-23 12:10 pm
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Interesting Links for 23-01-2018
- The Lightning Network Could Make Bitcoin Faster—and Cheaper
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- Top architect insists Scotland - Ireland bridge is feasible
- (tags: bridge scotland ireland )
- Whatever happened to the Brexit talks?
- (tags: uk europe )
- 'Terrifying': How a single line of computer code put thousands of innocent Turks in jail
- (tags: turkey internet OhForFucksSake )
- The (almost) complete history of 'fake news'
- (tags: fake fraud reporting news media )
- Once you start engineering Earth's climate you can't stop
- (tags: engineering globalwarming Technology thefuture )
- How to deal with Twitter trolls
- (tags: troll advice harassment twitter )
- New York *literally* has a "get out of jail" card. What The Fuck is going on over there?
- (tags: police newyork WTF corruption )
- In Colorado, a glimpse of renewable energy’s insanely cheap future
- (tags: renewables GoodNews thefuture )
- Why Churchill was a vicious racist villain
- (tags: history UK Africa India racism afghanistan )
- Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Experiment Is a Success
- (tags: minimumwage usa )
- More on “Get Out of Jail Free” Cards
- (tags: police corruption usa )
- One in three women miss cervical screening due to embarrassment
- (tags: health women uk )
- Driver behaviour transformed by A90 average speed cameras
- (tags: speed driving safety Scotland cameras )
- Nursing Home Recreates Communist East Germany for Dementia Patients
- (tags: dementia age care germany memory history )
- Trump puts 30% tariff on imported solar cells and modules
- (tags: solarpower china usa trade )
- Europe's central banks are starting to replace US dollar reserves with the Chinese yuan
- (tags: china europe usa finance )
- Want a healthier population? Spend less on health care and more on social services
- (tags: health money society )
- Can You Buy A License to Speed?
- (tags: speed crime police )
- English NHS accused of fiddling A&E figures to downplay extent of crisis
- (tags: NHS fail OhForFucksSake )
Re: Bridge to Belfast
And we've had MSP's sent bullets for daring to wear Celtic shirts.
As an atheist Aberdonian and Edinburgher and an immigrant to both from England I'm a little flummoxed by the whole thing.
My only direct experiences of it are being viewed with suspicion by the local policeman in Limivady and the being visited by Orangemen looking for a toilet during the annual Orange March from the Meadows.
I'd quite like to avoid the Republic's cronyism too. That's something I fear Scotland could get really bad at.
Combining the two would be toxic.
Re: Bridge to Belfast
We have an Orange march that goes past our flat every year - much to the Boy's delight, being an Irish Catholic by birth :( Although last year there were more police marshals than marchers, and there weren't that many of them!
I get the impression that it's worst in Glasgow and some parts SW of it. Certainly the Boy has bad experiences of being Irish in Glasgow when Rangers are playing.
A yes to the cronyism too, it's definitely something I got whiffs off from the SNP when Alex Salmond was in charge, less so now, but I suspect it's just moved down a level and therefore become less obvious.
Re: Bridge to Belfast
Or just got free golf courses.
The Orange March here seems to have moved. When we first moved in it was very large and right on the Meadows and there seemed to be hundreds of buses coming in from all over Scotland. If you half closed your eyes and didn't listen to the speaches it looked quite jolly. Until you remember what it is actually about.
There is also a limit to the number of bad covers of The Sash My Father Wore that one can listen to before one starts reaching for Spotify and a list of reggae covers of the Spice Girls Greatest Hits or Songs of the Venga Boys Re-imagined by Julio Inglesiaz and Ricky Martin.
Anyhow, I haven't seen it recently. Perhaps we have been away when it happened. Perhaps it has moved to some other park. Perhaps it has stopped happening.
The other stranger march was a march in commemoration of some Irish socialist nationalist (Tom Connolly). I've only seen that once but there was definately a lot of police compared to the number of marchers.
Aye - Irish Catholisism and Rangers home fans are not a happy mix.
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