Interesting Links for 25-01-2018

[andrewducker]

Think your country is crowded? These maps reveal the truth about population density across Europe

(tags: population europe maps )

How Private Equity Killed Toys “R” Us

(tags: business money )

This Is What Domestic Violence Is Like When You're LGBT

(tags: lgbt rape abuse )

Scotland to ban electric shock dog collars

(tags: dogs scotland )

Working in female-dominated workplaces means worse access to flexible working arrangements

(tags: women work )

How Canada may use Sweden's gender-balanced snow-clearing to adjust their budgets

(tags: Canada feminism government money )

The Humanity Star

(tags: space )

This 19-year-old Kiwi farmer accidentally became a character in a US board game

(tags: newzealand usa boardgames wikipedia )

Conflict Theory vs Mistake Theory

I'm Mistake Theory by nature - with a few bits of learned Conflict.
(tags: politics philosophy argument belief society )

World's first electric container barges to sail from European ports this summer

(tags: electricity transport europe canal )

It’s not all in their heads: people with low self-esteem really do have less responsive partners

(tags: psychology relationships self-esteem )

Possibly the finest special effect of all time

(tags: specialeffects muppets viaSwampers )

Comments

[alithea]

Loved that first article, thanks! (I always enjoy a good map and that sort of analysis)

Low self esteem

[alithea]

Interesting stuff, nice to have confirmed things I realise I've tried to train myself to do in my own relationships.

[danieldwilliam]

Surely the end result of the Humanty Star in the 21st century is that someone will find a way to draw a giant cock and balls on its side.

[danieldwilliam]

I'm not sure that private equity killed Toys R Us. They might have bungled improving it or they might have spotted an opportunity to take some money out of a failing business before that money was shared with future employees and suppliers.

It's not clear that Toys R Us was thriving business with great grown prospects that was ruined by the people who bought it.

[dpolicar]

I found the whole Conflict Theory vs Mistake Theory post bewildering, but that is frequently true of SSC's take on the role of power in demographic relations.

Anyway, I am a Mistake theorist among peers and a Conflict theorist where significant power imbalances exist, and I feel like this is such an obviously correct way to be that any other position baffles me.

It's rather as if I were asked whether people losing a lot of wealth in a transaction is a function of them making poor financial decisions, or them being robbed. In situations where they have a lot of control over their wealth, I assume the former. In situations where they don't have control over their wealth, I assume the latter. If someone says to me "no, never mind how much control over their wealth they have, just which do you think more likely?" I stare at them bewildered.