Interesting Links for 06-02-2018

[andrewducker]

Four week deadline to use Scottish paper money

(tags: Scotland money paper )

Humans (Like P!nk) Have Nipples And People Are Apparently Traumatised By This

(tags: breasts women bodies OhForFucksSake society )

Men with higher testosterone levels are less into classical music and opera

(tags: music men testosterone )

Smartglasses that project your notifications onto your retina using lasers. I want some so much!

(tags: lasers Technology glasses )

How and Why To Write a Rude Q&A

(tags: advice questions discussion work )

The Problem With Authority Parenting

(tags: parenting children )

Is Brexit the maddest thing England has ever done? Not quite

(tags: UK England France history war )

How to deal with children

(tags: children advice )

The boy who slept next to a bear

(tags: bears )

The true story of Milli Vanilli

(tags: music fraud OhForFucksSake )

When brains go (amusingly) wrong

(tags: funny life brain mistakes )

The UK Wants To Remain In The EU’s Trade Deals During The Transition Phase After Brexit

(tags: UK Europe trade )

Congestion in Edinburgh down by 10% (still rubbish)

(tags: transport edinburgh )

UK built half of Europe's offshore wind power in 2017 (turbines nearly as tall as The Shard!)

(tags: windpower UK GoodNews )

The Forgotten Renewable: Geothermal Energy Production Heats Up

(tags: heat power earth )

Irish Supreme court refuses man's extradition because of Brexit

(tags: Ireland Europe uk rights crime )

Lactation hormone cues birds to be good parents

(tags: birds hormones behaviour parenting )

Why the UK government shouldn't pardon the suffragettes.

(tags: women voting politics government uk history )

No one is making a “Lady Dorito."

(tags: women food OhForFucksSake marketing gender viaSwampers )

In London, Sri Lanka's Defence Attache stood opposite peaceful protesters and repeatedly ran his finger across his throat when looking at them.

(tags: OhForFucksSake protests )

Comments

Why the UK government shouldn't pardon the suffragettes.

[alithea]

I'm convinced by this argument. Historical pardons should really be for things that should never have been illegal or for miscarriages of justice anyway.

Re: Why the UK government shouldn't pardon the suffragettes.

[andrewducker]

Not convinced by that either
https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/960843226381942784?s=09

Re: Why the UK government shouldn't pardon the suffragettes.

[alithea]

Ah, thanks for that, I wasn't aware. Yeah, i'm with you now.

Re: Why the UK government shouldn't pardon the suffragettes.

[danieldwilliam]

I have a great deal of sympathy for David Allen Green's position.

There are also some legal positivist arguments for not pardonning or retrospectively quashing convictions for behaviour that is now legal.

Re: Why the UK government shouldn't pardon the suffragettes.

[zotz]

There is an almost arbitrarily long list of people who were treated appallingly by the justice system, whether by being wrongly convicted or punished draconianly or being done for things that shouldn't have been criminal. As I understood it, the general view was that we recognised this and that in those cases the state was in the wrong and therefore there was no stain on their character. Some, indeed, have been literally regarded as martyrs.

I don't really see what we gain from moving to a view that only those who have been legally pardoned can be seen as having been wronged. The victims themselves, of course, are past caring.

Re: Why the UK government shouldn't pardon the suffragettes.

[alithea]

That is another good reason for not bothering with pardons, yes, i agree.

[danieldwilliam]

I look forward to more geo-thermal projects over the coming twenty years.

Nipples

[alithea]

Thoroughly infuriating issue but the takedown did amuse me :)

Re: Nipples

[andrewducker]

Yeah, it was nicely done!

Smartglasses that project your notifications onto your retina using lasers. I want some so much!

[jack]

Yeah, this seems like the obviously desirable approach. Although I am, rationally or not, quite apprehensive about shining lasers into my eyes.

[hano]

Damn, that Fintan O'Toole piece is behind the Irish Times paywall. I'm *very* tempted to start giving them money, on the strength of O'Toole's writing alone, it's that good.

[conuly]

I was reaching for my treat pouch. I was trying to train my date with dog biscuits.

Laughed for two minutes, thanks.

[hutchingsmusic]

Sri Lanka defence guy has been suspended from duty and is being investigated: http://www.mfa.gov.lk/index.php/en/media/media-releases/7429-slukdef

[andrewducker]

Thank you, that's excellent news.