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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2018-03-12 01:00 pm

Interesting Links for 12-03-2018

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[personal profile] momentsmusicaux 2018-03-12 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought your links had stopped being on UTC and now followed UK time, allowing for summer time... but they've just changed from posting at 12 to 1.
Are they maybe following US time? They changed to DST yesterday.
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[personal profile] momentsmusicaux 2018-03-12 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha. I am deep in 'fix all the bugs' mode at work today. Clearly over-analysing to try to find causes.
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[personal profile] momentsmusicaux 2018-03-12 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah yes, the goodness coming out of vaginas twitter thread. That was good.

Just the other day there was something about female world leaders who wouldn't put up walls / start wars / whatever.
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[personal profile] calimac 2018-03-12 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
My standard line is that I have two words for anyone who thinks that women are more virtuous or admirable than men, just because they're women.

Those words are: Margaret. Thatcher.
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[personal profile] momentsmusicaux 2018-03-12 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure, win the easy way. :p
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[personal profile] lilysea 2018-03-12 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Also:

Pauline Hanson
Jane Halton
Betsy DeVos
Theresa May...
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[personal profile] calimac 2018-03-12 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, there's plenty more where those came from. But I think one has the biggest impact.
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2018-03-12 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Not evil as far as I know but definately involved in building a nuclear bomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Woods
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[personal profile] calimac 2018-03-12 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Nor was Elizabeth Graves - evil, I mean - and she worked on some of the same sub-projects that Woods did.

As for Mary Walton, the smokestacks she patented polluted less than other smokestacks; that's what she built them for. So I wouldn't call her evil either.

Ilse Koch and Brenda Spencer, though, go right ahead.
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[personal profile] supergee 2018-03-12 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
But he was our mass murderer. We also teamed up with Stalin, and we were still in the right side,
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'Super Monster Wolf' robot protects crops in Japan

[personal profile] jack 2018-03-12 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
A: But like, why do owlbears exist? Even if the answer is "a wizard did it", why would they put the effort into making it?
A: It's like, in the real world people designed... an autonomous wolf robots and let them run around loose. With glowing eyes.
B: OK, I want you to be strong.
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2018-03-12 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure that JK Rowling has ever held herself out to be anything other than a British moderately socially liberal social democrat and supporter of a New Labour type Labour Party.
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2018-03-12 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Women can't be evil?

When I was prison visiting years back, I was introduced to the late, unlamented Myra Hindley.

'Nuff said!
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[personal profile] rmc28 2018-03-12 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the saturated fat link. I got told to try to reduce my cholesterol levels, but thankfully the suggested diet changes are ones I'm happy to give a go. The article section about "regular brisk walking" counteracting insulin resistance in fat people is especially cheering, because I already do that a lot, go me!
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[personal profile] movingfinger 2018-03-12 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Where do we get those tiny firemen, though? The article doesn't mention the source, and I'd love a set...
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Cholesterol as a pimple. :)

[personal profile] agoodwinsmith 2018-03-12 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, simplifying a little for humour, but thank you very much for that article.

Here is a lovely image of the Mediterranean diet pyramid:
https://oldwayspt.org/traditional-diets/mediterranean-diet
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Brazilian gang kidnap nurses to vaccinate poor locals

[personal profile] jack 2018-03-13 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
I am pleased they got people vaccinated.

But I feel like I want to know more about the background. Who supplied the vaccines -- were other people denied, or were there plenty? Is the problem travel, would just offering a ride without threats of force have sufficed?