Interesting Links for 08-08-2018

[andrewducker]

Middle-aged men for rent in Japan

(tags: men japan )

BBC websites blocked in China after security change

(tags: security china censorship )

EU may force iPhone to switch from Lightning to USB

(tags: apple europe standards )

ICANN loses injunction bid in dispute over WHOIS data in Germany

(tags: internet privacy )

The different ways people talk (and think) about religion, and why it matters

(tags: religion )

Belief in Scottish independence protected under equality laws, Employment Tribunal rules

(tags: scotland equality belief )

Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade

(tags: doom epicfail economy usa investment society )

Earth at risk of becoming 'hothouse' if tipping point reached

(tags: globalwarming doom )

French study suggests younger women should stop wearing bras

(tags: breasts clothing )

Convincing evidence that someone *did* attempt to kill the Venezuelan president with exploding drones

(tags: assassination viaCipherGoth explosives drone Venezuela )

How to tell someone that a family member has died

(tags: death advice communication )

‘My illness is a feminist issue’: Woman reveals how doctors refused to treat her lipoedema because she is ‘fat’

(tags: NHS fat women OhForFucksSake )

Bad news: there's no solution to false information online

(tags: fraud internet media journalism )

Stop saying “fake news”. It’s not helping.

(tags: fraud journalism politics usa )

Historic £1.3bn Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal agreed

(tags: Scotland Edinburgh uk )

The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat - A Fairy Tale. For Dinosaurs.

(tags: fairytale short_story dinosaurs viaSwampers )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

The City Deal doesn't seem to have any additional money for railways.

[momentsmusicaux]

That's a bummer. The South Edinburgh railway line would have been a nice thing to get from that!

[danieldwilliam]

Yes, it would.

I think most of the funding for railways is allocated through the transport funding settlements and is done pretty far ahead but for things like stations there seems to be a requirement for co-funding. I was specifically looking out for some funding to secure stations at East Linton and Reston on the communter part of the East Coast Mainline.

[andrewducker]

Recent mention here
https://www.railmagazine.com/news/network/scotrail-targets-further-electrification-schemes

[danieldwilliam]

I love the line about Hynes "acknowledging" that if they open stations at East Linton and Reston they will need to provide services to and from these stations. As if he might be surprised by the novel concept that you would only build a railway station if you intended for trains to stop there.

[andrewducker]

I'm sure that decorative train stations are the future.

[danieldwilliam]

We can admire them from the motorway.

The different ways people talk (and think) about religion, and why it matters

[jack]

I found unitofcaring's explanation of this difference really helpful. In fact, I find *many* of unitofcaring's posts really helpful.

Although I'm very cautious, because many people would disagree and I don't want to put words in their mouths.

For comparison, I think there *are* things where I confuse "this is true" and "I believe this" and "maybe it would be good if we believe this", mostly ethical principles, like "allowing people to choose for themselves is a good thing".

Re: The different ways people talk (and think) about religion, and why it matters

[andrewducker]

Ahhh. I don't believe ethical principles have a truth value.

More about medical fat phobia

[agoodwinsmith]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/fat-shaming-medical-1.4766676

[skington]

Regarding phoning about someone who's died, this bit is so true:

If you have a number of these phonecalls to make, my advice is that it's very useful to have someone who cares about you and who didn't know the person at all (ie is not bereaved etc themselves) who you can phone in between each one to tell you you're doing a good job

When my mother died years ago, I had to go through her address book and phone her friends. That was the hardest thing I've ever done, by quite some distance.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, hoping not to have to do that kind of thing for a while. You have my sympathy.

[agoodwinsmith]

Not surprised about the bra-thing - but you try to get away without one in a professional setting. Noooope.