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andrewducker) wrote2018-08-26 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2018-08-26 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 26-08-2018
- Drive-in 'sex boxes' for prostitution are a wild success in Switzerland
- (tags: Switzerland prostitution )
- The risks of alcohol (again) (with actual details of how dangerous, and a useful graph)
- (tags: ViaDrCross alcohol health )
- No-deal Brexit will be blocked by at least 40 Tory MPs, former Conservative minister says
- (tags: UK Europe Conservatives )
- The case for abolishing private schools
- (tags: school Education inequality )
- It is actually fine to feed bread to swans (and presumably ducks, etc)
- (tags: myths birds health food bread )
- What happens to British manufacturers using the CE mark after "Brexit day"?
- (tags: UK Europe manufacturing electronics safety trade )
- The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming
- (tags: opera programming systems teams history )
- Jacob Rees-Mogg suggests that after Brexit, people crossing the Irish border should be subject to 'inspections, just like during The Troubles'
- (tags: OhForFucksSake conservatives Ireland NorthernIreland )
- The Guardian view on science fiction: The Broken Earth deserves its Hugo (totally. Read them)
- (tags: books Hugo scifi race awards )
- Skim reading is the new normal (waffles on a lot, I found it hard not to skim read, and I'd like to see some detail on the studies and the effect sizes)
- (tags: reading technology )
- Muslim Journalist Forced To Show TSA Her Bloody Pad During Search
- (tags: Islam security_theatre usa OhForFucksSake )
- The State of the Bestiary is Stable: 25 years of Magic the Gathering. (Fascinating, mathematical, personal, and analytical)
- (tags: games magic history )
- Friends, gather round for the tale of the worst bride in the world.
- (tags: wedding money OhForFucksSake )
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7) Origins of opera: The clustering-of-genius phenomenon discussed here was of great interest to Alfred Kroeber (the anthropologist, Ursula Le Guin's father), who wrote a whole book cataloging such clusters historically and trying to find patterns in them.
8) So Rees-Mogg wants to set up a hard border. That's one of the options that isn't going to work. Neither are any of the other options.
10) I agree. If authors write articles written like the one on skim-reading, then readers are going to skim them. It has nothing to do with being online.
13) There's one flaw in the ointment of the "worst bride" story. The maid of honor had already agreed to contribute $5K. It's not clear why she pulled out. Otherwise, though, yes, the sense of entitlement here even surpasses that of fan-fiction writers, and that's a lot.
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How about the bride bullied her/took non-committal behaviour as a promise, and when it came to actually paying it, refused (having hoped the bride could be talked out of it in the meantime)