Interesting Links for 26-08-2018
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andrewducker- Drive-in 'sex boxes' for prostitution are a wild success in Switzerland
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- 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
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- 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
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- Jacob Rees-Mogg suggests that after Brexit, people crossing the Irish border should be subject to 'inspections, just like during The Troubles'
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- The Guardian view on science fiction: The Broken Earth deserves its Hugo (totally. Read them)
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- 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)
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- 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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Date: 2018-08-26 01:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-08-26 01:14 pm (UTC)Sorry things are so stressful though.
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Date: 2018-08-26 08:27 pm (UTC)I am generally quite highly strung. I'm a bag of stress and anxiety, have been all my life. I'm now at the point where a pathetically small quantity of alcohol sends my brain a signal that says 'You can stop fretting now and relax', and I mean small. So most nights I have a glass of wine with dinner and that's fine. It's a crutch, but it's a manageable one and my consumption hasn't gone up in over ten years. If I could get away with it, I might have it at lunchtime instead and be chilled more of my awake time, but I might not get much done at work.
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Date: 2018-08-29 04:09 am (UTC)https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2818%2931310-2/fulltext
"Among the population aged 15–49 years, alcohol use was the leading risk factor globally in 2016, with 3·8% (95% UI 3·2–4·3) of female deaths and 12·2% (10·8–13·6) of male deaths attributable to alcohol use."
That seemed plain enough to me, so you have to question why it needed reinterpreting.