Interesting Links for 28-08-2018

[andrewducker]

The worst Edinburgh festival venues in ‘Bad Boss Awards’

(tags: work Edinburgh fringe OhForFucksSake )

Pension opt-outs have not jumped since auto-enrolment rate rise

(tags: pensions GoodNews )

Emmanuel Macron rejects Theresa May's plea for help to rescue her Brexit plan

(tags: uk europe doom france )

Path to 2 nm May Not Be Worth It (for computer processors)

(tags: computers technology size thefuture )

Online Bettors Good Indicator For If Psychology Studies Will Replicate

(tags: psychology gambling )

How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap

I find OpenStreetMap really useful for footpaths, and details that Google doesn't bother with.
(tags: maps OpenStreetMap )

Depressed people find it hard to tell which negative emotion they're feeling

(tags: depression psychology )

EU calls Trump’s bluff as he takes an ax to the WTO

(tags: wto usa europe )

Germany calls for global payments system free of US

(tags: Germany usa money )

Stop telling women how they should talk

(tags: women voice viaFanf )

Diet has bigger impact on emotional well-being in women than in men

(tags: diet mentalhealth gender )

Blizzard disabling paid loot boxes in Overwatch & Heroes Of The Storm in Belgium

(tags: games gambling belgium )

Comments

[kerk_hiraeth]

No way for me to read the FT one, but I had a quick check and found this. No way to compare the two obviously but I thought I'd post the link https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-21/germany-calls-global-payment-system-independent-us

kerk

[andrewducker]

Thank you, appreciated!

[andrewducker]

Oh, and this is how I read the FT:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywalls/?src=recommended

[kerk_hiraeth]

Thanks I'll try and make a note of that.

[agoodwinsmith]

Thank you for this link.

Depression

[agoodwinsmith]

Hands up everyone who only experiences one emotion at a time.

I don't. Recently I experienced an event which I won't detail because I am embarassed that I did something I know better than to do. But I am also angry that I was put in the position of having another golden opportunity to look stupid. And I feel sarcastic about it because it is one of those things for which the only remedy is a complete revamping of our entire culture - which like *that's* gonna happen for my benefit, oh sure.

Considering what I recall from my depression, I was mostly apathetic about everything because the negative emotions were chronic, and if you don't like this one, wait a moment and another one will be along shortly.

I mean: you feel guilty for feeling sad, then you feel angry for being made to feel guilty, then you feel sad that everything makes you angry, and then you feel angry for feeling angry, and then you feel guilty because you keep being told that it's just a matter of willpower - and it's all just so exhausting.

This is another case for embracing "and".

Re: Depression

[ninetydegrees]

I completely agree and the article should have dug deeper indeed. However, I also think there's a grain a truth in what they're saying. Depression for me was apathy but also overwhelming sadness, self-hate and guilt. This manifested as anger most of the time. But not the other way around. Now I take anger as a warning sign. Like I'm peeling an onion to get to the root emotion if that makes sense. I also suffer from anxiety and this one can be hard to spot on a day-to-day basis. It's helpful to me to distinguish sadness from anxiety or other emotions, and just practice self awareness in general.

Re: Depression

[agoodwinsmith]

I think it might be convenient for therapists if depressed people would only present one emotion at a time for review. I also think asking a depressed person to give a shit about labelling emotions when getting out of bed has no nameable rewards is expecting a bit much. I think what the researchers are seeing as inability to label emotions is more likely to be disinterest in the task.

I think, also, that I am basically built out of impotent rage and paranoid distrust, neither one of which one is supposed to admit, so if I were depressed again, and asked to identify my negative emotions, I am unlikely to share the truth with someone who is asking me because they are writing a research paper. Add the apathy and disinterest, and my answers are gonna be pretty vague and contradictory.

[ninetydegrees]

Stop telling women how they should talk

I've often seen the tone/pitch arguments being used but the language one is news to me. Very educating. Thank you.

[danieldwilliam]

I need to find a way to engage more with the campaign about employment condititions in the Fringe.

Some of the employment practices are deeply immoral and bring shame on my city.

It's also a good example of how our constitution sucks the energy out of campaigns.

[andrewducker]

How does it do that?

[danieldwilliam]

Because of the way decision making is dispersed around the various levels of governmnt but mostly centrallised.

The "venues" rent the space from various Edinburgh institutions, such as the University. Those institutions are not directly responsible for the employment of the staff.

The council licences the venues as performance spaces but don't have responsibility for employment regulation.

Some of the powers that local communities might want in order to deal with this situation are held by the Scottish government, some by the UK.

There's no one person you can go and see who has interest, power, focus and can be made to have a desire to engage with the problem.

[andrewducker]

Aaah, you meant the Scottish constitution?

I do agree that the nebulous distribution of responsibility makes it much harder to effect change.