Interesting Links for 03-09-2018

[andrewducker]

The UK's Brexit trade proposals are not even slightly acceptable to the EU

(tags: uk europe trade doom )

Vredefort Crater, the world’s oldest and largest known impact structure

(tags: meteor asteroids earth geology )

On American presidents and nuance

(tags: usa politics president )

Why federated social media will struggle with moderation, by someone with a huge amount of experience dealing with abuse and harassment online

(tags: dreamwidth livejournal abuse socialmedia )

Quiet Carriages are an Autistic lifeline. Please don’t take them away.

(tags: transport autism noise trains mentalhealth )

Frank Baum's uncomfortable relationship with Oz

(tags: Oz writing )

Brexit will lead to majorities for Irish unification and Scottish independence

(tags: Ireland NorthernIreland Scotland uk europe independence )

masochistic epistemology - When you believe that "what hurts, is true." things can only get worse

(tags: philosophy mentalhealth life emotion )

Brexit: Things are about to get exceedingly intense

(tags: uk Europe doom )

Hysteria Was Not Treated With Vibrators

(tags: women orgasm history psychology fraud viaCipherGoth )

YouTube algorithm deliberately recommended Brexit videos

(tags: uk Europe youtube )

“A safety net for the people of Europe”: 65 years of the European Convention on Human Rights

(tags: rights europe )

Brexit: Hundreds of Whitehall officials leave department in charge of EU withdrawal

(tags: Europe UK fail )

Comments

[mountainkiss]

I now think I was wrong about this. My best guess was that Chequers was intended to be something to use as a starting point for negotiation, but the events of the last week make it seem that it was, for her, a literal solution.