Interesting Links for 16-09-2018

[andrewducker]

Labour MP Wants to Ban Your Private Facebook Groups Because She Worries You're Using Hate Speech

(tags: freespeech privacy OhForFucksSake Labour uk )

Edinburgh comedian claims his routine on Netflix has split up 2,500 couples

(tags: Relationships comedy )

Need a £250 loan? What are the options now Wonga has gone?

(tags: money loans uk )

A lunar-lander type game with complex fluid dynamics

(tags: mathematics games simulation web )

We tend to encounter the worst of outgroups, which makes us hate them all the more

(tags: communication fail groups politics )

Chile approves new gender identity law in great victory for trans people

(tags: chile transgender lgbt )

'Broken' rail franchise system to be reviewed

(tags: uk trains government )

Time for hard headed realism on immigration

(tags: immigration libdem )

No, 90% of D&D's rules are not about combat.

(tags: dungeonsanddragons rules )

Ruth Davidson rules out ever becoming Tory leader as she reveals mental health battle

(tags: conservatives Scotland mentalhealth )

"Why is Mexico spelled 'México' in Spanish, especially if in Nahuatl Mēxihco was pronounced [me: SHIʔ ko]?" (vulgar Latin and vowel shift)

(tags: language spain Mexico latin )

Comments

[dewline]

1. Well, that's going to be another Problem for a lot of sane people across the planet, isn't it?

6. Hooray!

7. What is it about passenger rail that leaves anglophone-majority national governments allergic to governing it properly?

11. We need to get back to that third - original? - pronunciation, right?