Interesting Links for 28-09-2018

[andrewducker]

Theresa May: 'SNP should ignore their manifesto and voters'

(tags: SNP conservatives scotland wtf )

Molly Ringwald Revisits “The Breakfast Club” in the Age of #MeToo

(tags: movies abuse history women society teenagers )

Enjoyment of trash films linked to greater education

(tags: movies bad research )

Here's how Edinburgh's tram line extension through Leith will probably look

(tags: Edinburgh trams )

Cheaper Battery Is Unveiled as a Step to a Carbon-Free Grid (has apparently hit $100/kWh)

An unusual thing - new battery technology that's actually been used in the real world, and is going to be on actual sale)
(tags: electricity batteries GoodNews )

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

Either I'm being dense, or that article doesn't actually link through to the material released by Edinburgh CC, just *mentions* it.

[danieldwilliam]

I wonder if the tram extension to Leith will, in fact, encourage me to go down to Leith more often.

My dad is strangly against the tram - he's curiously agitated by it.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I don't really understand that.

Against the clusterfuck they made of building the damn thing - absolutely.

But the tram itself is heavily used, very popular, and every time they increase the service it gets more use. It's ahead of its business plan by a significant margin.

I'm looking forward to it being built out to Newhaven, and then the success of that being used to springboard future extensions.

[andrewducker]

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/2555/community_invited_to_see_how_their_input_has_shaped_trams_to_newhaven_plans

[momentsmusicaux]

Thanks!

How did you find that? I just checked the HTML source of the article and it's not in there.

[andrewducker]

I googled.

And then that didn't find it, because the March consultation took up the whole first page.

But it did lead me to: http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/2450/tram_to_newhaven_public_consultation

And then I went up to http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news

And it was the second item there.

[symbioid]

Teresa May, ugh.

I've fancied Repatriating? Demigrating? My Dad's side has been in since the 1st (2nd?) wave of Scots-Irish migrations to the US in the late 1700s.

I can't trace directly to Scotland, only N. Ireland, I know my roots are Scottish...

Long story short, I think about repatriating with the Clown in Chief over here...

Went to the Scotland Immigration page and they're like 'are you eligible' and like 5 or 6 scenarios to choose - one of which was:

SETTLING AND BECOMING A BRITISH CITIZEN

But I am pretty pro SNP, and support separation, so that doesn't really leave me an option, huh? I mean, of course the government can't SAY "NOT being a Brit" but... it felt a bit off-putting.

Not sure why I'm saying this, just found it interesting. And probably not something you've seen since you live there already and I'm guessing don't look at migration pages often LOL.

[cmcmck]

She wishes!

Having a Scottish husband (and Scott and Cockburn blood myself- okay, so I know the former were a bunch of dodgy border reivers, but.... :o) a Scottish passport from an independent Scotland is my only hope of retaining links with the EU given how I fouled up over possible Belgian citizenship.