Interesting Links for 13-01-2019

[andrewducker]

What do you do when you can't give away a building, can't sell it, and can't demolish it?

(tags: architecture scotland )

Misconceptions about Alexander Hamilton

(tags: politics history usa )

This is pretty much going to be my approach for posting about Sophia online

(tags: children privacy consent )

Forget Inbox Zero - Here's The Case for Inbox Infinity

(tags: email organisation advice )

What makes men send dick pics?

(tags: penis pictures )

Kids: Connection to nature lessens distress, hyperactivity and behavioral problems

(tags: nature psychology children happiness )

Idiots are challenging each other to drive blindfold because of "Bird Box"

(tags: idiocy blindness movies driving OhForFucksSake )

When people complain about political correctness, ask them exactly what they can't say

(tags: language society )

The Era Of Easy Recycling May Be Coming To An End

(tags: Recycling waste )

DNA pioneer James Watson has final honours stripped amid racism row

(tags: racism dna )

Discussion of the single greatest photograph in history

(tags: photography reddit history )

Packbonding tips for introverts

(tags: advice work introversion )

Comments

[calimac]

The unwanted building looks like a cross between a Star Wars battle-droid and a parking garage. Trash it.

Interesting that the Hamilton article refers to Jefferson's political party as the "Democratic-Republicans". That's a nonce name, never used at the time, applied by historians to distinguish it from other parties with similar names. They mostly don't do that any more. Recent books usually call it the Jeffersonian Republican party, or just Republican (the name its adherents actually used) in such a way to be clear they're not discussing the later party of the same name.

Posting about children: great sense here.

I don't see what sending dick pics has to do with validation, but the need for validation one man mentions is real. We all need to be assured we're OK. Not great, just OK. Yet that seems awfully hard to understand by those who are being asked to give it, and not just when the asking takes the form of sending dick pics.

But in the vast majority of complaints that I see against "political correctness", the complainer specifies exactly what they think they're being told they can't say. Sometimes they're right; they can't. (See James Watson below.)

One reason introverts don't packbond with their co-workers is fear that, it not being a native language to them, they'll do it badly, and will be worse off than if they hadn't tried. Look at those guys who send dick pics.

[snippy]

On dickpics--but they're not asking. They're specifically not asking for validation, they did not get consent to the interaction in advance, they are forcing someone to look and then hoping for the reaction they want without telling the recipient what reaction they want.