Interesting Links for 30-08-2020

[andrewducker]

Edinburgh Royal Hospital for Sick Children: Report finds spreadsheet error led to £16 million opening delay

(tags:spreadsheet hospital Edinburgh epicfail )

What it's like for a transgender person to try and compromise with transphobes

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1299561008000688128.html
(tags:LGBT transgender bigotry )

'Queer Eye', Jordan Peterson and the battle for depressed men

(tags:politics society )

A call to J.K. Rowling - Mermaids

(tags:jkrowling transgender lgbt )

The truth is, people like working from home

(tags:politics work life )

Can my child's school insist they take a Covid test? (and other questions Scottish parents have)

(tags:Scotland pandemic school )

Comments

[anna_wing]

The change to working from home has also made it interestingly clear how many jobs cannot be done remotely, or not for very long. They're not all low-paid or low-skilled.

[dewline]

No, they're not. Which makes my search more difficult. Not impossible, but more difficult.

[armiphlage]

I mostly make prettycharts and reports for a factory. Theoretically easy to do remotely. But I need to actually look at the equipment or parts that are causing problems so I can investigate properly. When I was stuck at home, I had to get people to crawl around inside machines and send me cellphone pictures for me.

[anna_wing]

This is actually the sort of thing that Virtual Reality + drones is ideal for. A thought that occurred to me several years ago while touring a disused (built but never commissioned) nuclear power plant.

[dewline]

3. This...is a thing I needed to see, and a thing I need to keep bookmarked. Community matters, and too often I feel pressured to ignore community. Its resources...are considerable.

[cmcmck]

I gave up trying to compromise many years ago.

Why the hell should I hurt myself any more? :o(