Interesting Links for 03-03-2021

[andrewducker]

This rail gun is for training purposes only

(tags:guns joke trains )

Six comedy Shakespeare adaptations

(tags:Shakespeare funny )

British holiday company Pontins used blacklist of common Irish surnames to keep Traveller families out of holiday parks

(tags:UK racism holidays business OhForFucksSake )

Reforming Scottish defamation law

(tags:law Scotland reform )

New EU 'right to repair' laws require technology to be repairable for a decade

(tags:technology Europe )

The new reality of dating over 65: Men want to live together; women don't

(tags:relationships age )

Your Superpower Is A Compensation For Old Trauma

(tags:trauma superheroes )

Why aren't there as many women working in computers?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1366886068532875265.html
(tags:computers women society OhForFucksSake )

UK government censured for a lack of transparency and accountability

(tags:UK transparency OhForFucksSake )

Comments

Why aren't there as many women working in computers?

[channelpenguin]

God that's dreadful. None of that ever happened to me thank God, but I can well believe it happened to others! A few classmates at Uni had the odd crack that I was getting help but I shut them up fast. I was SO incensed. The one low mark I don't think I deserved was down to (I think) coming up with the central idea in the lecturer's office while talking to him. Still my own idea. Teh one assignment whwre me and a pal of mine, Scott, both took an alternative approach to everyone else (worked fine, not real disadvantages, just not how they taught how to do it on the course), we both got lower marks, so that was not sexist I felt. I have been so lucky!!!

Re: Why aren't there as many women working in computers?

[aldabra]

K got herself a fancy headphones with microphone for gaming. She says she doesn't bother playing online games with the microphone, because you turn up and say "hello" and everyone yells "fuck off back to the kitchen" and then ignores you. She can get away with playing without the microphone because then people don't guess she's female.

I think a lot of the men I know working in computers get some of their positive feedback from gaming on the side.

Re: Why aren't there as many women working in computers?

[andrewducker]

Those men really need to be shovelled off the internet.

Re: Why aren't there as many women working in computers?

[dewline]

That will make things safer for saner men, too, I'm thinking.

Re: Why aren't there as many women working in computers?

[andrewducker]

Oh yes.

A lot quieter too. We could enjoy relaxing conversation without nearly as much taking yelling.

Re: Why aren't there as many women working in computers?

[andrewducker]

I would feel almost (but not quite) sorry for anyone who attempted to tell you that women can't be as good with computers as men.

And I'm fairly sure that most men can spot that from a distance.

living apart together

[rmc28]

My grandmother, widowed in her forties (?) met a lovely widower M in her early sixties (?) and they were committed partners from then until her death twenty years later, but never moved in together or made joint accounts or anything. Some of this was just them both being happy with the homes they had, and some of it was them both already having grown children and grandchildren and not wanting any complications about inheritance. Anyway, for many years they lived in their respective homes about three hours drive apart, and visited back and forth, and sometimes came to visit us on their way from one home to the other, as we were not far off the direct route between their homes. This would have been late 1980s onward.

I guess I saw it as normal, because they did. The separate houses clearly made no difference to their mutual devotion. M remained her loving partner throughout her slow descent into Alzheimer's, and he gave the eulogy at her funeral.

Re: living apart together

[dewline]

Sad, yet heartening at the same time.

[danieldwilliam]

Juliet and Cressida Part II.

They both end up married to Rosencrantz or Guildenstern.

[andrewducker]

And nobody knows which one married which one?

[danieldwilliam]

And the celebrants were long-lost twins.

On the Subject of Right to Repair

[dewline]

I just hope that we keep thinking ahead, not just ten years...

Superpowers

[hellofriendsiminthedark]

Very true, although on the flip side, I have a friend who intentionally reframes her anxiety into a superpower that allows her to tackle lots of projects and do lots of things with quality, because she says framing it as a superpower makes it something to be proud of and turns it into a helpful quality of herself, rather than a debilitating hindrance to be ashamed of.

I think about that a lot, especially since lots of people have found me particularly intuitive or proactive or wise in life.

[momentsmusicaux]

So basically, in about 20 years' time my terrible case of avoidant attachment is going to be just the right thing?

[andrewducker]

You'll be all the rage.

[anna_wing]

It was put to me with brutal candor by an older male friend (disapproving of a female contemporary's decision to marry): "Why marry just to marry? She can't have children any more; he's only interested in her money and free nursing."

Her entire social circle was extremely relieved when she changed her mind.