andrewducker | Interesting Links for 30-03-2021

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That is the second occurrence of that sort of thing I've seen referenced this week.

The other one was very obscured and I've no idea what happened other than I think the incidents were similar.

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andrewducker

This one turns out to be about a year old, which I hadn't realised when I posted it.

You'd think people would realise not to do that kind of thing in front of an audience!

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danieldwilliam

I suppose if you think that sort of thing is a good idea it doesn't occur to you *not* to do it on a live stream.

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dewline

But no, they don't. Some of them don't make the logical connections. Which is a mixed blessing for the community in general, the victim-survivors in particular, and for law enforcement. The crimes shouldn't be committed in the first place, but if they are...

Anyway, the article clarifies a few things...which make the situation even more problematic. Role-playing game "simulation" or whatever, this is Troubling.

Edited Date: 2021-03-30 12:55 pm (UTC)

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danieldwilliam

First Tripods and now American Gods. What is wrong with the world.

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andrewducker

I loved the Tripods books. A real shame the TV series didn't get finished.

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dewline

The Expanse seems to fall into the same category...?

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danieldwilliam

Yeah me too.

I wonder if it would be worth having a second go at the television series.

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andrewducker

There's definitely a bunch of potential there.

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danieldwilliam

I've just bought the Captain the first book.

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andrewducker

Let me know how it is, and whether it turns out it's full of racism I didn't spot the first time through!

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danieldwilliam

I will do. I don't recall spotting any racism in it when I read them but I guess I was about 12 when I did.

Disney own the film rights.

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andrewducker

Disney can do decent YA stuff. They made "Holes", which is one of my favourite movies. I can see them making a decent job of it.

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danieldwilliam

Indeed, but I think they've had the rights for about 20 years now.

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andrewducker

Film production is immensely frustrating.

Noelle Stevenson, the genius behind the recent She-Ra reboot, produced an award winning graphic novel "Nimona". It was optioned by Fox, they got a fair chunk through production, and then Disney bought Fox and shut down production by their animation studios.

So there's a movie I was really looking forward to that will probably never be. Or, at least, not for a long while!

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andrewducker

I mean, how could they not just finish off something this close to release?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimona#Cancelled_film

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danieldwilliam

The financing of film and television, and music too, is a bit of a mystery to me.

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coth

I was climbing over a railing on my way back from a litter picking session by a local brook on Saturday when I realised my grandmother would have been mortified if she had seen me. So unladylike. And so unbecoming to a lady my age.

She probably stopped climbing over railings as a teenager - she had three children before she was 25.

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andrewducker

Yes, there was definitely more of a "Having fun over the age of 35? That's not allowed!" feel about things in ye olden days.

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dewline

Guessing this crew is along the same lines as Trumpists in the States, and the "People's Party" here in Canada...?

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andrewducker

So far not that overtly.

We'll see how they are over the next few weeks

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danieldwilliam

Not hugely I think.

Their leader, Alex Salmond, was First Minister quite successfully for many years. He government rather too cautiously for some at the time. He's from the overtly left-wing of the SNP and it was whilst he was leader of the SNP that they adopted the concept of "civic nationalism" - that Scotish independence is about giving the people who live in Scotland, regardless of where they were born, the democratic power to create a progressive, centre-left Scotland.

I'm not saying he's not done bad things or that he's not, in this instance perhaps being added and abetted by Putin but he's not an overtly populist nutjob.

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andrewducker

So far, in a ranked system they'd probably be above the Conservatives for me, for instance.

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danieldwilliam

Yeah - I'm not hurrying out to vote for them but nor does the idea of the Alba Party in a very minor roll in a confidence and supply arrangement with the SNP fill me with dread.

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mountainkiss

I think Sturgeon has burned that bridge by saying he's not a fit person for public office.

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danieldwilliam

The electoral maths will dictate what happens here I think.

Sturgeon can't stop Salmond being elected and becoming an MSP other than through the election. So whether he turns up in the chamber as an MSP is a bit out her hands.

I think the two most likely outcomes of the May election are, in order, a narrow SNP majority government, a minority SNP government reliant on the Greens for confidence and supply and any Alba Party MSP's somewhat marginalised.

There's perhaps a 1 in 20 chance that the votes and the maths work out differently and the SNP need to lean on the Alba Party. In which case Sturgeon is perhaps in a bit of trouble because she may be the price the SNP have to pay for the Alba Party's support. Or not, the SNP might decide in those circumstances to brazen it through and dare the Alba Party to VONC Sturgeon and have another general election instead of the Referendum Bill.

Other than the personal questions over Sturgeon vs Salmond and Plan A vs Plan B I'm not sure that the SNP and the Alba Party disagree on much that the average voter cares about.

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mountainkiss

Given that Putin was all for EU Exit, why would he support a party that's likely to split the independence movement?

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poshmerchant

Putin's goal is to break the EU, not the UK. Having Scotland rejoin the EU hinders breaking the EU. Putin is not a sovereignty or self-determination purist.

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mountainkiss

Ah gotcha.

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danieldwilliam

As my mate M would say "for shits and giggles". He likes to make mischief.

More serious answer, perhaps he has promised Salmond his support, or perhaps Salmond has banked some of the financial support he's had when having Salmond pop up on RT was useful to Putin and is using that, or perhaps Putin thinks the Alba Party's Max the Yes vote will be successful.

Or perhaps he isn't supporting the Alba Party particular but his personal support to Salmond in the last few years has been instrumental in providing Salmond with the wherewithal to fight his numerous legal challenges and maintain a public platform.

It is possible that Putin *has* supported Salmond but doesn't particularly support the Alba Party.

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nancylebov

In re the aging thing: My impression isn't that curlers and face masks (glop, not an actual mask) were considered ridiculous because they were ugly, not because they were considered a sign of vanity.

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agoodwinsmith

First off. One may appear younger that one's parents did at the same age, but one's kids think one is ancient. Your less than tight skin is the oldest skin they've seen so far.

Second off. Curlers were worn because hand-held hair dryers hadn't been invented yet. Women were expected to sleep on curlers every night (not kidding - ugh). A woman seen outdoors wearing curlers during the day was going some place pretty swanky in the evening, and their opinion of her curls was/were *way* more important than the opinion of anyone who saw her in the curlers.

My Grama, born in 1913, and coming of age in the roaring 20's, was very beauty conscious. She once chastised my mother for being such a prude. She told me that women had to suffer for beauty. I still have her hair tongs. These were tricky because you heated them up either on top of the kitchen wood stove, or some other uncontrolled heat source, and you either ending up with frizzy curls, or singed off hair. I like the 20's wave crimpers much better.

I grant the author the smoking, though. Everyone smoked, and even those who didn't had to have ashtrays in their houses, or people would put their cigarettes out on the floor. It would have been like expecting people not to bring in their eyeballs when they visited.

The thing about Edie McClurg is that she always played frumpy women wearing very dated clothing. In 1986 she was 41 - and she's still acting. She was dressed like she was in her 60's. She was playing a well-know cliche.

Anyhoo. Smoking does bad things to the skin and system - but so does aging, dammit.

Edited (first one for misplaced punctuation - second one for lack of agreement in tenses) Date: 2021-03-31 07:00 am (UTC)

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