Interesting Links for 24-06-2021
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- Roaming charges to return for travellers to EU in Brexit blow, leading operator announces
- (tags:UK Europe phones )
- Fact-checking the debate over low rape prosecution levels in England and Wales
- (tags:rape law UK )
- Scotland gets a surge of Covid cases because of football
- (tags:football pandemic )
- The Nordic Model of dealing with sex work is terrible.
- (tags:sexwork nordic Sweden OhForFucksSake )
- Brexit: The Biggest Claims From The Remain And Leave Campaigns That Never Happened
- (tags:uk europe )
- Large-scale CO2 removal facility set for Scotland
- (tags:scotland co2 )
- Almost 40% of Covid sufferers still experiencing persistent symptoms after 12 weeks
- (tags:pandemic doom )
- How the Covid vaccine really works (with cats!)
- (tags:cats vaccine animation ViaDrCross )
- Brexit: Collapse in British exports hands Irish Republic a trade surplus (cross-border trade between the Republic and Northern Ireland also massively up)
- (tags:uk europe ireland trade )
Covid aftereffects
Date: 2021-06-24 01:45 pm (UTC)Marvellous. So we can look forward to it being ignored, denied and dismissed. :-(
no subject
Date: 2021-06-24 02:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-06-24 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-06-24 03:13 pm (UTC)Oof. Sorry, misread the title by not reading the article.
CO2 Storage
Date: 2021-06-24 02:29 pm (UTC)In any event, perhaps the best use for any surplus renewable electricity generated in an Overbuild and Reduce Storage type grid strategy.
Re: CO2 Storage
Date: 2021-06-24 02:31 pm (UTC)https://www.newpower.info/2021/06/intergen-plans-to-convert-rocksavage-to-blend-hydrogen-and-eventually-move-to-100-hydrogen-burn/
https://hynet.co.uk/
Re: CO2 Storage
Date: 2021-06-24 02:32 pm (UTC)Re: CO2 Storage
Date: 2021-06-24 02:36 pm (UTC)Then perhaps the question is how long the carbon would stay locked up in calcium carbonate if dumped in the ocean. If 10 years, it's not use, if 1,000 years then that might be useful.
Re: CO2 Storage
Date: 2021-06-24 02:53 pm (UTC)Nordic Model
Date: 2021-06-24 02:33 pm (UTC)Re: Nordic Model
Date: 2021-06-24 02:34 pm (UTC)Re: Nordic Model
Date: 2021-06-24 02:45 pm (UTC)Re: Nordic Model
Date: 2021-06-24 03:26 pm (UTC)And I note that as a society we are totally onboard with people paying money to buy access to other people's bodies in many other situations. Professional sports, coal-mining, acting are all seen as near heroic occupations. Waiting table, cleaning homes and offices and gardening less herioc but just as physical. Heck, part of my salary depends on the use of my hands.
I think if you want to regulate a market you need to make it legal, with painful consequences for not complying with the regulations. If you want to ban something then you either need near universal popular support for the ban or be willing to spend double-digit proportions of your GDP on enforcing the ban. The Nordic Model just seems to shift the locus of the ban from one group of participants to another group.
It doesn't do a great job of articulating the harm it is trying to prevent.
Re: Nordic Model
Date: 2021-06-24 03:37 pm (UTC)Re: Nordic Model
Date: 2021-06-24 05:03 pm (UTC)Re: Nordic Model
Date: 2021-06-24 06:13 pm (UTC)Re: Nordic Model
Date: 2021-06-25 02:41 pm (UTC)The theory makes a lot of sense to me. Just like the theory that drug abuse is bad, but addicts are are mostly victims of it. Decriminalizing possession of small amounts of pot has been pretty good social policy--we know this experimentally. (It hasn't fixed everything we'd like it to fix. But it helps a little.
What bothers me so much about the nordic laws against sex work is how the experimental evidence is ignored. Why can't anyone say, "Whoops! This new policy isn't working, let's change it."
Re: Nordic Model
Date: 2021-06-25 03:27 pm (UTC)