Interesting Links for 08-04-2022

[andrewducker]

1. On nationalism in Ukraine

(tags:Ukraine nationalism )

2. Welcome to 'Le Monde' in English!

(tags:France newspapers English )

3. Finland to clarify next steps on possible NATO entry within weeks

(tags:Finland NATO Russia )

4. British scientists stumped by mini epidemic in child hepatitis cases

(tags:disease children uk )

5. Google will soon hide neglected apps in the Play Store

(tags:apps android )

6. 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' Set Holocaust Education Back by Decades. Now It's Getting a Sequel

(tags:Holocaust books OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[hutchingsmusic]

Let's hope that Le Monde doesn't enter the orbit of The Sun.

[andrewducker]

You are a bad bad man.

[channelpenguin]

I'd bet good money that the hepatitis is either a rare covid side-effect made noticeable by huge infection rates (hidden by lack of testing) or, as the doc in the article says, minor paracetamol overdose (Gah, my mother never gave us any painkillers / anti-inflammatories. I mean ever. Never took them herself. Nor my dad. I still pretty much never and the one time I did for a week, I fucked up my stomach and guts for months...)

[andrewducker]

I use them when the kids have temperatures. Can't think of a good reason to leave them horribly uncomfortable when it's not necessary.

[channelpenguin]

Since we never had a thermometer in the house either, I'm not sure how we would have known if we had a temperature, nor did we know (or trust?) that they'd bring it down anyway. Plus I bet mum was of the school of thought that the raised body temperature has a purpose and we'd get better faster if it was just left. And that life has many discomforts, for children and adults and maybe we'd better get used to them? I dunno. She had odd attitudes. She grew up poor, maybe they just never had such things.

We never had plasters on cuts either (heals faster, but scars more). I still don't, but I would NOT recommend that to others - I am a bit freaky and have never had an infected cut in my life, not even burns not even that got wet and dirty. I think I recall that psoriasis might make your skin very anti-biotic ... but more fungus prone (check!).

In my teens and adulthood, "painkillers" (except morphine when I had a broken leg) just don't, so for me there's no reason for me to take them. I have to think hard to remember that they might work for others even if they don't for me.

But I suppose generally, I'm not in favour of regularly medicating mild, normal and non-dangerous discomforts away. That's my own thing, I'm absolutely not intending to inflict my thinking on others.

[andrewducker]

I think I've taken Sophia's temperature once. But when she's got a temperature you can feel it really easily. Put your hands under her armpit and she's uncomfortably hot.

But if they don't help you then they probably didn't help your parents either - it's almost certainly genetic. So she won't have thought about it worthwhile even if it wasn't a money thing.

[mtbc]

Aha, I used to like the English Le Monde articles I'd read in the Guardian Weekly years ago.

[andrewducker]

I went looking for an RSS feed that covered the English articles, but couldn't find one sadly.