Interesting Links for 20-08-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Want to make your own train announcement system? Now you have all of the pieces. (Who's making the hardcore techno remix?)

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2. My Year of Grief and Cancellation (By the person behind Your Fave Is Problematic)

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3. South West Water boss trebles pay with huge bonus as beaches are shut due to raw sewage pumped into sea

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4. Edinburgh council warns condition of city's roads will get worse over the rest of this decade

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5. Canada's euthanasia laws go too far

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6. Piracy is preservation, reflections on the HBO animation cull

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Comments

[foms]

I don't want to say nothing about medical aid in dying but there is too much.

I am in Canada. My father received help to die, last year. I advocated for it, at his request. This was not the first time that I have investigated it, for three different people.

The laws keep changing. The pendulum may swing. I definitely see that people who are oppressed and/or in distress my be more influenced by authorities than is best.

I would prefer not to return to an environment, like until the last few years, when the subject was sufficiently taboo that I often felt that others thought me legally and ethically suspect for being willing to talk about it. I also don't want to hijack your comment thread without invitation.

[andrewducker]

You're not hijacking by taking part.

And I am totally in favour of people having a right to die. I just worry about it going from "This person hasn't got long to live, their quality of life is terrible, and there's nothing we can do to help them, so it's okay to relieve their suffering." to "This person has a shitty life, society isn't going to even try and help them, we'll just tell them to kill themselves."

And I've had examples of the latter over on the Facebook page, which worries me a great deal.