Interesting Links for 14-01-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Jewish university students had swastikas drawn on them and told 'Hitler was right', damning NUS report reveals

(tags:students jews bigotry university unions )

2. What Games Are Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games

(tags:games ux video )

3. A long thread of people whose fathers or partners just walked out one day

(tags:parenting OhForFucksSake men abandoned )

4. Quote Tweeting: Over 30 Studies Dispel Some Myths

(tags:Twitter communication research )

5. The age of energy abundance may be closer than we think

(tags:electricity renewables thefuture )

6. The Economic Secret Hidden in a Tiny, Discontinued Pasta (That once you lose the ability to manufacture something, no matter how simple, regaining it is a *lot* of work)

(tags:pasta manufacturing Doom )

7. The idea that in earlier societies men were the hunters while women were the gatherers is a myth

(tags:gender society history prehistory )

Comments

[hairyears]

The word is 'Desertion', for men who walked out on their wives, and never came back.

My maternal grandmother was a deserted child sometime at the turn of the last century: her father and his two brothers walked the cattle to market, sold them and pocketed the money, boarded the train to Cork and bought passage to America...

After her death, we found letters from him, and learned that he returned twice to Ireland: she had destroyed all other evidence of his existence and ensured that no hint of relatives in America would tempt other members in the family to emigrate.

We're still in touch with the Kelly family nearby in Narraghmore and Naas, who 'took in' a deserted wife and her daughter: they would have faced incarceration by the Magdalenes, or worse, for Ireland has never been kind to single mothers.

[andrewducker]

I'm glad that your grandmother was looked after. Such a horrifying situation - deserting a family, particularly when they'd have known what might have happened to them.