Interesting Links for 19-07-2023

[andrewducker]

1. 'Foreplay just vanished': 25 years on, how Viagra changed sex for older women forever

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2. How did Victorians respond to trans people? Better than we do today

(tags:transgender history uk lgbt )

3. 100 incontrovertible opinions (I disagree with about 5)

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4. US Facebook users can now claim settlement money. Here's how.

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5. What is Barbenheimer, and how did it come to be?

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6. UK taxpayers will not get better value for their billions unless ministers improve how contracts are won

(tags:uk contracts government )

7. Life-sized Lego Suffragette goes on display at Edinburgh university

(tags:Edinburgh women voting history Lego university )

Comments

ones i disagree with

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- Driving: If you have to then you have to, but try not to.
it's both fun and useful. make it less damaging instead, and provide/enable every alternative so people can choose.

- Vaping: Still bad, but smells better than the alternative.
again, the solution is to make it less bad rather than getting rid of it.

- Secrets hidden in plain sight: Please stop.
- Supermoons: Astronomical bolx lapped up by a dumbed-down media.
don't know what this means

- Political correctness: If you describe something as 'woke', I judge you a fool.
everything in moderation, including being a sanctimonious arse

- Getting older: Often challenging, rarely good, but better than the alternative.
as someone who's been borderline suicidal since childhood, and yet would also happily be immortal (in order to have time to get round to do all the things and live in the future), and watched their parent succumb to alzheimers, old age is The Worst...

- Bottled water: Is bought by idiots.
edinburgh tap water's gross.

- Proportional representation: Sounds like it'd work, but probably wouldn't.
it's the only thing that will work, short of my "benevolent" dictatorship.

- Flying first class: Thanks for subsidising the rest of us, you intolerant fools.
i'm fat, and you're welcome.

- Low Traffic Neighbourhoods: Yes absolutely, stop whingeing.
residential-only roads, fine. thoroughfares, no.

- Tory government: The bastards are about to get their comeuppance and rightly so.
teflon sociopaths generally get away with things.

- Language: People who misuse the words 'surely', 'probably' and 'maybe' should be whipped.
maybe, but i can probably think of lots of other groups who should surely be whipped first.

- ULEZ: You didn't throw your toys out of the pram when it extended to Inner London in 2021.
i don't have a problem with LEZs, but with the mass surveillance that comes with them.

- The seasons: Spring is better than Summer is better than Autumn is better than Winter.
autumn > summer.

- The Met Police: Don't tar them all with the bad eggs.
there's no such thing as a good cop.

- Constitutional monarchy: Better than the presidential alternative.
false dichotomy.

- BBC bias: They're trying not to be, whatever you blinkeredly think.
as a whole, maybe, but there are pockets of bias. cf question time sucking ukip cock.

- Cats or dogs?: Ideally neither (and never the latter).
this person has no soul.

- Cricket: Anything but.
- Women's World Cup: Still not interesting.
- Golf courses: If they're inside the Green Belt, build on them.
- Hats: Unnatural affectations.
- Modern music: All sounds the same.
- Musicals: Vacuous opera for the masses.
- Football: The best bit is between seasons when all the pointless punditry goes silent.
just let people enjoy things

[boxofdelights]

Dogs are one of the best things in life. And autumn is better than summer, which was true even when I was a kid and we hadn't noticed the oncoming climate catastrophe yet.