Interesting Links for 03-01-2025
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andrewducker- 1. 2025 Is Unlikely To Be A Year Of Harmony In Northern Irish Politics
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- 2. The perfect New Year's Eve comedy turns 30
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- 3. Fascinating stats about how the Church of England is doing
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- 4. Study reveals how cannabis can trigger psychosis
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- 5. Tintin, Now in Public Domain (in the US), Gets a Modern Day Reboot in The Big Lie
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- 6. Inside Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts
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- 7. The Class Politics of Fine Dining
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- 8. UK investigation opens into a National Care Service - won't report back until 2028, just in time for the next election
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- 9. Camp for kids with HIV closes as there are so few kids who are born with HIV
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- 10. Spotify is paying artists to create music for it to use in its playlists so that they don't have to pay royalties on it
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Date: 2025-01-03 12:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-03 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-03 01:08 pm (UTC)The Church of England trends from 2019 to 2023 show only one statistic that is unambiguously increasing: funerals.
And regular attendance is now only 1% of the total UK population (about 1.2% of the total English population).
This is clearly a dying institution.
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Date: 2025-01-03 01:19 pm (UTC)(I know it could theoretically increase again, but I'm not sure what would cause that.)
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Date: 2025-01-03 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-03 03:29 pm (UTC)10.
Date: 2025-01-03 02:21 pm (UTC)Of COURSE the eventual aim is to replace artists by AI for all "background" type music - and as much of the rest as these shitty shitty companies can get people to accept. I don't know what AI is gonna steal once they've driven out most artists - but that's next decade's hype bubble cycle ...
Grrrrr.
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Date: 2025-01-03 05:04 pm (UTC)Re: 10.
Date: 2025-01-03 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-03 02:29 pm (UTC)4) "Cannabis is a known risk factor for developing psychosis that can progress to schizophrenia". I thought this had been partially debunked from lack of substantial evidence.
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Date: 2025-01-03 02:33 pm (UTC)The Wikipedia entry certainly cites several very mainstream scientific bodies as saying that it's the case.
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Date: 2025-01-03 07:28 pm (UTC)Oh, this is what I meant by research being unconclusive.
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Date: 2025-01-04 04:56 am (UTC)