Interesting Links for 02-06-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Legalise Cannabis, save lives: it's time to take power back from criminal gangs

(tags:marijuana legalisation )

2. Church of Scotland membership down by 1/3 in the last decade (5% in the last year). 59% of members are aged 65+ (see section 27.1)

(tags:scotland religion )

3. This is pretty-much how I feel about souls

(tags:comic philosophy )

4. The Best Part of Researching Trans History Is When I'm Wrong (discovering the unlikely happy ending for the trans woman born in 1892)

(tags:transgender history nazis lgbt germany Czechoslovakia )

Comments

[cmcmck]

I knew about Dora (Dorchen as she was nicknamed- little Dora) but like many assumed she'd died in a Kz so it was such a delihgt to find that she'd lived to old age.

[juan_gandhi]

I remember when in California we had long debates about legalization, Hispanic people were mostly against, and the priests in Catholic churches were against, and it was pretty obvious why the priests were against: they were paid for the propaganda, to make sure that pot still brings money.

Years later I could just walk out of the office, in Palo Alto, enter a pot shop next door, buy a joint, and smoke it in the street. It was pretty helpful, working at Salesforce was not a lot of fun (but a lot of money).

[calimac]

3) "It's just not plausible" is a red flag for me when discussing edge scientific phenomena. Quantum mechanics, for instance, is an entire scientific field made up of things that are just not plausible. I'm not going to discount explanations of other things we're just beginning to understand on grounds of lack of plausibility.

[simont]

3. I scrutinised the text in the third panel very carefully to see if it might be a stealth poem or song parody. Wouldn't have at all surprised me to find that, for example, it had the metre and rhyme of Modern Major General.

[greenwoodside]

2. 59% at 65 and over is less than I'd have guessed. Though I do live in atheistic Wales.

[danieldwilliam]

You and I should join the Church of Scotland and make sure our children follow us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrong_Box

[andrewducker]

If I thought that the membership was likely to fall low enough for that to work then I'd be right in there.