Comments | andrewducker: Interesting Links for 21-07-2015

andrewducker

Interesting Links for 21-07-2015

Jul 21, 2015 12:17

The euro is a disaster even for the countries that do everything right
- This is true for any large economic area, of course. A lower pound would be much better for the manufacturing sectors of Britain. And Scotland would probably be better off with its own currency.
- (tags: Europe euro currency economics )
Mothers with chemical intolerances are 2-3 ( Read more... )

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kalimac July 21 2015, 12:49:17 UTC

"Information Technology: Let me google that for you." Only information technologists - I am one, or used to be - know how screwed up relying on google searches can be.

The argument in the "All lives matter" post is a good one, but the opening analogy is flawed. The people who say "All lives matter" aren't the ones who are wantonly killing blacks, whereas the father in the analogy is the one who's denying you your fair share. One is at least well-intentioned; the other is not. Since cops are also known to wantonly kill people who aren't black, pointing that out is like pointing out that men can be raped. It's true, it's unjustifiable, it's a terrible harm to the victims: what it isn't is the heart or main burden of the problem.

momentsmusicaux July 21 2015, 13:47:33 UTC

Alcohol isn't a solution... it's already a liquid.

skington July 21 2015, 21:02:49 UTC

What people tend to forget about the Euro is that, at least initially, it fulfilled all of its requirements, which were mostly political ( ... )

andrewducker July 21 2015, 21:04:12 UTC

Yeah, if the 2008 crisis had caused a closer union, with the nations working together to help each other then we'd be in a very different situation right now.

agoodwinsmith July 22 2015, 06:03:19 UTC

That's .... a very confusing report about women, chemical intolerances, and children with ADHD and autism. I can't tell whether the women were more than "normally" sensitive to chemicals prior to the birth of a child with A/a, or if the A/a children were more sensitive than children without A/a, or if horrible women are not being careful with their magic uteruses and just wantonly exposing themselves to narsty chemicals in blatant disregard of gosh-darn goddess-given common sense both during and prior to pregnancy or what.

agoodwinsmith July 22 2015, 17:54:00 UTC

I don't know why I am getting double-whammys everywhere. I'm only pressing the "add comment" button once, I swear!

andrewducker July 22 2015, 21:02:56 UTC

I'll forgive you this once :-)