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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 19-03-2016

Mar 19, 2016 12:00

Edinburgh to London train journey time to be cut to four hours (tags: transport trains edinburgh london uk ) Toxic relationship habits most people think are normal (tags: relationships ) Healthy relationship habits most people think are toxic (tags: relationships ) Scottish bus firms in smart ticketing pledge (tags: transport buses scotland ) ( Read more... )

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How Many Decimals of Pi Does NASA Really Need? spacelem March 19 2016, 12:04:19 UTC

22/7 is good enough for me.

RE: How Many Decimals of Pi Does NASA Really Need? drdoug March 19 2016, 13:32:38 UTC

Hell, 3 works surprisingly well in many contexts.

Re: How Many Decimals of Pi Does NASA Really Need? spacelem March 20 2016, 11:25:52 UTC

And if you're only going to use 3, 22/7 is the best representation of Pi using only 3 digits.

RE: Re: How Many Decimals of Pi Does NASA Really Need? drdoug March 20 2016, 12:48:53 UTC

Yes ( ... )

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bart_calendar March 19 2016, 12:22:54 UTC

Rome Girl and I do everything in that list of healthy things people think are toxic - particularly not bringing up minor shit that annoys us and also being willing to call each other douchebags when it's appropriate.

I'd add - being able to put distance between yourself and them. Her going away for weeks at a time makes me appreciate her more when she comes back.

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andrewducker March 19 2016, 12:48:45 UTC

No, but they do seem to be normalised to the point where many/most people (in my experience) think they are just how relationships are.

bart_calendar March 19 2016, 14:05:45 UTC

The jealousy thing is a weird one.

Some people find it really toxic, but others find t heir partner being super jealous to be a super turn on.

One of my relationship challenges when I was younger and the Internet did not make it easy to find fellow weirdos was that women would get pissed off that I didnt' get jealous in situations w here they thought I should have. I had one girl tease me that she was thinking about fucking her ex and I was like "cool" and she flipped the fuck out.

alitheapipkin March 19 2016, 15:09:11 UTC

Yeah, some people seem to be very threatened by a lack of jealousy, like they don't really believe someone can be really into them and yet not jealous.

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kalimac March 19 2016, 15:10:30 UTC

This is how I learned that IDS has resigned. What counts as earth-shattering news in the UK doesn't even make the US news cycle, much to my annoyance. (I do read the UK paper websites, but not daily.)

There's nothing I like reading better than a keenly penetrating analytical review of a vapid book, showing how the author's mind really works. This review of George W. Bush's memoirs is a classic of the kind. Michael Kinsley has written several, including an awesome takedown of the vapidity of Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth, but I haven't been able to find them online. That review of Trump's Art of the Deal is up there with them.

mummoth March 19 2016, 17:44:56 UTC

In the healthy relationships one, I like what they said about when a relationship needs to end. I hate that the part of my life after I left my ex is referred to as a 'broken home' for my kids. No. I fixed it, that was the start of making things better. It was a broken home long before the split. Staying in that relationship would have been a failure.