andrewducker | Interesting Links for 28-12-2017

Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people: (tags: GuaranteedIncome homelessness )
As 'The Last Jedi' Tops $800M In Two Weeks, Is 'Star Wars' Doomed?: (tags: StarWars money )
India and Pakistan are conducting raids into each other's territory: (tags: India Pakistan OhForFucksSake )
Common Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe: (tags: prehistory language writing )
Words We're Watching: 'Doggo': (tags: dogs language viaSwampers )
Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women's rights: (tags: women chess saudiarabia )
The Revenant Problem - When the trolley problem meets Doom: (tags: doom games video morality funny )
The day the women went on strike: (tags: iceland feminism work women )
An inspirational blog post from GBBO's Yan Tsou.: (tags: life advice christmas bakery )
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? (And noses. And vaginas. And pensises.): (tags: bodies aieeee! )
If you find it hard to think of babies as cute, this might help: (tags: cute babies )
Sex - now with in-app purchases!: (tags: games sex funny satire )
Clegg: A reappraisal: (tags: NickClegg libdem politics uk )

The US newspaper columnist Jon Carroll for years annually ran in early December the same rather good column advocating direct giving to panhandlers (as they're often called here). He called it the Untied Way, playing off the name of a charity called the United Way. (Warning: link has an autoplay video embedded in the middle; the column continues below.)

Agree with most of what's said about Nick Clegg, since it's pretty much what I've been saying all along too. Yes, the coalition could have been worse, but it was more than bad enough.

It certainly was.

I'm still very amused at the thought of him getting a Knighthood - but mostly because it will _really_ annoy a bunch of UKIP voters.

That might be sufficient justification for the knighthood right there.

That is by far the best reason to give him one, and an excellent reason in its own right.

The 32 symbols article reads like it's had the final third cut out by an incompetent editor. There are 32 symbols all over caves and... that's it‽

The TED talk linked from the article is a bit better, as it clarifies that we knew there were symbols on cave walls as well as drawings of animals, we just hadn't properly curated them. (Although the idea that there's this universal language is somewhat weakened by the admission that the most complicated signs are the least geographically-widespread, and the ones that persist the longest are also the simplest.)

Still, if there was ever a story where the proper conclusion was "more research is needed", it's this one.

I think small populations are more likely to attempt changes to the status-quo. NZ was the first to give women the vote and its population was under a million then, and Finland, also with a small population, was the first to allow women to be elected to office.

Legislation is easy though, with real change taking much longer. NZ didn't have its first women prime minister until 1997, but now, of our last six PMs, three have been women. Which bodes well for the future, but women are still paid less than men on average.

I agree about small countries. It's one of the (several) reasons why I think Scotland would be better off indepdendent.

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