Interesting Links for 24-02-2018
Feb. 24th, 2018 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- More than 100 women in Yarl's Wood detention centre go on hunger strike over inhumane conditions
- (tags: OhForFucksSake women immigration prison uk )
- 'Annihilation' Review: A Thrilling, Terrifying Surrealist Trip
- (tags: scifi movies review )
- Online voting in Finland: Conclusions and recommendations
- (tags: finland voting computers )
- RBS’s Female Staff Paid 37% Less on Average Than Men (and they aren't the worst)
- (tags: gender inequality finance )
- Adolescents’ rich and nuanced relationship with risky behaviour
- (tags: Risk teenagers psychology )
- George Clooney is awesome
- (tags: acting )
- How romance languages ended up with different words for "yes"
- No, really, it's fascinating
(tags: language interesting history ) - NRA under mounting pressure as companies cut ties with gun lobby
- (tags: guns business usa )
- How Australia prevented massacres without banning guns
- (tags: guns australia )
no subject
Date: 2018-02-24 12:47 pm (UTC)NRA boycott is would be even more enjoyable if it wasn't also a glimpse into a hellscape that has existed until now.
Why are banks and hotels giving discounts to NRA members? Why is "insurance for if you shoot someone" a thing?
"With Carry Guard, the NRA has figured out how to profit from gun owners who are concerned about being accused of murder." Blech.
no subject
Date: 2018-02-24 01:54 pm (UTC)Why NRA members are an attractive group, I don't know. Possibly they tend to have more money? It it was an effective marketing mechanism?
no subject
Date: 2018-02-24 09:59 pm (UTC)Well yes.
Why NRA members are an attractive group, I don't know.
I don't know either. This is what worries me.
no subject
Date: 2018-02-24 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-24 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-24 10:51 pm (UTC)It's a lot like the beauty industry that way. We're all completely inadequate and yet there are easy fixes if you'll just give us your money.