Interesting Links for 24-02-2018

[andrewducker]

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 )

Comments

[andrewducker]

Usually you offer discounts to a group because it encourages them to use your facilities.
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?

[cosmolinguist]

Usually you offer discounts to a group because it encourages them to use your facilities.

Well yes.

Why NRA members are an attractive group, I don't know.

I don't know either. This is what worries me.