Interesting Links for 03-05-2018
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andrewducker- The world's oldest known spider.
- I'm glad I read this, even if I do now itch all over
(tags: spiders ) - The cards while not be stacked this badly against anyone
- (tags: society inequality )
- Calls for complete overhaul of 'unfit' inheritance tax system
- I always liked the idea of treating or as income, and so subject to income tax
(tags: tax death uk ) - 'Dirty money': U-turn as Tories back plans to make tax havens transparent
- (tags: tax uk )
- Even those participants who claimed pop culture is unimportant suffered psychological ill effects from feeling out of the loop
- (tags: culture psychology happiness )
- Writer Picks Up Poker For Book Stunt, Wins So Much Money That The Book Is On Hold
- (tags: poker journalism games viaCipherGoth )
- Cheerleaders are taking their teams to court for, basically, pimping them out
- (tags: sports usa sex )
- Switch for turning off fear found in brains of mice
- (tags: fear emotion mice )
- Japan: robot dogs get solemn Buddhist send-off at funerals
- (tags: robots dogs religion death )
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Date: 2018-05-03 11:33 am (UTC)Is that a typo for "should not be stacked" ?
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Date: 2018-05-03 11:34 am (UTC)I may be sleep deprived.
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Date: 2018-05-03 11:47 am (UTC)You have !smol! baby daughter, don't you...?
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Date: 2018-05-03 11:50 am (UTC)Oh, it gets EVEN WORSE than that for foster kids who have a legal entitlement to citizenship, but who need to pay to claim it:
"First, the eye-watering fees mean it costs more than £1,000 just to claim a child’s legal entitlement to citizenship if they were born in Britain to parents not settled here (they get this entitlement either when a parent becomes permanently settled or after they’ve lived here for 10 years). The Home Office makes a profit of £640 on each case. Some parents just don’t have the money, which means their British-born children may later be unable to work, go to university or use the NHS.
Astonishingly, local authorities are obliged to fork out this fee for affected children in their care: a big financial disincentive to sorting this out before they turn 18. And if they don’t make citizenship applications for children – not born here, but who’ve spent most of their lives in care – they lose the right to apply altogether when they turn 18."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/02/home-office-new-generation-windrushers
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Date: 2018-05-03 12:20 pm (UTC)Will get a post up when I've stopped dashing in circles.
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Date: 2018-05-03 12:20 pm (UTC)"The more you know, the more jokes you get."
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Date: 2018-05-03 08:07 pm (UTC)If you feel like sharing photos I would love to see them. I am very fond of small-humans and photos thereof :-)
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Date: 2018-05-08 11:55 am (UTC)(Photo post just went up)