Interesting Links for 02-06-2019

[andrewducker]

Don't do this to your daughters.

(tags:girls children )

Chinese goods navigate alternate trade routes to US shores to avoid tariffs

(tags:trade USA globalization )

For the first time ever hymns didn't make the top ten songs played at funerals in the UK

(tags:music death religion uk )

Who owns the Bitcoin white paper?

(tags:bitcoin identity copyright )

If Star Trek's Data really didn't have emotions

(tags:funny StarTrek emotion comic )

Praying to Mister Rogers

(tags:religion prayer comic )

Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War

(tags:review scifi )

Science dresses for children

(tags:clothes science girls )

A few things to make you think that Russia might be involved with Trump

(tags:russia politics usa republicans )

Chefs ShareTheir Biggest Restaurant Red Flags

(tags:restaurant food )

Researchers strapped video cameras on 16 cats and let them do their thing. Here's what they found

(tags:cats video behaviour )

Scepticism can easily lead to supporting the status quo by default

(tags:scepticism conservatism )

'They have you in a cultish grip': the women losing thousands to online multi level marketing schemes

(tags:OhForFucksSake marketing women business )

Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996

(tags:inequality age USA economy doom )

The old route into the arts for working class Brits has been closed off

(tags:welfare art UK class )

What does the next Prime Minister do?

(tags:politics UK Doom )

Austerity to blame for 130,000 preventable UK deaths

(tags:UK austerity murder death OhForFucksSake )

Revealed: women's fertility app is funded by anti-abortion campaigners

(tags:abortion fertility viaSwampers OhForFucksSake )

Comments

The old route into the arts for working class Brits has been closed off

[jack]

This applies to so many things. So much of austerity, so much of what's rolled up under universal credit, is so awful, it's easy to forget that it wasn't like that. Like, it was never GENEROUS, perhaps, but having some kind of unemployment benefits and disability benefits where (at least for a lot of people, even if not always) were assumed to be "oh well, if you applied, you probably deserve it" rather than "fuck you, we'll lie about everything until you fight tooth and nail for a bare minimum", buoyed up a lot of things. Not exactly a universal basic income, but doing some of the same things, for some people. It's so tragic we dismantled what we already had, it's literally going backwards :(

Re: The old route into the arts for working class Brits has been closed off

[ckd]

How much is the Harry Potter franchise worth to the UK economy? How many dole payments does it (a) cover via tax revenue and (b) prevent by creating jobs?

Perhaps supporting that unemployed single mother was a good idea?

Re: The old route into the arts for working class Brits has been closed off

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. It's terrible.