Interesting Links for 12-09-2019

[andrewducker]

If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can't Read?

(tags:knowledge ai Technology reading )

The Iconic Electric Eel Is Actually Three Species (None of which are eels)

(tags:electricity fish )

Do psychedelics relax your belief system?

(tags:belief psychedelics lsd )

Those with autism make good social psychologists

(tags:autism psychology )

Our political system is to blame for what's happening in Parliament

(tags:politics uk )

New Edinburgh children's hospital delayed until autumn next year

(tags:hospital conference Edinburgh fail )

Brexit Disaster Capitalism: £8 Billion Bet on No Deal Crash-Out by Boris Johnson's Leave Backers

(tags:UK Europe finance OhForFucksSake )

In-game spending should be regulated by gambling laws and so-called loot boxes banned entirely for children, MPs say.

(tags:games money children uk )

Lots Of People Going Around With Mild Hallucinations All The Time

(tags:hallucinations perception psychology psychedelics )

Poll: 51% of Northern Ireland voters back united Ireland

(tags:NorthernIreland polls ireland )

José Vs. Joe: Who Gets A Job?

(tags:names jobs video racism )

Boris Johnson denies lying to the Queen over suspension of parliament (I _totally_ believe him)

(tags:BorisJohnson lies queen )

Comments

[calimac]

Maybe this is just the first poll under the current assumption of "a hard border is coming, either down the Irish border or in the Irish Sea," which is what you get when you combine Brexit with Boris.

[andrewducker]

Could well be.

Interesting that all the demographics under 65 were in favour.

I wonder if those people will keep their stance, and things will change over the next decade, or if they'll change as they get older.

[danieldwilliam]

The other factor I think in this is austerity.

The British gpvernment for 10 years has decided to reduce the size of the state. This has the effect of reducing fiscal transfers between regions and redistribution between economic classes. This has been going on during a period of slow and unequal economic growth.

Nothern Ireland will have been on the wrong side of this equation being a poor region with lots of poor people in it.

It may be the case that if the British state were growing, that redistribution were an explicit government policy and the economy were growing at 5% per annum that people's views on being in the UK would shift back towards support.