andrewducker | Interesting Links for 24-09-2019

Why do polling companies disagree over the size of the Conservative lead?: (tags:UK polling politics )
On the use and misuse of the word "Sapiosexual": (tags:language sexuality asexual lgbt )
Cannabis-based drug for childhood epilepsy approved for use in Europe: (tags:medicine cannabis children )
Apparently terrible philosophers make terrible husbands: (tags:relationships philosophy OhForFucksSake )
Labour's approach to democracy is... not convincing: (tags:Labour politics democracy Europe uk )
Labour's attitude towards democracy is... not inspiring at all: (tags:Labour democracy UK Europe politics )
Even Huge Molecules Follow the Quantum World's Bizarre Rules: (tags:quantum physics )
What's to blame for Thomas Cook's collapse? Mostly its debt: (tags:travel business epicfail )
Summer-born children 30% more likely to be diagnosed with depression than older pupils (still quite low, thankfully): (tags:children age school mentalhealth depression )
Quantum Computational Supremacy has been achieved! (here's what that means): (tags:quantum computers Google faq )
RelativelyRisky - converting relative risks into absolute ones: (tags:Risk statistics )
Google wins case to keep right to be forgotten EU only: (tags:google memory censorship europe )
Six months from now, the government will cut off healthcare for 180,000 British people living in Europe: (tags:healthcare europe uk OhForFucksSake )
Labour conference are refusing to even debate their freedom of movement bill: (tags:migration Labour OhForFucksSake )
Leave.EU boss Arron Banks cleared after probe into Brexit referendum campaign loans: (tags:uk politics law europe )
More than a third of UK bank branches have closed since 2015: (tags:uk banks )
Huge blow for Boris Johnson as Supreme Court rules Parliament shutdown was unlawful: (tags:UK law politics parliament GoodNews )

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I dunno, maybe I need to do more research, but who exactly decided that was the definition of sapiosexual? I, and others have been using it for years to mean finding smart sexy. I'm not sure where "intelligence" as a measure came in. It's not necessarily high IQ, which yes, is BS, but someone who's smart, interested in learning, knows a lot of things. And goat picture aside, I'm a woman, not some shitty man.

That's also how it's defined in common culture -- dictionaries, articles, etc.

Yep, shitty men use it. Shitty men ruin everything, don't they? ;) (For the record, shitty women are also doing their part to ruin things, just don't have enough power.)

I think the poster needs to come up with a new word for being attracted to someone with the same interests.

it's just someone with an agenda arguing against a word's common usage again.

Very cool, if true

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