Interesting Links for 03-10-2019
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andrewducker- Johnson's Brexit plan: No viability, no decency, no hope
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- What Really Happens After the Apocalypse | Tor.com
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- Basic income is paving a path to freedom in Kenya
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- GOP Racial Gerrymandering. This should be a much bigger scandal
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- Labour MP faces reselection battle amid backlash over stance on LGBT+ education
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- Why many "leavers" are against a confirmation referendum
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- Animal slaughter ruling in Belgium stirs religious freedom debate
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- On blackface, racism, society, and swimming in a sea of racism
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- Doesn't look like we'll have many trade deals when we dump ourselves out of the EU
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- Carbon offsets are based on planting (or protecting) forests. Most of the time this doesn't happen
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- Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet
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- Iraq anti-government protests lead to deadly clashes
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- Scotland gives children the same protection from assault as adults.
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- Cats show different attachment bonds to humans
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- Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths: how subcultures die.
- The language is somewhat patronising, but the dynamics look right from my experience
(tags:culture organisation geek ) - The Myth of Commoditized Excellence - how ideas become movements, and then disillusionment sets in
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- Why Girls' Superior Reading Skills May Be Lowering Their Future Salaries
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- Why a split anti-Brexit vote may not be as good for the Conservatives as we assume.
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Date: 2019-10-03 03:28 pm (UTC)BS. You know which profession requires good reading skills? Lawyers - but female lawyers still make less than male ones, and they're still less likely to be partners.
You know which profession requires good - or at least decent - math and science skills? Medicine... and in places where medicine is female-dominated, like Russia, it pays a lot less than in places where it's male-dominated. (And female-dominated branches of medicine always pay less than male-dominated branches, despite requiring the same skills.)
If women are more likely to go into certain careers, and those careers tend to pay less, that still is not their fault for picking the wrong field or having good reading skills or whatever, because whatever field has more women will pay less. It's the freaking patriarchy.
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Date: 2019-10-03 03:35 pm (UTC)But there are almost certainly multiple things in action at the same time.