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andrewducker) wrote2020-06-05 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2020-06-05 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
- borisjohnson,
- death,
- divorce,
- edinburgh,
- education,
- freedom,
- history,
- hiv,
- india,
- ireland,
- labour,
- language,
- lies,
- links,
- military,
- nhs,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pandemic,
- police,
- polygamy,
- racism,
- saudiarabia,
- scifi,
- scotland,
- slavery,
- socialmedia,
- telepathy,
- trams,
- uk,
- usa,
- viacharlesstross,
- viaelfy,
- welfare
Interesting Links for 05-06-2020
- Calls for anti-racist education to be taught in Scottish schools
- (tags:Scotland racism education )
- Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases. Here's why
- (tags:India pandemic )
- Woman loses bid for Irish epitaph on mother's grave
- (tags:Ireland language death )
- How The Lockdown Sex Ban Could 'Break The Chain' Of HIV Transmission
- (tags:pandemic hiv )
- The chair of the US joint chiefs of staff reminds the military that the constitution safeguards freedom of both speech and assembly
- Amazing that they should feel they need to
(tags:USA military freedom ) - Coronavirus: No 10 fails to deny reports Boris Johnson told Italian PM he wanted 'herd immunity'
- (tags:pandemic BorisJohnson )
- Why telepathy (and other psychic nonsense) used to be popular in science fiction. And now isn't.
- (tags:scifi telepathy )
- Police in Norway Haven't Killed Anyone in Nearly 10 Years (2014 article, but pertinent right now)
- (tags:police USA viaCharlesStross )
- How much do we need the police?
- (tags:police USA )
- How the UK paid off its slave owners, and kept paying off until 2015
- (tags:slavery UK history )
- Coronavirus: Patients refusing treatment because of fake news on social media
- (tags:NHS lies pandemic socialmedia OhForFucksSake )
- Public inquiry into Edinburgh tram project has now lasted longer than the building of line itself
- (tags:Edinburgh trams )
- Labour coming out with exactly the kind of nonsense welfare policy ideas that means I wouldn't vote for them. Must be a day with a Y in it.
- (tags:Labour welfare OhForFucksSake )
- Divorces rise by 30% in Saudi Arabia after quarantine uncovers polygamous husbands
- (tags:divorce saudiarabia polygamy pandemic viaElfy )
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For what it's worth, I am entirely happy with my taxes being spent on buying enslaved people in order to free them.
I would obviously prefer a strategy of exiling slave owners to remote islands with instructions on how to subsistence farm... but, you know, so long as people are free, that's a good start.
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