Interesting Links for 08-09-2021

[andrewducker]

By Design - How white communists, socialists, feminists, and capitalists tried to engineer society using kitchen design.

(tags:society kitchens history USA ViaDrCross )

UK to introduce health and social care tax to pay for reforms

(tags:uk tax nhs )

How Sri Lanka's overnight flip to total organic farming has led to an economic disaster

(tags:food organic epicfail farming )

The details of how the NHS/Social care budget increase is being levied seem pretty reasonable to me. Am I missing anything?

(tags:tax uk nhs )

A request for guides on how to communicate effectively with autistic people

(tags:autism communication )

Someone at The Guardian edited Judith Butler's opinions on transphobes out of their interview with her

(tags:lgbt transgender guardian bigotry )

An initial response from the IFS to the announcement on health, social care and National Insurance

(tags:economics tax NHS UK )

The here matrix teaser is fun

(tags:matrix movies )

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist (or How the internet can turn anything into a meme)

(tags:meme Ocean funny )

How to be neurotypical

(tags:neurodiversity funny satire )

Somali feminist: Facebook is being used to silence me

(tags:Facebook censorship somalia OhForFucksSake )

Government says polluters can dump risky sewage into rivers as Brexit disrupts water treatment

(tags:waste UK Europe rivers Doom )

The US health care system has collapsed.

(tags:USA healthcare pandemic )

The world's biggest carbon removal machine has just been turned on (too expensive, but will hopefully get cheaper over time)

(tags:co2 technology )

Comments

[chess]

Yes - you're missing that National Insurance is capped, which means your top earners will not be paying their fair share of this. (Unless it bypasses the cap as well as the 'not if you're a pensioner' bit, which is unclear from the article.)

Also missing:

This is headlined as 'social care' but is actually going to make up the NHS shortfall during the life of this parliament - it seems unlikely they'll drop a huge NHS cut just before an election, and thus unlikely that it will actually go to social care.

This goes with a 'care cap' which benefits only people with assets - this is the whole 'granny shouldn't have to sell the house for care' thing which only benefits people whose granny owned a house in the first place.

[purplerabbits]

The matrix trailer is great but 05:36 is absolutely not pm :-) (unless that's the point)

[anna_wing]

I found the kitchen post a bit confusing, because I didn't realise it was just a blog post until I was halfway through and thinking, "was the editor drunk?"

Really, an efficiently designed kitchen is a kitchen that is easy to cook in, and is a good kitchen to have if you can, regardless of whether nasty people liked them too. "Sleek surfaces" are not more morally questionable than non-sleek ones and are mostly easier to clean and maintain (I like stainless steel myself). A well-fitted kitchen will in fact have space for the chopping boards (one each for meat, bread, and everything else), the cleaning materials, and a rail near the sink to hang the tea-towel. I find cosmetic wall panels a bit twee, and I really like freezers, but tastes differ.

I do regret not building in a corner pull-out section, those are both cool and a much better use of space. Maybe in future.