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andrewducker) wrote2021-11-24 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2021-11-24 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
- bigotry,
- conspiracy,
- creativity,
- date,
- genetics,
- hate,
- housing,
- language,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- numbers,
- ohforfuckssake,
- perfectionism,
- politics,
- polls,
- psychology,
- rental,
- school,
- scotland,
- time,
- uk,
- usa,
- visualisation,
- women
Interesting Links for 24-11-2021
- Covid stamp duty holiday cost £6.4bn and helped rich house buyers in south
- (tags:housing uk OhForFucksSake )
- In simple English, what does it mean for a number to be transcendental?
- (tags:numbers )
- Americans are struggling to deal with a rising tide of hatred and extremism
- (tags:USA hate bigotry school LGBT )
- What gets to be a valid word? A linguist's view
- (tags:language )
- The woman with XY chromosomes
- (tags:women genetics )
- New licencing laws for short term lets in Scotland
- (tags:rental Scotland housing )
- The Moral of the Roller-Skating Christmas Pudding - the Significance of the Absenteeism of the Lord Chancellor
- (tags:politics law uk )
- The Conspiracy Chart
- (tags:conspiracy visualisation )
- When Americans think each season starts
- (tags:time date usa polls )
- Striving For Perfection, Rather Than Excellence, Can Kill Creativity
- (tags:psychology creativity perfectionism )
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3) There's little of that in the liberal community where I live, but I'm watching for it. But there are other things. When a neighbor proposed establishing a day-care center in our residential area, the Two-Minutes Hate that ensued was truly bizarre.
4) Language purists may content themselves with the fact that, if a significant number of people think a usage is wrong, that is itself a noteworthy fact of usage.
5) The weirdness of chromosome irregularities is something I learned about in genetics half a century ago. That includes mosaics (the technical term for a case like this one). The specifics here are very interesting, but the general concept ain't news, and the tendency of sex-essentialists to brush it aside is unacceptable.
7) And this is why turning the House of Lords into a popularly-elected body would be a bad idea. You've already got a legislative chamber filled with careerist politicians, you don't need another one. (In the US we have two, and it doesn't help.)
8) Conspiracies: "Denver Int'l Airport"? Why? What about it?
9) Seasons: I felt a lot less frustrated at continued hot weather once I gave up on the childhood notion that September was an autumn month. By the way, I vote with those who measure seasons environmentally (buds, leaves, temperature) not by solstice/equinox. Solstice/equinox are enabling conditions for the seasons, not the seasons themselves.
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As for Denver, there are several: https://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/31/definitive-guide-to-denver-international-airport-conspiracy-theories/