Interesting Links for 30-11-2021

[andrewducker]

83% of English people support mask wearing in shops and on public transport

(tags:UK Pandemic polls )

Nicola Sturgeon: The first minister's conference speech fact-checked

(tags:facts Scotland snp )

Northern Ireland economy has outperformed rest of UK

(tags:economy UK Europe trade NorthernIreland )

If you think punter forums are grim you should see how this parenting website talks about sex workers

(tags:sexwork women mother OhForFucksSake )

I am not quite this dad. I do aspire to this level of ridiculousness though

(tags:fun fatherhood video dancing viaClare )

How do people cope with death in the age of social media?

(tags:death socialmedia neilgaiman )

The $5 billion hoard of metal the world wants but can't have

(tags:meta trade )

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition to still matter today, but it does

(tags:religion history sociology spain )

Are humans good or bad?

(tags:morality comic )

Richard Dawkins Doesn't Know What a Woman Is

(tags:RichardDawkins lgbt transgender genetics )

Comments

[cmcmck]

With that 83% you wonder if there's a difference in what they say and what they do?

We were in town this morning and I wouldn't say 83% were wearing them in the shops.

[calimac]

4) I've always been vague about what the word "punter" (which is purely UK slang: in the US a punter is someone who kicks an American football) actually means. It means "an ordinary person," yes?

6) I leave deceased LJ/DW people on my reading list. It's doing no harm, and if there's a limit in numbers I'm nowhere near it. However I like to keep my phone contact list trim, because I have to page through it a lot, and I had no hesitation in removing my mother when she died.

10) Blimey. Maybe Dawkins felt he had to oversimplify because of time pressure, that's the only excuse I can think of. Surely he knows better. At least he draws a distinction between using the correct names and pronouns for politeness sake and his internal sense of what sex they "really" are - many transphobes refuse to do so - but the real problem is that internal sense. They need to free themselves from the idea that an arbitrary biological classification principle (that genetics - or even phylogenetics - is how we define sex) is the one true reality.

[mellowtigger]

re: Ireland
There's not a free copy at archive.org yet, so I haven't read that article. Does it say anything about Ireland recently being a haven for corporate tax dodging, and what effect the new corporate minimum taxes will have on that practice and Ireland's finances?