Interesting Links for 20-01-2022

[andrewducker]

If you're poor then the cost of living has gone up by a *lot* more than 5%

(tags:economics UK poverty )

A NASA Probe Went and Touched the Sun

(tags:sun space NASA )

Coffee can't fix all the cognitive impairments caused by a bad night's sleep

(tags:caffeine psychology sleep )

Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them

As a friend put it "This is how you get Terminators"
(tags:ai abuse misogyny hate )

The gender wage gap is really a child care penalty

(tags:children patriarchy wages gender society )

New rules passed for short-term lets in Scotland

(tags:rental housing Scotland )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

Totally unsurprised by the Jack Monroe twitter thread and the article on the gender pay gap.

Cost of Life

[dewline]

Yep...

[naath]

Cost of living - not to mention that my fixed rate mortgage has not gone up... and my food bill is not even near most of my disposable income; I don't think my necessary expenses have gone up 5% (although I did at least look at the leccy bill... the fuel price rises are enough that I noticed, even if it desn't hurt, it must be an absolute disaster for anyone near the edge already)

wage gap > and thus we need to do more to encourage Dads to DO CHILDCARE... ahem.

[cmcmck]

Mostly due to fuel prices, I'd guess.