Interesting Links for 27-09-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Labour members back calls for electoral reform

(tags:voting reform labour )

2. Red Wall voters support changing voting system to proportional representation, by 47:12

(tags:proportional_representation voting UK polls )

3. Idaho bans talking about abortion

(tags:abortion USA OhForFucksSake censorship )

4. Animals Being Freed For The First Time (a video collection)

(tags:animals video freedom )

5. The Tripitaka Koreana is an incredible feat

(tags:religion history Korea Buddhism )

6. Abolishing non-dom tax status would raise more than £3.2bn each year

(tags:tax uk )

7. The Polar Vortex is already destabilising, which could lead to some very cold periods this winter

(tags:globalwarming winter weather arctic )

8. We live in a time of wonders, and yet nobody is happy

(tags:comic funny manufacturing food happiness society )

Comments

[guybles.livejournal.com]

That piece on the polar vortex looks fascinating, as well as being in rich data and analysis that is far beyond my knowledge.

However, I can’t help by be unnerved by the site as a whole. There’s no information on who the author is or their background. There’s no way to contact the site (it gets stuck in a reCaptcha loop) and it all feels a rather hobbyist. Even the links to the partner sites are pretty much a rag-tag collection of blogs.

I’m not saying it’s wrong, because there’s no way for me to do so, but it just feels a bit not-quite-mainstream (which may be for a reason, either good or bad).

[andrewducker]

I agree that it's a dodgy-looking site. But they were right about the polar vortex last year (which is when I first encountered the concept), so I'm prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt.

[andrewducker]

This was last year:
https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/polar-vortex-collapse-winter-weather-europe-united-states-2021-fa/

[anna_wing]

The Tripirska Koreana us staggering! I had no idea it existed, being unfamiliar with both Korea and the Mahayana Canon. Thank you!

The closest Theravada equivalent would probably be the versions of the Pitakas carved onto marble slabs in the Kuthodaw and Sandamuni Pagodas ( the Sandamuni goes one better and includes several of the Commentaries) in Mandala Thise are very recent, being from the 19thcentury reign of King Mindon, shortly before the fall of the monarchy and the imposition of the British colonial regime.

[bens_dad]

3. Provide condoms for the purpose of helping prevent the spread of STDs and not for purposes of birth control
So sleeping around is OK but (heterosexual) fidelity is not ?

5. Wow. However I see the Tripitaka Koreana does suffer from the encoding becoming obsolete: Korean is no longer written in Chinese characters.

[melchar]

The entire Twitter thread on the Tripitaka Koreana is a fascinating read - not only due to the exacting copying of the texts - but the method done to preserve the wood AND to make the buildings holding it all.

[benicek]

I REALLY hope that electoral reform seed takes root and we get a PR general election at last, one day. I think still a long road ahead but that PR snowball keeps getting bigger and has support across the spectrum now.

[andrewducker]

Everywhere - except the Labour leadership it seems!