Interesting Links for 26-06-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Holyrood Committee seek views and experiences as part of new inquiry into ADHD and autism

(tags:scotland autism adhd )

2. How would Britain vote, a year since the 2024 election (broken down in a wide variety of ways)

(tags:uk voting polls )

3. Ooh Dark City has a 4k release. I'm quite tempted

(tags:movies scifi )

4. Poll: 82% of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% want to kill every man, woman, child

(tags:polls genocide Israel )

5. Poll: Americans' support for Israel at record low, backing for Palestinians at all-time high (46:33)

(tags:USA polls Israel Palestine )

6. Why I'm glad the NHS has rejected two Alzheimer's 'wonder drugs'

(tags:alzheimers medicine NHS )

7. Warwickshire County Council leader resigns, leaving 18-year-old in charge (Reform, unsurprisingly)

(tags:politics UK )

8. Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11

(tags:games linux windows )

9. How disability benefits are paid across the world - and how UK compares

(tags:welfare disability international )

10. Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban

(tags:UK bigotry children transgender LGBT )

Comments

4.

[channelpenguin]

Humans suck. I can't boil it down any further.

[gingicat]

That poll seemed wrong to me, so I went looking around.

Planning to subscribe to Ha'aretz for this piece: https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-06-04/ty-article-opinion/.premium/do-82-of-israelis-really-back-expulsion-of-gazans-the-data-tells-a-different-story/00000197-39da-da41-a9f7-3dde468d0000

[andrewducker]

Found an archive: https://archive.ph/by8BF

[gingicat]

Thank you!

[calimac]

This article demonstrates why I refuse to answer opinion polls.

[jducoeur]

Thank you -- the original numbers were frightening, but also sounded very fishy. Textbook example of lying-with-statistics in order to make it look like everyone agrees with you...

[greenwoodside]

Thanks for linking to the article, Gingicat. I was hoping the poll methodology was iffy.

Dark City

[mtbc]

Nice to see some love for Dark City! I was lucky enough to see it in the cinema as a happenstance escape from my companion's chosen fate of going to see Titanic a second time.

Re: Dark City

[andrewducker]

I think I probably saw it at the MacRobert theatre on Stirling Uni campus, as the only place that would tend to show something out of the ordinary.