Awwww sad :(
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"Police swooped in and rescued 10 women" Standard
Hmmm, could it be that the 10 women taken away for "rescuing" were the ones who didn't have their papers in order?
Yep, in their own words:
"Those arrested by Met officers include a 55-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm (a stun-gun) and a 37-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of fraud.
Four other women (aged 25, 35, 22 and 49) and a 37-year-old man were arrested on suspicion of being involved in prostitution for gain.
The remainder were detained on suspicion of immigration offences."
That's 6 people for actual charges (one of them obviously carrying a stun gun for protection), the remaining 12 for immigration offences. Disgusting.
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"Gollakota, an assistant professor at the University of Washington, invented a way for devices without batteries to communicate and power themselves by recycling signals from Wi-Fi devices or radio and TV stations"
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Well, the future is here, and not in a good way
"at least five "major police departments," including those in Chicago, Dallas, and Los Angeles, "either claimed to run real-time face recognition off of street cameras, bought technology that can do so, or expressed an interest in buying it.""
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"Sex Worker Open University is calling for the immediate release of the women arrested last night, the return of their money to them, and an end to racist, anti-migrant, anti-prostitution raids in Soho and Chinatown. " SWOU
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Not only is a practical safety measure, but "the Dutch reach" sounds vaguely like it might be a sex act!
"For decades now in the Netherlands, many drivers have been trained (and tested for their licenses) on a behavior that dramatically reduces the risk of doorings. They do not even have a name for it because it is simply how one opens a car door. Basically, instead of using their door-side (left) arm, they reach over with their other (right) arm. This simple behavioral shift causes drivers to look back naturally and see whether or not there are oncoming bicyclists."
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"As it happens, Chinese people rarely talk about renminbi or yuan. The word they use is "kuai", which literally means "piece", and is the word used historically for coins made of silver or copper." BBC
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As a general rule, I tend to be in favour of incremental economic pressures to change harmful behaviour as opposed to brute-force regulation (i.e. just banning things). Although brute-force regulation seems "stricter", usually people figure out ways around them and so seriously reduce their impact. For instance, assuming the third Heathrow runway is blocked, people on long-haul flights will instead go via different hubs (which is already happening, and why Heathrow management are pushing so hard to expand), and travellers into the UK may opt for different regional airports (and then spend carbon travelling into London).
If there was any sort of general carbon tax in the offing politically, this would be a far more valuable cause to spend political capital on than on opposing airport expansion. A carbon tax would likely also eliminate the business case for airport expansion anyway, since more expensive flights would mean fewer travellers.
Sadly, it doesn't seem like any British government will be contemplating a carbon tax in the near future. And aviation does create disproportionately high carbon emissions. So, for better or worse, this is the struggle in front of us.
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Slightly dodgy sentence in there comparing tattoos to black women's hair (I don't think it's the same, and being tattooed isn't a marginalised identity), but still some useful tips.
"It’s still my body that you’re commenting on, and that can be uncomfortable."
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Despite many of them being labelled "flushable", wet wipes should never be flushed down the toilet, as they cause a huge amount of damage to sewer systems!
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Wow, this sounds great - a major therapeutic breakthrough in addressing some of the symptoms of autism.
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These are perfect from start to finish, but the first one is the best, in my opinion:
"There is a particular look about a teenage boy that lets you know what kind of man he’ll be. A certain fullness of lips, a frank sensuality in his gaze. We all know what the word for that is, but it’s not polite to use it until he’s proven he’s that kind of boy."
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Just wow. "If I didn't do this horrible thing, then someone else would". Has that ever been a good justification for anything?
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"Once you've been put into detention and queued up for deportation, you have to fight your case – apply for asylum, show you have a right to be here. Even if you're a victim of trafficking, the whole thing is a nightmare. Women Against Rape are working with genuine victims of trafficking and it doesn't matter how traumatised you are, the system is against you." Vice
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Absolutely disgusting. If you're absolutely DETERMINED to demolish the shelters where people are living, could you not at least register them and provide alternative accommodation BEFORE going ahead with the demolitions?!
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"There is longstanding social science evidence that people with fewer resources, educational or economic, tend to look heroes — or villains even— to stand up for them. Somebody they think has some kind of power that they don’t have. The exception is when you have a union. The one time that you don’t see that in action, at least so much, is when an area is unionized. Then, because workers have some kind of collective power, they’re not so likely to turn toward some authoritarian demagogue." Vox
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