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andrewducker- By Design - How white communists, socialists, feminists, and capitalists tried to engineer society using kitchen design.
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- UK to introduce health and social care tax to pay for reforms
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- How Sri Lanka's overnight flip to total organic farming has led to an economic disaster
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- The details of how the NHS/Social care budget increase is being levied seem pretty reasonable to me. Am I missing anything?
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- A request for guides on how to communicate effectively with autistic people
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- Someone at The Guardian edited Judith Butler's opinions on transphobes out of their interview with her
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- An initial response from the IFS to the announcement on health, social care and National Insurance
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Date: 2021-09-08 01:42 pm (UTC)Also missing:
This is headlined as 'social care' but is actually going to make up the NHS shortfall during the life of this parliament - it seems unlikely they'll drop a huge NHS cut just before an election, and thus unlikely that it will actually go to social care.
This goes with a 'care cap' which benefits only people with assets - this is the whole 'granny shouldn't have to sell the house for care' thing which only benefits people whose granny owned a house in the first place.
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Date: 2021-09-08 01:51 pm (UTC)Oh, and I totally agree that protecting people's assets only helps people with assets. And as I'm generally against inheritence...
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Date: 2021-09-08 02:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-09-08 03:38 pm (UTC)(And if I was organising a tax system, this wouldn't be how I'd do it.)
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Date: 2021-09-08 04:05 pm (UTC)(Also NI is fundamentally stupid, and should just be scrapped and replaced by adjusting the income tax rates and bands in a sensible way)
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Date: 2021-09-08 04:11 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-09-08 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-09-09 11:28 am (UTC)Really, an efficiently designed kitchen is a kitchen that is easy to cook in, and is a good kitchen to have if you can, regardless of whether nasty people liked them too. "Sleek surfaces" are not more morally questionable than non-sleek ones and are mostly easier to clean and maintain (I like stainless steel myself). A well-fitted kitchen will in fact have space for the chopping boards (one each for meat, bread, and everything else), the cleaning materials, and a rail near the sink to hang the tea-towel. I find cosmetic wall panels a bit twee, and I really like freezers, but tastes differ.
I do regret not building in a corner pull-out section, those are both cool and a much better use of space. Maybe in future.
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Date: 2021-09-10 03:14 am (UTC)The essay about how many times "labor-saving devices" changed expectations so the overall amount of labor didn't go down that much is really disconnected. Sure, they're both about the history of kitchen work. I see how they COULD be connected. Are there kinds of labor-saving design that don't have this effect?
And the essay about kitchens that are for display, not for cooking, is something else again. I think that would be an interesting thing to write about, but she barely touched on it. Lots of people do very little cooking. If you ask them, they'd tell you of COURSE they don't have underpaid servants preparing their meals. Their meal prep is outsourced to commercial kitchens, whether they get takeout or buy semi-prepared food from groceries.
And another essay
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Date: 2021-09-10 11:08 am (UTC)Are there kinds of labor-saving design that don't have this effect?
I can think of washing-machines (I am old enough to remember my grandmother's housekeeper washing clothes with a washboard), slow-cookers, and most recently, micro-fibre cloths and swiffers.