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The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found.

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  • the guardian has messed up their headline a bit here. The paper they're citing attributes a 9.7% decrease in children's total sugar consumption to the sugar tax.

    The "sugar consumption halved!" is more accurately: "free sugar from soft drinks only" dropped from 22g per day (pre-tax) to 12g per day (post-tax).

    Considering "Children aged 7 to 10 should have no more than 24g of free sugars a day" is the recommended amount - a reduction from 22g to 12g from changes to soft drinks alone is still a big win

    • South Korea’s fertility rate sinks to record low despite $270bn in incentives

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  • it's a feminist movement, in backlash to misogyny and pro-natalism in South Korea (it's becoming more widespread, though). The 4Bs are the "four no's":

    • no dating men
    • no sex with men
    • no marriage with men
    • no childbearing

    It gets a lot of pushback and is called selfish etc. but women are very angry & upset that the government only sees them for their reproductive use, and it's reasonable to not want to date someone who doesn't view you as human.

    • South Korea’s fertility rate sinks to record low despite $270bn in incentives

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  • Surprised to see none of the comments mentioning the 4B movement

    • Scientists Are Freaking Out About Ocean Temperatures: “It’s like an omen of the future.”

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  • It's a concern already for low-lying atoll islands like those in the Maldives and Tuvalu. Half of Tuvalu's capital city is expected to be flooded by 2050, but they've been seeing the effects for years unfortunately.

    It really depends where you are though - my town is at around 100 m elevation and about 80 km inland. When I was a kid, my mum used to have nightmares about tidal waves coming over the horizon because she was so scared of sea level rise.

    • UK weather: snow threatens travel disruption as temperatures drop

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  • I've been keeping an eye on the ensemble since early last week - at one point it was forecast that Cornwall was going to get 6 inches of snow! Snow is notoriously tricky to forecast unfortunately

    • Workers might have to ditch the 9-5 for 6-2 because of climate change, University of Oxford study says

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  • hard agree on the siesta idea but instead of 12-3 I'd say stop work at 3-6 instead, or work mornings and evenings (with lots of time in between)

    in summer, the hottest part of the day can be 4-6pm (because there's a big lag between the sunniest part of the day and the ground heating up, which then heats the air) - also Spain has a weird timezone (GMT+2 despite being west of us, so their sunrise was 5 mins earlier than ours, but was at 7am local time, and ours was at 5:05am)