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The Russian authorities have reportedly decided to ban the calling feature on WhatsApp and Telegram, well-connected media figure Ksenia Sobchak reported on Tuesday, citing sources in the telecommunications industry.

The decision “has already been made at the very top,” the sources reportedly said.

“They’ve banned calls ‘under the guise of fighting terrorists,’” one source told Sobchak’s Telegram channel. Final consultations on the issue are expected to wrap up this evening, according to a government source she cited.

Sobchak noted that the apps’ messaging and channel features will still remain accessible.

Dublin City Council should look at switching some homes in inner-city flat complexes from social housing into cost-rental homes, a group set up by the Department of the Taoiseach has said.

Switching social homes to cost-rental homes would likely mean, under current schemes, that the council rents the homes to people on higher incomes, but who are still struggling to afford private rentals. 

Households with net incomes of up to – depending on household size – between €40,000 and €48,000 are eligible for social homes in Dublin. Those with a net income above that, but below €66,000, are eligible for cost-rental homes.

Proponents of tenure mixing say that it is a way to deal with “neighbourhood effects” that arise with concentrations of deprivation, such as stigma, and poor access to services.

Critics say that tenure mixing responds to the symptoms of spatial inequality but does not address the underlying issues of income inequality or access to services, and can increase senses of difference.

It’s not completely clear what the interdepartmental group – which included representatives from the council and the Department of Housing – would be trying to achieve by making some social flats into cost-rentals.

Trianon must fall!

Please excuse the censorship, I don't think the gamer word is allowed on this instance.

A lot of people on the left seem to hold The Authoritarian Personality by Adorno et al. and The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Reich in very high regard.

These are very old books. The Adorno book has been criticised for methodological reasons. The Reich book is very rooted in Freudian psychoanalysis. Yet they still seem to be widely read and discussed.

I am not a psychologist. Can psychologists please tell me if these works are still considered to be useful and supported by the available evidence? I feel awfully skeptical when someone backs their point up by citing them and I want to know whether I should unclench my arse.

Thank you :)