Why do bad things happen to good people?
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conulyThese chips are NOT onion garlic. They're plain. They taste like potatoes. Mistakes like that could never happen in a fundamentally just universe.
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On Shikoku, the smallest and least visited of Japan’s four main islands, one woman has had a mind-spinning response to a common crisis.
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Inside the effort to reintroduce grizzlies to California.
Every Disney movie should be remade from the perspective of the proletariat
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I am raising my daughter to speak three languages. A stranger demanded I 'speak English' to her (Those comments! "It's rude to go to another country and not speak their language. How dare you try to change their culture? Speak English!" No personal insight whatsoever, and I was sorely tempted to create an account just so I could link the lot of them to this xkcd. By the way, have I told you yet that you can get free language lessons online from the Cherokee Nation?)
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This Prison Won't Let Me Read “Game of Thrones” (Because it has maps. There are reasonable rules and there are fundamentally bullshit rules, and honestly, being incarcerated is not justification for having to put up with petty bullshit. Nothing's more likely to induce me, or anybody, to violence than lack of closure on a long-running book series. I don't care what they did.)
The absolute culmination of the "we have to build bridges with the far right" argument.
What It’s Like to Be One of the Few Men Who Volunteer as Abortion Clinic Escorts
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Facing a constant threat of rape and harassment, the women of Delhi fight back (As one of the interviewed women points out, this might work for some individuals, but it's hardly a real, long-term solution to gender-biased violence.)
Targeted: A Family and the Quest to Stop the Next School Shooter (Jump to the end, it turns out that the partially-overheard convo that triggered all this was the (autistic) student's classmate talking about how that kid is completely misunderstood and the nickname utterly undeserved. If the staff member who heard this conversation had talked to the kid they overheard instead of simply logging it, none of this would've happened.)
How Hospitals Mistreat Disabled Patients
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When the bad guys at Rikers are the guards.
Can Child Sex Offenders Be Rehabilitated? (I don't have that much sympathy for people who harm kids, but I certainly am interested in any improvement in our ability to keep them from doing it or - if at risk - to never start doing it in the first place.)
The 800-Year-Old Fishpond That’s Still Feeding Hawai‘i
How Tattoos Became Middle Class
On Shikoku, the smallest and least visited of Japan’s four main islands, one woman has had a mind-spinning response to a common crisis.
Japan’s Vegetable-Eating Men
Ocasio-Cortez scored a victory — for well-designed campaign posters
The Macroeconomic Madness Behind Extra Cheesy Pizza
How India’s Fishermen Turn Ocean Plastic Into Roads
U.S. judge bars Kentucky from requiring Medicaid recipients to work
Inside the effort to reintroduce grizzlies to California.
Every Disney movie should be remade from the perspective of the proletariat
China Extends Lead as Most Prolific Supercomputer Maker
The New Arms Race Threatening to Explode in Space
Losing Our Marbles
The Government Campaign to Get Rid of Singapore’s Unofficial Language
Manipulative Social Media Practices
Money is more stressful than politics for Millennials
I am raising my daughter to speak three languages. A stranger demanded I 'speak English' to her (Those comments! "It's rude to go to another country and not speak their language. How dare you try to change their culture? Speak English!" No personal insight whatsoever, and I was sorely tempted to create an account just so I could link the lot of them to this xkcd. By the way, have I told you yet that you can get free language lessons online from the Cherokee Nation?)
Hardening attitudes to migrants put Swiss-EU ties to the test
It’s time to end the pernicious myth that giving money directly to panhandlers won’t help them.
The Price of Domestic Workers’ Invisible Labor in U.S. Border Towns
Far from Southwest, children of workplace raids await fate
This Prison Won't Let Me Read “Game of Thrones” (Because it has maps. There are reasonable rules and there are fundamentally bullshit rules, and honestly, being incarcerated is not justification for having to put up with petty bullshit. Nothing's more likely to induce me, or anybody, to violence than lack of closure on a long-running book series. I don't care what they did.)
The absolute culmination of the "we have to build bridges with the far right" argument.
What It’s Like to Be One of the Few Men Who Volunteer as Abortion Clinic Escorts
Why A Pro-Life World Has A Lot of Dead Women In It
Facing a constant threat of rape and harassment, the women of Delhi fight back (As one of the interviewed women points out, this might work for some individuals, but it's hardly a real, long-term solution to gender-biased violence.)
Targeted: A Family and the Quest to Stop the Next School Shooter (Jump to the end, it turns out that the partially-overheard convo that triggered all this was the (autistic) student's classmate talking about how that kid is completely misunderstood and the nickname utterly undeserved. If the staff member who heard this conversation had talked to the kid they overheard instead of simply logging it, none of this would've happened.)
How Hospitals Mistreat Disabled Patients
Chronic Lyme Disease: When Doctors Don’t Listen
When the bad guys at Rikers are the guards.
Can Child Sex Offenders Be Rehabilitated? (I don't have that much sympathy for people who harm kids, but I certainly am interested in any improvement in our ability to keep them from doing it or - if at risk - to never start doing it in the first place.)
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Date: 2018-07-01 10:21 pm (UTC)Re: child sex offenders
Date: 2018-07-01 10:29 pm (UTC)My Big Trauma is that I was targeted by a producer of child pornographer about ten years ago. He and I were briefly engaged, then after we broke up, he managed to convince me that I owed him a place in my life because he was a Nice Guy and I had screwed him over and he was my responsibility. (Long story, but slick predator was slick.) He raped me and used my apartment as a studio and trading post while I was at work (I was a workaholic back then and after 100+ hour weeks was barely capable of noticing whether the apartment was on fire.) The FBI approached me about him. He's now in prison for a minimum of 17 years or so.
And the thing is, people expect me to advocate for a harder sentence and harsher repercussions for the guy that cost me my health, my ease of sleep, my ability to trust, threatened my kid. And--- no. I don't want that. He was a child in so many terrifying ways, never given the chance to grown up or grow healthy by his truly monstrous mother. I don't want him to have nothing to lose and be getting out of prison at the same time my theoretical grandchildren age into his preferred demographic. I want him healthy and I want him far away from me.
And it makes my heart hurt when people say I'm not surviving rape right, that I have to let rage rule my life for it to be "real," or how I'm oppressing other survivors by not wanting to burn everyone to the ground.
I dunno, mang. But this is an important issue to me. Thanks.
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