Whew, it got hot today!

[conuly]

77 degrees! I took the dogs' sweaters off, poor things, but tomorrow it'll be under 60 again.

*****

Invisible dresses? Oh, knickers!

Why the future of French is African

With Indigenous Languages in Steep Decline, Summer Camps Offer Hope

She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it

Explosive Cats Imagined in a Strange, 16th Century Military Manual

As 2020 Candidates Pitch Scrapping The Electoral College, Voters Are Intrigued

The World’s Greatest Delivery Empire

Cheating Into College the Old-Fashioned Way: Breaking and Entering

Sexual Harassment In Libraries, Post-#MeToo: What Has and Hasn’t Changed?

In possible first, Cuba allows march by animal activists

The golden age of YouTube is over

What Happens to Community Bonds When a Neighborhood Gentrifies

In unprecedented move, U.S. names Iran's Revolutionary Guards terrorist group

As Black Activists Protested Police Killings, Homeland Security Worried They Might Join ISIS

These Men are Fighting to Abolish the Death Penalty—From Death Row

The Human Costs Of Kamala Harris’ War On Truancy

Austin’s Weirdly Aggressive Traffic Stops

It’s Not Just Pork: Trump Is Also Letting Nuclear Plants Regulate Their Own Safety

Trump made two remarkably authoritarian remarks in one day

‘Our country is full’: Trump says migrants straining system (JFC, I cannot take an additional year of this shit)

Number of children going to ER with suicidal thoughts, attempts doubles, study finds

Comments

[greghousesgf]

the closest thing I saw to sexual harrassment in a library was that someone had deliberately hung the bathroom stall doors wrong so anybody going to the bathroom had absolutely no privacy. when I complained I was told they did this because someone was doing drugs in the bathroom. That's one of the worst excuses I've ever heard and I said so.

[conuly]

Do you mind if I ask you a question about something I've noticed?

[greghousesgf]

depends what it is

[conuly]

Well, yeah, but I'm gonna run ahead anyway.

When most people respond to an anecdote - or several anecdotes - about a subject with "The closest thing to that I've ever seen is...." the implication they're going for is that whatever-it-is doesn't really happen and isn't a real problem.

I don't think that's what you're trying to say, but I'm sort of at a loss as to how to respond when people make comments like this.

[greghousesgf]

no no no, that's NOT what I'm trying to say! I've no doubt the people who say they were harrassed are telling the truth! I've been harrassed too and I know how shitty it is when someone doesn't believe you. I'm just saying that door business was creepy and fucked up.

[conuly]

No argument here on the door business, that's about as fucked up as it can get.

[kengr]

I've seen worse. At a Carl's Jr downtown, the mens room had one urinal and one stall.

To "stop drug use" they removed the stall partitions. So the toilet was totally exposed in the corner opposite the door.

So when you opened the door you had a direct line of sight to anybody using the toilet. and so did anybody in a wedge of the restaurant behind you.

I haven't been back since.

[greghousesgf]

oh, ugh.

[conuly]

My mother's elementary school had no doors on the stalls. Ew, ew, ew.

[kengr]

I've seen that too. Ugh.

and yes, that was clear back in the late 60s/early 70s.

[nocowardsoul]

Number of children going to ER with suicidal thoughts, attempts doubles, study finds

People talk about cyberbullying as a factor in this, but that leaves out all other forms of bullying and insulting and that annoys me.

[kengr]

Regarding self-regulation of industries I rather like the water quality rule used in Scandanavia.

They require a company, city, whatever to have their water *intake* DOWNSTREAM of their wastewater outlet.

This is easy to check, and pretty much self-enforcing.

For the pork industry, making the workers *and owners* eat pork picked at random from the plant would likely be a *great* incentive to get the inspections right.

For nuclear reactors, make the folks live near the plant (this sort of thing is why the Navy's reactors have such a good safety record. If an accident will kill you you tend to take safety *real* seriously)

[conuly]

Clever!

Lisa Delpit's books

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Heya, check out this author, Lisa Delpit: I haven't read her yet, but she sounds most interesting:

“Multiplication Is for White People”
Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children (https://thenewpress.com/books/multiplication-for-white-people)

"From the MacArthur Award–winning education reformer and author of the bestselling Other People’s Children, a long-awaited new book on how to fix the persistent black/white achievement gap in America’s public schools"

Re: Lisa Delpit's books

[conuly]

Will do.