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Readit Newsmycologos commented on Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest jorgegalindo.me/en/blog/p... · Posted by u/jorgegalindo
This is so weird, because you could also just not elect them.
Could you? Some elections only feature old candidates. This limit is a way of making sure there is at least one non-old choice.
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mycologos commented on Mexico’s anti-avocado militias theguardian.com/news/arti... · Posted by u/cyberlimerence
mycologos commented on Mexico’s anti-avocado militias theguardian.com/news/arti... · Posted by u/cyberlimerence
"new state apparatus in place. Political parties were banned, and a governing council had been elected..a military force was chartered"
Yeah, how does this work? This sounds more like civil war. Admittedly, one side of the war staying to themselves. But, also, break down of any overall government.
If Idaho suddenly did this people would freak out, would call it communism, and attack.
Unlike the United States government, the Mexican government has been fighting, and maybe losing, a civil war against cartels for a long time. This episode is, if anything, a positive step in that civil war, in the enemy-of-my-enemy sense, so it seems reasonable that a central government would at least deprioritize addressing it.
For those skimming, this is the controversy over J Michael Bailey's book The Man Who Would Be Queen. I highly recommend reading Dreger's article.
Conway (and others, particularly Andrea James) conducted a years-long campaign of harassment against Bailey. This included (among many other things) repeated attempts to get Bailey fired from his job at Northwestern, a series of vexatious complaints to an Illinois licensing board, and infamously posting photos online of Bailey's children suggesting that Bailey had raped them and asking whether his young daughter was "a cock-starved exhibitionist".
Much of this material is still on Conway's University of Michigan-hosted webpage.
As far as I know the example you mention was the work of Andrea James, and not Conway, but Conway's continued collaboration with someone that cruel and unhinged is, I think, an aspect of her life that shouldn't be ignored.
(Does it cancel out her many unambiguously positive and praiseworthy achievements? No. People are complicated.)
mycologos commented on Quieting the Global Growl hakaimagazine.com/feature... · Posted by u/tintinnabula
Which fact did you find the most interesting?
"Most" is pretty hard, so I'll just pick one I think is good. I'm paraphrasing here, so errors are mine.
Sea otters, which feed themselves through long dives to and from the ocean floor, with a blind and hurried pawing for urchins in the middle, have hands that are about as sensitive as human hands, but significantly faster. Tasked with distinguishing boards with slightly different small ridges, humans compare and re-compare before deciding; if an otter touches the correct board first, it doesn’t touch the second one at all. This is true even though a human fingertip, if inflated to the size of the earth, is sensitive enough to distinguish between cars and houses. A manatee’s face is about as good.
mycologos commented on Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash fox13seattle.com/news/wil... · Posted by u/TMWNN
The guy was a legend - flew fighter jets, was a test pilot, and then an astronaut. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt - I'm sure he knew exactly what he was doing.
I mean, he certainly would have known exactly what he was doing at some point in his life, but skills and judgement do degrade with age.
mycologos commented on Quieting the Global Growl hakaimagazine.com/feature... · Posted by u/tintinnabula
If you're a layperson interested in these sensory questions, I highly recommend the book An Immense World by Ed Yong. It's a 400-something page tour through the many senses animals have and we (mostly) don't. It might have the highest density of truly cool animal facts per page of anything I've ever read, despite being written for adults who maybe haven't considered themselves the audience for fun animal facts in decades.