liv

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[–] liv@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks, this is a great article. It completely tallies with my experience teaching higher ed as well.

[–] liv@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

No, there are not handicapped stalls in the other bathrooms. In this particular art gallery/museum the womens' and mens' are very difficult even for some disabled people who can walk, because each is fitted with two fire doors (heavy doors that self close) - one to get into the sink area and another to access the stalls area.

If it was like @Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com was saying, I might feel differently but this is in a new part of the building and they are only a few years old. There's also an enormous supply closet next to them. It really shouldn't have to be like this.

[–] liv@beehaw.org 11 points 7 months ago

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. That locked due to sex thing is irksome for sure. How can their logic be "other people have sex therefore you have nowhere to pee"?!

It creates a weird fear in my mind of using one while I could be using another but instead I’d be blocking someone who needs the special infrastructure in the toilet.

This is a big part of it. As a bi cisgender disabled person I feel like we are being herded into making decisions about sharing/competing for a scarce resource somehow. It sort of feels like they are ticking off all their "other" boxes with this one toilet.

I felt quite selfconscious when a person with no visible disability walked out of it and I was outside in a wheelchair waiting. I'm pretty sure they were rainbow community and I didn't want them to feel like their use of the toilet was at my expense.

It also feels a bit problematic to me that there's an assumption that disabled people specifically are never bigoted or unsafe for gender diverse people to be around.

 

Description: a toilet door with a multigender symbol and a disabled symbol. Text below the symbols reads "Inclusive| Ira tāngata katoa".

For context, this is the disabled toilet in the main art gallery in my country's biggest city. There are the standard male toilet and female toilet right there as well.

Edit: sorry, image upload isn't working for me. Basically the one disabled toilet has been turned into an inclusive gender and disability toilet. I love it that there is a gender inclusive bathroom but I don't love it that they siloed it into the disability accessible toilet instead of renovating a new one or changing one of the 4 standard ones instead or as well.

[–] liv@beehaw.org 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's a bunch of crimes.

He illegally imported endangered species parts.

Then he cloned them and implanted an embryo which meant he ended up with an endangered species clone.

Then he got hold of wild Montana sheep and bred them with his clone.

With the intention of using them in captive hunting parks, it's illegal to use wild game in captive hunting in his state.

The whole time he was repeatedly moving his frankensheep across state lines using forged vet certificates.

[–] liv@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago
[–] liv@beehaw.org 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes, it was quite good. They didn't really cover all his genocide crimes. I guess it would take a book.

[–] liv@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago
[–] liv@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

I'm sorry. Just wanted to give you a virtual hug if you'd like one.

[–] liv@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

Ugh, yours sounds even worse than ours.

We just elected a centre-right party that needed to go into coalition with our most right-wing party, who are libertarians, and our most populist party. They finally formed yesterday and now we have a government that is going to destroy the environment and decimate social services.

[–] liv@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

In our case it was a city of about 40,000 that only existed for two weeks, so it’s hard to say how it might scale

Keeping order is one thing, but police do a bunch of things no one else has time for.

Endless follow ups, liaising with social workers, taking long statements for inquests, or spending all day protecting someone's right to peacefully protest.

[–] liv@beehaw.org 12 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Maybe it's because I live in a country where the police don't carry guns (and sex work is legal), but I found it really hard to put my finger on exactly what they are advocating for here.

They seem to be saying that police only exist to enforce middle class interests? I don't think that's entirely true.

I would like to see more change in how policing is done, but the idea that communities self-police is idealistic. Sure they do in some ways, but it can be just as selective and just as damaging as anything police do.

[–] liv@beehaw.org 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board, who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.

I am so confused.

 

Bystanders are less likely to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to women than men, particularly if the emergency takes place in a public area, according to research presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress. The study also shows that in private locations older people, especially older men, are less likely to receive CPR.

The researchers don't know what is causing this but it really troubles me.

 

I find they make it harder to read and as I'm under data restrictions it would be nice to not load them.

Sorry if this has been asked before. I know the lemmy software has a lot of limitations too so maybe this is one of them.

 

Engineers developed RangerBot, a compact autonomous underwater vehicle, to combat the coral-devouring crown-of-thorns starfish using targeted lethal injections.

 

New study offers clues as to how exhaustion could arise in people with ME/CFS—and potentially related conditions such as Long Covid

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