andrewducker | Interesting Links for 23-07-2022

1. The hero and the massacre (a piece of history from the US/Vietnamese war): (tags:history war Vietnam USA )
2. EU launches fresh legal action over Northern Ireland border rules: (tags:uk NorthernIreland europe )
3. MI6 chief: Russia is 'about to run out of steam' in Ukraine and may have to pause: (tags:mi6 ukraine russia war )
4. Whisky makers are turning their backs on peat: (tags:alcohol scotland )
5. Single-use plastic ban in Scotland exempt from forthcoming UK Internal Market Act: (tags:scotland uk plastic law )
6. Migrant women raped on journeys to Europe receiving emergency abortions on rescue ships in the Mediterranean: (tags:abortion rape migration europe )
7. How Hertz Paid Accenture $32 Million for a Website That Never Went Live: (tags:epicfail web outsourcing )
8. I love stories about how chaotic it was working for dotcom companies (Etsy in this case): (tags:Web business )
9. What lurks within... the Museum of Failure?!? (My "favourite" is the spray on condom): (tags:fail business viaPatrickHadfield )
10. House passes Right to Contraception Act, a bill to protect access to birth control: (tags:USA contraception )

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1. I remember My Lai.

Not something an 11 year old should have to have stored in her memory- an soldier's daughter of 11 who became a military historian.

Edited Date: 2022-07-23 02:29 pm (UTC)

andrewducker

Yeah, not the kind of thing an 11 year old should be exposed to. More the kind of thing an 11 year old should be protected from.

bens_dad

More the kind of thing an 11 year old should be protected from.

Hmm. A bright interested 11yo who wishes to know should be allowed to see/hear about such things in a supportive environment, perhaps retold in a way that s/he can handle.
Especially if it is significant to someone close to them.

I had a father who was away on service rather a lot so tended to get left to my own devices and my devices included a fascination with the Vietnam war even though I'm English. Being a soldier's child tends to lead you that way.

It shouldn't be a surprise that I ended up being a military historian I suppose, although I've never been quite sure how I ended up with a 17th century specialism.

11 is a reasonable age to start considering such things, I agree. It's also the age that's suggested as a minimum for teaching about the Holocaust. But I'd want to be a lot more careful than I would be with a 13 year old.

They kept the Sho'ah (and the Porajmos- I was bequeathed both bloodlines by my family) from me but they couldn't stop me finding stuff out for myself.

Edited Date: 2022-07-24 09:19 am (UTC)

nancylebov

#4. More convenient to read the story than twitter.

https://www.metafilter.com/196015/A-weird-epic-ramble-about-Etsy-homepages-from-the-mid-2000s

Another story:

https://twitter.com/MoisheLettvin/status/1550248531050393601

Edited Date: 2022-07-23 12:45 pm (UTC)

I love it!

mellowtigger

#4 Glad to hear that some companies are acting to preserve peatland, since its loss is an important variable in climate change.

Very cool, if true

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