Podcast host Joe Rogan declined the Harris campaign’s offer to record an interview with Kamala Harris on Tuesday because he “would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour.” But the interview isn’t off the table. “The Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast,” Rogan said in a post on X. He wants it to take place at his Austin studio, saying his “sincere wish” is to “get to know her as a human being.”

Using the stall in a public restroom is uncomfortable for numerous reasons. There’s the fear that someone will open the door while you are vulnerable. There’s the question of how clean the seats are and the constant worry that someone is lingering outside the door, impatiently waiting for you to finish. There’s also the considerable fear of someone seeing you using the restroom because of the massive gap between the floor and the bottom of the door. It makes one wonder: why don’t more places have bathroom stalls with longer doors? Unfortunately, a popular TikTok user says they are made that way on purpose. A TikTok user named MattyPStories shared the big 3 reasons why bathroom doors are so short in a viral TikTok that makes sense but is mildly infuriating. "You’ve probably wondered at one point or another why bathroom doors don’t go all the way to the ground. But there are actually many logical reasons why they do this,” MattyP opens the video. @mattypstories And now you know!?#bathroom#facts#themoreyouknow Reason 1: Emergency concerns MattyP says the gap in the bottom of the door makes it easier to notice if someone in the stall has had an emergency and needs help. If the door went all the way to the bottom, it’d be hard to notice if someone passed out in the stall. "First off, if there’s ever an emergency, it’d be pretty easy to see what happened and get the person some help,” he says in the video. Reason 2: Easier to clean Cleanliness is mission number one for the people who own the stall and it doesn’t take much for a bathroom to quickly become a disgusting mess and a public health hazard if it isn’t cleaned every few hours. So, they are designed to make getting a mop under the bathroom door easy, which means sacrificing some of your privacy. "Secondly, it makes it way easier to clean,” MattyP reveals. “Public bathrooms are used quite often, meaning that they need to be cleaned many times throughout the day, and having the space under the door makes it a lot easier.” Reason 3: Price This one should be mildly infuriating. "And finally, it’s a lot cheaper to buy a door that has part of it cut off than the full door itself,” MattyP admits.One Point Partitions, a company that sells bathroom partitions, added a few more reasons why public bathroom doors don’t go all the way to the floor. A big one is that they are a deterrent to undesirable behavior. “Because people can partially see into a bathroom stall that has a gap at the bottom, this type of partition is a natural deterrent to undesirable behavior, such as someone spray painting the stall with graffiti,” the site reads. The company adds that seeing people’s feet at the bottom of the door keeps the line moving because people know if a stall is vacant or open. Finally, everyone likes short doors when they are out of toilet paper. “If you’ve ever run out of toilet paper and had to ask the person in the stall next to you for a few squares, then you’re already familiar with one of the leading reasons for bathroom partitions not extending to the floor. If you’d run out of toilet paper in an enclosed stall, you may have been caught with your pants down, at least figurately!” the site reads. So, when you’re stuck in a public bathroom, now you know why you want to leave there as soon as possible. But if you look on the bright side, that short door helps keep the bathroom clean and is there for you if your stall isn’t well-stocked. It’s probably better to sit in a clean stall with a short door than a dirty bathroom with one that goes floor-to-ceiling.

There are things you just don't know until you find out the hard way. While most people are taught the basics of housekeeping: sweeping, mopping, washing dishes and doing laundry, etc. everyone isn't taught all. There are inevitably going to be gaps that are left even when scrubbing a home from the tippy top to the bottom.Some people aren't aware that they need to pull out the dryer to use a special tool to clean the lint from the back or front panel depending on where your lint trap is located. Other's weren't taught to wipe down baseboards when deep cleaning or to soak shower heads in a cleaning agent to remove buildup. It's completely normal to not know everything about living in your own home, and let's be honest, 18 years isn't long enough to ensure all knowledge is being passed down to children. But one family's housekeeping oversight was the cause of them constantly getting sick and it's something that isn't common knowledge.James Butler recently shared a video where he explains that his company was called out for a service call for a residence in the city, which was unusual because he normally services well water. Diy Behold GIF by Amelia Parker & The Parker Andersons Giphy "They were insistent that we come out and try to solve their problem. The problem was that people kept getting sick in the house. My first thought was take a vitamin but on further inspection we found the problem," he says before continuing. "See, in your house and pretty much everybody else's house, where the water comes out on your sink, there's something called an aerator. It does a variety of functions from slowing the flow of water to keeping grit out of your water and if you don't clean it, it looks like that."The screen changes to the backside of a sink aerator filled with stuff that could sear into the back of your eyelids for the rest of your life haunting you every time you close your eyes. It was the aerator that the family's drinking water was passing through that looked like a grab bag of bacterial cultures dipped in micro organisms. @jamesbutler299 #greenscreen is your house clean...bet you missed this. ♬ nhạc nền - James Butler If you're appalled at the thought of drinking water filtering through whatever was growing on the back of that aerator, don't you worry, Butler shares what to do, "so if this video was a middle school history test, here's the cheat sheet. Go unscrew the aerator from your sink, soak it in bleach, clean it. I would say do it at least monthly."People were thoroughly grossed out while also being thankful for the new information they have learned from the app with one person saying, "TikTok has show in me that I need to vacuum the insides of my dryer, never run my bathroom fan and clean my kitchen sink aerator. I have lived a long time and never knew any of this." Girl Lol GIF by America's Funniest Home Videos Giphy "Omg I own a cleaning company my house is spotless. I’ve never thought to clean my aerator on the inside," someone else writes."I am putting THAT picture on the inside of my kitchen cabinet to remind myself to do it periodically," another shares."I'm convinced when it's our time it's our time cause how I'm supposed work, go to the gym, self care, wear sunscreen, take vitamins, drink water, mind my business and now, clean the facet alternator," one person laments. Mad Kicking And Screaming GIF by MOODMAN Giphy "Showed this to my husband, showed him the bottom our faucet (couldn’t get the aerator out), and pretty much immediately went out to buy another faucet. Better safe than sorry," someone else writes.Well, now that everyone is thoroughly grossed out and running from room to room ripping out their faucets screaming about aerators, it's not the worst thing. Those little gadgets are fairly inexpensive for those who don't want to clean them every few months and if you didn't know cleaning an aerator was part of housekeeping chores, neither did many of the people who commented.

David C. Smalley, a comedian and podcaster, regularly gives us some generational humor by exposing his 19-year-old daughter Talissa to relics of the past. You know, things like CDs, phonebooks, remote controllers…feeling old yet? Recently, Smalley challenged Talissa with navigating a standard U-Haul storage truck. She had to 1) unlock the door 2) roll down a window and 3) start the engine.For those of us who grew up before the 90s, this might sound like the easiest challenge ever. But apparently, for Gen Z, it’s like being asked to maneuver a horse and buggy.Despite growing up in a key fob generation, where simply pressing a button on a tiny remote controller could magically open doors, Talissa aced unlocking the door with a key. Next, she was understandably baffled over the amount of physical labor required to simply roll down a window. “Are you serious? They haven’t updated that?!” she exclaimed while doing the tedious hand-cranking move we all know so well. “Are you kidding me?! I would not do this every time.” She definitely had a point on this one. Electronic windows have been the standard for decades. Is U-Haul just sentimental or what? Having checked off two of the three tasks, Talissa then had to start the car—which proved to be the biggest challenge of all. Looking on the center console, where she’s used to seeing the ignition button, Talissa found the airbag and radio (two foreign objects in their own right) but no way to start the car. Finally…success! Talissa found the ignition hiding behind the steering wheel. “I’m not going to make it explode, am I?” she joked as she turned the key and celebrated her victory. Watch below. Hearing Talissa ask if the radio is a “fidget game” is entertainment in itself. @davidcsmalley #daughterissues #daughterpod ♬ original sound - David C. Smalley It’s always fun to see the ways in which different generations navigate the world through fashion, slang, entertainment, dating, food, the list goes on. But technology, which continues to evolve at a rapid rate, always feels like the biggest culture shock. And unlike bell bottoms, outdated tech rarely makes a comeback. So once the more energy efficient, more convenient appliance becomes mainstream, its predecessor is forever obsolete. Unless of course you count the cool, hipster folks hanging onto vinyl for the superior sound quality.Speaking of vinyl, Talissa was also previously challenged by Smalley to work a record player, to equal hilarity: @davidcsmalley #daughterissues #daughterpod #genz #genx #recordplayers #vinyl #talissa ♬ original sound - David C. Smalley Somehow, seeing how far we’ve come through the look of bafflement from the young ones is the only thing that never gets old.Enjoy more fun interactions from Smalley and Talissa on TikTok. This article originally appeared on 9.25.23

Each year that I teach the book "1984" I turn my classroom into a totalitarian regime under the guise of the "common good."I run a simulation in which I become a dictator. I tell my students that in order to battle "Senioritis," the teachers and admin have adapted an evidence-based strategy, a strategy that has "been implemented in many schools throughout the country and has had immense success." I hang posters with motivational quotes and falsified statistics, and provide a false narrative for the problem that is "Senioritis."I tell the students that in order to help them succeed, I must implement strict classroom rules. They must raise their hand before doing anything at all, even when asking another student for a pencil. They lose points each time they don't behave as expected. They gain points by reporting other students. If someone breaks the rule and I don't see it, it's the responsibility of the other students to let me know. Those students earn bonus points. I tell students that in order for this plan to work they must "trust the process and not question their teachers." This becomes a school-wide effort. The other teachers and admin join in.I've done this experiment numerous times, and each year I have similar results. This year, however, was different.This year, a handful of students did fall in line as always. The majority of students, however, rebelled.By day two of the simulation, the students were contacting members of administration, writing letters, and creating protest posters. They were organizing against me and against the admin. They were stomping the hallways, refusing to do as they were told.The president of the Student Government Association, whom I don't even teach, wrote an email demanding an end to this "program." He wrote that this program is "simply fascism at its worst. Statements such as these are the base of a dictatorship rule, this school, as well as this country cannot and will not fall prey to these totalitarian behaviors."I did everything in my power to fight their rebellion.I "bribed" the president of the SGA. I "forced" him to publicly "resign." And, yet, the students did not back down. They fought even harder. They were more vigilant. They became more organized. They found a new leader. They were more than ready to fight. They knew they would win in numbers.I ended the experiment two days earlier than I had planned because their rebellion was so strong and overwhelming. For the first time since I've done this experiment, the students "won."What I learned is this: Teenagers will be the ones to save us.Just like Emma Gonzalez, the teen activist from Marjory Stoneman Douglas, my students did not back down nor conform. They fought for their rights. They won.Adults can learn a lot from the teens of this generations. Adults are complacent, jaded, and disparaged. Teenagers are ignited, spirited, and take no prisoners. Do not squander their fight. They really are our future. Do not call them entitled. That entitlement is their drive and their passion. Do not get in their way. They will crush you.Foster their rebellion. They are our best allies.This story originally appeared on Medium and is reprinted here with permission. It was originally published on 2.21.18.

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