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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • “Students were asked to write a 650-word response to an academic study that examined whether conformity with gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students.”

    “Fulnecky wrote that she was frustrated by the premise of the article because she doesn’t believe that there are more than two genders based on her understanding of the Bible, according to a copy of her essay”

    That person clearly just didn’t understand the task they were given. It doesn’t matter whether you believe there are more than two genders. Clearly there are other people that do and thus do not adhere to the gender norms and that can have an effect on their popularity or whether or not they get bullied. So…that person was just unable to comprehend that there might be people out there that see the world with different eyes…heck, that person even got offended by that fact. That is so stupid!

    In academia you are (and should be!) constantly confronted with different ideas and logic and arguments should become your tools to deal with them. That person could have even used a Christian point of view to try and explain the results of that study (whatever that was).


  • Absolutely. But you can’t do more than kick the ass of everyone in your group that isn’t doing their part. You can’t stop and give up as well. You have to motivate all other group members and - if necessary - kick out the one dude that does nothing.

    So…you can complain and moan, but in the end it does not change what you have to do.

    From the other siexe of the pond, I really wish you all the strength and wish you all the best. I’m serious, I’m really worried about everyone in the US.


  • Please don’t take this the wrong way, because I absolutely understand your position and the shitty position your in.

    Trump IS your president. Whether you voted for him or not. At the same time, the government, or rather the way you are governed, is also YOUR responsibility. No one can change it but you and your fellow citizens. If you don’t like your president, elect someone else. If you don’t like the presented options, pressure whatever party you think fits into providing better options. If you fear, you won’t be able to ever get a real vote anymore, then fight for your right! No one from the outside is going to come in and fix this for you. This is THE ONE responsibility that you have as a citizen…



  • Also look at all the mass-firings in the tech industry. Many of them are argued with AI being able to replace the workers, even though this hasn’t been proven. Even non-tech companies argue that way. AI is supposed to increase efficiency and thus you need less people to do the work.

    The dot-com bubble at least also came with mass-enployment. I wonder if the burst of the AI-bubble will result in the companies having to re-employ many of the workers they fired…









  • We use Zoom at work and that is quite good. I used Teams, Jitsi, BigBlueButton and Citrix and so far Zoom has had the least problems (Citrix being a close second place). It also has clients for all major platforms and OS.

    Their latest update greatly improved the chat functionality (in my opinion) and it is slowly replacing all other internal communication channels (mail/phone).




  • “Software, or generally computation, can be categorised as a type of building material rather than a type of product in itself.”

    I just don’t get why that would be a novel or helpful way of looking at it. If anything software is the tool you use to create something. Usually software is used to change and manipulate data in some way. So data could be your material (like marbel) and software could be your tool (like hammer and chisel). And heck…software development would be your blacksmith making your hammer and chisel and a compiler could be the blacksmiths furnace. That all makes more sense to me.

    But I’m just some random Internet guy. Don’t take it personal. I guess it just ‘clicked’ in your mind and hasn’t in mine (yet).




  • Well…I think you lost me. The really sudden loss of your job sucks, no matter what. I agree that a lot of people get laid off every day, but I feel sorry for them too. Employee protections in the US are also terrible compared to a lot of other countries. This situation is different, because it is so random, so far reaching and connected with a lot more insecurity. An ailing company may fire people…that is something you can see coming, but what is happening right now is just senseless and not very smart. A lot of things will break and in the end people will die, many people will leave the country and the economy will tank.