beautifulrobot.bsky.social
uni instructor and workshop facilitator for grad students & academia (careers, diversity, mental health in academia). book enjoyer. serial creative project starter. mom of one very cute baby. berlin. đ©đȘđșđž
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weird that people still think there is an algorithm
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from Germany I will say that living in a small town in the middle or edge of the US *feels* a lot more like being on an island than living in a small town in idk the Swabian Alb or Black Forest tbh
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reading this & thinking that I brought a 6-month-old baby to the last protest I went to, Iâve been to almost all of the May Day demos in Berlin for the last 18 years and I canât think of a time I felt like I needed goggles, something is (obviously) very wrong in the US
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fair (cheerios are pretty good tho)
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ok but from Germany, we have like 8 types of cereal, we have like half a shelf of snack options, you have no idea how overwhelming it is to try to buy chips in a Publix đ
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all of todayâs children that never got to mark off the route or look for fun lunch options on the paper AAA Triptik in the passenger seat
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I spent about 20 minutes today trying to get it to explain apart of a Jane Austen novel and it made up every single quote despite being told not to invent quotes and to stick to the original text and wouldnât even admit it made up the quotes
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as a uni instructor who occasionally teaches undergrads, if weâre not teaching the kids why they need to be able to do the work themselves we are skipping an important part of teaching - teaching now is also about teaching why and how to learn
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i suspect you will have to go forward to go back (maybe to a more formal multiparty system?)
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youâre responding to this:
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are you a robot or did you forget what I originally said, Iâm so confused
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yes but then people that I follow would have to follow me, which they do not (complementary) (itâs almost all onlyfans girls and grifters in there)
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o I do not(!) want people to follow me, that is not what this is for
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and in some countries you do not even need to show intent
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I am in Germany and I go to bed early and I usually miss people posting on the US west coast so completely that I occasionally check to see if Iâve been blocked
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ok but i think thereâs no algorithm on bluesky, itâs just the time of day and when your followers log in
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I mean this is in fact what my colleagues get paid to do but itâs because we have wildly different labor laws here
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intent is not relevant in Germany in a lot of these cases (she does not have to be prosecuted in the US!)
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I was like why is everyone posting about glenn greenwald again and now I wish I didnât know I guess
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in my classes I always spend a lot of time talking about why you need the thing Iâm going to teach and I think this is a part of education that many instructors and profs completely skip because it seems obvious to them personally
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yeah i also think some people are wildly underestimating the risk that they are taking - like here in Germany itâs a crime to accidentally! give money to people the government thinks are terrorists (which is not the same as actual terrorists!)
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there are quite a few laws in StGB that are relevant here in Germany - if you accidentally! give money to someone that is connected to a state-listed terror org you open yourself up to legal action (and itâs illegal to suggest that people do crimes here)
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it is also possibly illegal here in Germany, I do not think she understands how little our legal system cares about context
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so ah the Verfassungschutz might have a different interpretation than she does, seeing as how sheâs doing all this from Berlin
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yeah we do not have a lot of flexibility here in Germany, at least in the legal system, which is often a shock to expats
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also sheâs in germany where you donât really even need intent! itâs just illegal to give money to anyone the government has determined is terrorist! also itâs illegal to suggest doing something illegal! which is fun i guess
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we do have lots of laws here and itâs weird that expats seem to think they are untouchable
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the thing is that we do in fact have laws here in germany and it is (actually) illegal to recommend that people do illegal things (it is also illegal to accidentally give money to terrorists!)
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This person is allegedly in Germany and we do actually have a lot of laws here and what sheâs doing seems like itâs a potential violation of a lot of
them (it is illegal to suggest that people to do something illegal, for example)
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in den USA geht es vor allem um die bisher kostenlose Booster-Impfung - meine Eltern wurden dort z.B. 7 mal seit 2020 geimpft. Finde ich super, sie sind schon ĂŒ70 und Covid ist nicht ohne - aber es ist hier auch nicht mehr möglich ĂŒber die GKK wenn man nicht zur Risikogruppe gehört
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oh i went on there to see and the first two posts were yours, alas
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sind aber hier auch nicht empfohlen
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idk it seems pretty weird that people would know about the scam factories and make jokes about them
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there is some really amazing reporting on the âscam factoriesâ on propublica, it is truly horrific stuff honestly
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age limits probably make sense (?) but are probably challenging because (at least in the US) in the US you have to have money (you need time to build a campaign before itâs financially viable and if you lose youâre out of a job) & older people tend to have more money & bigger networks
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term limits do mean that people donât have time to become experts and could end up relying a lot more on lobbyists (who are basically paid to hang around and give expert advice to politicians) - we have different rules on lobbying here in europe but that seems like it would be a challenge in the us
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yes but you see the thing i said was simply the thing i said and did not include any hidden or additional meaning beyond that
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all i am saying here is that the new policy on covid vaccines is the same policy that we have here, and is, in fact, more in line with the rest of the world as the FDA has stated
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yes i understand that you want to be mad about things online, thatâs pretty common tbh, not all that unusual really, but the thing is that most people are not doing the thing you are mad about, theyâre just sharing facts, like i am sharing that it is, in fact, in line with the rest of the world.
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it costs me around 200-300 euro to be vaccinated for something that isnât covered by insurance which is actually not that different from the us in many cases.
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the reporting out of the FDA states that theyâre trying to align with global standards on this, and in this particular case, it is pretty much the truth, which is in fact all i was saying
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ok but that is not the point of what i was saying, why is no one on the internet able to read
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guys all i am saying is that it is not covered by insurance here either and that this is, in fact, in line with most of the world
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idk i mean if you think gleefully celebrating an old person dying in pain is cool it is a sign of a severe lack of empathy which is pretty much the reason why genocides happen in the first place, also it sounds like the kind of thing an emotionally immature teenager would say
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we do not, in fact, have a population that follows precautions. there is also no shortage of the vaccine in germany, but we have the same rules. there are a lot of reasons why your government is a mess but this does not seem to be one of them tbh
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this is the exact same situation we have here in Germany and have had for a long time tbh
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yes, limiting access just means that itâs not recommended so itâs not going to be free at the pharmacy and your insurance might not cover it - it will be off label, but they canât force doctors not to give it to you (yet, anyway)
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yeah thatâs exactly what the (excellent) German healthcare system already does though, the STIKO is science-based and led by medical experts, and we can only get the vaccine here if we pay out of pocket or belong to one of the risk groups mentioned
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(limit approval seems to mean exactly what the STIKO recommendation does here - insurance wonât cover things used âoff labelâ but you can still have it if you want it and want to pay)
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it looks like the FDA is changing their recommendation so that itâs no longer free for you and recommended for everyone? I canât find a news article that confirms that youâre not going to be allowed to get it from your doctor if youâre willing to pay?