“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).

Check out JetKVM. The software and hardware is well thought out and works great. I use it for my homelab (mostly internally, so I can say too much about external access).

https://jetkvm.com/

The amazing thing is that there is often a translation layer involved and it still runs faster. And as it was pointed out, this can also be achieved with a “normal” Linux system.

Yeah…I honestly didn’t look where this was posted. The text alone didn’t quite make the privacy focus obvious.

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).

Thanks for the clarification. I would even say that I mostly agree with the sentiment. Immigration has been a pointless discussion for years now and I think no party (except the AFD) actually profited from it. SPD and die Grünen have both failed to disspell the AFD narrative.

While I can only guess, I think he/she meant that all the stupid things the government has done so far should not have come as a surprise to anyone. They announced most of it and even the things they kept “quiet” were pretty obvious. So government employees could have searched for alternative jobs beforehand and kind of “brace for impact” and unions could have planned a coordinated response to bullshit firings. Lawsuits could have (and actually have) been prepared so that it would not take months to react to all the stupid stuff that’s happening now.

Or maybe I am completely wrong :)

Bold statement. Do you have any examples? I would disagree, but maybe I just don’t quite understand what you meant.

Your feeling for how much things will/should cost will be completely off. Some things will seem crazy expensive, while others are really cheap.

Others said it, but I’ll say it as well: Germans tend to be very friendly, but are not very open. It takes time for us to open up. In my experience, a lot of things (emotions for example) aren’t said directly but are said jokingly.

Germans tend to be direct and use short sentences. Something that can be answered with just one word, WILL be answered with just one word. That can sometimes seem like a harsh reaction to a simple question but really isn’t meant as such.

If you’re still in school, it can be very different from what you know. Same goes for university. There are a lot less activities at school (clubs), but that frees up time to do things outside of school. So you have to organize you free-time by yourself and you might just spend that with friends.

I guess you will also be walking more. This is totally based on my stereotype of American car-focused city building. The larger the cities are in Germany, the worse they get for driving with cars. All larger cities have a good public transport system and that naturally means that one has to walk more (to/from stations). I noticed that myself, when I moved from the countryside to the city.

I think this is true for computers that are in danger of being stolen. Laptops or PCs in dorms or other shared living spaces. But I live in a relatively secure area, burglaries are very rare and my PC never leaves the building. So the benefits of encryption are pretty much negligible.

All of which cost more than a 100000 dollars but were still somehow bought on a whim for that one experiment that one time…

He’s not just being polite but he made the conscious decision that this store is the one he wants to support because they were willing to lose revenue in order to help the customer.