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bifouba

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Mathematician/computer scientist/statistician turned social scientist with a focus on international educational development and demography. Critical realist epistemology: facts are constructed, but not out of nothing.

Stale-ish (pulling off the grey melange, and in better cardio shape than at 20) pale-ish (Euro-Arab, “gelernter Österreicher”) male | late-dx ND

Interested in almost everything. Serial monotropist (not always in a good way).

I do not suffer fools. This is not a challenge.

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renwillis, to random
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bifouba,
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@renwillis Literally yes: https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/20/a-guide-to-surviving-your-miserable-leftist-guests-at-thanksgiving-dinner/

juergen_hubert, to folklore
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According to German folklore, child sacrifices were common at the start of major construction projects. These infants were walled into the foundations of the building, which supposedly protected the building from harm.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/finger-of-divine-29127362

bifouba,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore I wonder whether @naominovik was aware of that when she developed the premise for the Scholomance trilogy?

bifouba,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore @naominovik But have you read it and understand the specific idea of hers I mean? I don’t want to give away anything if you haven’t.

bifouba,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore @naominovik Super interesting! I really hope Naomi will chime in and comment on whether any of that served as inspiration!

oatmeal, to histodons
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Who’s your daddy 🧐 ...

Shortly after the publication of the infamous Balfour Declaration, the so called “Zionist Commission for Palestine” visited #Palestine. Chaim Weizmann was clearly worried the Palestinians were not quite impressed, and made the following request to make it clearer things are going to change in the near future:

"...[But] we find among the Arabs and Syrians, or certain sections of them, a state of mind which seems to us to make useful negotiations impossible at the present moment, and so far as we are aware – though here our information may be incomplete – no official steps have been taken to bring home to the Arabs and Syrians the fact that His Majesty’s Government has expressed a definite policy with regard to the future of the Jews in Palestine”

Military Governor Colonel Ronald Storrs replied:

“Speaking myself as a convinced #Zionist, I cannot help thinking that the Commission are lacking in a sense of the dramatic actuality. #Palestine, up to now a Moslem country, has fallen into the hands of a Christian Power which on the eve of its conquest announced that a considerable portion of its land is to be handed over for #colonization purposes to a nowhere very popular people. The dispatch of a Commission of these people is subsequently announced … From the announcement in the British press until this moment there has been no sign of a hostile demonstration public or private against a project which if we may imagine England for Palestine can hardly open for the inhabitants the beatific vision of a new heaven and a new earth. The Commission was warned in Cairo of the numerous and grave misconceptions with which their enterprise was regarded and strongly advised to make a public pronouncement to put an end to those misconceptions. No such pronouncement has yet been made; …”

British Government, Public Record Office Cabinet No. 27/23 (1918). In Ingrams, Doreen. 1972. Palestine Papers, 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict. London: J. Murray. pp. 25-26.

@histodons
@israel
@palestine
#colonialism

bifouba,
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@oatmeal @histodons @israel @palestine Quite a choice bit about the British admitting the Zionists for colonizing the land. Puts paid to the whole “it’s not colonialism” BS right out the gate.

HeavenlyPossum, to random
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When IDF apologists accuse me of being a Jew-hater and Hamas apologists accuse me of being a Zionist for opposing the murder of children it does not, I assure everyone, convince me that I’m wrong.

bifouba,
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@HeavenlyPossum Same with the “couldn't you at least let the Israelis grieve before bringing up what happened before and has been happening since?" Sure, and what if we applied that to the people dying in Gaza? How do you formulate that principle symmetrically without implying that respect for the victims in Gaza implies not talking about Oct 7?

stickfrau, to bookstodon
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Hey book people, I would like to read up on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and am looking for book recommendations. Either English or German would be fine, and preferably written fairly recently (aka not 30 years ago).

@bookstodon

bifouba,
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@stickfrau @bookstodon Anything by Ilan Pappe.

Dr_Obvious, to actuallyautistic German
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Ich habe mal eine Frage an die @actuallyautistic Gruppe in Deutschland.

Habt ihr eine offizielle und oder Diagnose erhalten und dadurch negative Folgen erlitten?

Gegenüber Schule und Arbeitgeber kann man es sich natürlich aussuchen, ob man die Diagnose publik macht. Aber wenn man bestimmte Versicherungen abschließen möchte, wird ja eine Gesundheitsauskunft verlangt. Ich denke zB an BU Versicherung oder einer verpflichtenden Risikolebensv. für einen Immokredit.

bifouba,
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@Sci_Fi_FanGirl @Dr_Obvious @actuallyautistic Aber wie ist das überhaupt rechtlich? Da es als Behinderung zählt, wäre eine Ablehnung der Versicherung aus dem Grund doch sogar rechtswidrig, oder nicht? Bin kein Jurist, aber mit Bezug auf AT liest sich das so. https://www.oeziv.org/rechtsdatenbank/familie/private_versicherungen_und_behinderung

bifouba,
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@Sci_Fi_FanGirl @Dr_Obvious @actuallyautistic Das schon, aber so, wie ich das lese, darf auch ein Risikozuschlag nicht allein aus statistischen Gründe nur aufgrund der Diagnose erfolgen, sondern muss ein tatsächlich erhöhtes Risiko abbilden. Also etwa wieviele Therapiestunden in einem relevanten Zeitraum tatsächlich gebraucht wurden. Und der darf nur so hoch sein, wie bei jemand ohne Diagnose aber mit ähnlich vielen Therapiestunden aus irgendwelchen anderen Gründen. Also die Diagnose per se darf nicht zu einer Prämienerhöhung führen.

bifouba, to actuallyautistic
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@dpnash @johnettesnuggs @yourautisticlife @wakame @rrogers @EternalOutsider @ginsterbusch @autism101 @actuallyautistic That would be almost exactly like the actual German pronunciation, Knecht.

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