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I used to attend a university for a diploma in computer engineering. After a few semesters, I decided to stop studying there. I needed to withdraw. However, what they call "student peers"—I am not sure what the term is in English—were being reductionist and maximalist regarding the official documents, stating that I had already agreed to and chosen the university and the study program in the online application form. This is not fair. I believe it is important to treat each person as an individual, as a whole person, rather than merely considering what I have done to prevent me from leaving. I wasn't there to fulfill their collectivist culture, believing I should prioritize the university's name and dignity at the cost of my own. At the moment, I want to take a break from writing this, as my mind is troubled by thoughts of my past, including the emotional abuse I experienced from the university staff. Unfair, right?

#StudentRights #InstitutionalRigidity #FairTreatment #EducationalJustice #Individuality #MentalHealth #EmotionalAbuse #AcademicFreedom #StudentSupport #HigherEducation #UniversityPolicies #PersonalGrowth #RespectForIndividuals #EducationalReform #StudentWellbeing #MentalWellness #PersonalChoice #AcademicIntegrity #StudentVoice #FairPolicies

One of my Jewish friends in Europe turned out to be a Zionist, hmm. I don't know what she was thinking, she wanted to live in Israel which is currently at war, weird, even though she had been living in Europe in peace all this time. But yeah that's her personal choice, I hope the best for her.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #myfriend #myfriends #friend #friends #israel #personalchoice #zionist #zionists #zionism #war #peace #europe #europeisbetter #europeisthebest #iloveeurope #ilikeeurope #loveeurope

Why I’m boycotting AI

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To add to this discussion a vegan angle: on top of the all the ways humans are raising the dangers to public health by messing around with non-human animals, one of the shared erroneous arguments in recent years has merged with its anti-vegan doppelganger:

"it's a personal choice!"

It's most definitely not a personal choice. Consuming animal body parts and excretions affects those animals, individually, each one. Similarly, when you carry a contagious pathogen, you're not just affecting your own person, you're affecting everyone you contaminate.

This goes full circle with spillovers from humans to other animals. Here's an example article on that: https://theconversation.com/humans-infecting-animals-infecting-humans-from-covid-19-to-bird-flu-preventing-pandemics-requires-protecting-all-species-212679

#publicHealth #spillover #personalChoice #zoonosis #goVegan

Humans infecting animals infecting humans − from COVID-19 to bird flu, preventing pandemics requires protecting all species

Infectious diseases can spill over from animals to humans as well as spill back. Each cross-species transmission gives pathogens a chance to evolve and spread even further.

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Happy you like it too 👏
Indeed it either is already pretty usable out of the box. Or, like me, one goes a bit more crazy and customizes the 💩 out of it. #personalchoice
And the dev had something like a timeout before already for over a year. Maybe he returns one day...who knows.