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Cake day: March 10th, 2024

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  • Yeah, definitely, he is an idiot. But Stonewall often doesn’t even get taught in the US and i imagine much less in other countries.

    I mean I grew up in Germany. And I only learnt about ‘my’ gay history because I was interested in it. No mention of it during my time in school.

    You know, WW2 is basically everywhere in the curriculum for us, but never once was mentioned that the books they burned before that were in big parts about sexuality & gender researched in Berlin by Magnus Hirschfeld. Berlin was quite liberal (no surprise now, but historically it was monumental) in that regard, but so was Bavaria (thanks to french influence). [For our American readers: our Bavaria is similar to your Texas in mentality and association with the whole country as a whole. ] Or that when the concentration camps were ‘freed’ that they did not free the ‘unnatural’ marked by the pink triangles. And then the gay history splits between east and west and for quite some time the east is actually ahead in terms of equality. And that with the reunification some young couples unknowingly broke the law, as age of consent differed between east and west.

    Hell, the only time ‘the gays’ were mentioned in school was during an STI workshop where prevention and healthy relationships was not part of it, but that we should still treat infected people with basic decency. That was around 2010.









  • He was also a prolific inventor that worked tirelessly to help give us the telegraph

    Definitely not. The first telegraph was built by Francos Ronalds, about 30 years before Edison’s birth. Gauss/Weber built another one 1833. Morse and Vail introduced electromagnetic relays in 1838, enabling signals to travel beyond short distances.

    and the lightbulb.

    Arguably. He may made the first commercially viable lightbulb, but not the first overall. Alessandro Volta, Humphrey Davy, James Bowman Lindsay, Warren de la Rue and William Staite all played a role.






  • @Mora@pawb.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    2 years ago I made a joke about this to my boyfriend as well (though it was Aliexpress who send me a mail after buying some tech stuff). This year I discovered I really like comfy socks … and I may have ordered a skirt as well. Not worn it yet, but it is here. Slowly & steady 😂






  • If it works for you, there is no reason to switch.

    The benefit for me is mostly the systemd integration (e.g. do a simple DB backup before running the container using StartExecPre) & the corresponding unified logging with journalctl. Then there is auto update and boot persistence without having to run an additional process.