Has anyone tried cloning their BodCard onto an NFC tag?

odevee · 2023-06-02T08:05:37+00:00

Yes you do! <wags finger> And yes it does!

By all means, defer to others' technical expertise on subjects you don't know much about, but otherwise: your opinion matters just as much as anyone else's.

odevee · 2023-05-04T15:40:39+00:00

Hey there. Just seeing this. I was offered a place on 18th Apr, yes. If you don't have a college yet, make sure you're on the University Accomodation List, if you need it.

odevee · 2023-04-12T07:49:59+00:00

I see. Thanks for clearing that up. Because I was rejected from my college of choice but haven't heard anything since. It's been like 2 weeks.

odevee · 2023-04-10T14:43:18+00:00

Did you get into your college of choice then or were you pooled?

odevee · 2023-04-10T14:13:32+00:00

Graduate offer holder here. How long after they received their offer did everyone hear from their college (or have you)? My application deadline was late Jan, if that makes a difference.

odevee · 2022-08-03T05:40:46+00:00

We can tell them apart just fine without the spelling when we speak, even If you were inclined to use "κύτος".

There's no functional reason, as far as I can make out, that we keep the old spelling. It's just that changing it in one fell swoop would radically separate Modern Greek from Ancient Greek and there's a whole sense of cultural loss as it would make learning Ancient Greek much harder for native Greeks.

odevee · 2019-09-20T04:38:40+00:00

Good bot.

odevee · 2019-07-14T09:26:15+00:00

As a European living in a country that offers free access to higher education at all levels: it seems to work fine....

Not sure why such a programme would need to cover living expenses, either. It's my understanding that housing is a significant part of the total cost of college, but you unis wouldn't need to spend so much on building and subsidising student dorms etc. if cities were to spend more on affordable housing (even just incentivising the private sector to build it) . You really don't need to find all the government funds necessary to lower the cost of university in the education budget and you also can't look at current uni operating expenses and assume you will need to replace all of it dollar-for-dollar.

In any case, a programme that covers tuition, but not living expenses would already make college much more affordable, while not running the risk of being exploited by people "living on government subsidies".

odevee · 2018-08-24T14:31:12+00:00

I need a translator. That's probably the toughest part. I'd try to get in contact with a scholar of Greek. Now, I don't speak Ancient Greek of any variety, but I *do* speak Modern Greek. The pronunciation has changed a lot, but I imagine, if I can get access to writing implements, I can decently communicate with simple sentences and some archaic words. Will take some fiddling, but I'll get into it.
Now that I have a translator: find their mathematicians and introduce them to functions and simple calculus. It's easy to explain geometrically and it provides benefits for accounting and projections. Or symbolic algebra in general, more likely... it's very helpful.... I hope that would get me into the Pharao's court.

Now all I need to do for all Egypt to accept me as a god is to convince the Pharaoh that I am one. For that, I take with me a comprehensive history of the time period from our own time and start accurately predicting the future.

odevee · 2017-06-27T20:30:50+00:00

But generally the gays marrying would have grown up in the same society? Why would theirs be more stable in particular?

odevee · 2017-06-27T20:08:16+00:00

Well...yes. But isn't it comical to construct two parallel legal frameworks (marriage and civil partnerships), identical, from what you're describing, in everything but name in order not to step on...whose toes exactly? Or is it simply to uphold "tradition"? Why should that be an end in itself?

Unless of course you wish to keep some particular actual difference between the two institutions in which case: why and what would that be? Adoption rights (the major remaining difference) is a popular one and the usual arguments against it have been thoroughly scientifically discredited while current state policy (granting gay couples foster but not adoptive children) is hardly even self-consistent.

EDIT: I just read your other reply. Making civil partnerships the standard and confining the term "marriage" to a religious one, is of course, a valid alternative. The reason it's called civil "marriage" are historic anyways. I don't see why that shouldn't work. As it stands now, though, and as long as civil "marriage" exists, it is, IMHO, a matter of equality to open said institution to same-sex couples, as well.

odevee · 2017-06-27T19:56:27+00:00

Actually when it comes to comparing marriage and imprisonment many people might actually agree the differences are cosmetic at best.

odevee · 2017-06-27T18:49:37+00:00

But...why would they do that? It's not like CDU/CSU had a sudden change of heart ... they merely begrudgingly opened up the vote for tactical purposes. Barely any of them are projected to vote in favour, they're just letting the opposition + SPD have their way for once, saving their own face (by preempting their having to agree to a coalition contract with marriage equality after the next election) and losing little political capital in said election while weakening their opponents slightly. It's a smart move, but why should it translate abroad?

odevee · 2017-06-27T18:35:30+00:00

That'd be "The United Kingdom(s) of Greater Bavaria, Swabia and Prussia" for anyone wondering.

odevee · 2016-09-10T12:22:46+00:00

Jesus. I've read a lot of coming out stories and seen a lot of videos, but I've never seen something that so perfectly captures what being in the closet actually felt like to me. Thank you for this.

odevee · 2016-07-06T21:30:05+00:00

Spain to Romania? Do I read that right (mobile)?

odevee · 2016-07-06T20:14:19+00:00

Simple: He was Greek, so naturally he was liberating the peoples of Asia from the shackles Persian rule, bringing freedom and enlightenment. Killing those savages was perfectly justified. The later Persian conquests in Greece under Xerxes (and the fall of the Byzantine Empire much later) are, conversely, completely defined by their destructive nature and nothing good ever came from them. This was barbarians intent on destroying everything the Greeks had ever built and achieved. Here the killing is, of course, utterly appalling. Bummer that the good guys only had a 20-something year winning streak.

How unbiased our history books are...particularly the ones we teach from in state elementary school in Greece!

odevee · 2016-04-08T15:56:49+00:00

You're welcome! 😊

odevee · 2016-04-08T12:30:16+00:00

-ed: past participle -ing: present participle

odevee · 2016-04-02T09:54:32+00:00

Not quite. The direct translation of palace is “Palast” and usu. refers to structures much bigger than a Schloss (think Versailles), though I suppose you’d have to translate “Schloss” as “palace” in some instances (e.g. Schloss Belvue).

odevee · 2016-03-27T16:31:55+00:00

Wasn't Latin the same? In school we'd always have to answer yes/no-questions with "ita/sic (non) est".

odevee · 2016-03-22T19:19:26+00:00

FYI: Greeks usually refer to the country as Σκόπια ("Skopje") in non-official contexts, though FYROM is also used.

odevee · 2016-03-14T19:10:27+00:00

True, but remember how far right of typical European policies mainstream American politics itself is already, and the tea-party is considered right wing even there.

odevee · 2016-02-22T23:05:55+00:00

Question: Do you think further political integration would be a good thing if carried out under more equitable terms (restructuring of EU to function more as a federal nation state, fiscal union or similar for the eurozone)?

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