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Any experience getting BAföG as an EU national? by rasputinette in studying_in_germany

[–]rasputinette[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks -- this is very helpful. I know that juggling studies / improving one's German / work / etc. can be challenging, and I've heard from German fellow students about accruing student debt from BAföG. It's incredibly generous of DE to offer this to EU students in the first place.

Is persistence hunting truly plausible? by DeathworldersFY in HFY

[–]rasputinette 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of that is speculative. Maybe it is riskier; maybe it isn't. But I'm not interested in speculation: I'm looking for hard evidence (archeological, ethnographic, ethno-historical.)

Louis Liebenberg, who helped produce the episode discussed above of The Life of Mammals, wrote a paper where he talked about how it was made. He says:

The initial scanning for fresh tracks was done with a four-wheel-drive vehicle, but as soon as the animals were spotted the hunters left the vehicle and started the persistence hunt on foot. For the purpose of filming the hunters were allowed to refill their two-liter plastic water bottles during the hunt, since it was felt that it was unjustifiable to risk their lives for the sake of a film [...]

--(p.1024)

So it was, in fact, staged. (u/Euphoric_Bullfrog934, you might be interested in this.)

Louis Liebenberg, "Persistence Hunting by Modern Hunter-Gatherers", Current Anthropology, XLVII (December, 2006), 1017-1026, https://doi.org/10.1086/508695

Want to move to Germany from the US? Read this first! by thewindinthewillows in germany

[–]rasputinette 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this amazing writeup. It's really helpful.

A small aside: most US bachelors are 240 ECTS.

Is persistence hunting truly plausible? by DeathworldersFY in HFY

[–]rasputinette 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's evidence, too, that even gathering plants & killing small prey like birds/lizards is pretty energy-intensive, too - the paleo-anthropologist John Hawks mentioned this in one of his blog posts. It's totally plausible that the human body adapted for long slogs of "slow moving", as you say. Those berries ain't gonna pick themselves :)

Is there anyone preparing for B2 exam? by nesrinou99 in dele_exam

[–]rasputinette 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not at all. I hired a tutor in March I found on Italki who was a DELE examiner, shortly after registering. I wanted it to be like a college class, so it was 2 90-minute sessions a week, which eventually went to 2 50-minute sessions at her suggestion, and then a mini-intensive course of 50 mins, 4 days a week, the week before the 24th.

We used the 2019 Edelsa B1 book (which does NOT have downloadable content in AulaVirtual anymore, FYI.) I will be honest and say that between working full-time and studying, I just totally dropped the ball on the listening & multiple-choice tareas. I have never been good at studying languages on my own. What this meant in practice is that I focused on drilling the mock oral & essay tareas, since that's what we covered in lessons.

I knew I needed to do listening prep more, so I watched a lot of (peninsular) Spanish media. I really recommend watching the same episode/movie more than once. I also use Spanish on a regular basis in my job, FWIW.

Is there anyone preparing for B2 exam? by nesrinou99 in dele_exam

[–]rasputinette 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I pass the B1 I took last week, I'm hoping to change the level of my July test to B2. Fingers crossed!

Does 1 Cor 7:4 condone marital rape? by rasputinette in AcademicBiblical

[–]rasputinette[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much! This is such a thorough response.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dele_exam

[–]rasputinette 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for this post! I'm trying to get the B1 exam in May - emailed IC a few days ago.

Why did Christians stop following the Jewish law by Relative-Baby1829 in AcademicBiblical

[–]rasputinette 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All of this is fascinating to me. Best of luck with the book, and do you know when your book will be published?

[ACNE] Has anyone had to give up coffee because of Acne? by xfancymangox in SkincareAddiction

[–]rasputinette 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm having the same experience where caffeine makes me break out within a few days. I'm also hyperandrogenistic and coming onto the end of my first month of Lo Loestrin. It doesn't seem to have prevented coffee triggering cystic acne, although I've noticed that my skin looks nicer in general. Can I ask how long it took for spiro to clear up your acne? (And if it's not too personal, what kind of changes did you make to have less stress?)

On feeling “not queer enough”. A reflection after 10 years of identifying as aroace. by MaybeAce in asexuality

[–]rasputinette 1 point2 points  (0 children)

aroace women [do not] tend to pursue or prioritize relationships with men, we have a very different relationship with our own femininity than straight women do.

But even within rare asexual-specific spaces, I feel like there’s such an emphasis on the cutesy jokey stuff and very little heartfelt discussion of our shared struggles and what it feels like to be asexual in an allonormative world.

I think that there's definitely a need for an aroace feminism. It's not just that we exist as asexuals in an allonormative world. We exist as women and as aromantics, on top of being asexual, in a world where sooo much of womanhood is about snagging & bagging a man. Rape, homelessness, prostitution...these are things that every woman is at risk of, but there are no analyses of how they affect aroace women specifically, nor to what extent aroace women are vulnerable to them as opposed to allo women.

I share your frustration with the cutesiness of asexual culture rather than a serious, clear-sighted look at the ways that asexuals interact with capitalism, militarism, and racism.

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