Unfortunately I have to disagree that “most people know” or, worse, that they understand. We in the Open Tech world (Fediverse etc.) have built ourselfs some hard echochambers reinforcing our views, but outside of that in theb"common people" world it’s completely different.

How often did I hear “don’t make such a fuss about it, they already know everything” or “I don’t care about their data collection, I would give them more data, if I could get a slice of the pie [money from targeting].”

I think Sanders is doing this to reach out to the tech-illiterate people using AI, Google, Amazon, etc. for everyday tasks, getfing served Ads on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, whatever, manipulating their thought processes. I peraonally am so irritated when I actually get presented an ad, as it just does not happen in every day browsing, that I always have to ponder how people are living with fhis every day.

I can throw South Tyrol into the mix. It’s italian territory, but most of the population speaks a bavarian (german) dialect, it’s culturally very Austrian (used to be Austria until end of WW1) and is very geographically beautiful. It’s also a rich province and I think teacher’s pay is also decent, but can also be expensive compared to other places in Italy.

The people can be strange and seem secluded, but I would say we are generally open-hearted and friendly. Catholicism is, however, like everywhere in the Alpine region, a big part of the culture, but most participate only for those reasons and I never experienced any sexuality motivated hate. Fun fact: my elementary school religion (!) teacher out themselfs to us as lesbian, and years later they transitioned and a’were still teaching there (however, different subjects).

The school system is a bit weird also: there are german schools, where italian is tought as a second language, and vice versa. English is part of both schools types. There are few private schools (I went to one of those, they have to still conform with teaching curricula etc.) and afaik the qualifications for teachers are more relaxed there; they usually filter applicants on a more individual basis.

Similar situation in South Tyrol (an province at the border to Austria): the german-speaking minority (who is the majority in the province) primarily uses italian curse words. A theory I once read trying to explain this is that you hope that God is less likely to notice you when you curse in a different language.

I use PassAndroid (https://f-droid.org/packages/org.ligi.passandroid)

but it looks unmaintained now

I would imagine that this has similar root causes like Italian in South Tyrol. About 100 years ago in an attempt to forcefully italianize the german-speaking Tyroleans the fascists moved a lot of italians from all over Italy into South Tyrol, resulting in a very clean italian (somewhat “high-italian”) being spoken there, opposed to the various regional dialects all over Italy. The clean language is a more common ground between everyone, so it makes sense to default to that (and is a lot closer to the language foreigners learn)

ich vermute um die Pkatzierung des Textes so zu ermöglichen. Naher Osten: am östlichen Mittelmeer. Näherer Osten: Ukraine / Russland

besonders bitter, wenn das Samstag abends passiert.

The reason for the dark storied in the original fairy tales is to teach a lesson, to stand as a warning for children intimidated by them. There is so much educational content in them which Disney cut out, stripping the tales from their original purpose. That’s (one of the reasons) why I hate Disney.

Don’t you have a student council in America you can complain to about such stuff? From my experience studying in Germany (and even more so in Austria) the student council (oder student union) has very good connections to the administrative and scientific staff to pass feedback along and also get invited to (mandatory for the Uni) semesterly quality-assessment-circles to assess the “studibility” of the program, which also includes evaluating such processes.

DAVx⁵ ist eine freie, quelloffene Anwendung, die das CalDav, CardDav und WebDav Protokoll sprechen kann. Das sind Protokolle um Kontakte, Kalender und andere Dinge (z.B. generische Dateien) über HTTP zu synchronisieren.

Z.B. kann man eine Nextcloud und dessen Kalender und Kontakte Funktionalität gut über dieses Protokoll verwenden.