Had to do ice-breakers at a work thing today and the guy I got paired with was immediately like "hello ma'am" and then apologized for saying ma'am so I took that as an opener to say, "haha actually yeah I am non-binary." I'm not really used to doing that, but I'm trying to learn to get out ahead of being 'she/her'd into the dirt by strangers every day. I get that it's on me at least as long as I stay in south texas, and it probably will stay that way unless I ever grow a beard. Anyway the guy was pretty chill about it except for he kind of over-corrected and started nervously rambling about how he has trans friends. It was such a goofy faux-pas I wanted to laugh maniacally but I held it in. We got the assignment done and there were no issues (apart from when he got agitated because I compared Invincible to the The Boys in passing).

At the very end of the day he flagged me down and said, "hey, can I ask you something I've been wondering about?" My, "yeah sure?" was wary. This guy goes, "Is it true that the German language has a bunch of names for things that translate really literally." I went, "Oh yeah, like how the word for 'plane' is 'flying thing'? There are lots of nouns like that." "Really?! Wow!"

German learns about tipping in America

Module House, Rocha, Uruguay - Brandl Huber

Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) "Trapped" Oil on paper mounted on cardboard Hudson River School Located in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, United States

Albert Lynch (German-Peruvian, 1851-1912) Playing Surf Side, n.d.

“americans have no culture”

yeah, agreed...would you like to go to the gym?

me: Have you read the book thief?

coworker: WHAT?

me: DID YOU READ THE BOOK THIEF IN SCHOOL? IT'S LIKE, CLASSIC LIT BASICALLY RIGHT? I THOUGHT MOST PEOPLE READ IT IN SCHOOL.

coworker: NO. WHY?

me: I wanted to know if it's sad. I don't like sad books.

coworker: What's it about?

me: Well I'm about 10 minutes in and so far it's from the POV of Death in 1930's Germany so I'm not optimistic.

—2 hours later—

me: There's a lot more swearing in this than I expected and I feel like I'm not supposed to understand it all but I'm German.

coworker: *

me: WHAT?

coworker: IS IT ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST?

me: NOT AT THE MOMENT. BUT THE BAYERISCH SWEARING IS ENTERTAINING.

Maximilian Mittelstädt (11') Niclas Füllkrug (85') Germany | 2 - 1 | Netherlands 2024 International Friendly

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Fighter jets fly over Neuschwanstein Castle, 1982

Easter with the ✨Sarah‘s✨

Cordelia organizes an easter egg hunt in the gardens each year, no matter if there are currently younger witches at the academy or not. She‘d be up first in the morning, hiding some chocolates, treats and eggs. With a beaming smile, she‘d walk into the bedroom to wake Billie, Mina and you.

Billie would groan, wanting to sleep in, Wilhemina simply chuckling at the supremes excitement. Cordelia would insist on the three of you joining everyone for the yearly hunt including an easter brunch afterwards. Billie Dean being Billie, she would have ordered some catering for the brunch.

„I have a little private hunt for us in the bedroom“ Cordelia would quietly announce so only the three of you can hear it. Her lips would be curled into the smallest smirk.

Once the witches are finished, she would take you upstairs with a giddy adorable smile. Again, Billie being Billie she would go over the top. Having bought you three (a little) something containing little chanel purses. Lilac for Mina of course, a nice beige for you and Cordelia. The supreme would of course scold the medium for going over the top like she usually does and Wilhemina would feel bad, only having gotten little eggs and chocolates. However, the redhead has gone soft over the years with you and so the eggs have a little knitted hat on them, that she spent her evenings on lately.

„You didn‘t have to go over the top Howard“ Wilhemina smirks, secretly admiring the bag.

„Says you honey“ Billie winks.

The four of you end up in the living room, cuddled up with each other while you and Billie dive into the chocolates, Cordelia and Wilhemina admiring the two of you silently.

„Happy easter my darlings“ Cordelia says contently.

„Happy easter Delia“ you mumble while snuggling into her chest.

Rocky Mountains, ‘Lander’s Peak’ 1863 - Albert Bierstadt

In April 1933, Einstein discovered that the new German government had passed laws barring Jews from holding any official positions, including teaching at universities.[129] Historian Gerald Holton describes how, with "virtually no audible protest being raised by their colleagues", thousands of Jewish scientists were suddenly forced to give up their university positions and their names were removed from the rolls of institutions where they were employed.[131] A month later, Einstein's works were among those targeted by the German Student Union in the Nazi book burnings, with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels proclaiming, "Jewish intellectualism is dead."[129] One German magazine included him in a list of enemies of the German regime with the phrase, "not yet hanged", offering a $5,000 bounty on his head.[129][132] In a subsequent letter to physicist and friend Max Born, who had already emigrated from Germany to England, Einstein wrote, "... I must confess that the degree of their brutality and cowardice came as something of a surprise."[129] After moving to the US, he described the book burnings as a "spontaneous emotional outburst" by those who "shun popular enlightenment", and "more than anything else in the world, fear the influence of men of intellectual independence".[133]

A quote from the Wikipedia page of German-American Jewish scientist, Albert Einstein.

What's notable here is how academics and intellectuals raised almost no protest to the systematic purging of Jews from universities in Germany. This is because, as historian Niall Ferguson has noted, that German academics had been promulgating the intellectual basis of Nazism during the 1920's (and probably beforehand).

What we can see here is that rather than defending the dignity and liberty of the individual, academics and intellectuals were the first in line to accept, permit, and collaborate with tyranny. They believed and invented lies. They turned a blind eye to mounting crimes against humanity.

When we look at today's college campuses and see a rising sea of hatred against Jewish students; when we see thousands of non-Jewish students showing little to no concern whatsoever for the rise in antisemitic hatred; when we see academics who glorify Jew-hating mass murderers, we should not be surprised.

What has been is what will be.

The academics who have promulgated anti-Jewish hatred (or stood by and allowed it to spread) today are betraying the same spirit as the German academics who allowed German Jews to be purged and threatened with death by the Nazi regime. And, like the German academics of the 20's and 30's, they believe that their betrayal of justice and liberty are all in the public's best interests.

Of course, they have been wise enough to change their official scapegoat from the Jews to "Israel".

But the net result is the same: Jews-- no matter how great their achievements, like those of Einstein-- are being purged from academic spaces and polite society, once again, to virtually no protest from their peers.