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Dejligt med fokus på Danmarks eneste modtager af Nobels fredspris (1907), Fredrik Bajer. Men også et noget rosenrødt portræt imo.

radio4.dk/program/kranie…
Jeg har brugt en hel del tid sammen med Bajer. Jeg skrev ph.d. om den tidlige danske fredsbevægelse og kan melde at Bajer var en temmelig besværlig og selvbevidst personage.
Han var også indflydelsesrig og progressiv, bestemt. Han stiftede Dansk Fredsforening (1882), der kom til at forme det liberale fredsarbejde i hele det nordiske område i flere årtier.

Han var en central aktør i det internationale samarbejde mellem de europæiske fredsbevægelser
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If you want to better understand why the 2022 Midterm and 2024 Presidential elections will not be free and fair by design, and why the Republican Party is fundamentally anti-democratic, I've made a shortt selection of (recent) articles from across GOP-dominated states. #thread
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Here's listing errors here, one by one not in any specific order.
*ಬತ್ತೀಸ್ ಎಂಬ ಪದ ಹಿಂದಿ ಅಥವಾ ಉರ್ದುವಿನಿಂದ ಬಂದಿದೆ
ಬಸವಣ್ಣ(೧೧೨೪-೧೧೯೯ )ಅವರ ವಚನ"ಎನ್ನಕಾಯವ" 1199ಕ್ಕೆ ಮೊದಲಿನದು.
ಘೋರಿಯ ಗುಲಾಮ ಕುತ್ಬುದ್ದೀನ್ ಐಬಕ್ ದೆಲ್ಲಿಯನ್ನು ಆಳಲಾರಂಭಿಸಿದ್ದೇ ೧೧೯೨. ಆಗಿನ್ನೂ ಉರ್ದು ಎಂಬ ಹೆಸರಿನ ಯಾವ ಭಾಷೆಯೂ ಇರಲಿಲ್ಲ.
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ಬ್ರಜ್ ಭಾಷೆಯೇ ಮೊದಲಾದ ಹಿಂದಿಗೆ ಬಹಳ ಸಮೀಪದ ಭಾಷೆಗಳು ಆ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಇದ್ದವಾದರೂ , ಹಿಂದಿ ಎಂಬ ಹೆಸರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಆಗ ಇನ್ನೂ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧವಾಗಿತ್ತೋ ಎಂಬುದು ನನಗೆ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ತಿಳಿಯದು. 2/n
ಇನ್ನು ದಂಡಿಗೆಯ ವಿಷಯಕ್ಕೆ ಬರೋಣ. ತಂತೀವಾದ್ಯಗಳಲಿರುವ ಕೋಲಿನಂತಹ ಭಾಗವೇ ದಂಡಿ. ವೀಣೆ ಎಂಬುದು ನಮ್ಮ ಹಿಂದಿನ ಪರಿಭಾಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ತಂತೀವಾದ್ಯಗಳನ್ನೂ ಒಳಗೊಳ್ಳುವ ಹೆಸರು.ವೀಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸೋರೆ ಬುರುಡೆಯೂ,ಕೋಲಿನಂತಹ ಭಾಗವೂ, ಮತ್ತೆ ತಂತಿ(ಗಳು) ಇರಬೇಕು. ದಂಡಿಗೆ ಎನ್ನುವುದು ದಂಡಿಕಾ (= ದಂಡ, ಕೋಲು) ಎಂಬ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತ ಪದದ ತದ್ಭವ. 3/n
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Feels like time for one of my occasional rants about #Education & society. [1 of e^N]

I can't think of a stress test which could have better exposed the hypocrisy of our allegedly education-focused society and its professed love for STEM and
quantitative,"data-driven," approaches than the lack of outcry when our ministries assure us that despite the trials of the past year, "children won't be held back" (literal read: "however little we've taught them this past year, we promise not to take the time to try to [2 of ?]
teach it to them now") & that their grades "won't go down" (literal read: "we will *require* all schools to *lie* about their students' proficiency at subject matter, to justify our choice to abdicate our responsibility to educate, and ensure that they receive quantitative [3of?]
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Despite what happens by the end of these protests, nothing will remain the same. That line b/w Hindus & Sikhs has been drawn. Most of my FB/Insta Sikh friends are openly calling Hindus bigots, cowards & what not. It’s clear how they see us Hindus & I can never look past that now.
Despite being a Hindu majority country, Punjab always elected a Sikh CM and none of the Hindus had any problems with that because we considered them as one of our own. What are we getting in return? BHAKT & GAUMUTRA DRINKERS both terms hurting the religious sentiments of Hindus.
So many Khalistani outfits trying to shame India & sharing wrong maps of India. Instead of openly calling them out & denouncing them, most are trying to justify that. I mean most of these celebs didn’t take any sides- they praised farmers and said this is India’s internal matter.
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Calling everyone Bhakt(a Hindu religious term) then taking offense & crying victim when people do that with you & your religious terms? Itni bhi kya hypocrisy hai?
And pls spare us your threats, even after everything that happened on Republic Day & then yesterday’s toolkit having
proofs that pro-khalistani NGOs/other international NGOs funding these protests, how many of these “farmers” have publicly called them out & denounced them? Instead, we are given threats don’t talk about the khalistani connection if you care about India’s national security.
Are you even listening to yourself? If India’s national security is the responsibility of us Hindus only then we might as well make it a Hindu Rashtra. Humko hi sab dekhna hai toh humko itne haqq bhi de do please.
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@LifeAtPurdue administration brought no legislation to the Purdue Senate regarding changes to mode of instruction in COVID. There has been no Senate vote. But the Senate is the faculty representative body, and its primary responsibility is for instruction. #facultydecide #aThread
Has your dept/school voted on legislation saying how your unit will determine f2f or online instruction? No? This is a mistake by your dept head. #facultydecide Without a vote, they decided push the administration's policy without faculty consent. Could have done rule departure.
The administration sets the time and location of your class - you decide what you want to do with that. Maybe you want to use less time, or meet online, maybe not. #facultydecide. Think they have time to check up on everyone? Or pull you from your house to teach f2f? Um, no.
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Anyone who says #Nigeria is “doing ok” or “not so bad” is either rich & selfish, insane, ignorant or all of the above. I love Nigeria. Madly. But we’re almost in 2020 and most of our population have minimal or no electricity, which existed since the 1870s. That is pure madness!
Only a *tiny* fraction of Nigerians have the luxury of not spending several hours a week planning around the availability of electricity. How in the world are we supposed to improve our socioeconomic conditions if we are all constantly thinking about how to keep the lights on?
I’m not saying you have to do anything about electricity. I don’t expect every individual to feel responsible for solving the country’s problems. BUT please stop saying things are fine, or diminishing how bad things are, or telling people they should not be frustrated.
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So Leute, das wird ein kleiner #rant #thread. Junior (10J) hatte nach einem Jahr Klavierunterricht sein erstes von der Klavierlehrerin abgehaltenes #Konzert. Er hat gut gespielt, die Bandbreite bei den insgesamt 25 Kids bis Teens war natürlich groß. Aber ich bin schockiert über
einen großen Teil des Publikums. Es waren natürlich fast ausschließlich Familien der vorspielenden Schüler da. Mit vielen jungen Kindern. Klar erwarte ich da keine Athmosphäre wie in der Oper. Aber dass ein großer Teil des erwachsenen Publikums offensichtlich weder Willens oder
in der Lage war seinem Nachwuchs die Grundzüge angemessenen Verhaltens in einem Konzert zu vermitteln, das überraschte mich dann doch. Oder/und sich gar selbst nicht angemessen verhalten wollte. Wir reden wohlgemerkt von einer Gruppe der ich mal - da sie ihr Kind zu einer Klavier
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Hej och välkomna till Hajk! Idag skall vi prata om omskärelse och bibelkunskap.

Jag noterar att många försvarar manlig omskärelse med hänvisning till att sedvänjan är "central" i framför allt den judiska tron, då den faktiskt är fastslagen redan i 1:a Mosebok, 17 kapitlet:
Så. Sedvänjan ÄR omnämnd, och det står till och med att den som inte följer den skall "utstötas".

Det måste vi alltså därmed ta på allvar, eller hur?

Well... Vi skall alltså ta det som står i 1:a Mosebok på blodigt allvar, är det så? *
*Att omskärelse är blodigt allvar är ju dessvärre alldeles sant på ett bokstavligt plan. Oavsett vad man tycker om sedvänjans rättfärdigande så ÄR det ett kirurgiskt ingrepp där man utan bedövning skär med skalpell i barnets könsorgan.
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Brits arrested Savarkar&sent him to Kala Pani bcoz he was a FREEDOM FIGHTER.Even if he broke down in the jail&wrote mercy seeking apology letters:still doesn’t negate his previous involvement in India’s freedom movement.Don’t get how “but he wrote apology letters” argument works?
So essentially u believe that if an activist is fighting 4some genuine cause&then authorities arrest him,torture him&he breaks down&apologizes bcoz he couldn’t take that torture anymore makes him a bad person?All his previously done good work goes null&void and mocking him is ok?
How many of u mocking him firmly believe that u won’t break even in the face of constant torture for ur values?
And if u do break after a point, does that make u an immoral person? or a “traitor” like he is fondly called these days? #RespectFreedomFighters
#GenuineQuestion
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Då så, @veryhumdrum.

Egentligen är min Twitter-energi för dagen redan slut, eftersom jag har tjafsat en del med folk som vill relativisera/tona ned allvaret med män som tafsar, men jag har ju lovat att svara.

(Lång) tråd: Hur kan misandri vara skadligt?
Mina kommentarer blir koncisa, jag hoppas det blir tillräckligt tydligt ändå

Jag tänker börja med de konsekvenser misandri får för samhället i stort, där kvinnor drabbas minst lika mycket som män.

"Det är bättre att vara fruktad än ignorerad", den har du hört förut.
Om och när män ständigt möts av retorik på temat "män är det skyldiga könet", "män är förövare", "manlighet är toxisk" och liknande, där inga drag eller handlingar som kan anses "typiskt manliga" ges någon cred, utan män istället bara förväntas bära kollektiv skuld, >
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If you want to know if NBA officiating will get any better, look at the @nbagleague officiating. 100% of our new officials come through there. We don’t invest 1/10 of what we should to train and develop our GLeague refs .
We have our former big name officials spending most of their time working with current NBA refs, and minimal time with GLeauge refs. It should be the exact opposite. Does anyone think refs with 20 years + experience are going to take advice from their former peers ?
And of course there is just as much turnover in those positions, mostly driven by politics , as there has been with the head of officiating spots.
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Got this interesting info on a @WhatsApp group I am part of. Caveat: I am not sure of its authenticity but If this is the case then it means @netflix is trying to Pre-emptively solve the "Facebook" problem. Image
"Facebook Problem": An unintended side effect of your product related choices because of which a platform /aggregator is held responsible for the action of the user . And where platform /aggregator insist that user had option and agency to act otherwise.
Exhibit A: Binge-Watching on @netflix Exhibit B: Filter Bubble of Google and Facebook.
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