liv @ liv @lemmy.nz

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Noooo I hope they can fix it!

I love glockenspiels and wanted to see it one day! (What can I say, in order to be realistic my travel aspirations have become very small).

Glad you're getting better. Slowly increasing your hours is the way to go.

That looks like fun!

That website your using is so cool.

Exactly!

It antagonizes the people in my life; that's bad enough.

The moral of the story to me is leave your smartphone at home and just bring a dumbphone if you think you could be arrested.

My dumbphone has a broken key and it is infuriatingly hard to unlock though so it might antagonize them.

If you have the Mona Lisa in your house then letting the police into your house incriminates you, but the whole point of the search is for them to be able to find it.

I think the right to remain silent was meant to protect us from being tortured, not as a shield to hide things?

If you get arrested in NZ they can search your phone and impeding them is impeding a search. As far as I know the courts haven't intepreted the right to not self incriminate as extending to passwords, so the difference in the article is immaterial.

They can charge you for refusal and I'm pretty sure they have access to a bypass tool.

I'm not a legal expert but as far as I know if the police are arresting you they can compel this in New Zealand. There is no difference in unlock methods. People get charges for not complying.

This page seems to back this up but it is old.

Maybe it was the brain tumour, that poor person! The crystals usually get dislodged in just a few iterations (sometimes 1), it's not like building up muscles. As far as I know.

I hope they remove your stress too! I think there's an adjustment period but hopefully it will be fast. People underestimate the amount of social isolation that comes with hearing loss.

I can't imagine how, unless you only had 20 of them or something?

Back when I was a TA, I had an average of 120 students per semester and we didn't necessarily grade our own students' work (it was usually divided by topic).

So if I'm grading 120 assignments - or worse, 480 pieces of exam assessment- and only 25% of them are from students I regularly interact with, I don't think my subconscious has any idea 99% of the time.

Even with smaller classes... you're just seeing too many people with similar thoughts and styles over the course of a year for any of it to imprint on your mind that deeply. Occasionally it's going to be obvious, but I still think removing a level of bias through anonymizing is best practice.

They both seem equally bad to me.

You don't have to have either problem though; both can be avoided easily.

But the germs aren't smaller, I mean if a kid gets attacked by a bear...

The crystals thing is sweet as, BPPV, it's when crystals land on these balance-sensing hairs in your inner ear and give you vertigo, but there's this short maneuver exercise you do that dislodges them and shifts them somewhere else. I've had it a few times in my life and always shifted them no problem.

Some people get recurring BPPV and apparently you need a physio to help with some other manouver if they're in a hard to reach place.

But with a virus its when the actual part of your ear with the hairs in it gets inflamed and messes them up, can be for weeks, an unlucky few never recover properly. The manouvers don't touch it. Then the third cause is this thing called a vestibular migraine some people just get.

I thought it's just that they have smaller bodies?

Yeah viral vertigo was kind of horrendous. If you've ever been knocked out by a blow to the head, at one point it felt like that only for hours not seconds. Glad it's gone!

Cool, I'll put that show on my list. Forbrydelsen isn't going to last forever.

I miscounted my caterpillars btw, there's at least 7!

I think blind marking is important. I have literally heard people objecting to proposed grades with phrases like "but he's a bad student" or "but she's really bright."

I agree with this. It's a bit like the first 2 pancakes, you have to go back over the first half a dozen once you're in the zone.

I used to grade hard copies a lot, after I graded I'd put them in order from best to worst (numerical grades) and then do quick comparisons between an assignment and its neighbours in the pile. It's an easy way to "quality control".

As for the comments, that's a self-discipline issue. If you're giving, say, 4 positives and 4 negatives per assignment and have standard ways of phrasing, it shouldn't deteriorate.

Great that you're getting hearing aids! Probably a whole ton of birdsong awaits you.

Yeah? Sounds fun, will give it a go sometime. (We're currently only watching one show a night and it has to be Forbryndelsen or I will riot). I quite enjoy silly space shows like Red Dwarf and Lexx though it's probably not quite that far along.

The virus I had wasn't a cold, it mainly involved severe vertigo, though it then turns into a respiratory infection as a complication in pediatric patients, apparently. I guess if your kids start throwing up, ask them if the room is spinning!

Omg I remember Diablo! When Diablo 1 came out, my whole flat's social life went on pause until we'd finished it! It's cool that you're reconnecting with your friend.

Spring onions, mmmm.

Nope sadly it's just plain old indica. Neighbour seems to have a patch of it but I can't point the finger too hard since we are the ones who have tradescantia.