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by MandieD 3y ago
This is the first I've heard about your event, or the preceding border:none ... despite living in Nürnberg and generally being on the lookout for English-speaking events. I'll put both in my department's "General" T
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by MandieD 3y ago
Greybeards and Greybuns?
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by MandieD 3y ago
I'd love some material targeted towards people like my aunt (spent the 60s and 70s programming then designing and integrating systems for hospitals, then the 80s managing cattle breeding operations with dBASE) and my father-in-law (PhD
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by MandieD 3y ago
285 kg/year was the approximate per capita potato consumption around 1900 in Germany, before pasta and rice were inexpensive and convenient, and disposable income broadly high - as of 2008, it was only around 63 kg/year: https:&#
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by MandieD 3y ago
I have to limit how much my toddler gets, or he would literally suck down 1.5 liters of whole milk a day, and not bother with that time-wasting eating business that keeps him away from more important things, like his train set.
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by MandieD 3y ago
One way to reduce the amount of soy grown is to eat more soy.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Prices should be slightly higher in Austria, because the VAT (Mehrwertsteuer) is 20% for most consumer goods, and 10% for food, vs. Germany’s 19% and 7%, but not as outlandishly so as Mario’s data have shown. For American readers: VAT is
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by MandieD 3y ago
The DKK is loosely coupled with the Euro: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark_and_the_euro
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by MandieD 3y ago
REWE and Edeka have trained me to only buy “fancy” (Mövenpick, Cremissimo) ice cream when it’s 1,99 EUR, not “normal” price of 3,99, and to prefer whichever is “on sale”. And I detest that decent ice cream only comes in ridiculously-shaped
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by MandieD 3y ago
“And some tools are simply more biological: a person in good physical health can think more clearly than a person for whom this is not true, for the simple reason of nutrient supply to the brain being more efficient in the former than the l
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by MandieD 3y ago
One modestly-priced and commercially-available SDR transceiver with open sourced hardware I know of is the trUSDX (Manuel, the hardware guy, is in one of the clubs in my region!) https://dl2man.de/ Use the "where to bu
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by MandieD 3y ago
Yep!
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by MandieD 3y ago
Fortunately, that’s impossible, and likely to remain so: he’s definitely not a natural-born US citizen, and changing that would require 2/3 of both houses of Congress and 38 state legislatures to agree.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Sounds related to German “Schokolade”
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by MandieD 3y ago
That’s rather close to “chai,” and it’s also “cha” in Portuguese.
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by MandieD 3y ago
German has a similar, semi-archaic word for it: Apfelsine, still in some use for its juice (my 80-ish year old mother in law uses it) I think “Sinaasappel” is still the more common name for the fruit in the Netherlands.
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by MandieD 3y ago
The mayor of a small German city near me (that’s home to three giant multinationals, two of which everyone in the world knows about) is “Dr. German Hacker.” He was a high school physics teacher.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Kindergarten to Americans: when most children start elementary school, usually age 5 (maybe 6 if their parents didn’t think they were quite ready), Grade 0. What Germans would call “Vorschuljahr” (last year of Kindergarten, where there’s le
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by MandieD 3y ago
I’ve never heard “Base” (only “Kusine”) for female cousin, but still usually hear “Vetter” for male cousin, and “Vettern” for multiple cousins of mixed gender.
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by MandieD 3y ago
They sent out so many free diskettes in the 90s that part of my first summer job in high school was relabeling, formatting and copying WinSock and some other installers onto them for one of my town’s little ISPs.
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by MandieD 3y ago
This is something that AARP should be on. Yes, I know that most seniors, even very old ones (over 80) have smartphones, but an awful lot do not, and many who do have a rather uneasy relationship with it. Every update comes with user interfa
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by MandieD 3y ago
Beef returning to being a luxury item, as it was all over modern Europe until post-WW2 recovery. Non-wealthy Britons didn't eat beef very often, and it was also a special treat in Germany. Widespread regular beef consumption before t
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by MandieD 3y ago
“… Port Authority of New York/New Jersey … massive loss of life …,” interrupted radio broadcast heard in the basement of Gilman Hall, where I was hoping to hit used copies of the books for first semester senior year at Johns Hopkins. I
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by MandieD 3y ago
I'm 10 pages in and think it should be required reading for not only CS curriculums, and regret not having been exposed earlier. Thanks for sharing.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Along with a bit of heartbreak for people who like traditional church music. There's one organ for sale from a church I recognize from my childhood, and I seriously doubt it's because the congregation has voted to get something bi
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by MandieD 3y ago
The 415 AD murder of Hypatia of Alexandria, the first well-known female mathematician, was a 100% Christian operation... likely inspired by a political smear campaign put on by the Bishop of Alexandria who was trying to consolidate secular
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by MandieD 3y ago
One example - the IRA bombings where they phoned in warnings, like Manchester 1996: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Manchester_bombing
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by MandieD 3y ago
Not saying she's unreasonable for feeling that way - just wondering if this is also something that should be considered in Asia, too, and giving a bit of context for people who aren't familiar with Germany. I know that Japanese ha
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by MandieD 3y ago
I have an elderly German aunt by marriage who considers it an affront that Vodafone sends her chirpy business letters starting "Hallo <<first name>>!" and continuing in the familiar second person instead of the more (t
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by MandieD 3y ago
In Germany, it’s 12 weeks for any reason, with counseling, which you can get from the churches or various secular organizations including a German equivalent of Planned Parenthood (ProFamilia). But after that, birth defects (spotted thanks

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