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by MandieD 3y ago
Kind of like how social mores and corporate policies against supervisors having romantic relationships with their underlings protect not only employees who do not want to be pressured to date their managers, but also the colleagues of an em
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by MandieD 3y ago
Done, after seeing the author say it was written then.
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by MandieD 3y ago
When you’re afraid to do a chargeback with one part of a company for fear of another part being able to kill your business, that’s a sign that company needs to be split up.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Cajun English sloshes over into East Texas and beyond, because I, daughter of an East Texan who grew up in Central Texas now living in Germany, often tell my bilingual toddler, “no, no, Mommy needs to put up the groceries first!”
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by MandieD 3y ago
Aldi probably does this because all grocery cashiers in Germany (home of Aldi) have seats at their registers, and are sitting most of the time. Aldi here also makes them do all sorts of jobs around the store when their registers aren’t need
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by MandieD 3y ago
English seems to be a lot more fault-tolerant than German. I've come to see it as jazz (English) vs. classical music (German). Either that, or native English speakers are lazier than native German speakers, and would rather work out ho
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by MandieD 3y ago
Episcopalian here: we're more than ok with gluten-free wafers - not figuring out how to offer gluten-free wafers to someone whose health will be harmed by consuming even a small amount of gluten (anyone with celiac, for starters) is
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by MandieD 3y ago
Huh. I've had a very devout (hair-covering hijab, wouldn't even go swimming at the same time as our male colleagues in her "burkini") Muslim colleague tell me that she doesn't mind eating kosher meat if that's
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by MandieD 3y ago
“with German requirement” is the issue - you’ve no longer got over 1 billion people who speak English, but only about 150 million, and a lot of those second-language speakers skew old. If you’re a young person who has learned front-end deve
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by MandieD 3y ago
Careful with that - a somewhat earlier version of ChatGPT, when asked who George Wickham was, confidently asserted that he was the hero of Pride and Prejudice.
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by MandieD 3y ago
A little piece of classical music on this theme: https://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Pretty_Boy_Floyd.htm "Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a s
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by MandieD 3y ago
We also have very effective unions in a lot of sectors, particularly manufacturing. They're usually one of the main factions in a Betriebsrat, so do a lot of negotiating long before problems rise to the level of a strike. We employees
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by MandieD 3y ago
There's a separate mobile site that is not automatically launched: m.fark.com.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Price orientation for those of you who don't regularly use German trains: the impulse buy price for me for this route today, a BahnCard 50 holder, is 35.50 EUR, while it would be 71.00 EUR without the annual discount card, which is exp
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by MandieD 3y ago
"You do this in the construction industry and you will be blackballed so hard." Unless you're a certain native of Queens best known for a job he hasn't quite accepted losing...
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by MandieD 3y ago
A bit of background missing from this article: primary school (1st - 4th grade) English is a relatively new (last 20 years or so) innovation, while secondary school (5th grade onward) English has been a widespread thing for far longer. That
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by MandieD 3y ago
I live in Großraum Nürnberg, which is more cosmopolitan than anywhere in the former East (aside, of course, from Berlin), and I'm stuck in the plateau of speaking German well enough to get the Ausländeramt (excuse me, Auslanderbehörde)
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by MandieD 3y ago
The 49 EUR/month ticket in Germany covers all local transit, and you can generally piece together regional trains to get across the country if you’re patient, but it doesn’t cover the InterCity Express, InterCity, or some long-distance
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by MandieD 3y ago
Fixed
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by MandieD 3y ago
Name of the effect: categorical change. The most (in)famous example in the US is the American Red Cross following the US forces in Europe during WW2 beginning to charge a few cents for donuts that they had been giving away for free. While t
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by MandieD 3y ago
“Should be enforced in firmware” - part of the point of the amateur radio rules is allowing for people to experiment with with homemade equipment.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Amateur radio, for better and worse, is self-policing, and passing the license exams is, among other things, declaring to your country’s communications regulator that you fully understand their rules for the use of certain parts of the spec
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by MandieD 3y ago
Non-hams when they see an FCC enforcement action against a ham behaving badly (a “lid”): “isn’t that a bit much? Maybe it was an honest mistake…” Hams: “Good, serves him right. Jerk knew exactly what he was doing.” (and anyone with a US 1x3
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by MandieD 3y ago
A big part of amateur radio operations is knowing what the allowable frequencies are for where you are - when I first put the “DL” (for Germany) ahead of my US callsign, it was a) to let everyone else know I was operating in Germany, and b)
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by MandieD 3y ago
I haven't posted any of him, and ask friends and family not to post any pictures with him in them, even if they're pretty sure their Facebook/Instagram/whatever settings would keep it from getting around. Once I think he
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by MandieD 3y ago
56k dialup? Luxury! 1200 bps Unix shell access from TENet (Texas Educators’ Network) - thank you, Mr. Horner, my 9th grade US History teacher, for telling that nerdy girl who turned in all her papers in dot matrix print about what she could
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by MandieD 3y ago
When I'm not sure about something to do with my now-toddler, I ask myself: what would 15- and 30-year-old (insert kid's name here) want me to have done right now? Make him wear his detested glasses so he doesn't develop a laz
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by MandieD 3y ago
Especially ironic: 144 MHz is in the VHF range, which is taught in various entry-level amateur radio exam prep guides as "Very High Fryability" - that is, you need to be particularly careful with this frequency range, because that
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by MandieD 3y ago
Pinch of baking soda thoroughly mixed with a teaspoon of sugar, then sprinkled over the chopped onions to make sure it gets evenly distributed.
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by MandieD 3y ago
“Am I arguing with someone I do not know?” Asking myself that question when I reply to someone who replied to me helps cut that off. I also picture that meme-ably smug fellow sitting behind a card table with some provoking statement, and th

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