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by MandieD 4y ago
Let them continue branding their packaging - and charge them for picking up the litter when it gets left around by their customers.
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by MandieD 4y ago
And where is this slice of sensible?
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by MandieD 4y ago
For some pet parrots, yes, flight feathers are trimmed as they come in to temporarily prevent or reduce flight, but traditionally, ducks and geese being raised for meat and feathers do have part of the outside wing joint removed to permanen
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by MandieD 4y ago
Getting access on their friends’ devices at least limits the amount of time they spend sucked into it alone - maybe my mother-in-law had some similar reasons for not allowing a TV in the house, but not particularly fretting over her kids
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by MandieD 4y ago
More like 100: my grandmother had skimpy eyebrows that she penciled in her whole adult life because she overplucked them as a teen, trying to look like the movie stars she saw in the rare magazine she could buy in the Dust Bowl-era Texas Pa
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by MandieD 4y ago
It's like a societal autoimmune disease - when there's not a real, immediate event to react to, something has to be found to fill the airtime that is compelling enough to keep people watching and reacting, and social media has the
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by MandieD 4y ago
And abortion was criminalized for “Aryan” women in Nazi Germany and the countries it occupied, not just for the providers, but the women themselves, many of whom had been raped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in
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by MandieD 4y ago
Consider “freedom” to be right-wing shorthand for “license for well-off straight-seeming white men who can say the right words about Jesus to do as they please,” and that cognitive dissonance will be eased. I grew up Southern Baptist in sem
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by MandieD 4y ago
To be fair, there is quite a bit of survivorship bias at work - how many stories, poems and plays have been written over the past 500 years that never made it into print and disappeared forever within a few years of being written? Until the
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by MandieD 4y ago
40 EUR/mo for 250 Mbps down, 50 Mbps up. Actual down is often about 280. Germany, Deutsche Telekom DSL in a semi-urban neighborhood with no cable service.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Ah, that’s why it messed up my rather simple request to generate a SQL query to get all messages received by a given call sign, based on the table definition at https://wspr.live - it picked plausible, but nonexistent table and
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by MandieD 4y ago
I thought employers had to provide a Zwischenzeugnis if you requested one. Maybe not…
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by MandieD 4y ago
Employers are legally required to give you a reference letter (“Zeugnis”) when you leave, and also whenever you request one or are about to take a long leave (“Zwischenzeugnis”) - I received one before I left for my year of maternity leave
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by MandieD 4y ago
The coded nature of German employer references is to make them lawsuit-proof. “But it said you ‘performed your duties to their satisfaction’ - what’s libelous about that?” (“Performed duties to our satisfaction” = yeah, they showed up and g
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by MandieD 4y ago
Several furnished, individually-rented bedrooms sharing a common kitchen and bathrooms are called SRO’s, or “single room occupancy” buildings meant for adults living alone. Unfortunately, that kind of housing has been zoned out of existence
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by MandieD 4y ago
Third-party apps that pick comments from randos who follow politicians you can’t stand, I suppose… perhaps like the “freak” relationship from ca. 1999 Slashdot (“friends” of people you designated as “foes”) Edited to add: but only randos wh
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by MandieD 4y ago
Addressing center-left, middle-class women (like myself): "Worried about your son being sucked into the incel movement because he watched some video game playthroughs? Concerned that your daughter's depression is being driven by t
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by MandieD 4y ago
Not only is it the most effective thing that doesn't require an invasion of privacy, it would increase privacy and user autonomy. But how on earth do we start a political movement around it? Difficulty: needs a 10-second blurb that d
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by MandieD 4y ago
So far in Nuremberg, the main problem is that even if their users don’t park them directly in the sidewalk, they’ll still occasionally fall over into the sidewalk, which is anywhere from annoying to dangerous for able-bodied pedestrians and
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by MandieD 4y ago
It's also not terribly psychoactive, doesn't make you drive unsafely, and can't permanently ruin your brain or change your personality, unlike that other addictive and legal, but often harmful substance that causes plenty of
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by MandieD 4y ago
That’s about 30 km/h, which is a common limit in neighborhoods, villages, and city centers in Germany.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Since most Americans take loans to buy cars, they have to carry full (or low deductible) collision (your fault) and comprehensive (theft, vandalism, weather, etc) insurance, not just liability. Also, insurance against damage by uninsured mo
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by MandieD 4y ago
For anyone who stumbles on this researching thin clients as RasPi substitutes - here's a page of even more models, and older ones: https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hware/hardware.shtml
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by MandieD 4y ago
It's amazing how differently my toddler reacts to classic Schoolhouse Rock math videos (examples: "My Hero Zero" and "It's Elementary, My Dear!", both from around 1973) and the educational content with soulless
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by MandieD 4y ago
I think I might settle for a previous-generation S920 or S720, as I'm also in Germany, and those things are still super cheap - also, they usually have true 9-pin serial ports, which are an asset for what I'm planning to do with t
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by MandieD 4y ago
A one-time $1k splurge is less expensive than a new $10/mo habit as long as it really is one time - the whole Diderot Effect thing helping us to think about why the splurge might not be as bounded as we’d hoped, though. I try to think
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by MandieD 4y ago
Since the vast majority of American car buyers finance them, a lot of them get channeled by salespeople to think in terms of the monthly payment instead of negotiating on the full price. Also, a lot of people go car-shopping when they think
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by MandieD 4y ago
This is a category of machine that I didn't even know to look for, so thanks for sharing your experience - the bit about the low idle power is particularly good news.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Oh, so that’s how a very niche amateur radio-related query can turn up a plausible-looking result in Google on a subdomain of some unrelated, not carefully-tended domain, but actually link to a page of spam.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Because unless I want to be one of those snotty mothers who will only allow my child to associate (play, do sports, go to school) with the children of other parents who don’t allow their children unsupervised access to mobile devices, my ch

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