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by MandieD 4y ago
When I tried signing up for the SNL app a few years ago with snlnbc@[mydomain.com], and then [randomnickname]@[mydomain.com], it failed, but then worked with a GMail address. Which is all kinds of ironic, because I'm old enough to reme
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by MandieD 4y ago
Yeah, dealing with just one seat, plus the fractious toddler, minus a baggage cart, made me very glad that I was not traveling alone with said toddler, and that he should be large enough for a CARES belt to be adequate restraint the next ti
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by MandieD 4y ago
This is the top (but not only) reason keeping your baby/toddler in your lap instead of in their own seat, buckled into a carseat, is a terrible way to fly. Lap infants are far more likely to be injured in-flight than other children: h
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by MandieD 4y ago
I don't think it reports to any other search engines, and am not sure it affects any but your own subsequent results, but Kagi has a feedback scale on each result: "block", "lower", "normal", "raise&q
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by MandieD 4y ago
Done
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by MandieD 4y ago
Childbirth will once again be the most dangerous thing an average woman does, when a Caesarean becomes far too risky for any but the most dire cases and tears that have to be sewn up will often lead to childbed fever again.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Fun little anecdote: Jimmy Carter had solar panels put on the roof of the White House. Ronald Reagan had them removed. Hypothetical that makes me want to cry for all the wasted time and cumulative life years: What if Reagan had kept them in
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by MandieD 4y ago
Now, if a real entrepreneur figured out how to capture excess electricity in El Salvador as green hydrogen and ship it, that would be a net positive for everyone involved.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Iceland exports their excess electricity mostly in the form of aluminum smelting.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Lots of 5-10 acre-looking parks along the Autobahns outside of cities, financed by various regional power companies and run by specialized solar operators, often outside their home regions (example: an EnBW park run by a company based near
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by MandieD 4y ago
Driving to my in-laws in Niedersachsen up from northern Bavaria through the former East on Christmas Eve was revelatory: not only a slight increase in windmills, along with several of those enormous blades parked on the side, but banks of s
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by MandieD 4y ago
Anecdata: the leaflet in the packets of all the ones I’ve taken in both the US and Germany mention the antibiotics pretty clearly, the diarrhea too obliquely, but I’ve never heard of the charcoal thing!
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by MandieD 4y ago
I've not been able to bring myself to have a closer look at the fruit trees around here (Nuremberg area), for fear of seeing some very doomed buds.
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by MandieD 4y ago
The fracking was happening anyway for oil, and that the by-product natural gas is now worth selling on instead of just flaring off is a nice bonus. (In West Texas, at least; I don't know enough about the oil industry in the rest of the
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by MandieD 4y ago
The US exams involve a lot of memorization; for the Technician and General exams, I highly recommend running through the questions in the $3.99 HamStudy app/completely free hamstudy.org website. For the Amateur Extra, I crammed using &
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by MandieD 4y ago
Done
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by MandieD 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Zmx8G
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by MandieD 4y ago
I need to test this better - I've had several failed loaves lately, and had been blaming it on the dried yeast batches.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Ted Cruz (Republican senator from Texas) comes up for re-election in 2024. Couple of remarks about Cancun every time the weather gets a bit chilly, update some of the fun memes from the 2016 presidential primary... and maybe Cruz himself is
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by MandieD 4y ago
Nice! Managed this first day in PowerShell, but we'll see if I can keep up with the rest of the days... My solutions (or attempts) here: https://github.com/amandadebler/hanukkahofdata2022
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by MandieD 4y ago
Several hundred terawatt hours of electricity consumption.
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by MandieD 4y ago
We’re 1.5 (I’m the .5) with school-day daycare (absolutely no screens there). I will cop to allowing him to watch a playlist of nature videos I’ve downloaded and watched through beforehand, on an old laptop, at times when I need to do somet
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by MandieD 4y ago
While not, strictly speaking, a dumbphone, this one sold under various branding can be used as one, and my never-smartphone-using dad and aunt are satisfied with it: [0] https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone/schok-flip [1
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by MandieD 4y ago
"... and a governess and key instructors." If your family was wealthy enough for you to be economically inactive as a youth, and to pay for said governess and instructors. Higher education was for the rich, too. As you said, a dif
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by MandieD 4y ago
LPG (liquified propane gas) stations are slowly on the wane but still common enough for practical use in Germany. Common enough and cheap enough that I still feel a bit prescient for buying a 2017 Ford Focus wagon with about 30k km on the c
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by MandieD 4y ago
I have a t-shirt I bought at the Gap around 1996 that is still wearable, though a bit worn-looking where the collar meets the shoulder seams. Thick, sturdy cotton. It was probably around $15, which would be about $30 today. There is no such
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by MandieD 4y ago
That’s why we’ve parked the car for all trips that are even theoretically possible with transit and keep the house at 17-18 C (about 64 Freedom Degrees), aside from the toddler’s room.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Many of the same US states that are currently eagerly restricting abortion rights, and are even casting covetous eyes towards birth control, had loads of forced sterilizations in previous decades. As one of our marching calls goes, “Not the
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by MandieD 4y ago
And only for a very narrow bit at the top of the socioeconomic heap - once a week, my great-grandmother would wring and then chop the neck of the Sunday chicken, so I doubt she had a second thought about smacking any insects that threatened
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by MandieD 4y ago
There’s a difference between “legal” and what most people's insurance contracts say. Most normally-priced collision policies have clauses stating that if you were driving in excess of 130, the insurer reserves the right not to pay for

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