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by MandieD 4y ago
How would you enforce per-driver speed limits? As it stands, car insurance sort-of does this: German policies usually reserve the right to refuse payment if you’re at fault and were going more than 130. How could this be managed for all the
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by MandieD 4y ago
Despite having occasionally enjoyed letting ‘er rip at 160-180 (about 100-110mph), I lean towards a 130 general limit - having a kid changes a lot of one’s priorities, it turns out. The author should have listed the fatalities by 100 millio
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by MandieD 4y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
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by MandieD 4y ago
The financially-constrained people I know usually don’t use the IC/ICE - they take the extra hour or two to save 30+ EUR. Plus, making the IC/ICE all you can ride for 1/10th the current all-you-can-ride price would make getti
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by MandieD 4y ago
Which is why the audio of VHF Channel 6 (audio carrier on 87.75 MHz) is clearly audible on an analog-tuned FM radio. I remember my mom keeping a radio in the bathroom for listening to KWTX for the morning news and the first part of the Toda
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by MandieD 4y ago
When every major mobile or desktop OS update comes with compulsory interface changes, hiding some routine action, it breaks down many users’ faith in themselves to figure out how to do things on their computers or phones, making them more s
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by MandieD 4y ago
Someone in my extended family got caught seriously drunk driving in Mississippi, and probably because he was a neatly-dressed, well-spoken white guy, the court clerk subtly hinted that a $2000 donation to the county sheriff's departmen
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by MandieD 4y ago
I need a cup of coffee to function in the morning! (No, it's a habit.)
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by MandieD 4y ago
Some chipper, go-getter PM forgot that not every call is a light, happy call.
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by MandieD 4y ago
As someone who grew up near Waco: QAnon isn’t the complete explanation, but it’s a factor, along with the frequent screeching about caravans of illegal alien criminals. It all kind of sloshes around in people’s heads around there.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Whenever I start thinking like this about my home state (yep, Texas), I remember all the people who can't leave, mostly due to finances, some due to family, and some like a close friend with severe muscular dystrophy for whom a trip
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by MandieD 4y ago
Something asked on every job application form in my mid-sized Texas hometown was whether you had a valid driver’s license and a car, even for jobs where driving wasn’t your main task. A job candidate without their own car was likely to have
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by MandieD 4y ago
At least sharia law is open in its contempt for women with its stated valuation of a woman’s testimony at half that of a man’s.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Texas counties theoretically email ballots if you send in your overseas voter request each year, but it’s theoretical, because at least my county doesn’t set up their email domain correctly, and thus doesn’t even make GMail’s Spam folder. E
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by MandieD 4y ago
Not sure if this was sarcasm, but during the transition from Dotcom Boom to Dotcom Bust, it was a bit of folk wisdom that if you saw a Dotcom rename a stadium, its shareholders best start selling and its employees best start job hunting.
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by MandieD 4y ago
As long as any of those will run the "compulsory" apps (banking and parking apps available only on Google Play or Apple's App Store), they'll be on my radar. To keep my options open, I'm starting a slow detachment n
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by MandieD 4y ago
I’m a business-hours Windows user who drifted into Apple for all my personal devices, aside from a Windows box for amateur radio stuff, and an ever-changing fleet of Linux VMs at Hetzner. It’s about time for a new phone, but the selection o
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by MandieD 4y ago
Not a potential father, but a somewhat (2 yrs) experienced mother. Get a good baby scale. It helped us realize that ours wasn’t gaining weight at 4-5 weeks, despite not acting like he was hungry (I breastfed), which prompted us to supplemen
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by MandieD 4y ago
My in-laws’ delicious tap water is from the Harz Mountains, and yet, they insist on serving a rather sulfuric, somewhat-carbonated bottled water. They have trouble believing that no, I honestly prefer their tap water.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Especially if you’re space-constrained, I’d like to see your antenna. Currently fiddling with the length of a not-so-long wire on a 1:9 UnUn, up the 2m that my tree and neighbor situation permits.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Looking forward to trying it out when you’re ready to share it.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Having spent most of my adult life in or near Nuremberg, I am dreading this upcoming election back home, in large part because the various possibly-armed, self-appointed ballot drop box/poll watchers who have been marinating in consp
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by MandieD 4y ago
Also, people with personal difficulties traveling: physical limitations, small children or other family members they’re the primary caretakers of…
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by MandieD 4y ago
Nürnberg’s city transit service has a fleet of historic (“Oldtimer”) streetcars and busses that can be rented for events - here are the streetcars: https://event.vag.de/event-flotte/oldtimer-strassenbahnflott... Edited
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by MandieD 4y ago
Texans grow up hearing the story of Esau selling his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of stew, think that Esau was the one worth emulating…
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by MandieD 4y ago
Extra-urban (outside of the big cities) Texas feels increasingly feudal every time I visit; maybe it’s because I’ve spent an increasing amount of my life in comparatively egalitarian Germany so it’s easier to see than when I was embedded in
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by MandieD 4y ago
It’s geofenced - if I access it directly from my residential connection in Germany, I get the same, but if I use my Tailscale exit node in the US, it works fine.
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by MandieD 4y ago
I think of the shaded parts back porch as a giant walk-in (out?) fridge most of the winter, and have considered getting someone’s discarded chest freezer mostly to reduce the likelihood of critters and to moderate the effects of a slight ov
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by MandieD 4y ago
Might be an ok suggestion for some (after talking to their doctor!), but a particularly dangerous one for anyone who, like the author, is a Type 1 diabetic, or other person with a tricky metabolism.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Good luck - on subway after getting the pins out of my finger. Extremely local anesthesia hurt WAY more than getting my whole arm numbed when they put the pins in. Feel free to swear a lot.

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