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by MandieD 4y ago
Just now heading home from getting the pins out of the finger I broke last month, and can confirm! Local in armpit to numb while arm (hee hee, floppy arm) < Injury that broke finger joint < Spinal for c-section (aside from taking seve
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by MandieD 4y ago
Not in the "-flation" genre, but Americans use "nickel and dime" as a verb: "The sticker price is low, but they'll nickel and dime you to death on the options." (speaking of a car with a low-seeming advert
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by MandieD 4y ago
The conflation of “document proving one is a citizen, or at least a legal resident” and “document proving one has a basic grasp of traffic safety” is unfortunate and not a must. These are separate functions in many countries.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Pssst… if you’re a good software engineer only making €60k in Germany and have been out of uni for at least five years, go look up which large companies are in the IG Metall tariff.
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by MandieD 4y ago
I’m glad I did my training through US Army MWR while working on a post in Germany, because they had far less economic motive to hurry us along. It gave me enough appreciation for how risky diving can be, and how much your safety depends on
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by MandieD 4y ago
How well do they control for planned home births having lower risk profiles at the outset? For example, even had I been determined to try labor, I would have done so in a hospital, because I was 40 and have a hiatal hernia that will always
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by MandieD 4y ago
Would have been a bit difficult to tell if my small hiatal hernia that occasionally causes scary heartburn had become an increasingly large hiatal hernia that allowed part of my stomach to slip through, requiring a much worse emergency surg
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by MandieD 4y ago
What you’re taught as an entry-level diver: if you don’t have a clear path overhead, you’re at way more risk. 30m down with a clear view overhead is less dangerous than 5m down in a shipwreck, and there are other counterintuitive things you
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by MandieD 4y ago
Jelly of the Month Club, instead of the bonus that he expected to cover much of the cost of his new swimming pool.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Many of us did this sort of thing in our twenties and sneered at the whiners nattering on about “work/life balance,” then discovered there’s more to life than pulping yourself for… a pat on the back, a voucher for a dinner for two at a
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by MandieD 4y ago
… but sadly, it’s currently useless for that purpose, as Red Pocket doesn’t support international roaming: https://help.redpocket.com/can-i-still-use-my-red-pocket-mob...
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by MandieD 4y ago
$5/month is perfect for expats who need to keep a "real" US mobile number for 2FA that insists on SMS, and who only spend a few weeks a year stateside... looking into it now - thanks so much!
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by MandieD 4y ago
And given the degradation of the postal service and passenger rail system since privatization, one might accept growing government as the lesser of two evils.
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by MandieD 4y ago
That is seriously useful on so many levels - thank you for sharing!
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by MandieD 4y ago
The cryptocurrency might be fake, but the execution-backed evictions are real: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/neom-saudi-arabia-sentenc...
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by MandieD 4y ago
I'll add my voice to the Fastmail love. I've connected a couple of domains to my Standard $50/year (plus VAT) account, and as long as you follow all of their directions on adding SPF and DKIM settings to your domain, it works
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by MandieD 4y ago
Or we can drink a lot less soda and other bottle drinks. Tap water is better for your body, bank account, and world.
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by MandieD 4y ago
It’s become less egalitarian over my lifetime. When I was a kid, my working class dad and a few buddies would rent a deer lease each year, doing maintenance work in the summer and fall, then going out over the weekend in season. These deer
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by MandieD 4y ago
Nazi Germany became Nazi Germany in large part because of severe economic problems, but by the late 30s, living conditions for conforming, “good” Germans had improved somewhat.
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by MandieD 4y ago
There was a reasonable supply of consumer goods for “good” Germans in the late 30s and early 40s after the economy started turning around, and food wasn’t a serious issue until very late in the war, and was worst in the years right after (a
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by MandieD 4y ago
I think the main problem is that this information is no longer limited to people able to view printed copies of the data, but available to anyone in the world with internet access (immediate, and free), and much more quickly searched and us
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by MandieD 4y ago
Oh, he’s also the author of one of my favorite short stories, “The Great Silence”[0] Ironically, the endangered species[1] the narrator belongs to has managed to outlive the giant human object discussed, but it’s still at high risk of being
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by MandieD 4y ago
To be fair, a disproportionate number of visitors in any sort of vaguely historic costume at a Renfest/Mittelaltermarkt are cosplaying at least minor nobility, in the US or Germany.
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by MandieD 4y ago
I had to quit after college with shoulder and wrist pain, and I’m an average-sized woman with no unusual health problems. Getting a student flute with closed holes, offset G and curved head joint let me play again at all, but I can’t bring
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by MandieD 4y ago
There were tons of well-armed police available to hang out in the halls of Robb Elementary listening to children and teachers being shot, and outside pushing the parents away - just not one willing to do what they're paid for and stop
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by MandieD 4y ago
We were married (and trying) for over a decade with only an ectopic to show for it before our “happy surprise” was born 6 months after my 40th birthday. There’s the small matter of my husband hitting retirement age about the same time our Ü
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by MandieD 4y ago
You still get printed bills with the bank account number to send the money to in Germany; only big change in the past decade is that that bank account number is a long IBAN number with the bank’s ID and a checksum rolled in.
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by MandieD 4y ago
“How are there 70 year olds today that worked throughout the 90s and 2000s without coming across a computer?” Oh, they saw the clerks using them in the office when they came in each week for their paychecks, and later on, engineers and mayb
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by MandieD 4y ago
I’m stealing this for use on both sides of the pond. I’ve run into, for real, the issue of “essential” apps in Germany not being available in the US App Store, like public parking for the commuter lot in a town on the other side of the coun
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by MandieD 4y ago
One of the issues is the documentation required to get one - the most obvious is a birth certificate, because of course everyone born in the US would have one, right? 1) Many people who were born in the US didn’t actually ever get one! This

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