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by MandieD 4y ago
Because US citizens have the right to vote in federal elections, no matter where they live, and which set of federal officials (senators and US House district, and state electoral votes for President) you are voting for is chosen by your la
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by MandieD 4y ago
GMail does this with my absentee ballots if I don't get lucky and see them go to Spam instead, because the State of Texas gives counties that really don't care about citizens who live overseas a system for generating ballots that
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by MandieD 4y ago
I think it's the amusement with which the young women are carrying out this work that galls... and that they're keeping most of the money. They're free agents. The very idea of doing anything like this myself makes me shudder
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The people for whom they're too expensive will do what people who can't afford/stomach the price of buying new already do: buy used. Those are allowed to be ICEs even after 2035. They might drive used car demand from neighbor
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by MandieD 4y ago
Another way to think about it: by 2035, any new vehicle sold in California must also double as electricity storage. There were some Texans who rather appreciated having an EV during the February 2021 deep freeze driven blackout. Not great f
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Only once the feds stepped in, though.
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Economic disruption and having to keep our homes and offices a few degrees cooler than we’re used to will make this a “hard winter” for the two or three generations of western Europeans largely used to staying as warm as they like and gener
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For example, a lot of cities in Germany cut back on indoor pools this summer, and are considering it for the winter. Sounds trivial, but keeping 25m long indoor pool 23-24 degrees in the winter takes a lot of energy. It would suck for peopl
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A view from Germany: Up to Russian invasion this February: old oil furnaces were being avidly replaced with natural gas ones. Solar installations were starting to slack off. Lots of re-roofing and new exterior wall insulation. Since then: n
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At least in Germany, not everyone uses gas heating - lots of domestic and institutional oil furnaces and tanks still around, like the recently-filled one in our basement that holds two bad winters’ worth of luxurious (21-22 C) warmth, or fo
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Growing up middle class in the 80s and 90s in a midsized city about an hour north of Austin, Highland Mall was a prime destination for the back to school shopping trip. The presence of Banana Republic made it rather upscale to us hicks from
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by MandieD 4y ago
How long until one of them tries chewing through the cable ties? The shoes, however, probably will remain effective.
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I get it all the time on my 2020 iPhone SE, even after several hours plugged into the car. I've come to hit "Emergency Override" if I know it's not been around moisture in the last few hours. Pity, because I wanted to ha
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by MandieD 4y ago
The Telegraph is more like the Wall Street Journal, yet another Murdoch-owned media property. The Daily Express is like Fox News.
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For me, they're absolutely complementary. If I'm the only thing I can really control, how can I do so without the right to make my own decisions beyond whether or not to accept a marriage proposal? Before feminism, married women w
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by MandieD 4y ago
The GP's attitude is why a lot of people are afraid of trying amateur radio: when you apply for a license in the US, your address is published. It doesn't have to be your home address and can be a post box, but you do have to be a
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by MandieD 4y ago
"It used to be that all forums had pervasive doxxing and swatting..." What kind of hell-forums were you using in the late 90s?! I never saw anything like that going on in the forums I was using back in my early days of internettin
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by MandieD 4y ago
You know there's a reason you don't offer even a single drink to a recovering alcoholic, right? A single drink is unlikely to hurt anyone, as long as it stays a single drink. There are a lot of people who can do a good job of not
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by MandieD 4y ago
Falsehoods programmers believe about phone numbers, especially American programmers, is probably its own separate article. (Edited to add) This list is good, but is perhaps overly generous - it leaves off the most common irritant: programme
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Fun thing I've run into in a Germany-based but increasingly international company: German always spells out umlauts and eszetts when going to lower ASCII for email addresses ("Schäßler" -> "Schaessler"), but Hung
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Both middle/upper-middle class spouses "have" to work because both middle/upper-middle class spouses started working - poor (especially minority and recent immigrant) women, even those with young children, have alway
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However, the legal systems can still be wildly different. The ounce of marijuana that anyone over 21 can buy from a state-licensed shop and possess in Colorado could mean a $2000 fine and up to 6 months in jail in Texas.
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Concerns about nuclear waste disposal top the list for my German in-laws, followed by the increasingly less-theoretical worries about providing scary targets for when the unprecedentedly long current peace ends.
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I take a long, hard look at the adorable two year old I surprisingly got pregnant with at 40… and still believe that no one should have go through with a pregnancy they don’t want, no matter how young/old/healthy/slutty they
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I dunno, more effectively support causes you already donate to? Help less well-off people participate more fully in your hobbies? Fund cool projects in your hobby?
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Try soaring/gliding. My husband has been in love with it as long as I've known him, and since his club, like most German clubs, uses a winch (big old Oldsmobile engine) to launch the planes, each launch uses less than a liter of f
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Yeah, forgot about that. Worked as designed for the benefit of the minor nobility... er, "job creators".
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That should be one of the top commandments of tech writing: Thou shalt not use the word "simply", because you are either insulting users or leaving something important out. Or both.
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The concept of super-normal stimuli, or more specifically, the avoidance thereof, has guided a lot of my parenting decisions. I know I won’t keep him away from all of that forever, but I want to make as much space as possible these early ye
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I really wish that the US's Paycheck Protection Program had been modeled on Kurzarbeit - the money is distributed to workers via their employers, saving a lot of bureaucracy, but because it's directly tied to previous wages, would

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