MandieD

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by MandieD 4y ago
Ok, “just curious,” there’s something called an ectopic pregnancy. You cannot be sure that’s why you’re bleeding and in pain, so in a normal place like Germany (where I had mine) or pretty much anywhere in the US before this Friday, you wou
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by MandieD 4y ago
As someone who had a surprise (but most welcome) pregnancy at 40, many years after an ectopic one, I’m coming to grips with the fact that my home state’s government, and possibly a large percentage of its residents including most of my clos
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by MandieD 4y ago
You mentioned supporting your kids with school. University is quite expensive in the US compared to Germany, even if your children decide to go to an “in-state” college. You might want to look into that, especially if they will be out regul
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by MandieD 4y ago
Please make sure to keep voting after you move, as much as it might feel like spitting in the wind and yet another annual hassle - you really have to stay on top of both your voter registration, as well as your annual overseas ballot reques
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by MandieD 4y ago
How was that an emotional argument? I was just stating the effect the weapon had on a bunch of those kids, not how awesome the weapon looked, or how powerful I feel owning one.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Because they didn’t have their body subjected to those last, most difficult months of pregnancy. My own surprise (but very wanted!) pregnancy was easy the first few months - I even skied up through week 16, but around week 30 I started deve
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by MandieD 4y ago
And please remember that even a “normal” pregnancy can exact a heavy toll on the mother, physical and financial. My back hurts constantly, but even worse when I pick up my much-desired child. He’s over 25 lbs now, and I dread what the next
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by MandieD 4y ago
They will be if their various noise machines spin them up to be. Southern Baptists largely didn’t care about abortion before the 1970s, even seeing it as a good thing in some cases. From The Baptist Press, who of course now spouts the party
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by MandieD 4y ago
Child-shredder, then, because that’s the effect it had on those 10 year olds in Uvalde.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Other well-off western countries have much cheaper and convenient access to hormonal birth control. In the country I live in, Germany, a month’s supply of pills is about 10 EUR retail, no insurance. On the public insurance the vast majority
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by MandieD 4y ago
What they forgot to mention: virtually all children in Germany have decent health insurance with extremely low deductibles (privately insured, due to well-paid or self-employed parents) or none (publicly insured, which would be the vast maj
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by MandieD 4y ago
Yes, a county in the south Texas desert with fewer residents than a mid-size office park should just up and fire the one person in the county who could kind of do the job and was willing to do so each year for probably what a FAANG senior s
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by MandieD 4y ago
WALL-E: entry-level cyberpunk?
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by MandieD 4y ago
There’s a discovery of an unexploded WW2 bomb in and around Nuremberg at least every year or so, followed immediately by the evacuation of the neighborhood around it before the experts come in to defuse it (hopefully not have to explode it)
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by MandieD 4y ago
I make rules to treat ones that offend like spam
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by MandieD 4y ago
As long as Americans consider themselves entitled to city-like services wherever they can clear land to build a house, there’s going to be a problem. Most modern rural Americans are not active participants in agriculture, which was the case
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by MandieD 4y ago
I currently live in a suburb of a large German city, in a neighborhood packed with row houses and low-rise apartments. My father lives in west Texas in a neighborhood with maybe 50 households, each on their own 1-10 acres, 30 miles from the
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by MandieD 4y ago
If you have your own domain, Fastmail will let you set a wildcard rule and anyrandomthing@yourdomain.com will hit the mailbox, no further config necessary.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Having spent most of my adult life in Germany, I’ve seen hundreds of them, and I try to take a moment to think of the people they name. And then reflect that Germans don’t have some special intrinsic evil that made them capable of doing thi
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by MandieD 4y ago
As my very conservative, East Texan father says, Carter is too good a man to have been any good as president.
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by MandieD 4y ago
You’re right about Bitcoin mining, but high-end gaming cards are still favored for Ethereum mining, which is why any card capable of handling it (more than 4-6 GB RAM) has been ridiculously expensive, even old cards.
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by MandieD 4y ago
What we would find out: the cops killed at least one kid in their attempt to shoot the attacker without getting too close.
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by MandieD 4y ago
1930's German fascists took a lot of ideas from the US South's Jim Crow laws. I didn't realize this until I saw a display about it at the Dokumentationszentrum in Nuremberg. The Nuremberg racial laws were particularly influen
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by MandieD 4y ago
To be charitable: a large percentage of Americans are acculturated into continuous high monthly outlays to own an acceptably large and new vehicle. A car payment is just an unfortunate fact of life to a lot of them, and not a lifestyle choi
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by MandieD 4y ago
My own music is familiar, which removes a source of distraction. Plus, doesn’t come with either news or marketing announcements in a language I mostly understand, but automatically raises my attention when I hear it.
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by MandieD 4y ago
It’s probably on purpose: when you have trouble thinking critically, and are fighting multiple distractions, you’re going to have a harder time not grabbing the potato chips or doing the mental math to see that “Super Deal!!!” is not actual
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by MandieD 4y ago
The Post has run plenty of unflattering stories about Amazon in the time he’s owned it.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Or more likely: an angry teenage boy manages to get the gun off an armed teacher?
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by MandieD 4y ago
State-level elected officials in Texas ain’t exactly known for their interest in increasing gun control, and they’re at least enabling the Uvalde police department in this cover-up. Source: grew up in Texas, still have all my well-armed fam
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by MandieD 4y ago
No one can match Microsoft for terrible naming and mind-bogglingly bad name changes. The epitome is the chat platform: starting out as the very generic Office Communications Server, then switching to the surprisingly clever Lync (short and

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