MandieD

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by MandieD 4y ago
There’s a psychological reason you’re missing: getting to that first debt paid off and experiencing that bit of joy and pride in accomplishment, in order to reinforce new habits. If the people turning to Ramsey for financial advice were, by
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by MandieD 4y ago
At least the supermarkets are starting to leave some items empty instead of spreading things out. How many times over the past two years did I think I'd lost my mind when I couldn't find something routine... no, I wasn't over
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by MandieD 4y ago
Where did you find butter that's only 50% more?! I've got a tip on some 3 EUR/liter sunflower oil in exchange ;) Nothing quite like seeing Rapsöl (that's canola oil for North Americans) marketed as an artisanal product,
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by MandieD 4y ago
As a person who minded my own business on abortion until one saved my fertility and possibly my life, I’m grateful that the state left which manner in which my ectopic pregnancy was ended up to me and the hospital staff. “But that wasn’t an
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by MandieD 4y ago
Since I couldn't turn off "in case you missed this Tweet," without turning off everything including reply and DM notifications, I no longer get any. And use it a lot less now, so good job, Twitter!
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by MandieD 4y ago
This is why my near two year old is unaware that there is an uncountable number of hours of video made specifically to appeal to his age group. I know he'll find out sooner or later, and that it can even be called up on demand if your
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by MandieD 4y ago
Yeah, I've learned that my new amateur radio hobby is not very compatible with a newly-climbing, curious little human. Thank goodness I have my own little office so I don't have to unplug and carefully pack EVERYTHING every time,
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by MandieD 4y ago
When we were house-hunting several years ago, my husband bought a 70 EUR noise meter and would take measurements around a candidate house during the day… and between 2-3am. We rejected at least two that seemed peaceful enough during the day
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by MandieD 4y ago
Can’t speak to Berlin within the past 3 years, but I’ve never seen any sort of gate/turnstile entry to German train or subway. There are little punch machines in the stations most places, or just use that city’s transit app - Nuremberg
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by MandieD 4y ago
Especially if your interest is long-distance travel and you haven’t discovered the difference between ICE (Munich to Nuremberg in 1:10, perhaps a stop in Ingolstadt - Airbus + Audi) and RB (Munich to Nuremberg in 2:30…ish, stop in all the l
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by MandieD 4y ago
Having graduated into the shadow of the 2000-ish dotcom bust, it means being happy about that boring government contracting job in the DC ‘burbs with a starting salary that was about 60% what your friends who graduated two years earlier got
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by MandieD 4y ago
The Winnenden massacre was committed by a teenage boy whose father had a large collection of firearms that were carefully locked up... except for his automatic Beretta pistol.
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by MandieD 4y ago
This is one of those points on which I have realized that in many respects, my dad and I do not share a worldview, and live in such different worlds. Yes, I knew this. I have not bothered bringing it up with my dad, but may end up doing so
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by MandieD 4y ago
I happen to think that Germany has about the right balance of encouraging hunting that's beneficial to the environment and allowing traditional gunsmithing, while prioritizing the right of the vast majority of Germans who have no desir
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by MandieD 4y ago
Grew up in Texas but happily raising my son in Germany for many reasons, only one of which is that after the Erfurt high school massacre in 2002, the German parliament changed the gun ownership laws to ban ownership for under-21s, and to re
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by MandieD 4y ago
Rent’s definitely an expense, but isn’t a loan.
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by MandieD 4y ago
That's one of the big differences: the only thing a normal person in France, Germany or the rest of western Europe* could do that involves a 1200/month repayment is buy property (or an absolutely ridiculous car). A lot of the youn
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by MandieD 4y ago
I wonder what effect the narrow, intermittent shortages of the past 2+ years is going to have on what had been the minimalizing generations. Before 2020: having more than a few rolls of toilet paper and an extra bottle of cooking and olive
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by MandieD 4y ago
Fun historical fact: Hitler complained a lot about being “silenced” in the 20s. NSDAP posters from that era here: - http://www.wahlplakate-archiv.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/... - http://www
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by MandieD 4y ago
How is a two year old strapped into a car seat supposed to manage that?
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by MandieD 4y ago
The landslide was 2009/2010, after the Ministerpräsident of Thuringia caused a really bad accident, which he survived but the woman he crashed into didn't. He was wearing a helmet, she wasn't.
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In 2009, a German state governor caused a terrible skiing accident, which he survived but the victim didn't. He was wearing a helmet, she wasn't, and after that point, helmet sales in Germany and Austria shot through the roof and
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Before 2009: very few adult skiers in Austria and Germany wore helmets, pretty much only the racers and children who were legally required to. I felt like a dork wearing mine, but I experienced a scary near-miss my first season on these rel
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by MandieD 4y ago
My toddler is unaware that there is a whole world of video content made just for him - as far as he knows, the only videos that exist are nature documentary clips, cooking shows, church services and tech conference talks. I know that as soo
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by MandieD 4y ago
Driving on Autobahn sections without speed restrictions, especially when I do let loose and go past 160 km/h, requires so much concentration that I usually turn the stereo off. There’s an old joke that BMW engineers couldn’t understand
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by MandieD 4y ago
I’m trying to say that although anyone is free to buy them, they’re not designed for city-to-city tourist convenience or even as a good substitute for the IC/ICE product for long-distance, car-comparable-speed travel. They’re for makin
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It will be an absolute relief to the elderly/near-elderly poor, for starters. Like the woman I saw in the grocery store a few weeks ago on the verge of tears because the cheapest cooking oil available was 6 EUR/750ml bottle organi
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by MandieD 4y ago
Hmmm, didn’t realize it was coming off as “German only” - I wanted people to realize that this was designed for the benefit of less-wealthy residents of Germany, not the convenience of tourists, but that there’s nothing stopping anyone from
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by MandieD 4y ago
If you’re not in a hurry - it is not valid for the high-speed (ICE) and mid-speed (IC) trains in Germany.
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Very important caveat for all of you who are thinking, “woo hoo, no need to buy that EuRail pass! Or to buy an expensive ICE ticket!” These tickets are good for all “Nah- und Regionalverkehr,” explicitly excluding ICE, IC, EC (international

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