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by MandieD 4y ago
Random thought from a Texan who is a resident of Germany, but still only a US citizen (and one who votes in Texas, because that was my last US residence): how’s that going to work if one of my cousins posts something Nazi-adjacent enough on
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by MandieD 4y ago
I am still here and now a mother because where I was ten years ago considered my ectopic pregnancy to be a medical emergency and not a moral issue. Had I been a non-rich woman in El Salvador, Ireland[0] or in some of the states where legisl
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by MandieD 4y ago
We still have vegetable oil shortages in German supermarkets, though we’ve at least gotten to the point where there’s always plenty of 750ml bottles of organic canola oil for 5-7 EUR, but store brand sunflower or canola oil for 3 EUR/l
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by MandieD 4y ago
That’s one of the many reasons I’m glad that I live in, and had my kid in, Germany. The year I was off work wasn’t paid anywhere near my pre-baby post-tax salary (those payments are capped at 1800 EUR/mo), but because they cover up to
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by MandieD 4y ago
As an American living in Germany and paying taxes to both, welcome and willkommen - heard nothing but good things about the Finnish Army while working for ours over here.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Finland and Sweden both have strong militaries (for their population size) that have been using NATO-compatible hardware for years, along with taking part in exercises with other NATO militaries. They’ll be self-sufficient assets to the all
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by MandieD 4y ago
25 years ago: carefully hand-write half-page essays on pre-printed application forms, attach $50 checks for application fees, beg your mother to drive your procrastinating self to the downtown post office by 5pm on December 31. Start receiv
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by MandieD 4y ago
There are probably several thousand, if not more, other former Windows platform admins like me that are absurdly grateful that Snover stuck with his vision, giving us a path to being automation and, later, cloud experts. I've since bra
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by MandieD 4y ago
I had the old MS Surface Pro 2 (11" screen, I think) as my daily driver for awhile, and found that designing PowerPoints and conference sessions - including code demos - to be legible on that screen led to better presentations.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Over a third of the students at my middle school were in band, and lots of them had academic problems. By eighth grade, they were all ok enough at reading music to get through multi-page pieces together. Only a few of us could have told you
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by MandieD 4y ago
I pulled my flute out of its case after over five years, and within minutes was playing all my scales, and able to play the melody lines out of a hymnal. My tone was awful, and my lips got tired long before my hands. To this day, I still as
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by MandieD 4y ago
I can only give advice for “one note at a time” instruments like the flute or trumpet: practice sight reading children’s songs you know (and therefore can tell if you’ve made a huge mistake) - sight reading, not memorizing! As you get more
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by MandieD 5y ago
“ Learning French won't be very helpful if you later need to learn Korean, but programming languages are not like that. It's easy to switch programming languages.” However, learning a second human language makes it easier to learn
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by MandieD 5y ago
I did it pretty much 100% brute force memorization with HamStudy, which was worth every penny of the $3.99 app price, and does a fantastic job of spaced repetition of the ones you got wrong or say “I don’t know” to. General is required for
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by MandieD 5y ago
“Sleep apnea can really jack up your heart if left untreated” Maybe that will finally work to get my husband to discuss his painful-sounding snoring (with sudden stops) with a doctor and push to get sent for a sleep study!
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by MandieD 5y ago
This one has SDRs running KiwiSDR, OpenWebRX, as well as WebSDR. I like KiwiSDR's interface the best overall, but OpenWebRX has better digital mode plugins pre-installed on most of the entries. https://www.receiverbook.de
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by MandieD 5y ago
And then you'll get your license, because the Technician and even General US licenses are doable with a bit of study and can be taken online, by appointment with one of the clubs that runs exams.
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by MandieD 5y ago
While I was pregnant with my son: woo, got my Baby Buddy instance spun up, now to integrate it with Home Assistant and my idea for a Mycroft-driven baby monitor! After he was born, through now as a toddler: Baby Buddy ensured that I really
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by MandieD 5y ago
You can spend $187 to take the Series 65 exam to prove that you know what you're doing and become an accredited investor that way - unlike the Series 7, you do not need your employer to sponsor you.
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by MandieD 5y ago
A lot of that might be due to books and other media from or set in the past being about (relatively) rich people. I love reading novels written in the late 18th/early 19th century; I give thanks that I was born in the late 20th centur
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by MandieD 5y ago
Have you written about how you did this anywhere, or do you not want to tip off "the other side"?
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by MandieD 5y ago
This will make you feel better about that 1200 GBP: we're still rocking the 55" 1080p Sony Bravia we bought in 2010 for 2000 EUR. I am also delighted to hear that a 55" 4K monitor can be had for well under 2000 EUR, and will
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by MandieD 5y ago
Surprisingly, endowedhosting.com was available, so I bought it. If IA or comparable ever decided to offer such a service, I’d happily hand the name over to them.
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by MandieD 5y ago
A bit from the Boom Chicago show I saw in Amsterdam around 2004: “The Dutch expression ‘bite the sour apple’ means the same thing as ‘bite the bullet’ - Americans are obsessed with guns, and the Netherlands is full of shitty food.”
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by MandieD 5y ago
That’s the kind of nonsense I’m talking about. My dad wouldn’t even begin to understand why he couldn’t put his truck there.
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by MandieD 5y ago
I’m generally proud of how my home country treated West Germany after WW2, but opting for a rushed “denazification” that allowed actual Nazis back into power, as long as they hadn’t been terribly loud actual Nazis, in order to get things mo
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by MandieD 5y ago
“Digital Vegan” is snappier than “Digital Selective Omnivore” for those us consciously trying to control our tech use, but I can’t find a positive term for people like my dad, who don’t directly use the Internet in a world that increasingly
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by MandieD 5y ago
My dad, in his 70s, has never used a smartphone and barely used a computer. I act as his personal assistant, booking flight tickets and managing stuff that comes up along the way, but there’s an increasing assumption that the passenger has
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by MandieD 5y ago
Would you push a glass of champagne on someone you knew was a recovering alcoholic for a toast and mock them for not taking it, or would you make sure that champagne flutes with orange juice were right beside the booze?
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by MandieD 5y ago
Yeah, I've long thought that the "light drinking is healthy" effect was more like "people who regularly drink alcohol but stop at one are probably restrained in their other consumption, while there are plenty of non-drin

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