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by MandieD 5y ago
There's a big difference between watching the national news on ABC/NBC/CBS before dinner and then the local 10/11pm news, and keeping Fox News (or MSNBC or even CNN) on all day long, even as "background noise".
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by MandieD 5y ago
Go learn a bit more history - the use of Blackletter/Fraktur was banned by the National Socialist government because it was "Jewish". Earlier Nazi posters and publications used it, but so did the Social Democrats (SPD - Soz
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Love it - did both the regular and the hard mode. You should add a fiendish mode!
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And this is part of why a lot of Germans have always been uneasy with nuclear power.
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Germany’s center-left government just committed to massively upping defense spending, and Germany’s neighbors are apparently fine with it. Never thought I’d live to see that happen.
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He probably believes what most of my relatives (most of whom are Texans) do: this is all Biden’s fault for not letting petroleum producers drill and frack wherever and however they want; Putin never would have tried this if he knew the US c
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Norway seems to have avoided it the past few decades by following the advice Tony Montana didn’t: don’t get high on your own supply. They dampen the effects of easy oil money by putting most of the profits into their sovereign wealth fund a
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Oh, that’s such a good idea for documentation - thanks for sharing!
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Mental math can give you a quick idea of whether or not something is worth investigating more closely. I play a guessing game at the grocery store after I load my cart onto the belt and am waiting for the checker to finish. I’m usually with
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Thanks - ones dealing with children and tech are especially interesting to me, as I've got a toddler who I've so far been able to (mostly) keep away from the glowing screens, but who has already started grabbing my tablet and smac
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“Digital Vegan contains 50 short chapters suitable for daily reading…” Hey, just about right for this year’s Lent, in which I intend to closely examine my relationship with technology, because I can’t tell where “mommy brain” stops and wher
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The world’s oldest pants stitched together cultures from across Asia(sciencenews.org)
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I rinse the ones that I see stuff on, but otherwise don’t worry about it. But I still refrigerate them immediately after getting them home even if I think I’m going to use them quickly, because some habits are impossible to break.
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by MandieD 5y ago
The French seem to have a somewhat different view of cheese than we (Americans) do - it’s a living thing, and why would you put a living thing in the fridge? Related: eggs are stored and sold at room temperature in Germany. The first time I
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17 is a bit on the chilly side indoors, but 23-25 in the winter (sweater season) sounds like a sweaty, awful, and, even before current events, expensive time. 21 is cozy, 20 is absolutely fine, 19 during the day is where we’re at now becaus
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Pullis gegen Putin
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#PullisGegenPutin (sweaters against Putin) - turn the thermostat down to 18 C (64 F) and throw on a sweater. Then call and email your feckless MdB.
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It’s been a mild winter in DE, and it’s late February - within a few weeks, it’s spring. Had this happened in December or January, yeah, I’d be super worried for my neighbors with gas heating.
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Russia intentionally prevented Germany and the rest of Russia's gas customers from filling up their reserves this season, despite really needing the money.
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That is a terrible idea come tax-time if you claim residence abroad. Also, according to expat chitchat, Vanguard is particularly good at sussing out clients who claim Stateside addresses but don’t actually live there.
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by MandieD 5y ago
The only pacifiers my baby liked were the Tommee Tippie Featherlights. Unfortunately this is also the only pacifier he could CRAM COMPLETELY INTO HIS MOUTH by ten months. Fortunately he took confiscation pretty well, and didn’t revert to wa
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Quality infant formula is also cheap in Germany compared to the US. I thought it was just having a decade of being a dual engineer couple before baby that made me wonder why on earth there are formula theft rings in the US, but no, a box of
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Or possibly worse: asking a childless couple who desperately want kids but haven’t had it work out when they will have kids. I’ve had to train a couple of young men to never ask a follow up question to a “no” when they ask if a female colle
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To be fair, high infant mortality was a sad fact of life before modernity, and it wasn’t all diseases. “Failure to thrive” was a common cause of death. My aunt, born in 1941, was switched to formula after failing to nurse well. Despite thos
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When you’re at your most emotionally vulnerable due to a seething mixture of hormones AND having primary responsibility for a tiny, helpless human, it’s a bit harder to do that. Oh, and everyone feeling entitled to, nay, obliged to tell you
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I had to give up on direct breastfeeding and switch to the pump with mine when at five weeks, he wasn’t gaining weight. Exclusive pumping for a week showed that I wasn’t producing nearly enough, so we supplemented with formula to get him ba
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by MandieD 5y ago
Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. Not any other sort of income, including things like parental leave benefits. (Not exactly) Pro-tip: if you are in pretty much any EU country, and have anything on top of earned income (rental income, any f
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Middle class, working-age Americans with normal IT jobs in the EU sigh, look longingly at their (if lucky) dormant 401k/Roth accounts back home, realize they really are going to be working until retirement age because no one will open
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That is the best thing I’ve ever heard about Brazil’s legal system. How did it come about?
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I give up alcohol for Lent every year. I tried giving up caffeine one year instead. I broke down after a week and went back to giving up alcohol instead.

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