MandieD

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by MandieD 1y ago
How much are they where you are? They're 20-30 EUR on their own in Germany (doctor's office, pharmacies)
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by MandieD 1y ago
As John Maynard Keynes supposedly said, and I've seen play out over the past quarter century, "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
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by MandieD 1y ago
Done
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by MandieD 1y ago
I have a rather over-confident five year old, so would LOVE that book right now.
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by MandieD 1y ago
What I've discovered in nearly three decades of working in various aspects of IT: any useful prototype/proof of concept system will become a production system if you do not take specific measures from the outset to prevent that fr
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by MandieD 1y ago
Well over a decade ago, when we were initially looking for a place to rent in Bavaria's second-largest city, which is otherwise one of the safest cities in the country and the world, the quickest way to screen neighborhoods was the pre
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by MandieD 1y ago
Fantastic, heartbreaking film.
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by MandieD 1y ago
Yeah, that's some Gestapo level business... or since they don't like that word, Stasi. As in, there were loads of people in the DDR (East Germany, 1949-1989) whose job it was to read people's personal mail, along with the net
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by MandieD 1y ago
Determinism, determinism, determinism. The three main principles of UI/UX design, particularly for seniors, but honestly, for everyone who doesn't have "learn new software" as a hobby.
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by MandieD 1y ago
When I first got glasses circa age 9, my first remark upon leaving the shop was, "oh, wow, I can see the leaves from here!" (standing under ca. 20-30 foot tall tree) My mother later said she had never felt so guilty.
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by MandieD 1y ago
Same deal in Germany - straight to the www.history.de homepage.
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by MandieD 1y ago
I love how history.com, seeing that I am located in Germany, instantly redirected me to history.de, where this article is not present, so then dumped me on the homepage, because no one in Germany could bear to look at things not in German.
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by MandieD 1y ago
My husband, a German, has been putting his fingers on the scanners when coming in to visit my family for nearly two decades - turnabout is fair play, I suppose...
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by MandieD 1y ago
A well-governed, democratic petro-state that has been very, very careful to keep much of anyone there from getting too high on their own supply: unlike just about any other petro-state, the state's cut of petroleum revenues do not go s
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by MandieD 1y ago
Done
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by MandieD 1y ago
I wonder if there’s any connection to getting and maintaining (“filling”) artificial nails. It would be interesting to also look at lung cancer incidence in nail salon workers, by which I mean “probably horrifying.” The smell of the various
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by MandieD 1y ago
About two years ago - it is possible that the policy has been loosened since then, but I'm not in human resources. The really strong protections are the first three years after a child is born - you have to be allowed to work anywhere
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by MandieD 1y ago
Let's see... two tiny countries that specialize in finance, a city-state that is the historic trade hub for the region, another that is the historic gambling hub for the region, and a low-population country that won the oil lottery and
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by MandieD 1y ago
We kind of do both in Germany. I say "kind of" becaue that year of parental leave (14 months total, shared between parents as desired) is capped at the lower of 1800 EUR/mo, or 2/3 of previous year's net monthly sal
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by MandieD 1y ago
Dreh dich nicht um, schau, schau… Der Kommissar geht um, oh oh! Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?
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by MandieD 1y ago
The big difference between public EV chargers and gas stations: you can put an EV charger anywhere you have electricity, and with far lower space requirements. My city is slowly converting a few street parking spots in busy areas to EV char
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by MandieD 1y ago
My health insurance in Germany - "public", but we get to choose which of about 150 Krankenkassen (sickness funds) we want to go with - comes about as close as it legally can to bribing us to get vaccinated, both seasonal (flu and
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by MandieD 1y ago
Yes, my home country definitely has its priorities in order - prevent crafts from small vendors in Europe getting in, arrest men fighting wildfires.
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by MandieD 1y ago
After watching several well-produced videos from my fellow Americans to try to learn how to hand spin, the one that made it click was a barely-edited one done by an older Chilean/Peruvian woman in Spanish. I have an American high schoo
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by MandieD 1y ago
None of them wants to have a whole bunch of consumer/small business shipments stuck in US customs for who knows how long it will take for the US to figure out exactly what tariffs it wishes to charge and how exactly it plans to collect
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by MandieD 1y ago
Postal services (including the one I'm in) are going with the $100 gift limit, not the previous $800 de minimus.
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by MandieD 1y ago
Deutsche Post/DHL Standard shipping to the US from Germany is off for all commercial goods as well as gifts worth more than $100 (85 EUR); DHL Express is still accepting shipments, but is far more expensive - going from 27 EUR for a 2k
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by MandieD 1y ago
Because you're a real American.
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by MandieD 1y ago
It was also revoked for American women who married foreign citizens until the early 20th century - in fact, an awful lot of my parents' friends for some reason still assume that I lost mine and automatically became a German citizen w
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by MandieD 1y ago
In Switzerland if you import dangerous junk and sell it in your store, you are liable. Oh, that's why amazon.ch redirects to amazon.de... In general, manufacturers and retailers have more legal responsibility for what they sell her

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