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by MandieD 5y ago
Yes, they are different between Germany and Austria, which otherwise share labeling for everything - the water and juice bottles I bought while skiing in Austria were rejected for return when I got home to Germany, despite being from brands
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by MandieD 5y ago
The lightweight plastic ones are "Einweg" ("single use"), and the deposit is to get the material back for recycling - as long as the deposit label will scan, it's accepted. It's easier to scan them in the autom
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by MandieD 5y ago
I work for a very large Germany-based multinational, and <ourname>.onmicrosoft.com was registered by a school our founding family started in an Eastern European country where we have a factory. We gave up and established <verygener
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by MandieD 5y ago
Many of us (and by “us,” I mean “mothers”) see it as a balance: I am outsourcing part of my child’s upbringing in order to maintain a career I like well enough that’s capable of supporting us both should life throw some curveballs at us. Sa
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by MandieD 5y ago
The two glass liter bottles of fresh milk min my fridge beg to differ - though they are proudly branded “Frankenmilch”… which just means that it’s produced in Franken (Franconia), the region I live in.
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by MandieD 5y ago
Not sure if this is what you're thinking of, but One World Computing has found higher real RAM limits for various old Macs (this post is about the 2009 iMac I inherited): https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/17059-late-
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by MandieD 5y ago
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.” - Stephen Leacock, long before computers, much less the internet, were a thing.
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by MandieD 5y ago
That is the best explanation I’ve ever read for what’s going on with trumpets - even a flutist can follow ;)
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by MandieD 5y ago
Modern example: my father, who is still living, driving, and traveling internationally. When he was 15, his parents decided it was time for him to start driving his mother around, who never learned how to drive. They wrote down his birth ye
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by MandieD 5y ago
From Texas, and can absolutely confirm. I was one of my area’s top Number Sense (mental arithmetic) scorers in middle school and high school, and made it to the state MathCounts finals two years in middle school, and always got high A’s in
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by MandieD 5y ago
This article was about risks to mothers and fetuses/babies once the pregnancy was started, and how the “35 is teh old” means that moms slightly over that get way more care than those slightly under, ironically resulting in better outco
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by MandieD 5y ago
My sweet 79-year-old father-in-law has had his “elective” hernia surgery rescheduled twice, and now cancelled without a rescheduled appointment because too many people in Germany “trust their natural immunity” or “deserve to do their own re
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by MandieD 5y ago
And it’s particularly irresponsible at the moment, because our hospitals in Germany are so clogged with mostly unvaccinated Covid patients that my father-in-law is having to just suffer with a hernia because that repair surgery is “elective
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by MandieD 5y ago
July: 65% vax/35% unvax, 17%/83%, 17/65 = 0.26, 83/35 = 2.37 October: 85%/15%, 60%/40%, 60/85 = 0.7, 40/15 = 2.67 In other words, vaccinated seniors were more likely to develop Covid in October, seve
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by MandieD 5y ago
I’m not the first person to say it, but it’s a shame that the station wagon got such a bad rap in the US, because that’s really what a lot of SUV buyers are after, utility-wise. Rear-facing child seats are safer; what about a rear-facing th
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by MandieD 5y ago
It would be great if skipping grades became more commonly acceptable, especially for the sake of children whose parents don’t have the wherewithal to get them advanced instruction (either through own knowledge or money). I would have liked
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by MandieD 5y ago
My husband and I went there in December, which I highly endorse. It was frigid when we started, cool when we got as far as we thought prudent for a day hike, and we were sweating and down to t-shirts by the time we made it back up top. Tim
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by MandieD 5y ago
E-paper device for viewing, due to the reduced power requirements to keep text displayed.
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by MandieD 5y ago
Solid parenting advice, or a consulting technique: the “wish list” from “How to talk so kids will listen, how to listen so kids will talk”, or putting something that seems ridiculous into the backlog to keep the meeting moving. Wonderful co
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by MandieD 5y ago
That’s the deal here in Germany (taxes pay for parental leave), and I was ok with it, in a high-minded “it’s good for the children” way despite looking like I was just going to be on the paying-for-it side. Fast forward to a rather late “ha
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by MandieD 5y ago
Good on ya - your partner will be forever grateful, and you’ll thank yourself as well for not trying to work while no one is getting a full night's sleep. Even if breastfeeding works out 100%, having someone else get some of those over
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by MandieD 5y ago
It’s one of my favorite things about Germany. Here in (relatively) socially conservative greater Nuremberg, the split tends to be 12 months Mom, two months Dad, with Dad taking a month right after birth, and another when Mom goes back to wo
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by MandieD 5y ago
In similar shoes to yours - there has got to be a way we American techies living in the EU can make the most of GDPR for the sake of the folks back home.
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by MandieD 5y ago
I’ve spent the past decade in the IT department of a really big German company Americans outside of the auto industry have probably never heard of, and I have yet to meet a German colleague who went to a private university, even up through
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by MandieD 5y ago
Pretty much. It’s worked its way up the food chain into formerly mid-range ladies’ brands also being flimsy, trendy stuff that looks like crap within a year because it washes poorly, is very dated, or both. It’s nearly impossible to find a
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by MandieD 5y ago
Describes the whole cycle: faster from design to production, then from production to distribution and sale, and finally, from use to disposal, because the materials and construction are not designed for durability, and the styles are optimi
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by MandieD 5y ago
Textiles being dumped in Peru particularly hurts my soul because their local textile industry is such a deep part of their history and culture. I’m sure by this point we’ve all read about how our clothing “donations” have destroyed most of
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by MandieD 5y ago
Private skiing lessons are silly for beginners, because their most important problems are pretty similar within the same rough age group (small children vs older children vs adult beginners), and there’s a lot of learning by watching other
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by MandieD 5y ago
Huh. Didn’t know that about OS/2’s popularity among sysops. One of Temple’s BBSes (Waverley Park) presented what I now think was a Unix shell, or at least supposed to look like one, but I can’t imagine they were actually running Linux
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by MandieD 5y ago
I’m your age, and those were my primary BBS days, but as the nearest town with 150k people (Waco) was in my area code but outside our local calling area, pretty sure I didn’t call your board - the hell I caught the time I dialed up CompuSer

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