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by MandieD 1y ago
Yikes, I remember my one and only 757 transatlantic flight, too. Every single little bump; truly a bus in the sky.
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by MandieD 1y ago
My biggest worry (and I still have some of those other concerns) is for school-age children using it instead of having to learn how to read for information and to write in their own words. For everyone who argues, "naysayers said that
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by MandieD 1y ago
Every time I see a 3-5 year old in a stroller on the subway staring at a phone their parent passed them, or worse, has dedicated to the child's entertainment (stroller mount included), my heart breaks a little more - though when my own
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by MandieD 1y ago
That is excellent, creepy, and just a little too plausible. I'd read whatever larger work this turns into.
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by MandieD 1y ago
How did you know that I'm a spinner?! This is definitely something I enjoyed.
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by MandieD 1y ago
Oooooh, you're one of today's 10,000, and I get to be the person who tells you about Agrivoltaics - combining farming/ranching and solar panels. You don't completely cover the land in solar panels - you work with the ide
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by MandieD 1y ago
I don’t know what it was like before I came over two decades ago, but I think you’re likely right - there are tons of little casinos and sports betting parlors in even small towns in Germany, and unless they were explicitly declared off-lim
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by MandieD 1y ago
Germany… government… “removing red tape”… Ich lach mich kaputt (I love it here, but “removing red tape”?!)
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by MandieD 1y ago
Even Germany has Gmünd: Schwäbisch Gmünd, Georgensgmünd…
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by MandieD 1y ago
As someone who speaks German but not Polish, “Gemeinde” was the first thing that came to mind seeing that “gmina” is a collection of rural villages, because that’s what the smallest incorporated settlements here are called (at least in Bava
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by MandieD 1y ago
IG Metall is excellent, and I highly recommend working for companies whose employment contracts were negotiated by them - that would be a lot of “traditional” German industrial firms. When layoffs happen, you find out over a year in advance
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by MandieD 1y ago
That they didn’t break down the bird owners between parrots and canaries/finches was a major oversight - while some canary/finch owners do let their birds out and handle them, parrots (even budgies) tend to interact far more with
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by MandieD 1y ago
Thread a flexible needle (usually called "circular") or a wire through a full row near the cut, unravel the remaining rows, then take a fine crochet hook to chain the loops together. Or just hem it, but that doesn't look like
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by MandieD 1y ago
Though doing without WhatsApp is getting dicey with a preschooler in a couple of activities, and it will probably get even harder to keep my heels dug in once he's in school...
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by MandieD 1y ago
Complicated thing: had a certain Austrian who complained about the German government silencing him instead been deported and forbidden to return after his prison sentence, the world might have been a very different place.
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by MandieD 1y ago
First, they’d need spinning wheels. Even with the primitive looms the Romans were using, far more labor went into producing the yarn (processing flax, cleaning wool, spinning with hand spindles)
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by MandieD 1y ago
Same with textiles: automating weaving wasn’t the critical jump; automating spinning was. Before the Saxony (flyer) spinning wheel was developed and spread through Europe in the late Middle Ages, about 9-10 spinners using hand spindles we
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by MandieD 1y ago
Two words that explain why it hurts everyone else when you can go buy antibiotics whenever you want (you think you have strep): Antibiotic Resistance. Longer explanation: how do you know exactly which bacteria you’re infected with, and whic
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by MandieD 1y ago
When Docker pulled their subscription shenanigans, the global auto parts manufacturer I work for wasn't delighted when they saw $5 (or was it 7?)/month/user, but were ready to suck it up for a few hundred devs. They noped rig
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by MandieD 1y ago
A lot of the bell peppers and tomatoes for sale in Germany, especially in the winter, are grown in greenhouses in the Netherlands. They’re only somewhat more expensive than the ones grown outside in Spain at the peak of their harvests. But
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by MandieD 1y ago
The most useless thing Google Maps does on my US-localized phone here in Germany: literally translates the proper names of businesses. For example, listing Stoff Bauer as "Fabric Farmer" in the results when I search for "Stof
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by MandieD 1y ago
We sucked up an extra month's rent to have overlap on our move just across a small metro area to the older house we'd bought, and it was worth every penny - we had time to repaint some walls and refinish the living room floor befo
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by MandieD 1y ago
Same deal in Germany - if you asked a German about American chicken, I can almost guarantee you that "Chlorhuhn" would be their first response.
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by MandieD 1y ago
I'll bite. It's the US electoral system; each seat is individually elected, and the presidency is determined on a state-by-state basis, negating the votes of most of the country. For contrast, take Germany. Its national parliament
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by MandieD 1y ago
I grew up in Texas, but have spent most of my adult life in Germany. It's not that Germans are innately better drivers, it's that there's not the same level of cultural entitlement to a driver's license. Driving is a pri
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by MandieD 1y ago
I really appreciate you, in particular, posting that here, because if Jeff Geerling can end up with an appliance with unwanted cloud/app dependencies, it's not a customer skill issue - it's a lack of candor from the manufac
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by MandieD 2y ago
And if your phone gets lost or stolen in the middle of your international journey...
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by MandieD 2y ago
Lufthansa does in Germany. They've cut their flights from a lot of the regional airports to Munich and Frankfurt (I think the government made them if ground transport time is lower than a certain amount), and replaced the former mostly
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by MandieD 2y ago
Trump makes Clinton look like a gentleman and Bush Jr. look like a scholar.
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by MandieD 2y ago
"He was of a sickly constitution."

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