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by MandieD 2y ago
That is brilliant, and it’s heartbreaking that it’s brilliant.
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by MandieD 2y ago
And in the end, unfair to the student themselves as they won't actually know how to write for themselves - and there are occasions in life when it is critical to be able to write for yourself, by hand. Not very many, but the ones that
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by MandieD 2y ago
Bonus: all of the US license exams can be taken online, proctored by three volunteers watching you on your laptop and second mobile device camera.
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by MandieD 2y ago
If you are not at a bar, club, church singles' mixer, or other environment where people go for the purpose of meeting strangers for dating, think to yourself, "oh, she's pretty," then move along. Seriously. This advice g
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by MandieD 2y ago
Here I was, thinking that the most self-sacrificing action an American well off enough to have retirement savings (no immediate tax on capital gains) could take would be to divest from all domestic stocks and funds and shift to internationa
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by MandieD 2y ago
Um, did you consider that this tall, beautiful woman might a) already have a partner despite being tall, b) not be interested in finding a partner right now, or c) since it was lunchtime, was thinking about something she needed to do for wo
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by MandieD 2y ago
Yep. For the first few months after the rebranding, you could change a Windows registry setting to get the old Lync interface back.
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by MandieD 2y ago
Ceausescu also had that insane forced-birth policy where women under 45 (later relaxed to 40, but then raised back to 45) who had not yet had 4 (later 5) children were not only banned from using birth control or getting abortions, they were
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by MandieD 2y ago
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s what my dad’s problem boils down to. He worked in construction for half a century, specializing in concrete, so heaven knows what that did to the skin on his fingertips.
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The big group that keeps getting ignored are older people who actually do have smartphones, but find them increasingly difficult to use as they age, due to how fiddly touch interfaces can be and visuals designed by and for people in their 2
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by MandieD 2y ago
Not at all - I appreciate it!
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by MandieD 2y ago
My husband's mother, a German who spent a few semesters in Britain in the late 50s and subsequently taught English and geography in gymnasium (German academic track middle and high school), taught him and few other neighborhood childre
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by MandieD 2y ago
I've lived in Germany for twenty years, and despite speaking what I would consider a merely adequate and certainly not native level of German, I've noticed that there's something a bit off about how I speak English. It's
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by MandieD 2y ago
Until being pregnant carries absolutely no financial or social penalties (during or after), people who don't want to be pregnant will try to find ways to end it. Society can either provide safe, legal means, or women will die trying.
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by MandieD 2y ago
As a fellow believer, I need you to understand that you are doing more than any hardcore, argumentative atheist to turn people away from Christ by posting like this.
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by MandieD 2y ago
And about one percent of the women around you have survived an ectopic pregnancy because we're still (mostly) a society that cares more about the life of a breathing, thinking person than of an embryo that was doomed from the moment it
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by MandieD 2y ago
Living in Germany quickly made me understand that Germans were not special - as in, did not have some unique weakness that made them particularly susceptible to fascism. The corollary, that Americans did not have some innate virtue that pre
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by MandieD 2y ago
If you're in Germany or know some Germans, talk as much as you can about how this is what Musk wants to do via the AfD to us here. The election is a little over two weeks away. Right now, the CDU/CSU ("normal" conservati
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by MandieD 2y ago
Medicare chooses the oldest (over 65), Medicaid chooses the poorest (who are more likely to have issues that went untreated and got worse) and most severely disabled, and Veterans' affairs chooses the ones who gave their bodies to Uncl
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by MandieD 2y ago
Dear God. I pay a bit more than 400 EUR/mo, my employer pays a bit less than that, and my employer is delighted for me to take sick leave if I've got a cold because guess who pays my sick leave? My health insurance. (Germany, &quo
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by MandieD 2y ago
There's a difference between "make sure local energy needs are provided for" and "encourage overuse and expansion of local energy needs by barely taxing" (the US, and to a lesser degree, Canada), or even "subsi
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by MandieD 2y ago
Unlike just about every other major oil producer (my own home country, the US, included), Norway has strictly followed the rule, "never get high on your own supply." Fuel has long been more heavily taxed than in, say, Germany, whi
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by MandieD 2y ago
I should just learn how to make that dough. I regret not buying that Church of the Visitation (Westphalia) Altar Society cookbook I saw on the counter at Green's.
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by MandieD 2y ago
Just before New Years, we were headed to The Woodlands from my hometown in Bell County, and passed through Zabcikville. I decided to get a hostess gift for the high school friend we were visiting, so dropped into Green's Sausage House
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by MandieD 2y ago
I agree that what's happened to Afghan women is a horror, and one I do what I can to prevent being implemented in any measure by the "but falling birthrates! Why won't young women have more baaaaabies?! Why do they wait so lo
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by MandieD 2y ago
But that's possibly outweighed by the advantages implied by their mothers having the resources (personal or societal) to get their babies out safely for both themselves and said babies at later ages (mother and/or father have more
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by MandieD 2y ago
Pay $4, install HamStudy on iOS or Android, and/or use the excellent HamStudy.org site for free, run through all the questions until you've been through them all and are consistently scoring 90% on the practice exams, then pay the
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by MandieD 2y ago
“President Biden (a graduate of the Ivies if I'm not mistaken)” You’re quite mistaken there: he did his undergrad at the very public University of Delaware, and went to law school at private but definitely not Ivy League Syracuse.
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by MandieD 2y ago
Some variation of “don’t take him literally, you silly goose, but take him seriously” is basically what the portion of my family who voted for him (i.e., most of them) have told me over the years. This time, I’ll take him at his better-educ
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by MandieD 2y ago
Much lower alcohol consumption is probably a big factor for the men. Women don't drink as much anyway (yes, there are plenty of women who drink too much, but it's not to the same degree as men)

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