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by MandieD 2y ago
I wish my home country could be as brutally honest with itself about its past and work as hard to make things right as Germany has been the last several decades. The disturbing party coming up on the Right feels like Germany has blamed itse
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Voting rights in parts of America before the Voting Rights Act depended on passing an arbitrary test that differed from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and may or may not have measured literacy and civics knowledge… if you were black (or nativ
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In Texas, there used to be DPS offices in most mid-sized towns and everyone just had to wait in line to get their driver’s license (principal ID for most Texans) or non-driver ID card. Now, they’ve concentrated them into a few larger servic
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Not sure which country you're talking about, but in Germany, the public health insurances cheerfully pay for annual flu and COVID boosters for everyone.
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They're not only covered by the gesetzliche Krankenkassen (German public health insurance providers, mandatory if you don't meet the criteria for private insurance), mine gives me a little bonus if I prove I've gotten vario
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The staff on board also contribute to keeping the train safe and pleasant - if there’s an unruly passenger, or a washroom malfunctions, I’m happy to have paid a bit extra for my ticket for a couple of people to be on hand to deal with the p
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by MandieD 2y ago
Unfortunately I didn’t keep all those 80 Micros I got from my uncle when he gave me his Model 4 around 1992/93, but if anyone is interested, I have years of Computer News 80, an early sort-of retrocomputing thick newsletter/small
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Separation of concerns is a positive, in my book - I don't want my personal email to be mixed up in my file storage and document creation. I guess I'm old school like that.
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My dad's little development in the middle of the West Texas near-desert (well north of the Rio Grande Valley, close to Oklahoma), right by a reservoir that they do not have water rights on (City of Lubbock, about 80 miles away, has tha
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It also helps prevent (not absolutely) cults of personality from taking root.
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As a hobby hand-spinner and occasional weaver who’s been in IT my entire working life, and interested in learning more about what my home country has done to the nations that were already there, this article is excellent in all regards.
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by MandieD 2y ago
Very simple: where do the kids go to school or daycare? Unless you're significantly wealthier than your neighbors, most likely the public school for their grade level closest to your home, which you picked in large part for the quality
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Being able to trust that my employer would bring me back part-time in a comparable role (at the same hourly rate of pay) after a year of maternity leave and then decide if I wanted to continue working part-time up to my kid's 8th birth
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If you want less rainforest destroyed to grow soybeans, eat more soybeans.
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If you’re a weekend warrior like me, for whom 20 days is a fantastic season, the binding release check that your shop should be doing as part of your ski service is probably the most important part, especially as your skis get older. I had
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The only restaurant/cafe I was better off ordering in German in Berlin one weekend last year was a Turkish bakery.
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It’s my favorite Ted Chiang story (it’s a story to me).
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In a lot of states, yes, a doctor is putting their license, financial future and even their freedom at risk if they believe that a pregnancy needs to be terminated for the life or health of the person carrying it, but some activist DA or ju
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I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite, and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug(theregister.com)
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I put (2018) because it was updated in January 2018.
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This one is rather harsh, but it made me think even more about my car use (I already lived within walking distance of a subway and a commuter rail station, so was ripe for further changing my habits): https://www.mrmoneymustache.
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If you want less rainforest torn down to grow soybeans, eat more soybeans.
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That is a fantastic deal for meat you can feel good about! I pay that much for pork at the big organic grocery chain in Germany (ebl) that I can only hope they’re telling the truth about, and far more for the occasional beef steak there.
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The Facebook-specific, rather long one: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/against-facebook/ The more compact one that gives a good mental model for deciding how to engage with something that seems
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Your notes site is really nice. How do you like VitePress, and have you written anything about your workflow?
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I cannot find it or remember who wrote it, but learning to recognize when things are out to get you (his example was Facebook). Nearly an hour into my first encounter with TikTok, memories of that post made me realize that probably needed t
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I read his posts about the hedonic treadmill and general anti-car-dependence at the time that I was considering a (nicer) replacement for a car that had developed expensive problems. I ended up selling the car and we've been a one-car
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Houston is practically a state, size and population wise.
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Every time I see DP0GVN in my list of received WSPR transmissions on WSPRnet.org, I smile about bothering the penguins.
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“… unions in Europe are a lot weaker than in the US.” Maybe in other countries, but certainly not in Germany. I grew up in the southern US, and am still astounded at how strong and effective unions are here, even in conservative Bavaria. I’

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