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by mlent 13y ago
You see this often in German job listings, because the job title can intrinsically denote gender. For instance, Developer is "Entwickler" (m) and "Entwicklerin" (f). So employers tend to write something like "Web-En
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by mlent 13y ago
I had friends at my private, religious high school whose parents forbid them from using tampons for this very reason.
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by mlent 13y ago
If you can get the job contract, it's very easy. There are a couple documents you need (e.g. work contract, local residency registration, flat contract, tax registration, proof of german health insurance [which is a special letter writ
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by mlent 13y ago
In my city (Leipzig), all apartments have these. All the last names are listed on doorbells, and you have a phone in your flat, from which you can unlock the apartment building's front door without coming down. So, in total, your name
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by mlent 13y ago
Except that your name is also put on your doorbell with a label-maker, so anyone in your apartment could easily find out which flat was yours. Furthermore, the downstairs/apartment building's set of doorbells also proclaims last n
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by mlent 14y ago
I think the poster was being sarcastic? E.g. "Is this ok? Because this is what you're doing, and it's obviously not ok, and you'd never agree that it was if framed in this way."
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by mlent 14y ago
It probably depends on the person. With a guy who uses phrases like "because tits", "fuck off" might be the only thing that makes it through his thick skull.
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by mlent 14y ago
I don't think the person in this particular story is being ignorant -- he's being willfully sexist. This situation is not a misunderstanding. And we don't know why he thinks the women in the post can't get by on her own merits. We do know
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by mlent 14y ago
Yeah, I think there should perhaps also be a 'time' factor. Because I know plenty of people who've deleted facebook altogether, returned, and are in the same boat.
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by mlent 14y ago
Because they're your friend and you want them to meet someone that's right for them...? I have a friend whose roommate made an OkCupid profile for her because she wanted her to meet more people.
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by mlent 14y ago
Are you kidding? Nutritional yeast is delicious! You can put it on popcorn, include it in any recipe that calls for Parmesan (like risotto or cheesy pastas), use it for breading tofu, use it to make vegan mac n cheese. I love nutritional ye
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by mlent 14y ago
The vast majority of people who represent themselves pro se lose. Lawyers are sneaky and will use your lack of domain knowledge to hurt you unfairly. You need to get a lawyer to balance it out. The judge is not there to be your advocate.
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by mlent 14y ago
In tort law, the losing party pays both lawyer fee. In other types of law, this is not the case.
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by mlent 14y ago
I think, as the article alludes to, men and women are less likely to consider certain careers/colleges/whatever. So if you ignored gender at a liberal arts school and blindly selected candidates, and the ratio was as skewed towards women as
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by mlent 14y ago
I don't think Etsy is acting as though they want only the female perspective, just more of it than what they have. I'm sure there are other areas where they are trying to get more male perspective (e.g. at small liberal arts colleges, to a
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by mlent 14y ago
I mean, being qualified is never the only piece of the "getting hired" puzzle, right? You want someone who fits well in your team, is generally interesting, is eager to learn, and possibly fills some other niche that you feel your team is m
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by mlent 14y ago
Actually, you do end up needing a degree of domain-specific knowledge. Do you not think that programmers of medical software don't pick up a ton of medical knowledge while they're working? And that people who are programmers who were, say,
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by mlent 14y ago
Not from plants, but from micro-organisms and bacteria! Yum! Many of my foods are fortified with B12. 50% DV in my soy/almond milk, 40% in a single tbsp of nutritional yeast. I have a cup with cereal in the morning and a cup with dinner at
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by mlent 14y ago
You're less likely to have numerous health problems by following a vegetarian diet. As a vegetarian you are, for example, less likely to have heart disease, the number one killer in the United States. [1] Interestingly, some of the oldest p
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by mlent 14y ago
Yeah, you have to eat more quantity-wise (but really, not that much more). Personally, I love eating, so I don't complain about it :) Eating many times during the day is healthier for your body anyways. I make a vegan sandwich with 30g of
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by mlent 14y ago
I totally agree. A humane death, to me, is a natural death or one that relieved you of inevitable suffering (I.e. incurable painful disease).
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by mlent 14y ago
Yeah, I just tasted it because I'd forgotten what it tasted like. Obviously taste isn't a reason to stop eating meat for everyone, and it's certainly not as compelling as animal welfare/personal health/environmental concerns.
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by mlent 14y ago
Everything has protein in it. I've gotten over 100g in a day without trying and little to no nuts. Your body will naturally combine different types of amino acids to form complete proteins. You just need to eat a variety of foods and you'll
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by mlent 14y ago
I totally agree. It's nice to hear from people who've put some thought into what goes on their plate! As a side note, I have a friend who worked in a Buddhist monastery and tended their chickens. He even sang to them. I would totally buy th
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by mlent 14y ago
I don't think it's the same at all. I don't think it requires a history of meat-eating in order to determine whether or not something tastes good to you or not. I tried steak, chicken, and fish. I don't think that most people would call mea
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by mlent 14y ago
As a fellow vegan, I have to ask -- why be vegan if you have no objection to people eating animals, if they are raised/slaughtered "humanely"? Why not just buy local meat/dairy/eggs? At least where I live, it's pretty easy to meet farmers a
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by mlent 14y ago
The vast, vast majority of the animals that Americans and Western Europeans eat are treated cruelly from birth until premature death. Some estimates have it as high as 99% in the US [1]. If you go to your average grocery store, like most pe
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by mlent 14y ago
I agree that it's the only actual "reason." I just don't think it's a good reason. I think it presumes that the value of "taste" for us is greater than the value of "life" to an animal. And there's a lot of evidence that most meat is very u
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by mlent 14y ago
Yes, but not all animals eat one another. And we are not, like tigers and lions, obligate carnivores. We can survive and thrive without meat. Our bodies are capable of surprising dietary adaptation. If you don't need to kill/keep captive an
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by mlent 14y ago
I think my point was moreso that wearing that shirt isn't asking for that at all, but will be treated that way.

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