MandieD

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by MandieD 9d ago
... quite the reverse.
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by MandieD 21d ago
Certainly not Germany - I renewed mine at the city's immigration office, which was even helpful enough at one renewal to point out that I was likely eligible for a permanent residence permit and supplied the list of documents to bring
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by MandieD 22d ago
German: 10^6 is "Million," 10^9 is "Millarde," and 10^12 is "Billion"
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by MandieD 1mo ago
To anyone who sees the parent comment as a non-sequitur, note one of the names in the partnership discussed at the beginning of the article.
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by MandieD 1mo ago
Congratulations on your Einbürgerung! That was an uplifting read. My experiences with German bureaucracy have been similarly positive. The rules are the rules… but the rules are the rules, and can be contemplated at home in one’s own time,
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by MandieD 2mo ago
Acres upon acres of parking lots.
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by MandieD 2mo ago
That'd be fine if there were any payphones still around...
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by MandieD 4mo ago
Instead, we’re shoving out people who had already chosen America, and scaring a bunch of others off.
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by MandieD 4mo ago
I think you meant “jus soli” (“law of soil”) - “jus sanguinis” means “law of blood.”
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by MandieD 4mo ago
All of my interactions with German immigration have not only happened in Germany, but at an office in the town I was living in at the time: the initial residence permit application, the first renewal, and the renewal where the Beamterin (go
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by MandieD 4mo ago
"Children's Commissioner for England"... that's not the EU. Really not the EU - they had a whole election and years-long process to leave the EU.
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by MandieD 5mo ago
30 under 30 doing 10 to 20 candidates right there.
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by MandieD 5mo ago
A niche called Mennonites in general and in particular, Amish in communities that are ok with motors, but not with fancy, fragile electronics.
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by MandieD 5mo ago
I've seen this on the Autobahns: what were just parking spots with unattended bathrooms are becoming little charging stations. Since I don't have an EV yet, I've not stopped at one to see how high-speed the chargers are, but
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by MandieD 5mo ago
I've run into this, too, and found it hilarious because I remember when some sites wouldn't allow you to sign up with hotmail, gmail or other free email provider (over 20 years ago).
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by MandieD 5mo ago
Right now, they're about 300 EUR at OBI (major home improvement chain in Germany and Austria) if you don't care at all about avoiding ties to specific apps, and about 1000 from solar specialists if you want to go with the more fle
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by MandieD 5mo ago
done
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by MandieD 5mo ago
It's not (mostly) to salve their consciences; it's fundamental to their avoidance of the Resource Curse/"Dutch Disease". Norway, unlike just about everywhere else "blessed" (and I use those scare-quotes in
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The Memory Maker(longreads.com)
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by MandieD 5mo ago
Radio did plenty of harm in 1930s Germany - Hitler was a master of the new medium.
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by MandieD 5mo ago
If you are getting 60k EUR as a senior developer in Germany, you are getting ripped off. Look for a place with an IG Metall contract, friends - if you would like to be making significantly more than $75k USD full time as a senior developer,
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by MandieD 5mo ago
That's good to know - I'll tell him to check that with his current doctors' offices, and make sure that he makes it clear for any new practices he visits that he only does phone calls and postal mail.
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by MandieD 5mo ago
My hobby involves some of the oldest technology we've been able to find evidence of. It started as spinning with a hand spindle using prepared (combed/carded) wool, and has evolved into looking for interesting fleeces directly fro
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by MandieD 5mo ago
And of course, you can combine those things sometimes - I've seen cattle munching on grass under solar panels in Baden-Württemberg (state just west of Bavaria).
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by MandieD 5mo ago
My 75-year-old, retired construction worker dad’s fingers are nearly useless on capacitive screens; half a century of handling cement apparently has that effect. His deep East Texas accent was still only semi comprehensible to Siri the last
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by MandieD 6mo ago
This is pretty <strikethrough>crazy</strikethrough> blasphemous. Not even Jesus Himself is said to know, and I can't think of a more arrogant, literally blasphemous thing than putting oneself in God's shoes, try
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by MandieD 6mo ago
GP was likely referring to J. Marion Sims, who tested operations on enslaved women who couldn’t meaningfully consent (in an era when there was little or no anesthesia), with some women being operated on over a dozen times, performed ovary r
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by MandieD 6mo ago
A quick check of OBI (our main home-improvement chain) shows that I can get that 800w "balcony" plug-and-go system for 300-600 EUR depending on the exact panels and inverter I want, and it's all pre-approved. I have fill in a
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by MandieD 6mo ago
I have rejected much of my Southern Baptist upbringing - I am pleased that the church I’m now a member of is accepting and affirming of various sexual and gender identities, I have a wide variety of non-Christian friends who I feel no need
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by MandieD 6mo ago
The ones who consider Rome to be holy aren’t, generally speaking, the ones to worry about (at least in this matter). Catholicism considers US Evangelical-style Rapture theology to be heretical, and Catholic soldiers would likely find being

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