idiomaddict

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by idiomaddict 4mo ago
Anecdotally, I spend a lot more time literally in waiting rooms in Germany than I did in the US, but getting a specialist appointment is much faster here (getting a therapist absolutely excluded, but I was able to get a psychiatrist to writ
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by idiomaddict 4mo ago
I moved to Germany as an adult from a completely separate biome, and I’ve got terrible problems with allergies I never had in my home country
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by idiomaddict 5mo ago
Do you have a source for that? I can tell with pretty good accuracy whether my students smoke from their voices (adult language learners, we take smoke breaks together and they have no reason to conceal it), and would be very surprised if I
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by idiomaddict 7mo ago
They only ask the parents
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by idiomaddict 7mo ago
I’ve never been bothered by the idea of my corpse being mistreated, but that feels like several bridges too far
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by idiomaddict 10mo ago
The longer I think about it, the worse it gets. It’s not foolproof, but I can easily transmit a huge amount of information to someone by saying “Titanic prow king of the world scene.” In seven words, which could be fewer if I were really tr
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by idiomaddict 11mo ago
That’s why they’re all about solidarity. If we all unionize, nobody can undercut us.
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by idiomaddict 11mo ago
From the article > InventWood says Superwood is up to 20 times stronger than regular wood and up to 10 times more resistant to dents, because the natural porous structure of the wood has been collapsed and toughened. That makes it imperv
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by idiomaddict 2y ago
Please excuse my technological illiteracy. Isn’t that just a form of compression that might reduce the (uhh) space that the image takes up without actually reducing the information processing?
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by idiomaddict 2y ago
Do you think every woman does this regularly without pay? My entire shower takes 8 minutes as a woman.
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by idiomaddict 2y ago
*sacrifice the expensive employee
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by idiomaddict 2y ago
Because you’re encountering bottle fill stations that don’t have an attached water fountain. Your other options (at first glance) are to complain to your public works department or to keep being annoyed by the problem, neither of which is l
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by idiomaddict 2y ago
I wasn’t allowed to play video games as a kid (in the 90s and early 00s). I don’t really care about it, but it has 100% been an occasional barrier to socializing. I don’t have any of the necessary coordination, so I’m not even fun to beat,
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by idiomaddict 2y ago
This is mostly unrelated to the current point, but you’re unquestionably fitter than the average person. I used to dance for about 15 hours a week, and I have no idea what I actually burned calorie-wise, but it was plenty of cardio. After a
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by idiomaddict 3y ago
Domesticated animals make more domesticated animals. Tamed animals make taming projects for their owners
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by idiomaddict 3y ago
Patrimony is the English word for money, goods, or cultural goods one receives from their father. It also refers to something that belongs in a church, like a relic. Even inside Romance languages, false friends exist, so I wouldn’t assume t