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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 write prescriptions for ADHD meds within a month).

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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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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’m just that lucky and there’s nothing a person can pick up on acoustically.

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They only ask the parents

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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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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 trying, the recipient has a moving image and sound in their head (as long as they’re the right age group- every example I could think of made me feel old).

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9 maanden geledendiscuss

That’s why they’re all about solidarity. If we all unionize, nobody can undercut us.

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9 maanden geledendiscuss

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 impervious to fungi and insects. It also gets the highest rating in standard fire resistance tests.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

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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2 jaar geledendiscuss

Do you think every woman does this regularly without pay? My entire shower takes 8 minutes as a woman.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

*sacrifice the expensive employee

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

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 likely to actually fix the problem.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

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, because I just shoot myself or fall off the road immediately.

There’s definitely parties where people just play smash bros or inside jokes about water levels that I’ve literally missed out on, though I don’t especially care. If I were a more regretful person or one who experienced FOMO more, I could absolutely see feeling it about video games.

I don’t know that it’s 100% analogous to smart phones/social media (particularly because the required skills are probably lower), but kids are prone to social pressure.

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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 about a year of dancing, I had a moment where I needed to run after someone about a half kilometer away. It was incredible- I’d never felt so buoyant while running. After I passed the message on, I decided to do a measured run. I ran a six minute mile in my late twenties with zero warm-up after having not run in over a decade. I wasn’t even out of breath, it was fucking easy. Cardio is a life hack.

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Domesticated animals make more domesticated animals. Tamed animals make taming projects for their owners

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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 the meanings are exactly the same in Spanish and French. (Obligado vs. Obrigado, for the classic Spanish Portuguese example)

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