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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 absol…

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

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 hav…

They only ask the parents

I’ve never been bothered by the idea of my corpse being mistreated, but that feels like several bridges too far

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 scen…

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

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 wo…

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…

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

*sacrifice the expensive employee

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…

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 …

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 actual…

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

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 Ro…