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"Why?
Well, at the basic level, Friedrichshain is part of the former east, while Kreuzberg is part of the former west. East and west divide there along the Spree river, which means that the only crossing point in the area is this particular bridge...." [
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7 days ago
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"I have an instant proposal for improving more energy efficient transit, that goes for any city with a public bus system. For any major road with a bus route, where there's more than 1 lane in a direction, make the rightmost lane for busses, taxis,..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"The internet is full of people who are not qualified to answer your question, but are happy to help anyway. Sometimes they don't even know that they are not qualified. When these are the people doing peer review of security software, then that is..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by batmonkey, octothorpe
2 months ago
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"nitsuj is right, you just have to go into the train station and ask for a seat reservation. If you explain the pass you have, they'll understand. And in the event that your pass is not good for that trip, they should tell you. In any case, trains..." [
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4 months ago
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How to emigrate to Ireland?
favorited 11 times, recently by libraryhead, mrzarquon, SemiSophos, willie11, ifjuly, wesley, logic vs love, matildaben, jeanmari, santojulieta, wander
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Cortex, I don't know of any book about chess griefing, but the outlandish story of the '78 match between Kortchnoi and Karpov is one of the strangest dramas. And in the last couple years, the chess community has dealt with handshake failures,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
6 months ago
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"I think a source of your confusion and anger is this idea that certain types of sexual activity "counts" as sex, and other types do not. It's a little too simple to call only vaginal penetration by a penis sex. Oral sex is sex. Anal sex..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Rabulah, st looney up the cream bun and jam
6 months ago
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"Expect more ever so slightly coded racism and anti-Muslim hysteria to follow.
So what, let them be hysterical.
When people have this sense that the democrats are weak, they aren't commenting on the dems pacifism, or liberalism. They don't..." [
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favorited 34 times, recently by Mayor West, fourcheesemac, phatkitten, The Bellman, cass, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, EarBucket, Kifer85, dawiz, PareidoliaticBoy, Skygazer, swlabr, spaceman_spiff, spiderwire, facetious, landedjentry, Deathalicious, Optamystic, Jpfed, malaprohibita, aeschenkarnos, ageispolis, whir, edverb, AceRock, thomsplace, rottytooth, Pope Guilty, Servo5678, Ryvar, jmhodges, maryh, empath, Flunkie
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I cannot be the only one who is having a visceral dystopian reaction. Thank God Vonnegut isn't around to laugh at this. I can't believe that the article talks about "prevention" in such a way, that it seems downright eager to bring up the..." [
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7 months ago
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"My own thoughts ... the only important things to keep in mind for good stir fry are:
1. Start with hot oil (duh), then add garlic and ginger, then whites of scallions, then meat, then veggies. This is a good base for flavorful oil to fry in...." [
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7 months ago
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"Your stepdaughter is telling you these secrets in order to bond with you, because you two didn't grow up together and you're going to be a parent to her now. These secrets do not sound like important information that must stay hidden, they only are..." [
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7 months ago
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"My experience was that any prepaid SIM card is available from a cellular phone store. It turned out to be more than the 5-10 dollars that I expected, though not as much as a phone. I don't remember how much it was, but I do remember that I had to..." [
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8 months ago
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"My own experience with a partner's dishonesty taught me something. His dishonesty was like yours, I think, in that it was not malicious, it was like he couldn't help it. I think in retrospect, he lied because he didn't trust me. (Maybe that will..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by RobotHeart
9 months ago
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"I can't even say that I feel offended by this idea of making hooking up a 'conquest' of women. I feel like the allure of these techniques is that they're somehow secret or forbidden, or that women would reject them if they knew the truth, that is,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by msali, cj_, RokkitNite
10 months ago
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"If there're two people blacking out and they have (by definition) non-consensual sex, how can we tell the difference between the rapist and the rape victim? Isn't it a bit silly if both of them are victims and rapists at the same time?
I was..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
Last year
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"I want to say this without sounding whiny or smug, but I can't manage to do it so I'm just going to say it, and please don't think I mean to criticize this particular site.
I found it very helpful to separate tactical motif from idea. That is,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by poweredbybeard, atrazine, nowonmai, callmejay
Last year
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"Stinkycheese (And anyone else interested): Susan Polgar has developed and is making available a curriculum for teaching kids chess. It's free. You can request a copy here...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rumple
Last year
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"stinkycheese: Are there any chess clubs or groups associated with your daughter's school? It might be good to get her playing with kids her own age, so she can both win and lose. Often there's a lot of support in the chess community for getting..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stinkycheese
Last year
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"The cleaning staff take one night off and the place has poo smeared on the walls within minutes.
Ahhh, but what if this is not a coincidence? Perhaps we know to wait, yes?
Vronsky, za zdorovye! Drop me an email next time you are wanting..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by loquacious, davejay
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"One of the things that Representative Democracy has done really well in this case is separate those people who are passively in favor of a ban from those who are actively against it. These are the constitutional protections that are supposed to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by amberglow, thewittyname, XQUZYPHYR
Last year
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"Those wacky dieters! lol! They think their salads are so healthy but look at all the calories.
If they were really smart, like the consumerist peoples who wrote the article, they'd know that the surest way to lose weight is to simply reduce the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sugarfish
Last year
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"Is it not interesting that, in response to those who would bring up the issue of blowback, certain people will claim that the terrorists "hate our freedom" and that is why they attack us. They hate us, and they would not be appeased if we..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by nofundy, Nahum Tate, Richard Daly, klangklangston
Last year
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"You can't give her hints about how you feel. You would like her to put a whole lot of trust in you, and if you are to succeed then you need to make it absolutely 100% clear that you deserve that trust. This is about trust more than anything else...." [
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Last year
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"First, they won't ask if you have references. And if they do, you can say that you don't know why you were really fired (true), that they claimed to fire you for performance reasons (true), which were obviously false if you were regularly promoted..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by andifsohow, davejay
Last year
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"I can only shake my head at the selfishness and flexible morality of the slashdot hive mind. Go read the +5 comments.
They overwhelmingly think that because it's legal to take advantage of a checkout error, it's therefore Amazon's fault and if..." [
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Last year
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"The zeitgeist today seems to have this strange belief that rules are only rules and nothing more, and when you break them you can get "caught" and that's about the extent of it.
These accidents are not because of bad design or confusion...." [
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"I find the word 'lifestyle' belittling. I can't think of another word which is able to describe an extremely important aspect of a person, an aspect that makes a person different, potentially isolated, and possibly persecuted, and reduce it to a..." [
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