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ValiantDust

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  • What's the best advice you've ever received?

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  • You're doing neither yourself nor anyone else a favour by being overly shy and reticent. You yourself will enjoy life much more when you are yourself and while not everyone will like you, the ones who don't often don't stay in your life long and it's easier to find people you vibe with if they can see you for who you are.

    Granted, I very much did not take this advice as a teenager and even now I'm occasionally too shy. But looking back it was good advice and I really wish I hadn't wasted so much time and energy on not being negatively noticed by people I didn't really care about then and who haven't been in my life for years.

  • Pooh at the Zoo, and Paddington too.

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  • Well, I sure hope that's not where visitors are supposed to walk because that barrier wouldn't stop a blind turtle from escaping.

  • Unused variables

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  • But are you gonna return something for this method??? You said you'd return an integer, yet there is no return statement!

  • Als das ZDF die Jugend als Zielgruppe entdeckte

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  • Dachte beim Intro noch, dass das doch eigentlich ganz cool aussieht für die Zeit. Dann wurde es lame und dann... irgendwie noch lamer?

  • Warum Wissing Fahrverbote ins Spiel bringt

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  • "Look what you make me do!"

    Wenn ihr mir nichts von euren Ersparnissen abgebt, muss ich es mir auf die gröbste Art, die mir von einfällt, bei den Bürgern holen.

  • Brits in France: Escaping Brexit chaos | DW Documentary

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  • You have to have brown skin to be an economic refugee. Otherwise you're just an expat making a smart economic move. It's very different!

  • xkcd #2916: Machine

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  • Wow, yours looks much more difficult than mine. I just had red balls coming out on top and having to leave at the bottom. Guess I'll try another one.

  • Where do you find audiobooks?

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  • I've wondered if there is any way to get an US library card as a non-citizen for a while and this thread got me to finally do the research. The Queens Public Library apparently issues cards to non-US-residents for 50$/year. I have yet to look into it more thoroughly and check out the catalogue. But considering the number of Audiobooks I listen to, it seems like a good deal.

  • [Map] The Netherlands in 1300 vs 1900-2000

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  • The Netherlands in 2100, when all the ice has melted:

    (I'm sorry, my friends. You're welcome to come to Germany, if you promise to bring your superior bike infrastructure.)

  • Forscher: Kinder in Lastenrädern bei Unfällen oft ungeschützt

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  • Ja, im Moment heißt 30 in Städten leider, dass der Radfahrer, der 25 km/h fährt dringend mit 50 km/h und 50cm Abstand überholt werden muss, weil kann ja nicht sein, dass man hinter dem hertuckern muss!

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    What gets you downvoted?

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  • It's better, but very far away from good. My comment and the other one mentioning the same thing are already the ones with the most downvotes in this thread. So thanks to the downvoters for proving my point, I guess.

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    What gets you downvoted?

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  • Anything slightly "feminist". You know, like pointing out that women do the majority of unpaid care work. Or saying it's not nice to objectify women. Or sometimes mentioning the word women will do it.

  • Why do I get light-headed when watching TV shows or movies?

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  • DHL setzt auf Automaten für alle Paketfirmen

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  • Der "Paketshop": Ein gammeliger AWG mit unfreundlichem Personal und Öffnungszeiten von 9:00-18:00.

  • What is the quote? Funniest wins!

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  • Never gonna give you up

  • "Equal Pay Day" - In Deutschland verdienen drei Viertel der Frauen in Vollzeit weniger als Männer

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  • Find das auch immer interessant, wie das als Begründung angeführt wird, dass es da ja kein Sexismusproblem gäbe. Das Problem liegt halt einfach eine Ebene drüber.

  • EU-Parlament stimmt über Gesundheitschecks für ältere Autofahrer ab

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  • Eigentlich auch den Führerschein generell. Kann man ja selbst am besten einschätzen, ob man Auto fahren kann oder nicht.

  • Is concentration some kind of magic conspiracy?

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  • Think about it like this: There is an almost endless amount of stuff around us at any given moment that we could be aware of. If we factor in the things that are not actually there but we can still think about, then there are infinitely many things we could be paying attention to at any moment.

    But we only have a finite amount of energy to do it. The more energy we use to think about one thing the less energy remains to think about everything else.

    I wouldn't say that we are ignoring things when we concentrate. Because to me when you ignore something you are actually aware of it but choose to ignore it. When you concentrate, you just don't have enough energy left to be aware of other things.

  • Tips for falljng back to sleep

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  • I used to have this problem, too. Both when trying to fall asleep in the evening and after waking up in the middle of the night for any reason.

    What really helps me is putting on an audiobook or podcast that I like but already know (this part is important because otherwise I will just listen to it for the rest of the night because I want to know what happens) and setting the volume to very low. I set the sleep timer to 15 minutes and most of the time I'm asleep way before it turns off.

    I had to experiment a bit to find audiobooks that hit the sweet spot of being engaging enough to keep my mind from wandering but not so much that I can't drift of to sleep but once I found a few, it's been a real game changer.

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    Can someone explain why authors do this?

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  • I'm afraid I'm not following. The solution to what?

    Edit: Sorry, I misread your comment.