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Waldelfe

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  • What is your favorite bit of childlore?

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  • In my elementary school there was a rumour that kissing someone on the mouth makes a baby in the throat. I've heard it still being spread years later. There are also parodies of famous German poems that you have or had to memorize in school, although I some kids learnt them from their parents. I know parody versions of Die Glocke and Die Bürgschaft.

  • What do you call your significant other in your phone?

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  • My husband is in my phone with a nickname of his old name. He took on a new name from our culture when he became a naturalized citizen, but I never changed it and he doesn't mind.

    I was in his phone as "[my name] from café X", until he got a new phone last year. The first thing he did was take me on a date to a new café and proudly enter my number into his new phone as "[my name] from café Y".

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  • I find it worse when the sexual tension just keeps on going and goes nowhere. I really liked for example that they didn't do that in Kim Possible. They let Kim and Ron become a couple and made new stories about how they work out as a couple. It's been a while since I've watched it, but I remember appreciating that they could just be together instead of some will-they-won't-they bullshit.

  • What is the most ridiculous conspiracy theory?

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  • Vaccines cause autism and/or other major health issues for a significant portion of the population. Since vaccination rates in large parts of the world are close to 90% for important vaccines you'd be seeing large numbers of cases for whatever negative effect you think they had. E.g. if vaccines actually did cause autism, in a population where 90% are vaccinated you'd surely have more than the current ~1% of autism diagnosis.

    Also the Covid vaccine killing people in large numbers. When the vaccine started rolling out a colleague told me with a straight face that the covid vaccine had already killed 1/3 of the population in Bulgaria (or maybe it was another eastern European country). She absolutely 100% believed it and said the media was covering it up.

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • If it's only one software you can test if it works on wine.

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • Tea (black and green) is only bitter if you don't know how to make it. Get good quality tea leaves (not the ones in the bags, they are usually the worst quality) and look up what temperature the water needs to be for your kind of tea. Usually around 70-80°C for green tea and 80-90°C for black. Especially green tea is only bitter if you prepare it with boiling water.

  • What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love

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  • I liked dating platforms way back in the days when you could make your own page, had large text fields to describe yourself and could filter by age, location and maybe a few other important things like smoking or wanting kids. Years later I tried the apps and it was just frustrating and nothing else. There wasn't even really space to describe yourself or show your character.

  • What would you do if a mummy came back to life in front of you?

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  • Also a good idea. Maybe he woke up before and learned the language.

  • What would you do if a mummy came back to life in front of you?

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  • I assumed some kind oft translation spell to be in place so he would instantly understand the language of the place he resurrects in.

  • Jeffrey Epstein claimed Donald Trump’s friends ‘were concerned about dementia’ after 2017 dinner, emails show

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  • It's also probably bad for your business model if the blackmailed person is so far gone he starts talking about confidential information in public.

  • Which high school friend took a path you didn't expect?

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  • A good friend in school always had really good grades. She worked hard, had mostly As and wanted to become a scientist since 5th grade, later she was mostly interested in biology and wanted to go into genetics. She graduated with really good grades, the second best student of our year, and would have probably made it into a field of her choosing. When I looked her up years later she had studied art and works at an art gallery. I'm happy for her if that's what she wanted, but she had talked about studying biology nonstop from 5th grade to graduation.

  • What skills did almost everybody have 50 years ago, but few people have today?

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  • I was so confused by this comment until I remembered that US-american streets are planned and numbered. Because while I grew up in a village in the 90s, I wouldn't be able to tell you where the "Primrosestreet" or the "Blackbird street" is unless I had friends who lived there.

  • Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents

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  • I love Qobus. I heard they also pay the artists more fairly. It's just unfortunate that some big artists are still missing. And from what I can see subscriptions only work via the Google Play store.

  • My mom says that people who don't have "value" don't deserve to live and that "depression" is just an excuse for laziness. What's is your rebuttal for it?

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  • And if she says something like "well old people did contribute so much in the past", just say that so did depressed people and often they are depressed because of giving more than they had.

    Or maybe agree with her and drive it to the ultimate conclusion: people with disabilities will need to be euthanized if they can't contribute. Working accident and you lost a limb or two? Euthanization.

    Remind her to update her living will to let her die in case of an accident causing severe disabilities.

  • What's the most unusual way you've made some extra money?

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  • Well, I didn't like it but I think he had some skills. He was into this minimalistic music, I forgot what it was called. I found it boring, but I could also tell he must have known a thing or two about music theory.

  • What's the most unusual way you've made some extra money?

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  • Not that unusual, but I responded to an ad of an older dude looking for someone who'd go shopping for him. He couldn't get down the stairs easily anymore. But really, he just wanted someone to talk to. So I'd go to his place, grab the shopping list and money, walk across the street to the nearest supermarket and be back in 20 minutes. And then he'd often cook for me and tell me about his life, travels, the music he composed on his very old computer, stuff like that. I'd get paid for 3-4 hours of which 90% was just talking to this guy about electronic music.

  • People who have used dating apps before, what was your experience like?

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  • That's OK when it comes to to personality but I think there are certain non-negotiable things that can be checked via the profile.

    Wants Kids yes/no Wants Marriage yes/no OK with smoking or not

    These are things that need to be checked early on either way or else the relationship won't work out.

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    How many of you are actually fine with living in USA or are you planning on moving some where else?

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  • Well, that's nothing anyone can just provide you with. You'd need to do your research, maybe ask around in relevant expat communities. Check if your country of choice needs people with your skill set. What I can tell you is that I know many expats who come on a tourist visa to job hunt, usually stay longer with a student visa and learn German in language schools and then try to get a job from there. It does require quite a lot of funds though.

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    How many of you are actually fine with living in USA or are you planning on moving some where else?

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  • What would help look like? I could answer questions, help practice the language etc. But otherwise what could anyone do? I can't give you a job or a visa. My apartment isn't big enough to house someone. There just isn't too much us normal people can do.