gramie @ gramie @lemmy.ca

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• Visit the house where Martin Luther lived
• Buy a Perry Rhodan hefte (an SF pulp serial magazine that has been published weekly since 1961) at a newsstand after not reading one for over 40 years
• Eat my first currywurst since I arrived in Germany three days ago

As does peanut butter and bacon.

I used the homebrew channel to convert my Wii from Japanese to North American (games are region-locked). Never used it for posted games.

That's exactly right. The proof is quite simple and there's no reason it shouldn't be taught instead of just getting students to accept magic rules.

I went through engineering school, and 20 years of work (not as an engineer), before finding a calculus text that explained why the derivative of x^2 is 2x. Along with many practical applications of calculus.

That book was Calculus Made Simple, published in 1914. Thanks, Project Gutenberg!

Edit: derivative of x^2 is 2x. Got my differentiation and integration confused!

I know someone who works in a university group related to privacy issues. He refuses to have a smartphone because of the ease which which almost anyone can track you and your activities. I think he has an old flip phone.

Collins Bay Institution is also in Kingston, not all that far from the old Kingdom Pen. It is within a 5-10 minute walk of many houses and apartments.

It makes more sense to refer to RFK Sr. Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in 1968.

"Whatabout..."

But how much do IP laws actually protect the little guy? When a large corporation can bankrupt me by prolonging litigation until I have nothing left, what leverage do I really have?

There are certainly cases where small creators and inventors were able to overcome this disadvantage, but I suspect that they are the tiny minority, celebrated when they do achieve it.

I did that just after 9:00 a.m. on the Monday after the election was announced. I had to deal with poll workers still being trained, so that took a little longer, but it certainly wasn't busy!

I'd like to think that I was one of the first people in Canada to vote, but realistically, I'm sure there were people in the maritime say ahead of me.

I'm not sure there has been a president in anyone's lifetime we didn't commit multiple crimes against humanity. Roosevelt had the Japanese internment camps. Kennedy had the Bay of Pigs. Maybe Jimmy Carter was the only one.

I was seeing a lot of crashes two or three years ago, but none in the past year or so.

I think you would be more convincing if you spelled "line of sight" correctly

It may not be your thing, or your kids' thing, but the Imperial War Museum is really well done. Probably it could wait until they are a bit older.

When someone I know moved back to Canada as a GP, he said that his income actually went up slightly.

His clinic in Indiana required to people for each doctor, working on nothing but billing and insurance. His clinic in Canada had one billing person for five doctors.

There are several ways that our health system benefits doctors' take home pay, aside from billing. Malpractice insurance is another.

At the start of the second world war, Germany was much less mechanized than other countries. I think the US had one car for every five people, the UK one car for every 10 people, France won car for every 15 people, and Germany one car for every 30 people. Something like that.

The Germans used more horses in World War II than they did in World War I.

The thing was, what they did have they used effectively, including using radios for communications, which none of the other countries were doing at the time.

Lovely troll!

They have also announced that if they have to reduce or stop production because of the current tariffs, they will continue to pay all of their employees.

All of their ice cream is also made in nut free factories, so that people with nut allergies can safely eat it. I'm not sure, but that may be the only ice cream that makes such a guarantee.

When I go into a Costco, I take a minute to look at the board showing the pictures names of long-time employees. At my local one, they have about 15 people who have been working there for over 30 years.

Met a woman who had been a Costco employee for 25 years. In addition to everything else, she got 6 weeks of paid holidays a year. How many other retail employers come anywhere close to that?