This shouldn’t be a big difference, but I’ve always been advised to take it with something high protein. Porridge should have enough protein, but you might want try it with a low sugar yogurt or tofu/egg.

I do notice a difference between how it affects me when I have a full normal breakfast and when I have a plain piece of bread or cookie, but porridge would probably fall into the former category for me.

There were two mentions of not using fans to save on electricity costs. It looks like the greater Paris area pays an average price of ~€0,10/kWh and standing fans use an average of 40 watts. Are people on such strict budgets that the maximum cost of ~€3/month for running a fan 24/7 is impossible? Otherwise, it sounds like France should make some public service announcements about fan usage.

All that said, it’s supposed to be 44 degrees this week in France, so I don’t know if a fan is even super relevant, though it could at least be used at night.

Wasn’t the fall of the Berlin Wall and incorporation of the former East Germany into the EEC kind of what led to the Maastricht Treaty and the formation of the modern EU?

There are too many snippets that are ridiculous, you should really read the article, but here are a few:

The jury – who heard the case in April this year at RAF Lakenheath, the largest US base in Britain – was a panel of eight air force officers.

All were stationed on the same base as Wulfson. All were men.

The panel’s president, equivalent to a jury foreman, was the chief of the squadron that maintains the jets flown by Wulfson. Another panel member had been acquitted of sexual offences at a court martial several years earlier.

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In his opening statement, [defense attorney] Bilecki confidently asserted: “This is a play for money,” saying his client had been “set up for money”. Steele repeatedly denied this. She said she had applied to the scheme – and had still not received a decision – to cover loss of wages arising from difficulties going back to work after the assault.

The prosecution described Bilecki’s theory as absurd. By his closing submissions, he seemed less confident in this aspect of his case. “Do I know if she’s doing this for money? I don’t know,” he said.

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Due to specific requirements under US law, the intimate images and report detailing the forensic examination of Steele’s vagina shortly after the alleged assault were not admissible as evidence.

You know, I started a comment telling you to go for it because it won’t hurt the cars, but I’d definitely think I ran over a small animal and it might lead to people stopping to check and endangering themselves…

Okay, given that the benefits of adulthood are being able to reenter the world of your childhood hobbies with the foresight of more experience, I say you throw crabapples onto train tracks.

Absolutely. I soak my hands (or feet, depending on whether I need my hands) in little tubs full of cold water until it stops feeling cold when I’m too hot but it’s not awful, and I’ll hop in the shower for a minute or two under just the cold water every couple of hours when it’s really unbearable.

Danke dir!

For me it is and I’m an underweight woman not in menopause. I’m probably an outlier, but I have to imagine if you changed any of those factors, it would be far worse.

Ich hab das jetzt unter mehreren Posten gelesen, aber nichts dazu gefunden, woher kommt es?

I always wonder about this. There are three ultra processed foods that I eat frequently: smoked tofu, oat milk, and gummy bears (specifically Katjes Tropenfrüchte, which don’t even have the protein that gelatin based gummies have). Obviously nonsmoked tofu would be better, but could the first two really be anywhere close to as harmful as the last?

I know it’s not that unhealthy, but I buy it with preservatives and stabilizers, etc. I could make it (and used to make it), but it’s currently so hot and humid where I am that my cat’s litter box grew mold in the 24 hours between cleanings*. I just don’t have the fridge space for anything else, because we have to keep basically everything cold. And freshly made oat milk sucks 🫠

/* I seriously want to rant about how ridiculous this is. I know feces is obviously fertile ground, but a matrix of mold grew through the clumps of urine soaked litter itself. Granted, I intentionally use biodegradable litter but shouldn’t cat pee have enough ammonia to be inhibitive to fungus for at least 24 hours?

The way I engage with it, it’s 100% normal humans treated like cows as a form of humiliation. They might be dressed somewhat reminiscently of them, but it’s not nearly as elaborate as furries. It could be as simple as wearing a cowbell, and doesn’t get to full coverage like with a fursuit. It’s also exclusively sexual for me, so it doesn’t feel very similar to furries from my non-furry perspective.

It’s not rape, but I definitely engage with cnc related to it. I can’t explain why I’d like to be treated like livestock, but I do.

Ah, that’s a fair guess from the context. I enjoy sexual humiliation from a known partner within a safe, sane, and consensual framework, but I don’t like just anything embarrassing.

Like, I’d prefer it to blackmail, but I have higher social anxiety levels than most people do and don’t seek to be a clown or center of attention at all. I think I would probably cry and leave if asked to do something like that in public.

Subtract 32, divide by nine, and multiply by five.

Or subtract thirty and halve it for a rough estimate

Es wäre aber auch richtig einfach, das durch Piktogramme oder mit einem QR Code zu einer Webseite mit Übersetzungen in mehreren Sprachen, damit das nicht jedes Mal neu erklärt werden muss. Man könnte so was vor der Kasse stellen und zwingen, dass die Menschen die Regeln anschauen, durchlesen oder zuhören, bevor sie schwimmen dürfen.

Ich weiß nicht ob der Betreiber rassistische Ziele damit hat, aber der Effekt ist Rassismus (bzw. Ungleichheit, da es eigentlich um die Sprache geht). Manchmal ist das unvermeidbar- es ist ja viel schwieriger für jemanden mit B1 Deutsch Radiojournalist zu werden, aber das liegt auf der Aussprache und Breite seiner Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten, nicht auf der Reaktion der Anderen.

Es ist aber keine natürliche Folge, dass man in einem Ort nicht schwimmen darf (was bei solchem Wetter nicht unbedingt zum Spaß ist, sondern möglicherweise auch gesundheitshalber ist), wenn man die Sprache nicht beherrscht.

Ich kann mir vorstellen, andere Kommunikationsarte sind dem Betreiber einfach nicht eingefallen. Das ist ja auch normal, besonders wenn er wenig Kontakt mit Nichtmuttersprachlern hat. Seitdem Artikel wurden dem Schwimmbad mehrere Methoden vorgestellt, mal sehen ob sie allen die Regeln erklären oder lieber keine Komplikationen mit Nichtmuttersprachlern hätten.

Mit der neuen Regelung wolle er auch seine Bademeister entlasten. In der Vergangenheit habe es Diskussionen gegeben, weil diese nicht dazu bereit gewesen seien, die Schwimmregeln einzeln in ein Übersetzungsprogramm zu sprechen, behauptete der Chef des Heidebades. Und dass sein Personal nun mal an der Belastungsgrenze sei.

Mir klingt das eher nach Überarbeitung und Frust mit den Kunden (möglicherweise aber nicht unbedingt besonders mit ausländischen Kunden). Er sollte mehr Mitarbeiter anstellen, damit sie nicht an die Belastungsgrenze kommen. Wenn das finanziell nicht klappt und das Bad schließen muss, ist das Schade, aber es wäre viel schlimmer, wenn überbelastete Rettungsschwimmer etwas verpassen würden und jemand stirbt.

It took a really big mustache to unify Germany.

Could people really? I have bizarre kinks and I would just swallow the embarrassment of explaining to everyone I know that hucows are not the same as furries and also not bestiality.

It would suck, but it’s such a better option than being blackmailed into who knows what by monsters.

I’m finding a sick sort of comfort in reading about the bush administration and how horrible I didn’t realize it was. A guy named scooter revealed a CIA asset out of spite because her husband disagreed with the Iraq War. What a shitshow.

Can you show the boss the application process/complain yourself in the newspaper? Unless you don’t really care, because that’s kind of a hassle either way

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence

It would have been really easy for them to learn why we vaccinate large groups of people living in close quarters.