starlinguk
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- Comment on Was Donald Trump ever cool? 1 week ago:
He was never cool, but he used to be considered a mildly amusing rich guy. He actually seemed to have a sense of humour at some point.
- Comment on Why Titles Are Written Like This? 1 week ago:
It is normal. But it goes something like this: The Incredible Tale of the Tiny Red Dog.
Words like of, the, are, is etc. don’t get a capital.
Sauce: MA in English Language, and voluntary journalist.
- Comment on Why did/do sites such as the pyramids in Egypt or the Roman colosseum end up in an abandoned state, only to be "rediscovered" later? 1 week ago:
The Colosseum was never abandoned. The reason its still standing is that people (including popes) kept paying for it to be maintained.
- Comment on My sister’s AMAB friend likes to look like a girl and even said she wanted to be a “Japanese woman”, why would conservatives think using she/her pronouns for her is forcing an agenda? 1 week ago:
They’ve picked trans people as a “danger” so people don’t realise what the true dangers are (like having a fascist president, for example).
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 1 week ago:
Which didn’t work, hence the ramekin.
- Comment on How do you go about getting rid of things around your home/apartment? 1 week ago:
I don’t even try Facebook Marketplace (or Ebay) anymore. I just ask on the local group “anybody fancy…” It’s much more effective. I think because then you get impulse buyers too instead of people looking for something specific.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 1 week ago:
The water is really hard where I live, the limescale pretty much neutralises the vinegar. And a lot of rinse aid is citric acid or vinegar anyway!
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 1 week ago:
Have you considered buying a dishwasher without this connectivity nonsense? They still sell them, you know.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 1 week ago:
I just buy second hand cars.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 1 week ago:
Forget rinse aid. Get one of those ramekins you get with some desserts, put in some vinegar and put the dish among the plates at the bottom. Sparklyyyyy.
(I had a Bosch too, now have a Miele)
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 1 week ago:
Sure. But Popken, C&A, Bella Green, Bonprix, P&C (both iterations), Cecil, Braxx, etc. do not believe in boobs or hips. I found a French company that does, but they’re horrifyingly expensive.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The Netherlands is tiny and has a right wing extremist government full of very, very stupid people. In fact, the Dutch version of The Onion sued the minister of foreign affairs because it’s impossible to distinguish between what she says and what they come up with.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s not just the US. It’s the electoral system. There are just as many frigging idiots elsewhere, but they’re less likely to gain power.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Some people just don’t grow op.
giggles
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
Even though this means men are getting special treatment. Because research into prostrate cancer, for example, hasn’t been banned.
- Comment on Why is a two-party system considered democratic? 1 week ago:
Brandenburg literally has 4 parties.
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 1 week ago:
Did I end up on Ravelry?
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 1 week ago:
Have a look at German clothing sites for fun. There is no “choice”.
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 1 week ago:
Don’t forget the snakeskin is usually a mixture of pastels.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 week ago:
You think you’ve got a problem? Ours are stealing laptops!
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 1 week ago:
Nowadays all women’s clothes are straight up and down, the only difference is pink. It’s a nightmare for women who are shaped like women.
- Comment on Multilingual people all must have experienced YouTube's f**kery with auto translation. Still no workaround? 1 week ago:
You can switch it off in Revanced. I’d completely forgotten about this nonsense (I live in Germany, until Revanched fixed it half the videos I watched were in robot German).
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
First of all, the economy was doing fine under Biden.
How is banning the words “female”, “women” and “bias” in research papers getting the economy back on track?
How is taking away the passports of trans people and changing their gender getting the economy back on track?
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
Tell them research into women’s medical conditions (like endometrial cancer) is no longer allowed. I’d love to know how they’d spin that one as positive.
- Comment on Why is a two-party system considered democratic? 1 week ago:
German is heading this way. Part of the vote is already FPTP and parties also have to have more than 4% of the vote to get a seat. In Brandenburg none of the small parties made it, and despite the SPD being the biggest party, the right wing is in charge, because all the other parties that got seats (BSW, CDU, AFD) are right wing and the SPD doesn’t have a majority.
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 2 weeks ago:
Skip that last sentence.
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 2 weeks ago:
It can do it now. Image
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 2 weeks ago:
I’m not in the US.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 2 weeks ago:
US bubble, much?
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 2 weeks ago:
Um, no. Love, somewhere with actual regulations.
