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I am an adoptive mother for 7 months already. I love my son very much and the fact that he carries somebody's else genes does not bother me at all. My son is from Thailand and I am Russian so we look very different. Still, not a problem The important thing here is that I take care of him and he accepts this care. (I do not have biological children and yes, parenting IS hard)

Good question, I am not sure. The numbers from my link do match the official numbers from Canada (link [2]) though.

Based on the Excess Mortality across Countries in 2020, Sweden did surprisingly good, with only 1.5%. For comparison, the US was much worse with 12.5%. And Finland had -3.1% for some reason

[1] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/excess-mortality-across-countr...

Sure!

[1] shows the Excess Mortality across Countries in 2020, very convenient to compare.

In particular:

Canada: 6%

USA: 12.9%

South Korea, interestingly: -2.9%

[1] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/excess-mortality-across-countr...

Also - [2] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/210310/dq210...

or hate each other...

So in Germany, the ratio is 845 voters per place. this seems to be quite high compared to North America.

For comparison, here are the numbers in Canada for 2019 [0]:

Registered electors: 27,300,000

Polling places: 20,000

Thus, the ratio is 1365 ppl per polling place.

This is only 60% of the ratio in Germany. I am from Canada and I don't think we have any problems with voer supression.

[0] https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=med&dir=bkg&do...

Is the state of public transit in NYC (subway) better than in SF? I had an impression it's horrible (everybody hates it) and it's a total money pit.

what about cigarette butts?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/cigar...

Many similar websites have suffered from a so-called "Medic" update. Some of them recovered (through fixing their website), some did not. The SEO community is full of such stories, for more than a year I think.

How is it news? :thinking:

I see! This is indeed very different from the US, more like an award I guess.

Reading your comment made me think: Wow Germany must be like the US! Who knew!

But then I read the article and was super or even mega surprised to see that Switzerland, Sweden, France, and even Canada, they all overcome Germany based on this measure (Guns per 100 people). Something tells me that maybe you should not be concerned about the position your country has on that list ...

I was really surprised by Switzerland being the #2 on this list. Maybe it is indeed due to hunting habits the country has? I wonder how similar their gun thinking is to the US gun thinking.

I wonder if he wanted to make money, it would make sense for him to try to move to the US? Not sure though how easy it would be to get a US license for a Canadian doctor.

I wonder if he wanted to make money, it would make sense for him to try to move to US? Not sure though how easy it would be to get a US licence for a Canadian doctor.

Which ones from the article didn't you like?

> Unable/unwilling to pursue new and potentially better opportunities in new places

It so really depends on the actual people. The ones who really want to pursue new opportunities seldom look at the favorable rent in my opinion.

> one night I saw her eating out of the trash

this means nothing. The lady can simply have dementia or something like this and even having a loving family and a nurse taking care of her, she still could have eaten from trash.

This is the nature of the disease, unfortunately.

> abusive landlord taking advantage of people from the article: The landlord offered her to install a heater and she refused. From my point of view, it says more about her character ("I do not deserve this") than about the landlord. Moreover, he did install one! and she never used it!

When she moved in, it was not probably a standard feature to have one; and after all, she did live w/o using one for her whole life (despite even having one installed at the end).

Again, it feels it was HER choice rather than a one forced down her throat.

My Gmail is free, too...

On GSuite (non-free version of Gmail) I don't see the ads either and it is supposed to be like that (after all, it's paid)

> Google would prefer you spend more time fighting the interface in Gmail and seeing ads

Do you see ads in Gmail?

I don't anymore and it feels it has been like since a very long time.

(and my AdBlock os turned off on Gmail)

2h still feels a bit too much, though I thought it would take longer. Well I guess I will try the next time...

Good suggestion, I did not think of search 3D printing designs. The model of my microwave is pretty common. Oh well.

this!

It's almost my story as well.

My microwave I had for 8 years (and I got it second hand) stopped working. A quick inspection + watching a couple of YouTube videos revealed that a plastic latch inside the door got broken.

It would have been very easy to replace it if only it was still being sold. Extensive search on the internet showed it was not :( :( :(

If only I had some time (well a LOT of time) to reverse engineer the existing latch and 3D-print a new one... But I did not.

So, I had to put the microwave outside on my curb. I attached a note to it saying it works well if the latch is fixed and also attached the broken latch.

I was happy to see it was gone in a few hours. I live in a city (Montreal, Canada) so I guess it helped my microwave to not be wasted.

I wish 3D-printing technologies - or more precisely, a technology that helps to create 3D specs out of an existing object - would be more advanced. Well, I did not do an extensive search about it so I may be well mistaken :)

through what features?

Or maybe just smaller?

thanks for the link, it was so interesting to read about these houses!

It felt to me that ordering kit houses was such an American spirit! Building a house with your hands, there is something special about it... and ordering a kit from a store to build it is a bit mind blowing :)

there are at least two Brex users who left their comments above yours

all this did not make a woman equal to a man unfortunately

as a female dev who started her career in Russia about 15 years ago and whose mother was also a dev programming aviation radars, I can tell there was a he-e-ell of sexism and predjudice against women in the society back then, despite all these pretty numbers.

Collapse of the USSR opened up huge opportunities for discrimination and I still remember the job ads for devs where it was explicitly specified "men only" :( I was a subject of sexism, my mom was a subject of sexism.

(there is even more sexism in the modern Rusian society but we are not talking about the modern days)

> you cannot deny that the influence you have as a parent

for sure, I agree with you.

It seems to me that it is better to make conclusions looking at grown adults and families in total - like you did with your in-laws.

I just wanted to say there might be a tendency to look at screaming (or in this case, it would be anxious) kids and generalize and criticize their parents for bad parenting skills / inability to deal with kids / whatever; meanwhile, it's not their fault. Just good to remember that.

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> other kids could fall over and scream for an hour over the smallest of falls. Why?

From what I have learned so far by reading various parents' comments etc, all kids are very different and making general conclusions like this one seems to be pointless / incorrect.

Your first kid may be calm and chill and your second one can be agitated (or vice versa) while your parenting style stays the same. Why? Because these are two different humans and not something else.

Did your friend go?