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Software, plants/environment, privacy, leftie, Brit(ish) in Germany.

Profile pic is a still from the game discworld 2, depicting DEATH on his white horse, Binky.

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2024-08-04 08:01:49

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Without being an arsehole, I think that's a kingfisher

2024-07-29 15:46:53

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it's definitely better than UK with the deposit system, but UK also has recycling. This is a good example of how a systematic change can make helping the environment easy, but if it's not there it's so much harder to do something as an individual.

2024-07-29 15:11:28

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we have that in Germany also! Along with all the other recycling. We also have "wertstoff" (valuable materials = recyclables) and "reststoff" (the rest of it) bags for pickup.
In addition there's a deposit system for glass and plastic bottles for refilling or recycling at most stores.
Some idiot keeps putting plastic bags in our bio (compost) bin though. Presumably they're "biodegradable" (in the lab, to microplastics) and it's just ignorance.

2024-07-28 18:19:43

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What do you mean by compulsory exactly?

2024-07-12 15:14:35

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I get the feeling they have similar ideas of what a utopia could look like, if you take Preservation as a utopia. I think Becky Chambers' wayfarer characters would fit in well there.

2024-07-12 13:23:57

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It was interesting for me reading those books to get used to a character referred to as "they". Took me a while to tune in to the nonbinary, but I got there after a while.
I love all her work I've so far read, just really cosy writing. I go to her, Martha Wells and the Rivers of London series when I'm having a bad day or week.

2024-06-14 18:49:22

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who's Putin then?

2024-06-14 06:18:25

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I read it as climate change what with "winter" and everything.