Ah well, good to hear that at least, and never mind then.

“Did you try erasing everything from the beginning and letting it reemerge again?”

You mean this one, right? But it looks so cute <3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelphicos_quadrivirgatum

I don’t remember the details, but wasn’t there a massive genetic bottleneck event in early (modern?) human prehistory?

Could be fun if it didn’t happen and we were more genetically diverse!

Most sensible answer yet (maybe not the most exciting one though ;) )

Sorry you got sick!

First on a big container ship, then on a midsize cruise ship, then on a riverboat, then on a two-person inflatable paddle boat. When I finally clung to a pool noodle, I realized it was time to get rid of the tattoo and return to the shore.

Number 5 made me rethink my life, get an anchor tattoo and turn to the sea.

Starch is the nourishing part in a lot of our staple foods (potatos, cereals etc.) and easily digestible. Cellulose is a major component of wood (and cotton and paper) and of what we call “fiber” in our food, the stuff we cannot digest.

Both starch and cellulose are long, sometimes interlinked chains of glucose molecules. The only difference is at which corner of each glucose molecule the next is attached.

Another one about cheese: The cheese blocks you can get at the super market are reasonably small-portioned food items. The moon is a celestial body revolving around the Earth at a distance of around 250,000 miles, yet both are made from the same material. Makes you think.

Whoah! There is a star constellation Berenice’s Hair*, and suddenly it’s connected to a name I know!

*just a line with an angle

Probably no use for you, but interesting nonetheless: In Bavaria, Germany, Veronika is shortened to “Vroni”, with the v pronounced as an f and with the o spoken long (so, not short like in Ronnie).

Waiting for Best BuyFromEU LLC, Ningbo (Zhejiang) to pop up.

Some other German ones:

Nick for Niklas and Nick/Niko for Nikolaus
Matze for Martin
Sepp for Josef
Kathi, Katta and Kadda for Katharina and Kathrin
Alex for Alexander and Alexandra
Vicki for Viktoria
Schorsch (not spoken with an English accent) for Georg
Bert for Berthold
Basti and Sebi for Sebastian
Gabi for Gabriele
Siggi for Siegfried and Sieglinde
Uschi for Ursula

And of course English nicknames for German names, e.g. Jules for Julian, Dave for David.

To add one datapoint: I actually installed LibreOffice just now just to try it out. I went via

Format > Page Style > General [this tab was open by default] > Orientation: Landscape

If that is the correct way, then it was, IMO, hard to miss and fast to find. If it was the wrong way*, however then I’d say I find the menu labels misleading.

*I am not quite sure, because the dialogue had the Title “Page Style: Default Page Style”, so I would have expected pages in all new documents to now start out in landscape orientation, but I opened a new document, and the page was in portrait orientation. So, I think I did what I tried to do - change orientation only in the current document - in spite of that (misleading, thus proving your point?) dialogue title.

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Everyone has a plan until they get stabbed in the belly by a smaller opponent.

Das mit der Erhältlichkeit und den Lieferzeiten ausländischer Bücher ist bei mir auch immer ein Frustrationspunkt bei den kleinen Buchläden, dabei will ich nichtmal was exotisches, nur Sachen aus UK/USA…

A big factor when changing messengers (at least for me) is losing the upstream of years and years of searchable messages in the same app

Well done! My bank supports Wero by now, but it took a long time and I wish I had sent a request to show user support in the earlier stages …

1. Vote with my money - only ever buy books outside of Amazon, which is easier here in Germany, as the price for domestic books is fixed. For other products I could do more; I try to be more aware about which brand is European and choose those if the price difference is not too crass (like recently buying USB chargers from Intenso despite the higher price point).

2. I do talk with friends, family, colleagues about these topics. Now that I finally joined the Fediverse after years of “I’ll have to look into that”, I am asking around about that and already had some others look into it. I am positive some will join one of the platforms.

3. However, I am not involved in any organized movements and I do not have stickers (which I would use if I had them) or flyers (which I probably would not carry around).

As to your point

• I have friends moving off Meta etc., but it all seems… sporadic and unorganized. Without collective movement at colleges and campuses I don’t see how these things will ever actually grow.

… I am more optimistic about that. A lot of people are more or less consciously aware that the US-based data miners might not have our best interest in mind. Every one of us that migrates can do a lot in their own sphere of influence simply by telling people about it and encouraging them to maybe, for now, just add another platform, have a look around.

E.g., it took some years, but more and more people in my circle use signal, and some of them exclusively. Why could it not be similar for feddit/lemmy, mastodon and pixelfed*. Hell, just tell them they might still get their preferred user name if they sign up now!

* except for the atrocious loading times