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Yeah. I grew up near one of Germany's largest open-pit lignite mines. Had a tour of the mighty Bagger 293 as a kid and was allowed to touch some coal.

I'm going to give you the only name you spelled right on this list! Max Power

You can make the command line meming tool even more obscure: echo "How CLI memers look at GUI memers" | convert -background transparent -fill black -font Liberation-Sans -pointsize 24 label:@- twilight-snobs.png -gravity center -composite jpeg:- | curl -F "file=@-;filename=meme.jpg" "$(sed -n 's/^UPLOAD_URL=//p' config.env)"

The little aquatic drone that could

Are we sure we're doing Ea-Nasir justice? Perhaps he was a perfectly fine copper salesman but had a weird and totally unhinged customer review (or complaint) he found funny displayed in his home.

If the market clears the price is equal to the marginal utility of getting licked

2011 wants this post back

With my first prepaid phone in Germany texts did cost 0.49 € per text. So I did not use them super often. Years later around 2011 that price had decreased to 0.15€ and I was texting friends a lot during uni. Around the same time me and my friends got our first smartphones with contracts for 30-40€ per month that included a small bit of data (below 1Gb). Texts still did cost 0.15€, but the data for a WhatsApp message was in the low kilobytes. So a lot of people switched to WhatsApp

Sure, theoretically normal sickdays are capped to six weeks, but you do not have to collect your sick days in a sick day account like the Americans. You get a doctor's notice and then have an official sickday. After the six weeks you can still get Krankengeld which is paid by the statutory health insurance.

And on average the 39,5 hours work week and 25-30 vacation days per year. Also unlimited payed sick days.

With the 1966 labour share of income you probably would be working way less (or making way more)

That's in Mali. Old Timbuktu manuscripts from one of the oldest universities in the Islamic world