As some of you may know, Germany has one of the shittiest “defamation” code that allows any business owner to simply delete the reviews they don’t like. For a long time this had made Google Maps ranking useless: a rating of 4.9 could mean the store is really good, or it’s deleting all the bad reviews.

Not anymore.

Now if you click through all the way to the Reviews tab, Maps will tell you how many reviews the business owner has deleted in the past year.

So when choosing where to have lunch, don’t forget to check this tab. Also check the places you usually go: restaurants, stores, car mechanics. Chances are if they’re doing this you should look somewhere else.

the left one is original pic btw

Many people here get quite touchy when it comes to politics and such, but outside of that it's pretty nice that I can pretty much post about whatever interests me and people show up in the comments being encouraging and genuinely curious.

So many times in real-life interactions I start talking about something I'm into, only to realize the other person doesn't really get it or just isn't interested so I just then steer the discussion to other things. Over time you learn to keep all that stuff to yourself, and it almost starts building up inside you. Then you end up dumping it on someone again and immediately regret it, which then just reinforces this negative loop.

Not here though. I could probably start making animal figures from pine cones tomorrow and posting them, and it'd likely hit the "front page" with dozens of comments in no time.

It's almost like there's this inner child in me who still wants to play, but that's embarrassing so it needs to stay hidden from "normal" people. Still, I suspect pretty much everyone is hiding that same part of themselves, and we'd all be a lot better off letting it out and not taking ourselves so seriously all the time.

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence has announced the arrest of a “veteran” spy working for the Israeli regime, along with 15 members of separatist terrorist groups, following operations in different provinces.

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Tore down our old DIY hardwood shed and assembled a new plastic resin shed. Used an existing wood frame from the old shed as the foundation. Wrapped the foundation in a heavy duty tarp to protect against moisture. Stays dry, critters aren't interested in living in it, looks ok.

I had an asthma attack this night, and without my brother-in-law's ventolin, I should have gone to the ER. At least, I got motivated to send a mail to a lung specialist (I let it rest since I moved more than a year ago).

Please, don't be like me, take your appointments if you materialisticaly can. Fight the execution difficulty.

Demonstranten van protestbeweging Extinction Rebellion hebben de snelweg A12 ter hoogte van De Meern bezet. Een groep mensen is op de snelweg gaan zitten in de buurt van knooppunt Oudenrijn. Volgens verslaggevers ter plaatse gaat het om enkele honderden mensen.

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House flippers screwed me. So I asked pros to quote on a fix.

The lowest quote for simply replacing a showerpan and a glass box that sits on it is $9k. Yikes. WTF is going on here? Other quotes have hit $16k. I’ve seen in the hardware store shower box kits that are like $700. So I am really baffled here. Those kits should be like 1 or 2 ppl working for 1 day, no?

Clearly I am out of touch. So my next thought is, if I am going to spend that kind of serious money, I might as well do a luxury bath extension to the house.

For complex reasons I am looking to avoid doing the work myself, but that idea is not completely off the table. I am thinking if I do the project myself, concrete bags are cheap. Wedi boards and the like come in showerpan kits IIRC, which are not exactly cheap but compared to the quotes by contractors the Wedi board seems quite reasonable. I’ve seen the various videos of YTers discussing in detail how to do it right and how others screw up. Are the crazy quotes from contractors mainly due to labor costs?