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  • This was reported because it violates the rule that the entire shower thought must be in the title. It's always worth a quick scan of a community's rules before posting.

    Also didn't they pull brains out the nose for mummification?

  • Is there and Open Street Maps project for ratings and reviews?

    It's a key feature of Google maps that I don't have a great replacement for. I assume moderating the reviews would be a significant challenge for the project.

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    A message on navigating life's uncertainty
  • This post got reported.

    The reporters are correct, you should have the entire thought in the title, then use the body to go into detail.

    For example your title could have been "life is largely random circumstance, so relax".

    Shower thoughts aren't typically advice for other people, unless you take showers with other people to save water, but it's nice advice and it embodies the positive community that the code of conduct is designed to encourage.

  • The French are still fighting for the US democracy.
  • No, more like the US's revolution likely wouldn't have succeeded if it wasn't for the French support.

    France's revolution attempted for a democracy but that got twisted and they got Emperor Napoleon, so then they had to fight again.

    Edit: And today the US and France are again fighting similar political battles so it feels like the strong support from a French person has a long history.

  • The French are still fighting for the US democracy.

    The French may not have the first democracy, may not have the best democracy, but they have had to fight harder than most for their democracy.

    • paraphrasing from an audio tour by Rick Steves, I think.

    Edit: oops, i flipped words in the title

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    Street-Complete, like Pokemon Go but for good.
  • Yes, you link your OSM account to StreetComplete and it adds your contributions via your OSM account. Same with Vespucci.

    When you log into OSM you can see all the contributions pushed by StreetComplete.

  • Street-Complete, like Pokemon Go but for good.

    I first learned of Street-Complete here and I really like it.

    It's satisfying to walk around, complete little tasks, and get prizes, scratching a similar itch to Pokemon Go.

    Stuck waiting for someone? Add opening hours for a few local businesses.

    Have a long walk ahead of you? See if you can add/check house addresses as fast as you can walk.

    Want to walk off a few beers before heading home? Complete some tasks in the bar street.

    Its a very constructive way to "be right" on the internet.

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    With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?
  • It sounds like you have a lot of experiences that others could learn from, but you will likely push people away if you attack them directly (calling them extremist) rather than only attacking their positions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

    One tactic that I like is asking them questions that lead them to point out the flaws in their own arguments. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method

    Would you be more or less likely to learn from someone that calls you an extremist?

  • With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?
  • This post was reported for transphobia. Specifics weren't given. It seems like you use the term "female" to mean someone that was assigned female at birth. I'm not sure if language is changing in this area and I certainly don't know technical definitions. Female does seemed to be used as a gender identity as well. For example the opening paragraph here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_woman

    I think many cultures are learning how to be more welcoming to people from all walks of life, which is great, and conversations like this one are good for discussing some of the nuance.

    Please keep things civil and assume the best of other's intentions. We are all learning. We are all human.

    Edit: spelling

  • Which is older an infant or a baby?
  • Yeah I think this is the difference. I don't have a strong second language so I think of infants being only the earliest stage of life. They speak some french where enfant is older than a bébé.

  • Which is older an infant or a baby?

    Is one a sub group of the other? Does either term include toddlers?

    I'm having this discussion with someone and we both thought the opposite from eachother and we were quite sure our way of thinking was the common understanding.

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    "BeReal." FOSS alternative? Yes please!
  • Or maybe we could have a rule like "Any post that's greater than 12hrs old and has less than 30% approval gets removed" I like this because it gives voting more power for shaping the community and it's objective.

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    "BeReal." FOSS alternative? Yes please!
  • OP wants FOSS BeReal, it's all there in the title. There is no rule against having a body to the post. I agree that I would be disappointed if showerthoughts was only people's product ideas.

    If this type of post became commonplace we could make a rule trying to avoid spam. How would you word the rule? "No promotion of products or product concepts" that might work. Rules have side effects so I would want to look back through old posts to see if it would hurt quality posts.

    This post did get two reports. Reports are not super down votes, things need to break rules for me to pull them, I try to be objective. As always I'm open to discussion.

    I did giggle about commenter below that is sometimes old. Silver linings.

  • Is there a good source of info on rental car liability insurance?

    I want to know if the car I'm renting comes with liability insurance. I just want to be sure that if I am at fault in an accident, that the other car will be covered. Lets try to ignore any personal car insurance policy and let's ignore collision insurance for now.

    I am under the impression that in many countries they are required to give you liability insurance when you rent the car, but I don't have a good source. Many articles have mixed information.

    For the US, this article says:

    > For a registered car rental company in the US, they must provide a minimum level of liability protection for cars they rent out.

    But this other article says > In the U.S., every state requires a minimum amount of liability insurance on car insurance policies, so you may already have liability coverage through your personal auto insurance.

    Which sounds like in the US your personal insurance is all you have.

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