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BrownMan65 t1_jegxrnb wrote

Honestly public humiliation seems like a pretty effective punishment that we should use way more often. You are presumably representing the people and so if you are not living up to that responsibility then you should be shamed for it so that you get your act together. If you continue to fail then eventually you just get kicked out and someone else can be elected to take your place.

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Mentalfloss1 t1_jegxedm wrote

I grew up in southern Indiana in an environment similar to Georgia. Hot, humid, rattlesnakes, copperheads, a zillion biting bugs, and so on. We did have snow in the winter but never over a few inches.

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WanderingLethe t1_jegwnbm wrote

Deutsch didn't get morphed into Dutch.

It are words with the same origin, meaning of the people, the word people actually has the same origin as well.

Germanic people referred to themselves as Diets/Duutsch/Deutsch and some more variants.

The English mostly had contact with the Dutch, and called them Dutch, while the Dutch eventually started to call themselves Nederlands(Netherlandic) and only the Germans Duits. The Dutch anthem uses Duijtsche bloet, now Duitsen bloed (Dutch blood).

The Germans have kept the word Deutsch for their own, just as the Pennsylvanian Dutch (Deutsch).

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MN8616 t1_jegvpw7 wrote

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Affectionate-Depth66 t1_jegupra wrote

Where I snowboard tree wells can be more then 12 feet deep and some years deeper. Part of the danger is that typically there is some sort of collision with the tree which then sheds it’s snow load on top of the rider. Imagine going head first for a dozen or more feet and as the walls of the well collapse the tree release the all the snow from it’s branches. I have done it once at it is scarier than I can describe. There you are upside down and buried. You can have all the safety equipment with you but you can’t move much or access your pack. The consolidated snow doesn’t get hard like in an avalanche so you can move a little. The key is not to panic.

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Mentalfloss1 t1_jegunip wrote

Most of us have been in one. It’s a pain in the butt too. Your skis or snowshoes get tangled in the lower branches so that it’s really hard to climb out without detaching them. Detaching them is hard. My best friend fell into one when snowshoeing and disappeared. He was wearing snowshoes and a 50-pound pack. I had to lay down in the snow to help him out. We were cracking up.

Edit: Most of us who play in deep snow. I live in Oregon. There’s about 15 feet of snow in the mountains and more coming.

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