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WaldenFont t1_jaaddqz wrote

Reply to comment by mavajo in Which show was the worst offender of "No one ever talks to each other" trope? by mavajo

Well it's a bit of a cheat to give you a chuckle. As a German it's what I would say if I had to use a single word. Keep in mind that we don't put spaces between compound words, so it's easy to have "one word" for everything. Geräuschkulisse is a particular environment created by sound. Sendung is TV program.

In practice, I would refer to this as "ein Programm im Hintergrund anhaben" but that's more than a word.

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Reply to Cheap, sensor-based agriculture could slash water use by up to 70% | We could definitely use something like this with all the droughts around. by chrisdh79

I was driving through an agricultural area south of San Francisco this last August, during the height of the drought. I noticed the massive irrigation systems that sprayed water high above the fields of lettuce and broccoli. There was so much water in the air, it made a kind of dense fog. I think the real problem is our antiquated method of watering crops.

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