this is my impression. back when i still was in academia it would pop up from time to time but i never published there since i never cited any of their journals in the first place. (why would one publish there when all your peers are somewhere else). nowadays i sometimes get requests from them to my personal email for special issues which i just ignore. (it’s academic spam essentially).

have a look at retraction watch https://retractionwatch.com/?s=mdpi

Merci! ma va l’adorer ça

maybe try grundstoff.net (German company). their stuff is rather plain but t-shirts are available in very heavy fabric. i like them but I’m not sure whether it’s any good for when you work out (i sweat a lot when I’m skating).

thanks for the tip. I’ll have a look at what they have

Okay, now its getting ridiculous. Just measured the leg opening of my current pair, its 17’'.

Browsing through their website, i noticed, that leg opening appear to vary with color, approx. 1". Then i thought, maybe, i try my luck in different european stored (spain, belgium, netherlands). Same pattern, but then i noticed that i still had a tab for the US store open. Apparently, fit also differ between countries.

E.g. 501 Style # 005013411 in the US

How it Fits

Regular Through The Thigh
Sits At Your Waist
Straight Leg
Front rise: 11 1/4",Knee: 17 1/2",Leg opening: 16",Measurements based on size 32

in Spain

How it Fits

501
Sits At Your Waist
Straight Leg
Front rise: 12 1/4''
Knee: 18 5/8''
Leg opening: 17''
Measurements based on size 32

I just want a pair of jeans ffs

thanks for your reply. the thing is: all 501 100% cotton i tried have a smallish leg opening although they are called “straight leg”. these work fine when worn with shoes but sit too high when worn with biker boots. the ones i try to find again have a wide enough leg opening to fit the boots and rest in the heel. it’s really weird. and they really are 501 not boot cut, i swear

some might regard it as a predatory publisher

“Tütentüte” as we call it around here

thanks for the reply, but i think i got that. from the linked article:

For example, if you changed repo/packages/foo/CHANGELOG.json, when git was getting ready to do the push, it was generating a diff against repo/packages/bar/CHANGELOG.json! This meant we were in many occasions just pushing the entire file again and again, which could be 10s of MBs per file in some cases, and you can imagine in a repo our size, how that would be a problem.

but wouldn’t these erroneous diffs not show up in git diff? it seems that they were pushing (maybe automatically?)without inspecting the diffs first

maybe I’m missing something but wouldn’t this show up in a diff before pushing?

dentist from Göttingen

apparently this is not to uncommon https://web.archive.org/web/20201115002205/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/public-clocks-do-a-number-on-roman-numerals/2011/11/04/gIQAenKllM_blog.html

es ist wirklich krass viel. die meisten Sorten mag ich allerdings überhaupt nicht. aber atlantik ale ist Oberklasse. ich war mal da mal und da hatten sie das Siegerbier von irgendeinem Hobbybrauerwettbewerb für kurze Zeit mal auf ihren großen Maschinen gebraut. fand ich recht sympatisch (und ziemlich lecker).

störtebeker atlantik ale alkoholfrei! alles andere ist doch arg süß

labneh is awesome! https://www.seriouseats.com/labneh-from-ottolenghi

thank you for your work. although i don’t post here i really appreciate the community and the work that involves. thanks a lot

Ich hatte den Link gesehen, aber dann bei MSN nur den Teaser gesehen und den Hinweis “Artikel aufklappen” übersehen. egal, danke dir!

archive link wg paywall https://archive.ph/DEZaR

awesome. i didn’t know. found some English version on YouTube https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+way+things+work+peter+lustig&t=fpas&iar=videos&iax=videos&ia=videos (nothing in German unfortunately)

there is a whole series of books by David Macaulay “the way things work” which use woolly mammoths to explain concepts. loved it as a child

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work

example illustration: https://prh.imgix.net/look-inside/dk/9780241526446_3_Screenshot.PNG