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Try to stop using disposable plastic as far as possible. No cups, bags, spoons, straws. Use reusable bags when shopping, and when shopping, check how the stuff is packaged. Get as much as possible of your stuff in glass bottles, and recycle them. Use waxcloth instead of plastic wrap. Buy larger packages. If you have a cheese or meat counter, get your stuff there. The might even let you bring your own tupperware.

I am born German but didn’t grow up there and couldn’t even speak it until I was about 16. Anyway, there was this was girl I crushed so hard on. Mysterious, long black curly hair. Couldn’t muster up the courage to talk to her, but we had some common friends. And they told me the girl would also like to get to know me.

Thanks to them we arranged a date, but Ms. Mysterious didn’t show up. And afterwards she just ignored me. Of course I was an absolute wreck and couldn’t understand what the problem was.

So I asked our friends and they said, poor kid don’t you realize why? No of course not? Well, she’s Israeli, you’re German, her father found out and put an end to it.

Back when I was smoking I got a Zippo because it was cool. Refilling fuel and replacing flints got old, but the taste of gas in your mouth was just the worst.

I think that says more about how unbelievably massive Africa is.

Damn you. I just had an important meeting.

Picking through a smouldering trash heap to collect the occasional phone, radio or whatever, to burn it down for metals.

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Ambient, electronica, Post punk, emo and goth stuff, synthwave, sludge / stoner metal, industrial, and folk music.

My favorites over the years were

• Chemical Brothers
• Underworld
• The Presets
• Aphex Twin
• Brian Eno
• Boards of Canada
• Ministry
• Nine Inch Nails (but boy did he jump the shark hard)
• Skinny Puppy / oHGr / Download / Phil Western
• Einstürzende Neubauten
• The Cure
• Killing Joke
• Neil Young

I don’t know why, but I also gravitate to girl guitar bands. Especially if they sing in harmony. Instant goosebumps!

This is why I personally would prefer phones with replaceable batteries like the Fairphone.

I was about 17-18 and hat a tick on my nutsack. Tried getting it off myself but it ended up getting infected. Only after the pain got worse than the potential embarrassment I slinked to the doctor.

Not say anything.

Went on a date with a girl I thought was pretty cute, and I heard she had the hots for me. So at first I had high hopes. NGL, I like mysterious but that was too much. All I got was variations of a shrug.

I’m not proud of what I did, but I made some excuse and just left her alone. I simply couldn’t stand it.

The Taste of Tea. Japanese stuff can be pretty weird, but I had absolutely no idea what that film was about.

I always have tablets with me! Every time I’m eating out and am not 100% sure that the food is vegan, I take a table just to be sure. I can imagine that cooks slip in butter or cream to improve the taste.

I grew up in West Africa in the 80, and there was a lot assaulting your nostrils. The markets with dried fish, the open sewage trenches in the city, rotting roadkill.

But the very worst experience was when I was trying to cross over a bridge during some festival. The bridge was packed with people, who were either heavily perfumed to mask the BO, whose deodorant gave up or who just went a few days without bathing. So we were all there together profusely sweating in the tropical sun, and I was just tall enough so my nose was at armpit height.

Or no, a buried memory surfaces. You may know that natural latex drips out rubber trees, and that they spritz ammonia into the latex to keep it liquid? Now imagine a plantation the size of a city where everything stinks of ammonia. And then a factory that smells of burnt piss?

The very first thing? Quit work and drag the family for a long trip first to Japan, and then to Iceland.

After then, the important stuff. Start an IT school somewhere in West Africa, maybe an IT service provider. And while I’m at it, build a race track and try and build up a racing community. Preferably with local-built electrical vehicles.

My daughters can ride unicycle and I am just in awe how they do it. It’s against all proper laws of physics. And you madperson even do tricks?

I hope the Pixel 4a is an outlier regarding support! The 4a will be getting updates until August 2023, and the 4a 5g until November of this year.

We live in a little town right on the outskirts of the state capital. Everything is in walking or biking distance - supermarkets, doctors, schools. We live close to a river and have a few smaller nature reserves nearby. There’s a lot of different activities the kids can do. The neighborhood is a good mixture of older couples and young families.

It’s not the prettiest place on earth, but I’m happy we’re settled here.

I love skating in the parking lot with an empty shopping cart! But since I had a little unhappy accident I’m a bit afraid of using a cart full of groceries.

Well ok, Twitter and reddit are down for a round, but we still have Instagram, TikTok and ugh… Facebook.

But could lead to users realizing that these aren’t public service institutions to take for granted, but companies that can fold and take your network with them.