Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏When I take over the world, people who treat public transportation as their living room will be the first to be reeducated: they’ll be trapped listening to unwanted TikToks at full volume on loop, surrounded by passengers loudly chewing finger food, all while breathing in the ripe aftermath of sweaty shoes that strangers had left all over the place.
People say living abroad builds character and resilience. What they don’t mention is the emotional fatigue that builds from constantly trying to adapt and make sense of the world around you. Everything around you seems to move without friction while you float slightly above it, never fully syncing. Some days it’s funny; other days it feels like carrying an anchor that still doesn’t ground you.
The longer I spend in Tokyo, the more convinced I am that they pump sleeping gas into the Shonan-Shinjuku line. There’s no other explanation for how fast everyone (including myself) passes out.
Michael S.An sich liebe ich ja den Stuss, den moderne #LLMs so von sich gegeben. An sich suchte ich nur die Abkürzung (SABTA/SABVA), erhielt aber (offenbar ernstgemeinte) Ratschläge, wie man Inkompetenz optimal umsetzt.
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I spent hours today looking for an ESG ETF that isn’t secretly half Amazon, Nestle or Blackrock. No oil, no weapons, no billion dollar corps. How hard could it be?
Apparently, your money can grow OR your conscience can sleep at night, but not both.
I guess I’ll plant beans in the garden and call it my retirement fund, or keep the cash under the mattress as only ethical storage option.
Society: Work hard, be reliable, prove your worth, and the sky’s the limit!
Reality: Work hard, be reliable, prove your worth... and boom, you’ve just unlocked bonus content: extra tasks that aren’t yours, unpaid overtime, other people's responsibilities and a surprise burnout every fiscal year.
Eines Tages fühlst du dich jung und knackig, und am nächsten Tag findest du es irritierend, dass die Mitarbeitenden des Internetanbieters dich duzen und mit Vornamen ansprechen.
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If you live in an apartment building and you have one of the following hobbies
- playing the piano or any woodwind, percussion or brass instrument,
- dances that require rhythmic foot stomping,
- carpentry and woodworking, or
- moving furniture for funsies,
please know that your neighbors hate you very much.