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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Of course it should be optional, no one said it should be mandatory

    I made the distinction because English and French were mandatory at my school in Germany. Many more languages were offered though if they had a teacher available. I remember Spanish, Italian and Chinese, I just can’t remember if Turkish was one of them.

    I feel like the defensiveness of that argument is not entirely accidental.

    My family is Kurdish, so I admit that maybe there’s a subconscious bias when learning Turkish comes up, if you know anything about the situation in Turkey and Kurdistan 🙂

    as if learning french in school would be relevant to the migration of germans to france.

    French skills are extremely valuable to Germans who want to work in Switzerland or Luxembourg

    Btw, ben de biraz türkçe biliyorum, ama çok konuşmiyorum… in my daily life 😅 Dunno how to say that last part











  • As a man: Prepare to be rejected over and over, to feel disposible and useless, unwanted and nobody likes you and you will never be as good as other men and you might as well end it now.

    As a woman: Prepare to meet men who have the biggest mommy issues, to be called an entitled bitch and everybody who likes you will promptly abandon you once they figure out who you really are.

    These apps prey on your worst anxieties about yourself, and then sell you the remedy: An outrageously expensive subscription to skip past the chaff and find your true life mate. Except, then you’d leave the platform, and you’d stop paying up. Match group is busy gobbling up every dating app they can get their hands on and they will stop at nothing to turn them all into the same steaming pile of shit.





  • I remember a comedy sketch. A guy is walking down the street when a uniformed captain interrupts him angrily and asks why he’s not at work. The captain drags him to the docks and puts him to work. Turns out the guy is wearing a shirt with a generic print like ‘Navy Club Est. 1972’ - Does anyone remember where this is from?