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I will never forget the time when, in a bar in Berlin, I was accosted by a Japanese girl who asked me for my business card (which I actually had!) and thanked me with a stick of Wrigley's chewing gum.

One of my most surreal experiences ever, by far.

I'll come out and say it: youths with pomaded and parted hair in Berlin freak me out.
And they freak me out regardless of hair color and apparent ethnicity, mind.

If you're under 50 and you're not Calvin getting ready for a photo, the only reason to have parted hair is fascism.

Following a discussion on reddit of all places, here's a poll. Please spread far and wide because [garbled audio, static, unintelligible noises]

The question is: do you normally listen to and enjoy audiobooks?

#askfedi

@GustavinoBevilacqua this is kind of what I have now but leaves the desktop too crowded

My monitor's speakers suck ass, and I don't mean that in a nice way.

So I'm trying to find a way to either use my actual monitors (a pair of M-Audio) on a very crowded desk, or a tiny soundbar or a couple speakers I can clamp to my screen.

One way out would be a screen riser where I can also place my laptops but I need it to have those tiny holes for ventilation and, of course, Google and descendants are COMPLETELY useless in this search.

Ideas? Even a specific search string!

#askfedi #audio

In Rab (Croatia) and feeling right at home:
- pizza costs at least 10€
- local beer is good and cheap
- there's a shitload of fascists but I seem to meet only lovely and friendly people
- my residence windows (in this case a tent flap) are old and broken
- today there was a thunderstorm, then sun, then rain, then sun, then rain - all with 40km/h winds

Rab is the Berlin of the Mediterranean

Unpopular* opinion: when migrants are allowed to work normally and come and go as they please, they are perfectly capable of deciding for themselves when the conditions are good to visit or move back to The Old Country, and they integrate easily (or don't, as the case may be, but that goes for natives too)

*not really, I guess, but you're apparently required to say it

The apartment where I'm staying right now has turtles (land turtles, bunch of 'em) and if there's one thing I learned about turtles is:

TURTLES ARE ALWAYS AT IT.

Like, literally. They love each other very much ALL THE TIME.

And they make a very funny noise while taking care of business and I'll be forever haunted by their "heh... heh... heh..."

How can meta's rayban be legal in EU? How can a mofo look me up and take pictures of me without even the vaguest attempt at obtaining my permission?

Most importantly, will I go to jail if I punch the first one I see and break them?