This could be the story of a nice children’s book. A painted one (like Lucie et cie [Lucy and Company] by Marianne Dubuc). That’d be awesome for kids around 2-4.

I’ve never been much of a fan of children’s books with photographs, but I guess that could work, too (see “Mein Esel Benjamin” [My donkey Benjamin] by Hans Limmer/Lennart Osbeck).

Same in Polish, iirc. Comes from German immigrants to Poland not being able to learn the language (es ist wirklich sau schwer nur ordentlich “Hallo” zu sagen!).

Pretty good soundtrack too.

Thank you, this got by me before.

I use Flashcards wherever I can. Maybe that’s something for you to look into.

Exactly. I’m jealous tbh.

Check out Netguard. It’s an app that pretends to be a VPN client so most of your traffic has to go through it - and then you can deny/allow internet access per app. Even works without root.

I am so checking that out!

So here I am, growing older all the time
Looking older all the time, feeling younger in my mind
And here I am, doing everything I can
Holding on to what I am, pretending I’m a superman

I see.

But why?

Yes. 1-5 are way better than 7 though, especially 2. But whatever.

Oh no, I hoped it was SamSho…

My dad gave me his when he didn’t need it anymore - I should still have it somewhere… only ever played pretend with it…

What’s that from?

But I have wired controllers already. And they never run out of batteries…

“The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.”

[“Die fast unlösbare Aufgabe besteht darin, weder von der Macht der anderen, noch von der eigenen Ohnmacht sich dumm machen zu lassen.”]

• Adorno, Minima Moralia (translated by E. Jephcott).

I’ll bet there is - some of my friends call it “Leseschlaf” (reading sleep), which seems fitting.

Potentially libraries could fill that spot (even though they aren’t places of business that 3rd places usually are. And even though a lot of libraries still have a long way to go before they can really be called friendly/save spaces by minorities).

It would also make a killer tattoo.