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A friend joined them to get protection because he got beaten a lot. He left again after his first drug trafficking job was offered to him. (and fortunately he was allowed to leave because he didn't know enough yet)

My schoolmates rented a club house for parties and the bikers wanted to do the security themselves. The have beaten people and kicked one drunken guy lying on the floor who argued too much with them. Completely unprofessional.

This was late 2000s in rural Germany.

Oly in Bavaria. In every other German State this can only be done for a few days max in extreme situations.

Love is a chemical process, you can't really choose who you fall in love with. There are all kind of relationships, not all are based on respect.

You don't have to pretend anything, I know quite a few couples where one partner is an atheist and the other one is a believer.

That's not an issue anymore. There is an Duolingo course, tons of Anki vocabulary decks, the app Drops supports Esperanto and the website lernu.net has a pretty good free course to learn Esperanto grammar.

I really like the idea of Globasa and Interslavic. I tried learning Toki Pona for one week, but did not stick to it for some reason, maybe some day.

I speak Esperanto and I am quite active in the movement and write for the Esperanto Wikipedia. In 2011 I had quite a cool trip to an Esperanto Youth Congress in Kijiv. But it's hard to talk about it because most people see it as a failed project from the early 1900s, not as a modern subculture.

Niche communities that took years to built up and that I can't find anywhere else. For example Esperanto speakers are quite active on Twitter. They also have their own Mastodon instance, but it is not the same. (I use both now)

How bad are things https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/24/how-bad-are-things/

There have been quite a lot of Greek guest workers in Germany after WW2 and many stayed here just like the turks.

There is only a German Wikipedia article about this deal, but before the turks came they first had guest workers from Italy and grece in West Germany. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwerbeabkommen_zwischen_der_Bundesrepublik_Deutschland_und_Griechenland

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