“The Internet these days just feels like we’ve been relegated to a McDonald’s play place. You have to sit in the sticky, plastic chairs that everyone else has sat in while you eat your shitty double cheeseburger. It’s hot, it’s stuffy, it’s gross, and you want to leave but you can’t because all your friends seem perfectly fine putting up with this ... See more

Berlin was going to be different. If there was anything I’d heard more about this city than its unmatched freedoms, it was that anyone could afford a decent life here on a part-time job’s salary. Universities were free for everyone. I’d enrolled in a master’s program for the visa and found a student job in my first week. I moved into a shared Altba

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