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Malè, Maldives…25° at 11am, quite humid but no rain.
First time in the Maldives for me.We are having the day in Malé, the capital.. which is a small island, very crowded and full of scooters! Like Palermo in a way.
There are some interesting things to see here, including a great fish market with a small dock behind it, where you can see dozens of big rays swimming around on the surface.
Also plenty of dolphins visible from the shore and the small ferry that links the airport (on a neighbouring island) with Malé.
Tomorrow we’ll take another ferry and start exploring the public islands a little.Hopefully do some diving (after a while without doing any) and plenty of snorkeling too.
Lots of tourists at the airport but nearly all of them seem to be on private island package holidays, they are not visible in Malé anyway!
It’s somehow taken me over a year and a half to see my first raccoon here. Stepped outside my flat to go for a nighttime walk only to see this raccoon dressed as a cartoon burglar staring at me menacingly.
I decided to make off as quickly as possible as it was clearly up to no good
I already got my German certificate! I was a bit worried for a bit (mostly because if I need to take it again, it’s expensive and boring) but I passed with a good mark. Funny enough, I got near perfect grades for listening, reading, and speaking, but an okay one for writing. I guess this is the downside of learning by exposure rather than the “conventional” way.
In any case, now I have all documents for double citizenship application. I did only one mistake in the citizenship test, so if I were them, I would give me a passport. But let’s see.
Someone posted [this link](https://www.tiktok.com/@wisdm8/photo/7404939145673526558?lang=en) (yes, it’s a tiktok link. If you are allergic to it, [here is one](https://www.reddit.com/r/olympics/comments/1ewt2oc/the_olympics_in_high_fashion/) from r/olympics but it’s much shorter) where this guy made clothing designs based on country flags. And they are all sooooo cool. He’s just so creative. My favorite was South Korea, but all of them are very smart. I also learned that “drip” means style. What you learn every day.
I had a great interaction with some guy, he told me a joke about my car, and I told him a joke in return, then we parted our ways.
Also I found a bit over 1000€ today I didn’t remember I had, feels nice.
Remember back in March when I talked about the closing of a local bowling alley and the uncertainty of its pinball collection? I’m happy to report that the pinballs are in a new, dedicated location open to the public. There’s a lot more space for them and, unlike the old location, you’re never far from outside or the toilet. And we finally concluded the winter league season that was so rudely interrupted and I just barely missed the cut for playoffs, but I had a lot of fun and I feel great that the owner of the pinballs can continue to share his passion in a new and better space.
Everyone’s heard of Islamo-leftism, but have you heard of Western right wingers being sympathetic to Islamists? There’s an article called “[white jihad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_jihad)” on Wikipedia that goes into this. The idea appears to have originated in a British man born in colonial Tanganyika. He converted to Islam in 1998 (has since left the religion). His reason seems to have been antisemitism and that liberal Western society is degenerate. He started praising the Taliban and Osama bin Laden.
It seems that idea has caught on more after the mid-2010s with an ex-US marine named Sacco Vidal promoting White Sharia. Basically, the idea is that letting white women roam free is disastrous because it lowers birthrates and promotes miscgenation. The solution is to strictly control women by imposing a Taliban like regime of male guardianship on them. The dude still doesn’t like Muslims, though. More recently, Nick Fuentes (far-right activist) has cheered on the Taliban taking over Afghanistan in 2021 for similar reasons (liberalism=bad).
That’s enough brain-rot for one day. I’m kind of curious what would happen if the AFD decided to pursue German Turks more seriously. They seem to have made an effort recently linking Kemalism to the AFD. Will we see the mythical AKP-AFD voter appear if they start promoting these ideas?