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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Improving your driving license quality would save so much money by reducing worker deaths.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago

You work too much. Your work quality suffers because of it. Studies have shown the optimum amount of time to do serious mental work in a day is less than half of how much you all work since childhood cram schools.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/10/surprising-benefits-four-day-week/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Experiencing the world through a camera lens is not how it's meant to be

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Mod Comment: Fair's fair. The Americans copped it sweet, so it seems like it's someone else's turn. Just keep it within the rules, especially rule 1.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You folks are just as racist, sexist, and bigoted as Oklahoma.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Some of ya'll are the most racist people and China is, like, the Texas of Asia. I think of people living in China the same way I think of people living in North Korea: How horrific, I wish them luck.

Also, WTF South Korea. All I hear is how sexist and fucked up you are. I don't hear anything good about living there, and the fact that some of those cheabols haven't been assassinated yet is beyond me.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

y'all racist as fuck!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (3 children)

BREAD DOESN'T NEED TO BE SWEET. Please. Especially not cheese toast.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Live in Japan and seconded. It can be sweet, but making it all sweet is just missing out on so much.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago

Asian here, I came in thinking there was nothing I could read that would hurt. Then, first comment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I want sweet bread, what is it called 🥺

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It's just called bread.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My hot take: saving face and thinking that winning by cheating is the same as winning are toxic culture traits

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)

Keeping up appearances at all costs accumulates moral debt and leads to monumental failures down the line. Everyone knows the senile boss is about to make another mistake, but the nail that sticks out gets hammered down, so everyone shuts up until bankruptcy and suicides.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

China is just West Taiwan. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

West Taiwan: "Okay so you admit we are both part of the same country then? BEGIN THE ~~INVASION~~ UNIFICATION!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Of the mainland..

Finish the sentence.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In a world where we think of climate change and national debt as Western worries, Asia's dirtiness is enough of an absolute eco-hazard to warrant its own kind of debt if the rest of us thought the same way.

The same rivers Rama and Krishna bathed in could today kill you, and China has enough air pollution that the smog from Los Angeles blows over from there, more or less the same way sand from the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

China has enough air pollution that the smog from Los Angeles blows over from there

I think you meant to say:
"China has enough air pollution that the smog from there blows over to Los Angeles"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, sorry. Said that in reverse.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

McDonald's and fast food restaurants are looked down on in many western countries. Flexing you're eating at McDonalds to westerners is like saying you don't know what quality looks like.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

McDonald's only uses pink slime in the US. Other countries health standards require real food to be served. So that flex is actually understandable. Their McDonald's is actually good and relatively healthy all things considered. I can't imagine eating McDonald's over there your entire life only to realize one vacation that your country has the superior fast food.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Biggest cope in the past 10 years, here ...hahaha

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I can assure you is that all of the fast foods ive been to in europe, all tasted like shit. except for kfc and taco bell. Subway is the most egregious offender, 9 euro for a 15 cm sandwich is straight up theft. It wasnt even good, just the most mid turky sandwich ever

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Idk about Asia, but I've been to McDonald's in Germany and it tasted exactly the same as home.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

When I briefly lived in China one of the first things expats would ask is if you've tried KFC yet. I don't eat meat but almost every Westerner I met raved about how much better fast food is in china.

I used to get fast food fries occasionally in Australia, then stopped when I moved to the US cause the quality was much worse. I started again Taiwan.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Your curry sucks.

No, not that other Asian country's curry. That one is really good.

YOUR curry sucks.

Why is it like that and way different from that other Asian country that tastes way better?

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