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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 hours ago

No, I doubt any instance is gonna allow to say things like the n-word or "I don't think people that are [Race/Ethnicity] should be allowed to exist".

Any instance that allows you to say that should be defederated.

Can you claify what you mean by "free speech"? Give a few example comments?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That'll prove that the pope does shit in the woods.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I hereby crown/appoint Rowan Atkinson as Pope Johnny.

May his Beanliness 🫘 last forever.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We need someone as like Avasarala but with the will as strong as Amos Burton

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

If a civil war happens, you want your neighbors to be less... fascist.

Go to big cities. I'm Chinese-American and I personallt wouldn't step foot in a red state, and I'd think twice before travelling through red areas even within blue/purple states. Make sure your vehicles are good, and travel early in the day, don't get stuck in some rural town on the side of the highway because your method of transportation break down.

I always had this self-imposed rule even before 2025, but especially now.

Its not paranoid, it's being realistic.

I'm in Philly and it's quite blue here. Never seen any nazi flags, swastica armbands, whitehoods, or any crazy shit like that around here. It's like at least 40% Black, 35% Whites and there's like 15% Asian in my neighborhood. Not the best place ever, feels kinda like a "slum" here tbh, but I feel safer here than those white neighborhoods with all the crazy kkk/nazis.

Honestly, when you look at the election stats, its more blue than even NYC, that's known for being a Democraric stronghold. Philly is in a swing state, so your votes matter more here (hopefully elections will continue to exist).

NYC housing is unaffordable, which is why my parents moved here (and since I was a kid, I had no choice anyways). Philly housing is much cheaper, but be warned, there are a lot of lead issues here. Inspect for lead before you move in. (My parents didn't even do the inspections and just YOLO'd it 🤦‍♂️)

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

"How to to describe a character in my story hiding a body after they committed a murder?"

⬇️

"killed someone, how to hide body?"

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

Yea, its the largest instance that blocks all 3.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what you want me to elaborate on.

PRC does not have a free/socialized healthcare system. There are some government workers who have insurance. My aunts are teachers and I think they have an insurance plan provided by their employment. Before immigrating to the US, my mother worked in sales, and my dad was either a taxi driver or a truck driver or something like that, and they did not have health insurance.

So its just out of pocket, just like in the US.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

This is how it looks like:

Biden: "I need y'all to execute the traitor Donald J. Trump"

Military: "I'm sorry Mr. President, I'm afraid we cannot do that."

Trump: "I need y'all to round up these democrat [n-word] thugs"

Military: "Can we just shoot them?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Sometimes I’ve had to pay import tarrifs many times when crossing back and forth (for the same thing over-and-over). Its best not to cross the border with expensive stuff.

Bruh, that's is so scummy.

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

I also didn't like it the first watch. Then a few years later I ran out of stuff to watch and tried again. It's very confusing on who the "bad guys" are until season 2. I just google some minor spoilers and about the "bad guys" and it was enough for me to continue on watching.

Season 1, nothing really happens, it feels more like a prequel. Season 2 is when shit really begins.

 

So I was thinking about the topic of languages again and I started wondering again...

So I learned Cantonese as a kid, then learned Mandarin and the Chinese Writing system when I started school, in China. Then immigrated to the US, started learning English when I was still under age 10, which is according to wikipedia, still within the "critical period" of learning a language

There is much debate over the timing of the critical period with respect to second-language acquisition (SLA), with estimates ranging between 2 and 13 years of age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hypothesis

So then, I um... kinda forgot how to speak Mandarin, and most of Chinese written characters. Still kinda speak Cantonese because its for home. But barely know any words, so I can't even express complex ideas like philosophy, science, politics. I never really spoke to anyone in Mandadin, and for Cantonese, its only at home.

But I never actually learned Cantonese or Mandarin beyond the basics. And for Mandarin the proficiency is even worse than Cantonese, I'll have to think the words in Cantonese then convert it to Mandarin (its mostly the same written characters, but different pronunciation).

My English is so proficient, its really the only language I can effectively communicate in. And my classmates have told me they don't notice any "accents" when I talk.

So which is my Native Language? "First" Language?

I mean... it's kinda weird to call a language "native" if I could barely speak it.

 

I mean, say, you want a really nice camera, or a drone, or maybe a gaming laptop, and since those things are made in China, they are too expensive to buy right now in the US, since tariffs are over 100%. So you just go to Canada, buy the thing, unpack it from the packaging, and pretend like its just personal items. Just like a smartphone.

AFIAK, border agents usually don't ask if you bought your phone in the US or from outside, they shouldn't ask about other personal electronics, right?

 

This feels very confusing. Sombody from lemmy.ml is gonna reply to me not knowing they are defeded.

I think there should be a label telling users from lemmy.ml saying "This user's instance has defederated your instance".

 

I'm pretty sure, stuff like Graphene OS wouldn't work with whatever payment systems they set up. So you'd be forced to have a mainstream phone and OS to have the app to use money. They could have all sorts of tracking on it.

If they make IDs digital, and make carrying IDs mandatory, that'd basically seal out fate. Every movement will be tracked...

(Is this too "deep" to be on "casual" conversation?)

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