“Now watch as we enshittify our platform while buying out all the competition, manipulate national electoral outcomes with algorithmic profiling, and cover up our own internal studies on harmfulness in order to continue exploiting minors for profit!”

Interesting. Good to know, thank you.

If you don’t mind me asking, how much does your personal identity weigh being Asian compared to whichever specific nationality/ethnicity you are?

Sorry if that’s phrased weird. I mean like for example if you’re Korean, how much do you identify as “Korean” versus “Asian”? Or does it not matter to you?

I’m sure it’s different for everybody, and it might depend strongly on factors like generation and how frequently you use the language in daily life. But I like to ask people for their personal perspectives because it’s better than either assuming, or generalizing based on what sounds right. If that makes sense?

I know for instance people living in Asia are more likely to identify with their nationality or ethnic group, or the language they speak, rather than thinking of themselves as simply “Asian.” But among the diaspora, I’m curious to know how much it blends together into a multicultural “Asian” identity.

Cause I don’t want to be insensitive and say just “Asian” if that sounds overly reductive. But I also don’t know the polite way to ask someone what country their family is from…

Damn, I really took it to heart several years ago when I started finding out almost everything I liked was considered cultural appropriation (I always thought it was cultural appreciation, and it’s not like I was profiting off of anything, but nope I was a white dude so apparently it was a problem if the pattern on my shirt looked a little to meso-american. I just liked the shirt).

Like, people were downright cruel about it. It really killed me on the inside, just day-by-day learning all these new things that I wasn’t supposed to like, even though I had liked them for a long time. I didn’t know what to like anymore. Music, clothes, food, etc.; just crushed me more a little each day because it was so cool to gang up on the white guy I guess.

But I wanted to do my best, be a good person, examine my biases and overcome my ignorance, etc., so if I argued with it much at first I didn’t for very long and after a while I started giving up a lot of things I previously enjoyed…

Let me put this visually for you, because you don’t seem to be getting it.

This is what zipper merges are supposed to be:

(Leading up to the merge; ignore the period):

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As you can see, each one alternates at a regular interval.

This is what happens in reality:

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The cars in the merging lane all push to the front, and try to merge in twos and threes instead of alternating like they’re suppose to.

You are not entitled to your place in line there is no your place in line.

In a zipper merge, there literally is a “your place in line.” It’s right after the guy who merges behind the car in front of you. A second or third car shouldn’t be forcing their way in there, because it’s supposed to alternate. That’s how the whole thing is supposed to work.

Because US colleges are becoming degree mills.

I have a different take on this.

tl,dr: Japanese cuisine has a certain quality, which is a deeply cultural phenomenon, but the “Japanese” restaurants near me are all run by Chinese families, and as someone who spent years in Japan I can tell the difference in the quality of the food.

I don’t see how it isn’t considered cultural appropriation. If a white guy tries opening a Japanese restaurant people will say it’s cultural appropriation (and probably call him a weeb). So how is it any different when a Chinese family opens a Japanese restaurant? I don’t see any way you can reconcile those two things without implying that Asian people are all the same, which is racist.

For what it’s worth, Chinese food is good in its own way. I don’t have anything against the Chinese diaspora. I just don’t see how it isn’t cultural appropriation for Chinese families to run Japanese or Thai restaurants.

“When the boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That’s why I wack off on company time.”

I see you know your judo well.

That’s why I said this:

Yet another nice thing that’s reserved only for the rich…

The rest was intended to be tongue-in-cheek

It’s basically never a good deal financially to live in a castle. It’s something you do for your ego alone lol

I disagree. Someone might live in a castle because they think it’s awesome. That doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with ego

That explains a lot.

Someone JSLs (Japanese as a Second Language)

I mean it only comes out of the warm teet of a barnyard animal, what’s the worst that could happen?

Why bother sterilizing the milk before you drink it? In fact, I’ve heard raw milk doesn’t even need to be refrigerated because of all the beneficial bacteria it’s got (hard /S, btw)

You know what’s strange, though? My 7th grade science teacher used to preach to the class about how he and his wife were getting into drinking raw milk and how it’s supposedly so much better for you. So… if that’s any indication what kind of county I grew up in…

That was back in the late aughts when dubya was still in office, too. So it’s not like it was just a case of the RFK jr. brainworm…

The media coverage leading up to the election was infuriating. If that’s how the masses get their information, then it absolutely does skew the outcome of elections.

Maybe NYT was just one slice of the cake, but add up all the other major media outlets that were sanewashing trump and skirting over his many glaring issues, while piling on Biden and later Kamala and nitpicking them with the finest-toothed of combs, and the problem becomes obvious.

But if you’re anti-car infrastructure, then you don’t want to get hit by those alternatives, because the anti-mass-transit crowd might use it to villify mass transit.

If you get hit by a car then you can become an anti-car martyr for the cause

Noooo!!!

You’re still ignoring my main point which is how many people abuse the merging lane to try to get ahead and skip to the front of the line.

Systems that depend on everyone cooperating fairly and being patient and taking their turns kinda break down when a bunch of selfish people try to take advantage of the good faith and fairplay of others…

No, I’m saying that straight people with 0% repressed bisexuality typically don’t think about whether or not they would marry their same-sex mates if they were only a little more gay…

Never seen so many billboards for sex shops and strip clubs as driving through missoura…

Being tidally-locked may mean that not having any Van Allen belts may be irrelevant: the radiation they’re being bombarded by is coming from their sun, & life could evolve on the opposite side, having warmth, & maybe photosynthesis at the daylight-horizon?

Now that’s cool to think about. What if there’s a large ring of life around the daylight horizon that hosts complex organisms (would plant-like organisms have red chlorophyll?), and to the sun-facing side everything becomes a constant, immense blare of red light, x-rays, and UV radiation; and to the dark side is constant darkness broken only by the stars, and maybe some fungal/bacterial lifeforms and stuff that can feed on them.

What color would the horizon be? Like the “sunset” of a red dwarf, would it shift to blues and greens and purples or just be invisible?

Wait! He isn’t dead!
Shia Surprise, there’s a gun to your head,
and death in his eyes.
But you can do Jiu Jitsu!
Body slam superstar Shia LaBeouf.

Legendary fight with Shia LaBeouf!
Normal Tuesday night for Shia LaBeouf!
You try to swing an axe at Shia LaBeouf!
But blood is draining fast from your stump leg.

He’s dodging every swipe,
he parries to the left.
You counter to the right,
you catch him in the neck.
You’re chopping off his head now!
You have just decapitated Shia LaBeouf!