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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • An apropos of that. I’m Chinese/Viet half-and-half and was born in the UK. I have friends in the UK that are half-Chinese and half-British (white/caucasian). I had no idea that there were so many “half-Chinese” specific groups online.

    Also, I can’t remember but there was some business about having a Chinese dad was better than a Chinese mom (I could have them switched). However, it’s mainly boys/men with this problem and they’re having issues dating or with school and everything and blame it all on their Chinese parent. My friend tries to chime in to talk some sense into them but the self-victimization is really strong and he gets pushed out.


  • Okay, so it clearly looks annotated to me. So it wasn’t that the people criticizing the photo were saying that the MS13 itself was written on his hand … it was more of the fact that he’s superimposing meaning onto his hand tattoos and claiming it means something else. Sorta like his hurricane path.

    See, this is the thing. I don’t check into each of these stories because there’s a lot of garbage. Then I’m watching some news coverage and then some right-wing guy comes on and gives it some “spin” and I’m like, “wait … do they have a point?”. Urgh.

    None of that compares to the fact that Trump has denied this person’s Constitutionally granted rights and installed himself as judge, jury, and executioner.

    I couldn’t agree more.



  • I didn’t really follow the tattoo business. I did see some pushback from the right claiming that the picture was just “annotating” his hand and that it wasn’t actually faking a tattoo. Then saying, “this is why you can’t trust the left”. Anyone know about that?

    I mean regardless, it doesn’t mean they’re in a gang, annotated photo or not. That isn’t due process.






  • lobut@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldSurrounded by uncultured plebeians!
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    Yeah it feels like the MCU ran over everyone’s dog or something. I get the arguments where people say it’s not real art or that studios put out shlock because they’re trying to copy the MCU. I don’t know if I necessarily agree.

    However, what about the meme about just letting people enjoy things?

    Let me clear. Last MCU movie I watched was like Shang Chi and I lost interest after Loki and Wandavision (great shows). So like, I’m not a fan anymore and I ain’t watching any of their movies any time soon.


  • I’m conflicted on this. Back in the day, I would normally say: building your own computer was the bar (which includes the OS to me).

    Times have changed and all of a sudden (or so it feels) it seems that navigating UIs seems to be making people tech savvy? Quite a lot of kids can navigate things faster than I can, but don’t really get what an OS is at all. That makes sense because iPads, Android Phones, Macs and most machines don’t require any building or OS installation.


  • As The Guardian reports, vegan diets result in 75% less climate-heating emissions than meat-rich ones. Avoiding meat and dairy has been identified as the “single biggest way” to reduce your impact on Earth.

    I remember an old QI episode where Stephen Fry asked how a family could reduce their carbon footprint. Panelists said to get rid of the car. The answer was to get rid of the dog because of the meat it ate. I was like, isn’t the best solution recommending the entire family to go vegan?