Maybe this is an OCD thing but it kinda triggers me when people use a terminology incorrectly or assumes a certain situation/scenario when it was never stated. In this case it’s what I call “Apple iPhone Defaultism”. Its similar American Defaultism, like when the question of “is xyz legal?” but there is no country mentioned, people online always assume something is American laws and someone even go “What state (“state implying a US State, and not a Nation State”) are you from”/“I dont know what your state’s laws are”, or start mentionging “The Constitution” as if theres only one universal constitution in the world.

I got fat/big hands, couldnt type for shit on anything narrower than the pixel XL.

OMG same lolol, I saw all these “we want smaller phones” comments and I was like do we have Irish Leprechauns on the internet?

At the end of the day iOS has better accessibility

??? I never mentioned iOS?

Or did you just subconsciously mapped “flagship phone” to “Apple Phones”

🤔

Edit: Lmao Apple fanboy/fangirls be downvoting. Didnt even know Lemmy had these people.

Chernobyl… didnt get past 1st episode. Feels like some weird documentary, my monkey brain didnt feel the dopamine so I had to click the X in the corner

Succession… yeah idk whats going on, rich dudes being in parties all the time, meetings, and of course, drugs??? Okay but like no action, lame.

Mr Robot. This is just depression and drugs and I dont even know what the plan is most of the time. Like okay dude pulls up to a random “hacker base” then like he does drugs while hacking some corporate as a distraction for his other hacker friends or… something… what? I have no idea what happened. Did they pull a “Corporate Dystopia” filter over the show? I dont need more depression in my escapism.

My theory: Trump Admin hired someone incompetent and they fucked up the comms. I mean that just the theme of trump admins basically

Actually less scary than if, say, Obama was president. (or even a Bush really)¹

Cuz a trump admin having a major shutdown could just mean his admin hired a Christian straight white cis male “DEI Hire” that was incompetent and flipped off a switch and shut the whole thing down.

Ngl, my mind immediately was like “oh shit, here comes the nuclear war” when I saw the headline.

Nooooo… Think of the poor shareholders 🥺

oh wow, as someone that watches anime often, yeah now kinda recall many instances of that.

I noticed that kawaii sound very close mandarin’s 可爱 (kě aì) but then was a bit confused by it when later a monster shows up or something to that extent then then i feel like they said the same word, but judging from context and intonation (and subtitles was on of course), I just assume it originated from 可恶 (kě wù) and the sound just shifted over time due to geographical separation.

Unrelated: When I first heard Daijoubou, I thought it was supposed to be 大家没事吧 cuz the dà jiā sounds very close to Daijou

I feel like half the time I just make assumptions about a Japanese word’s etymology based on a Sinitic language and try to encode it to memory that way. I mean whatever helps my brain make sense of foreign words and so it kinda served as a memory aid thing. Cuz like Japanese sometimes has words that sound so close you can just map it to another language you already know with some made up etymology regardless if its true lolm

Oh yeah. Bring it on, daddy 😩

(Am American 🦅)

Immigration is a great thing, but I think assimilation should be heavily encouraged to promote social cohesion. Stuff like resources for language learning and the host country’s way of doing things should be pushed more aggressively. I just cringe when my dad who’s been here 16 years barely knows english and doesnt bother to learn, and then mom is still doing the idiosyncracies of their culture. (dad is still on greencard, never got citizenship cuz the engrish issue)

But thankfully the 2nd and 3rd generations tend to do great (I’m 1.5 gen), but this basically breaks a family that’s caught between the immigration-generation divide. Like there’a just this whole entire world of me they would never understand.

(This comment isnt meant as a “trashtalking” my parents, its just that I can feel the “crack” in my family of origin)

The US isnt that beautiful if you’re looking at this from a European perspective.

HOWEVER, if you’re from a place even worse, the US could look like paradise to you.

Don’t forget that if you have regular access to a relatively uncensored internet and can drink water straight from the tap, you have it better than half of the world, which is not to say you shouldn’t strive for better, you definitely should protest, contact your congressperson, vote, all that stuff (as best as you can mentally handle), but sometimes you have to pause and appreciate what you do have.

Context: I was born in the People’s Republic of China circa 2000 and now resides in the US. I mean yes China’s public transit looks better but everything besides that isnt all that nice really. I lived in a part of a city that looks absolutely filthy and deteriorated

(And yes, NYC is dirty, especially Manhattan, but some places in Brooklyn look quite okay, if you could afford living there lol.)

Trans athletes in student sports - now I believe there should be no student sports.

I LOLOLED

Its funny how people come to radically different conclusions on one topic:

Conservatives: Omg gEnDeRs! What would we do if a boy and a girl touched, jaysus would rain hellfire on us

LGBT+ Allies: Trans Women are Women

Egalitarians: Gender shouldnt matter

This guy: ABOLISH SPORTS

But still lowkey an interesting take +1

Problem is, you yelling “ICE is Gestapo” just sounds like fearmongering to the average person. Because statisti ally most people never see ice, and even when they do, it just seems like “immigration enforcement”. Dont think about it from a Leftist mindset, think from the normie’s brain. Like view this thing with normie lens and it just seems like a normal part of the system.

At first I was scared to, I explained that to my aunt about my reluctance to exit the us borders in fear of not being able to return. (Because I do not like the previous country I came from) But she’s like “oh really?” like she did not even take it seriously.

Because she left the US and reentered dozens of times and nothing happened. She is visibly non-white, we are Chinese American, but she is a US Citizen and she never had issues at the border, neighther my Uncles. None of my extended family, visibly East Asian, had any problems with ICE.

I was also kinda worried about my mom going to China, because like both sides feels sketchy. I feel like China would call her a traitor and the US would, on return, deny entry or accuse her of being a Communist spy or something like that. Nope, she and my older brother just returned just fine. Just normal entry never detained in some dark room. Never gotten any extra scrutiny.

I also recently visited Canada with my mother, we came back just fine, no ICE shenanigans.

And we are ethnically Chinese just to remind you again.

So imagine white families. How often do you think they see ICE if we dont even see ICE.

How do you convince people about a “Gestapo” when like statistically most people dont see it.

Like if I try to talk to a conservative, and they ask “have you ever been stopped by ICE? Have you even seen ice” I’d have to be honest and say no, then they could go “see, your legal, you’re gonna be fine, they’re just after the ‘illegals’”

Like idk how to even argue.

I’m not denying that it happens, to brown people, it definitely does happen. Its just between work and making food and chores who really does all the research? Some kid unemployed could do these research, but average working adults do not have the time to research. Anything they see on tv feels like “oh yea thats just enforcing the law” to normies.

Edit: Btw the “uncles and grandma watching propaganda” was an example, I dont actually know what my uncles, aunts, grandparents voted for, but they’re very normie so it wouldnt be shocking if they did vote conservative.

I have views that lots people on social media will disagree on, but unless they are far-right, I think its still not exactly completely hostile.

But here, oh boy, if you aren’t left enough, you are a “fascist”.

By Lemmy standards, most people I’ve talked to would be “fascist”. Your uncle with a small bussiness complaining about a liberal politician? Yep he’s literally adolf hitler. Your grandma that only ever gets fed propaganda? She’s no different from someone cheering at the gas chambers. Your male classmates that never had good influence in their life and fell into a manosphere rabbit hole because the left abandoned young men, and they just wanna feel better and be “alpha” (or whatever it is they say)? Oh yea according to Lemmy, we should just shoot all these people. Shoot your grandma cuz its her fault for watching propaganda. Your uncle is a nazi because he has a stuggling bussines and got swindled by a politician. Dont even bother teying to talk to your conservative neighbor, Lemmy commands you to shoot them on sight. Everyone is evil unless they are 100% Socialist.

I would say Lemmy is better than 4chan or someshit like that, but its not some internet paradise.

But at least you wont get called a slur here, thats the best part about far-left spaces over the far-right. Radical racial inclusivity and pro LGBTQ is the best thing about Lemmy, even when toxicity happens, at least your race or sexual lifestyle is never criticized. But “more accepted” is not exactly the right word.

Because people tend to post judgemental comments / victimblaming, or just overall werent helpful (even if that wasnt the intent) when I’m already at my lowest, and I could already forsee that the post is just gonna get lots of negativity, so I dont even bother.

I see it often here too, humans are humans and no matter if its reddit, discord, or wherever. Honestly I’ve been learning a lot recently. Sometimes you have to self-help because you cannt expect random internet strangers to help you. Lots of people claim hat “we’re just trying to help” but they never actually try, but just to kick you down while you’re already down.

Yeah my mistake is posting it online. Next time I’m just gonna ask AI and they’re way less judgemental.

Three times is enemy bedroom action

Snow would be a “yay!”

Much more calm