Buy white vans, install wifi hotspots, and drive around with “FREE WIFI” written on the van in a sharpie.

But its actually a free wifi with no catches.

Me sitting at home doomscrolling my phone for 10 minutes as a reward for having the energy to put on clothes while I’m already running late for the appointment for treating depression.

I’m on the list.

It’s called being a registered Democrat.

700 millionaire gang where are you?

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The concept of Memories…

The concept of Forgetting…

The idea of existing as a child that has no responsibilities… The idea of Childhood… The idea of Nostalgia…

I have chemicals in my brain that preserved a different “now”…

I remember I used to be a little boy that was loved by parents…

aaahhh I wanna be a kid again.

I wanna be cuddle by mom and not have to worry about “responsibilities”… things like money or jobs

I remember when I was a kid, and I was often with my mom, and adults would be like “is this your son” to my mom and my heart would LIGHT UP for some reason when I get talked about positively (or even neutrally). Especially when its 1st Gen Chinese Diasporas and they’re like “does he speak 中文 (Chinese)” (feels kinda gramatically incorrect btw 中文 is technically the written language) and I instantly feel so proud of my self for being multilingual (English, Cantonese, Mandarin)… I felt a sense of superiority compared to American-Born Chinese… mom was like “oh he does”… I can’t express in words how good that felt when I get praised lol… they seems to be so surprised that I can speak Mandarin too and read

Just all the standard questiois like: “how old is is he?” makes me feel good… cuz it validated my existence… like another being other than my immediate family has recognized my existence. I EXIST. THEY’RE TALKING ABOUE ME UWU 🥹.

Like I overhear my mom’s phone conversations a lot. I FEEL SOO GOOD WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT ME indirectly. Like the “my younger son is [age] years old” and I FEEL SO MUCH JOY hearing that…

just pure childhood

I obsess about memories a lot…

I sometimes fear I wake up one day without my memories… who the fuck would I even be anymore? I’d effectively “died”.

Oh my mom does want me to get shot maybe

I mean if she truely unconditionally loved me, the she wouldn’t be threatening to disinherit me for having depression… so my parents, probably most ethnic Chinese parents, their love was always conditional…

Yes

As a Naturalized American, that would be really bad since… its probably martial law

I know someone is gonna say “but they’re gonna do martial law anyways”

Well let’s see the facts: we’re 1 year in and no martial law yet… my internet is working fine and afiak uncensored… I can visit Chinese websites without a VPN here from the US

And the FBI is probably watching this forum btw…

I all I can say is: jailing someone is seen as more legitimate than an assassination, we have enough shit here, no need for a new martyr and a new, more intense cult rising out of it.

I wouldn’t celebrate it, but I wouldn’t shred a tear either. I would feel frightened… since white nationalists are gonna go even more crazy and gonna start killing minorities.

Depends…

TV Shows? Yea sure, they are only one role out of a big set of casts, and it’s also the product of writers and film directors…

Movies where its centered around that actor’s character? Slightly gonna less fun to watch… depending on the nature of their crime.

Books? Well the entire thing is the the work of that one person so its gonna be much harder to “separate art from artist” but at least you dont have to hear their voice and personality like…

oh… which brings us to Youtube videos…

Yea… no… this is where the separate art from artist doesn’t work… their voice and personality is probably reflecting their character…

Like… I watched PewDiePie’s intro and I already cringe so hard so I never got into it…

Then later I tried it again, watching the PUBG videos… didn’t even need to looked up the deleted bridge incident… he constantly makes uncomfortable jokes

Same with another gameplay channel doing challenge runs in Resident Evil, not even gonna name them since its a tiny ass channel but dude keeps making “women bad” jokes and then he showed the maga hat on a shelf and claimed its just meming… yeahhh… nope out of there real quick

I got Covid at a summer job that mom forced me to do during the height of the epidemic… and because she told me that she regretted giving birth to before my 2nd dose of vaccine, I skipped it because I was being suicidal, so that’s how I got covid.

I wonder if I had heard that before the first dose and skipped it too, would I have died?

Lmao why was I even trying to kill myself with a virus that has 1% death rate… too cowardly to jump off a bridge I guess

Honestly now I think about it… with how bad her English is, I’ll just call the cops myself and say she’s having a bipolar episode.

Just have the #AmericanCops come and shoot us all dead… wanna play with fire, sure…

Bitch literally told me to go to court with her to “translate” for some stupid thing where she got sued or whatever…

Last time my brother was so threatening and made me so scared… I just dialed 911… but I got scared so I hanged up before I got too far… and mom assumed they were on the way and was like: “why the fuck did you call?” “oh great you’re both (me and my brother) are gonna go to jail”

So she clearlt doesn’t wanna involve authorities…

I don’t know if she even dares to call.

Wanna go against the native-level English speaker…

I doubt she can even explain it besides “ooh my son is misbehaving” and I’m gonna be like “Officer, sorry for this my mom is kinda bipolar and she refuses to seek mental healthcare because… you know… their culture is kinda fucked up and backwards… good day officer… sorry for all the troubles”

Yea how is she gonna make the cops side with her…

Seriously she asked me if I wanna go visit China with them next month… nah no thanks… pretty sure its a trap… I feel like the moment the moment I step foot in that country, she’s gonna have complete control…

enjoy your firewall and pollution…

Gandalf blocks the way

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Sometimes I read the Jennifer Pan case and I can emphathize with her…

But no I have no support system… Even Jennifer had friends… I don’t…

I don’t even trust the government welfare system…

Do you know how fucked the laws are? My Citizenship is entangled with my mother’s. If she gets denaturalized, I lose mine too…

Roomate? what the fuck man… seems like a great way to get murdered…

I wanna reroll this dice… Norweigians have it sooo goood…

Thanks a lot, conservatives… great fucking job…

他们有本事找上门来。

这是美国，来这，我毙了你。

(This is a joke, I do not condone violence)

Besides those drives installed inside other devices, I have like 2 portable ssds and 1 portable hdd totalling like 4 TB

bunch of micro sd cards…

I treat it as an effective 1 TB of storage tho… I mean, I use the multiple storage device as redundancy. I’m not gonna actually treat this as I have 4TBs…

Cloud storage is used as offsite backup.

I have a shitty budget laptop and a steam deck and nintendo switch 2… I haven’t even have the energy to play anything for months… mostly just binge watch anime and stuff…

I don’t have a desktop… I don’t like the idea of a device that’s contrained to only be used in one place… how do you even pack it if you wanna move?

That said I don’t really have a place I feel “home” yet… so my mind thinks more like a “nomad”

I like using phone more often… cuz you have it with you everywhere, so I treat my phone as my “Main” device… If I type a document, I always copy it to be on my phone at all times…

Hard to move stuff like a desktop pc or a bookshelf of books, dvds, game cartidges… so I kinda favor digital versions of stuff more than physical…

I don’t bother keeping “backups” of every media I watched, feels like it would cost too much for storage… when you factor in like replacements when drives eventually die… and the headache of having to manage all that… so I only keep irreplacible files like photos, documents,or my writings. And maybe like a .zim wikipedia file or a bunch of ebooks since those doesn’t take much space.

Does everyone on Lemmy have like an entire serverroom or something? Lmfao

(USA btw)

But Identical Twins have the same DNA? 🤣

For real, if my brother was an identical twin instead, pretty sure he’d try to frame me for stuff.

You could also just shoot your guns to cover-up your farts…

As the founders intended, 'Murica Style🇺🇸🦅

Legends has it that they declared independence so they have an excuse to have a holiday that would hide their farts.

That why they’ll ask for your ID and Fingerprints next.

I mean… there is Social Democracy… just sayin’

Edit: To clairify what I mean. Social Democracy is still a Capitalist system, but its more regulated (under a democratic government) and has a social safety net… so the “innovation” stuff that is supposedly fueled by capitalism can still happen, but the worst aspects of capitalism is also mitigated.

Critiques of capitalism can be advocating reform instead of revolution, so don’t be so quick to dismiss all criticisms.

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