

I didn’t have internet till like the 2010s
What did I miss out on?
(He/Him/佢/他)
美籍華人 Chinese American
Native Speaker of:
粵語/廣東話 Cantonese
国语/普通话 Mandarin
台山話 Taishanese
alts: @WongKaKui@piefed.social
光復香港,時代革命。
Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times.


I didn’t have internet till like the 2010s
What did I miss out on?


Omg, they were gonna actually give undocumented immigrants legal status, then fucking 9/11 happened and suddenly xenophobia popular again.
Imagine how much better that 9/11 never happened timeline would be.


I remember Brooklyn (NYC) Public Libaries had DVDs you could borrow. They even have foreign language TV shows lol.


Lol I never went to a movie theater in my entire life. Am I missing out on anything?
I kinda hate crowds lol, and since we have the internet, I kinda have even less incentive to go one.


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Frugal family, never had a tree. I didn’t care either. I just wished we did something fun as a family. I see normal families on tv and I feel jealous. My parents aren’t like bad, but they kinda aren’t good either. None of the holidays were really memorable in particular. I had “okay” moments, but nothing really “wholesome” that i could share.
Like any useful gifts or really just family time to some new place is all I want, fuck trees, I personally don’t care, it doesn’t really do anything.
I mean colorful lighting would look cool, but trees? Meh.
(I’m not born in a western country for context)


I’m Asian so living with family is the norm… (I’m a young adult, think lile college age, but I’m dealing with depression so college plans are on pause)
But idk, I remember I had fun times with my mother when I was just a kid. Now… idk…
So much depression from both trauma within the family, and trauma from outside (school… xenophobia/racism and bullying, and also political instability)
I’m not alone, but I’m lonely.
I have a older brother, but something happened years ago and we don’t vibe anymore. (sibling abuse, fighting…)
I don’t really have friends, I’m not good at keeping friends… so… yeah…
Not alone, just lonely.
I have a cat, but I’m not a good owner, so my cat is kinda indifferent towards me, it’s my fault for not being in a good enough mental state to play with my cat. I kinda messed up this timeline, I wish I could go back to re-do it.


Well-Regulated Militias that are held accountable by the community. Direct government.


You have to slowly move the overton window, if you say kidnapping, people think you’re “overreacting”


Disagree. Without Section 230 (or equivalent laws of their respective jurisdictions) your Fediverse instance would be forced to moderate even harder in fear of legal action. I mean, who even decides what “AI deception” is? your average lemmy.world mod, an unpaid volunteer?
It’s a threat to free speech.


Rule 6
But yes, they could change it any time. And it’s not called the “quorum”, that’s a different thing, you’re talking about the filibuster. They could also just have the VP preside over the senate and ignore the parliamentarian by simple majority vote.
Its not really a rule, more like a gentlemen’s corrupt oligarchal pawn’s agreement. They could throw it away at any moment, like they actually did before:
Democrats did for judicial nominations (except the supreme court) during the Obama Administration, then republican expanded upon that got rid of the filibuster for the supreme court nominations under the 1st trump admin.


Childhood (well… minus all the moments I got emotionally abused)
I wish I could go back and re-do it. I didn’t appreciate how good it was to be carefree.
I could probably try to make friends in this new timeline… maybe do better this time to fix broken family relationships…


On the other hand, 8000+ characters seems kinda fun…
握草泥马币
The joke is “wo cao ni ma bi”, change the tones and you got 我操你妈逼 🤭


An undercover black cop got beaten by his fellow white cops…
I also remember a Chinese American cop in NYC who’s gun accidentally discharged and the bullet ricocheted off a wall and hit a suspect and the suspect died, and immediately, the department threw him under the bus to say “oh we hold our officers accountable”, while simultaneously defending white cops who murders with intent. They will use you as a scapegoat. They will blame you for every mistake. I still remember my parents talking about that. Like everyone was talking about it on WeChat.
People that are neurodivergent are gonna get discriminated by them, don’t do it.


Your new username is -South -East Wind lmao


I know these signs might not seems like a lot, but as a 1.5-Gen immigrant that have lived here for most of my life, seeing these “immigrants are welcome” signs in the streets is a huge relief… it reminds me that I still have allies, that not everyone here is that hateful… it gives me hope…


10 year ago I said to my self: “Why is my life so boring, wouldn’t it be fun to witness some interesting event!”
I was not looking forward to this… 🙃
Chat, are we cooked?
Bring in the FG204, we gotta go back, we gotta reach Steins Gate.


Right now I don’t have a reddit account and I just lurk there, but if I really wanted to talk about, say, a specific TV show I like, or a Movie, or Anime, or a Book… that would not exist on the fediverse. It’s either just Reddit or maybe Discord.
If I wanna talk about stuff from a non-white perspective, the best place I’d really find my people outside the great firewall is Reddit.
I mean I the amount of Cantonese-speakers on Lemmy is like… single-digits


Yes, I once posted that quote on Lemmy and used that to criticize the US Democrats’ Gun Policies and got downvoted lmao
How high is your proposed number?
Why is Big = Bad?
Proton have over 100 million users.
Do we fine Proton AG for a bunch of shitheads abusing their platform and sending malicious email? How do they detect it if its encrypted? Force them to backdoor the encryption?