My Fellow Earthicans: I’m please to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw DOOP forever, we begin colonization of space in 5 minutes.

If they floated, they’re guilty, if they sank, they’re innocent

If they deflected the laser with a tinfoil hat, they’re guilty, if they get mindblown, they’re innocent. This tech has 100% accuracy. Trust the process! 😉

TIL that the authors of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, the Handmaid’s Tale, Fahrenheit 451, are fascists.

Thanks for educating me!

Damn now I feel so sinful for having watched Star Wars already, god damn George Lucas, I didnt know he was a dirty fascist!

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Eh, the new enemy is “China”, and even though both parties agree, look at whats happening. Enemy of enemy is not friend.

Besides, did anyone forget the civil rights movement? I mean I’d argue that was even more divisive and the US still survived.

As for education, there are way more resources today, but perhaps its abundance that made people take it for granted and not have a craving for info that “oh I could just google it, why bother learning”.

Its more like a technological shift, not a “we need an enemy to distract us”.

(I’m not technophobic btw, just an observation)

No need for “illegal police stations” when the diaspora willingly install WeChat and gives out every permission. 🤦

What a lovely living room scene of parents watching propaganda wechat shorts ON REPEAT about how powerful the PLA is and how they’re gonna take Taiwan and on SPEAKERS about how “ukraine and nato are the dEvILs”, and also “democrats are ruining everything, LoOk aT aLL tHeSe iLLeGaLs aNd hOmElEsS” (seriously thats what my house looks like)

Seriously, we need a petition for WeCrap to get deplatformed. And btw deplatforming wouldnt violate free speech since its a corporate decision, not government.

Old Internet? Nah, to me the internet was born in 2010 xD

Edit: Damn nobody gets the joke.

Four Seasons Landscaping V2: Blexas went Blue Bluegaloo 🤠

I also lived in china (Guangzhou 廣州) from birth till when i was 8, and we had games on DVD discs that a portable dvd player could read from and the games would appear on the screen, so you hook it up to the tv and controllers and its a ghetto bootleg gaming system.

Unfortunately the thing broke withing a few years of immigrating to the us. I think its either in a pile of stuff in the basement or just thrown away when we later moved again. All that remains is memories.

I do remember cartdridges, vaguely, but um yeah the hippocampus is not very developed at a young age. But yeah I do know the “blow on the cartridge” thing.

There were two controllers, and one of them got mushy buttons so of course my older brother made me use that one, lol.

Some of the games I remember from memory, i tried looking it up but couldn’t even find info on it, possible just a thing unique to China? Like it would sounds so bizzare to even try to describe the games. But yea kirby and mario games I do remember, althought the actual old memory is like 5% of my brain by now, watching people play it on youtube consists of most of my memories of mario games

My family of origin was probably one of the few unique ones, my older brother didnt have to find a playmate cuz my mother gifted him one, that being me, cuz she ignored one child policy and gave birth to me. (Yes that was actually one of her reasoning as to why she gave birth to me, so “咁哥哥有伴” so my older brother has someone to play with.) So two player games were a thing, not that I remember, but we did play some two player games in the us on a potato laptop until eventually we drifted apart cuz of… you know, the typical sibling issues, fighting…

This was circa 2000 to 2010s, we had no internet in our area of Guangzhou.

Feel free to ask questions, I feel like questions are the best way to probe deeper memories to resurface.

It was like a past life long long ago. Hardly remember much by now. Sadly I never did any journaling or have old photos of like everything. Wished I had a camera to keep the past as a memento.

My parents to me one second after hearing about Jonny Kim: “why u no astronaut yet?”

(I’m Asian)

This spawncamping is getting out of control

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Anyone remember when serbia’s government (allegedly) used a sonic weapon against protestors? Maybe they should investigate that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmK-KZOiT-c

you know how it sounds like straight out of a tin foil hat dude’s rant about “government energy weapons”? except this is actually a thing we have now, conspiracies becoming reality, what a world we live in.

Oh daddy xi, pls no, not my social credits. 😩

习爹哋，饶了我吧！ Not the spanking again! 😭

How I see it is:

If you accidentally tapped an extra zero, you’d probably be extremely infuriated. I guess they made it this way so that doesnt happen. Cuz corporate dont wanna deal with chargebacks.

(disclaimer: rant warning)

I hate discord too. If you mention anything slightly negative, they’ll ban you for “spreading harmful content”.

Including posting a slightly “dark” poem in a language exchange server. POETRY! Like whats next, are songs including “dark” lyrics gonna be banned too?
Literally the diaspora-run servers are the worst, I joke about the toxic culture that we grew up in and the top mod was like “um yeah we’re totally here trying to help you, but your chat will be deleted and this is a warning, stop complaining”

Hmmm…
I feel like I just hate my ancestry/heritage even more after those interactions. The more interactions with people of my heritage, the more it just pushes me towards western culture. Literally the western-raised ethnic Chinese simping for the toxicity of Chinese culture, like what do they even know, they barely speak the language, I know more characters than them.

So yeah I basically left every server and gonna delete the account soon after i delete all the contacts. Ugh. No wonder why there as Asians that wanna “Act White”.

People are probably going to discord or some random website they spin up locked behind user registration (they they’ll promptly disable after like a week cuz they fear authorities infiltrating)

Or telegram, I heard its popular for um… hackers, crypto, unlawful videos, intelligence operatives. (not trying to say that everyone using telegram is doing unlawful activities, but it is a reputation i heard when its mentioned)

Its like sitting near a window basically, people on the sidewalk are gonna have trouble seeing you with just their eyes (i mean like most sidewalks are quite far away to the window because of front yards) but anyone could get a camera with zoom lens and see your face.

Lol, I mean banks already require KYC and have your real identity on record so you could just use it on your phone running the official corporate-built mobile os, I mean my point is, you aren’t even supposed to use VPN for online banking cuz they’ll just flag your connection, that connection is supposed to look as “normie” as possible (hence why it kinda breaks with graphene os). I’m talking about activities that you were previously using GrapheneOS/Custom ROMs for, like the stuff you want privacy for.

(slightly off on a tagent but relevent)

i mean at this point, i feel like phones are just hostile, and computers are the last bastion of freedom in the digital world. run linux, connect to phone hotspot then you are free to use whatever encrypted programs you want, bypassing “client side scanning” or whatever bullshit they want to implement. like… from how i see it, google will eventually kill the bootloader unlock from pixels, and the vast majority of phones, even if bootloader unlockable, does not have relocking with custom keys and also lineage is kinda insecure (at least thats that seems to be the internet consensus), even if it might be more private.

Phone should just be a “modem/router” thing, your gateway to the internet, the actual stuff should just be done on a portable computer. Australia already started a whitelisting thing for phone, its only a matter of time.