DeathByBigSad
@DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I feel like half the time someone is accused of being a bot, the accuser is the bot. 8 hours ago:
If you are human, why do you have an animal avatar?
turns to my FBI colleagues
“we got 'em!”
- Comment on I feel like half the time someone is accused of being a bot, the accuser is the bot. 9 hours ago:
BOT ALERT, SOMEONE CALL THE BOT POLICE 🚨🚨🚨
/j
- Comment on I really want a "What if" Machine. I'd kill for it. 1 day ago:
Eh… I asked a LLM what if I arrived in the US when I was 6 instead of 8 and it predicted I’d probably totally forget my knowledge of Chinese and be more American… and it said I’d be responding in English instead of Cantonese… and that I would not feel so sentinental towards my Chinese name and constantly write those Characters on my assignments in school next to the Pinyin Name…
Like…
I don’t know about that… seems like it got a lot of data from just stereotyping…
I want like a superpowerful computer that can predict the movement of every particle in the universe…
Laplace’s Demon sort of thing…
How much data do I need to even feed it to get it to make an accurate prediction? A full brain scan?
But then that runs into a privacy issue.
I want an OFF GRID what if machine that I can destroy so nobody has a map of my brain…
- Submitted 1 day ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on If you found out your cousin was a billionaire (non-famous) and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, how would you react? Would you be mad he didn’t tell you? 1 day ago:
I mean DO have cousins whose aunt KEEPS BRAGGING ABOUT THEIR VACATIONS…
And when my fsmily was in NYC (like when ai was 8 - 12) they were busy so they left their kid (who’s named RAYMOND) with us, and he fucking started bullying me… fucking ABCs (American-Born Chinese) so arrogrant cuz they got birthright citizenship and spoke better
And recently, they just bragged about this Raymond apparantly “making millions of dollars from a bussiness trip abroad”.
I’m just like… cool good for you, lucky you got privilage.
They grew up with Wii and Nintendos
My other cousins, all those who were all born in the US, every one of then had a bunch of toys and video game consoles growing up… I never had an actual video game console growing up. My family is broke as hell.
So its just jealousy, envy… but still, I’m not gonna beg them for money, its a face thing.
Which is why my mom is so disappointed in me, we’re probably the “poorest” in my extended family…
One of the Aunts actually got my family to the US so I am thankful for that… (the mom of that Raymond kid, that kid who bullied me when my parents wete babysitting him, I say “babysitting” but he was a year older than me actually)
I mean I have no relationship with any of my cousins, they didn’t even wanna talk to be because I was “Fresh Off the Boat”… so we just kinda never really talked…
I don’t care about them… I’m more worried about whether or not I get my half of my parents stuff, those cousins are irrelevent to me, I mean good for them, they had more privilege than I ever did.
But then again, they probably had more pressure and expectations… so IDK if they actually have happier lives… I heard they were forced to do tutoring and stuff. Their dad is a college professor and I think their family own a lot of realestate and they have stocks and get news cars so often, like a new flagship phone every year… vacations every year…
And my paternal grandparents keeps asking money from their children… its always so awkward… my mom told dad to “make sure to give it when everyone else is in the room” so there are witnesses and they wont say their son (aka: my dad) was being “unfilial”…
- Comment on Whales ARE fish 1 day ago:
You Honor I wanna present evidence in defense of OP:
Exhibit A: In Chinese Language it’s 鲸鱼
Literally has the character “鱼” in the word, the 鲸 character also has the 鱼 radical built into the character.
I rest my case.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 1 day ago:
For legal reasons: I want to be clear I do not wish death upon anyone…
But I do wonder what it would look like if a politician choked on a burger and died…
Like imagine how absurd it would be if it happened on live tv
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 1 day ago:
Vance would accuse Democrats of assassination and impletement martial law and arrest Democrats
It doesn’t matter even if it’s a heart attack
- Comment on I feel like the world before literacy became a common thing feels a lot "smaller"/"blurry", things are more ephemeral, relying only on memory. Literacy makes the world feel "bigger"/"more detailed"... 1 day ago:
Idk… feel weird that most of history… people could not even do stuff like journaling or worldbuilding…
Like idk what I would do as a hobby instead of writing poetry if I was born 100 years ago and illiterate…
- Comment on Hypothetically, if a Black Millionaire had their home broken into by a poor White person, how much danger is there of the Black Millionaire getting shot by cops "by mistake"? 1 day ago:
Is there a story I missed?
- Submitted 1 day ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on what should I do, or what can I even do? 1 day ago:
?
How else do you pursuade an immigration agent that you’re really a dissident under threat of persecution?
- Comment on The difference is real 1 day ago:
The SS has joined the chat
(yes, the Secret Service is now abbreviated as “The SS”)
- Submitted 1 day ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on what should I do, or what can I even do? 1 day ago:
Political Asylum.
Bring documentations (evidence)
Start filiming stuff… like a sort of documentary…
Go where people protest, capture footage, especially scenes where police are beating protesters, add commentary, doesn’t have to be perfect, just good enough that the average viewer understands it. Make sure to add a lot of criticism against Putin.
Travel to a country you like (preferrably a western democracy, NOT US since the US does not like refugees/asylees at this moment), probably on a tourist visa, those are the easiest to get, publish your “documentary” video on a youtube account with your real name and face, find a lawyer and have them help you get political asylum.
- Comment on In the age of electronics, when is go to vote can I request a paper ballot instead of a machine? 1 day ago:
Aha, this is why they’re trying to kill the mail ballot
- Comment on Inside China’s robotics revolution 2 days ago:
“Soon”
My dad struggled to keep a stable job when we were in China pre-2010, constantly moving from job to job, sometimes periods of time being unemployed, constantly on the search for jobs…
There’s a reason why people try to move abroad…
- Comment on In WW2 we were told Hitler was a danger but not to us directly. Iraq was for WMD''s. Now Iran is for oil basically? What if the US got out of other peeps stuff and went isolationist for about 10 years 2 days ago:
Agent Krasnov says hi 🇷🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇸
- Comment on In WW2 we were told Hitler was a danger but not to us directly. Iraq was for WMD''s. Now Iran is for oil basically? What if the US got out of other peeps stuff and went isolationist for about 10 years 2 days ago:
?
I mean to be clear, killing civillians is a bad thing, but letting Iran’ government having nukes is also a terrible thing.
Its not like an all or none. Its possible to “intervene” without civillian deaths.
If only we could just take out their dictators with precison strikes without harming any civillians. (I mean with how advanced the US military supposedly is, I don’t see how they couldn’t just execute such a strike)
That said, a republican having control of the US arsenel is another horrible thing… I mean like we should just give it to blue states honestly…
- Comment on How bad is bullying across schools in the US? 2 days ago:
I immigrated to the US at age 8
NYC.
The school I was at was like somewhere 25% to 50% Asians, probably ethnic Chinese from what I remember of their names (especially the last names).
I get bullied a lot by English-Only ethnic Chinese kids…
Because I was different…
Cuz… language barrier…
Like… Bruh…
Okay I see.
You feel superior because you have birthright citizenship…
We are literally from the same place… the fuck is wrong with y’all
Like there’s always a weird thing with the ABCs (American Born Chinese)
Even after I sort of learned English…
From my memory, they’ve always been much much more likely to just bully me.
Cuz I’m a “Fresh off the boat peasant” and they’re born American…
fuck them (the bullies, not saying all ABCs are like that)
Idk why but I always seem to instantly bond with Cantonese speakers… like maybe not exactly being friend-friend… but having the same shared language quickly dispels any possible hostility very quickly… Those with fluency anyways…
the ABCs assigned to “translate” for me are kinda passive-aggressive…
My ABC cousins refused to talk to me…
one of my cousins bullied me…
like…
most of my bullies at this point in time were just ethnic-Chinese born in the US…
dipshits
Anyways.
We later moved to Philly.
Less Asians.
Instead of just merely Language Discrimination, now instead RACISM spiked a lot. I felt like I was the only Asian in the room (well maybe not exactly, but I felt like I was so “out of place”)
I didn’t feel safe.
Basically throught my whole journey… I sort of felt like shit could go down at any time…
Like sailing the turbulent oceans…
Oh I defended myself in Highschool and I got arrested
FOR SELF DEFENCE
I was 17.
Charges got dropped but still, wtf.
Those who attacked me were not ethnic-Chinese. Happening during the height of covid, right before they shut down the schools.
So there’s that.
They don’t care about bullying. You report it and its just “Oh he’s a good kid, there mUsT be some misunderstanding”
The kid is white…
Yeah okay teacher, sure thing…
The takeaway from this school journey is: For me, do not live where I don’t see a lot of Asians… preferably live closer to who are ethnic Chinese… best if multilingual… if you lack English, ABCs will not even try to talk to you (maybe it works different in the adult world), if you lack the Chinese languages, 1st gens will not be able to talk to you…
probably do not raise kids in Philly, it’s a horrible place. ABCs can be cunts… If I ever have kids… I’ll make sure they don’t end up being those ABC dipshits that I had to face…
- Comment on So say, someone lives in an English speaking country and wanna see a movie in the threaters but they struggle to understand English, how are they supposed to watch it? 2 days ago:
Eh…
Find seats next to each other and like just… being in the presense of each other…
And there’s something to talk about afterwards… that’s an issue… mom really wants to “talk to me” but there’s no topics to talk about… movies can spark a conversation afterwards…
I mean what other activity do you recommend?
That aren’t too stressful for someone like me with depression?
- Comment on So say, someone lives in an English speaking country and wanna see a movie in the threaters but they struggle to understand English, how are they supposed to watch it? 2 days ago:
aaaaahhhhh
My parents fucked up my brain…
From birth to like 12 years old… I wasn’t allowed to go outside by myself…
Just home all the time… or in school…
Never played with a peer outside of school…
Every time I wanna go outside… its with mom…
so the inertia just remained…
I think I first was allowed to walk home by myself in like 6th grade… I was 13
after that, I only went to the library like a few times…
But besides those rare moments, never been alone outside (besides home or school or walking to and from school) by myself…
Feels like climbing mt everest
Like I never even felt brave enough to like… ask someone to just hang out after school hours…
- Submitted 3 days ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Comment on So say, someone lives in an English speaking country and wanna see a movie in the threaters but they struggle to understand English, how are they supposed to watch it? 3 days ago:
I kinda have separation anxiety…
I feel like its good family bonding time too…
- Comment on So say, someone lives in an English speaking country and wanna see a movie in the threaters but they struggle to understand English, how are they supposed to watch it? 3 days ago:
- Don’t have a great screen at home… have a tv that has terrible colors or a OLED but its 16" kinda small… hard to watch together…
- Sound quality… $100 headphones… also can’t share the experience…
- Doesn’t feel like “doing something fun”… feels just like another depression day at home
- Not available for 6 more months… I might not even be alive then… the world might end before then…
- Distractions…
- Comment on So say, someone lives in an English speaking country and wanna see a movie in the threaters but they struggle to understand English, how are they supposed to watch it? 3 days ago:
How do I look this up? Is there like a term its called?
- Comment on So say, someone lives in an English speaking country and wanna see a movie in the threaters but they struggle to understand English, how are they supposed to watch it? 3 days ago:
You could also find a Chinese movie with English subtitles, that’s probably a lot more common
I kinda wanna watch Project Hail Mary tho…
- Submitted 3 days ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 31 comments
- Comment on Is pet care a privilage that only "rich countries" have? Do you think people from poorer countries should be judged for not taking their pets to a vet? 3 days ago:
I mean for perspective… people in my grandma’s generation would just eat the cat before they got too old.
Kinda like livestock… with a dual purpose of pest control…
And before westerners starts sterotyping… reminder again that this is a war-torn country devastated by japanese imperialism and famines were common.
- Comment on Pinterest CEO calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16 3 days ago:
Sounds like a ploy to steal people’s IDs