that’s how you end up in a labor camp making military drones instead

Wait that’s an option? 👀

Hmm I guess I’ll just die. 🤷‍♂️

Maybe I’ll find my faith into Buddhism or something lmao. (cuz buddists can’t do violence so you have religious exemption)

Oh yea btw, my mom called me weak and cowardly and unmannly and once told me “You should join the military so you can become more ‘Manly’ and ‘brave’”

I was like “Sureee mom, so when WW3 breaks out and they deploy me to Taiwan, I get to shoot at China’s PLA soldiers…” (context: my family is from China) then mom got mad at me and told me that I’m so weak no military would ever accept me anyways… lmfao.

So if I get drafted and die in war… maybe my mom will finally be happy that her son “died a man” or whateverz…

Kids make fun of me when I go see cartoons

ULPT: That’s when you guilt-trip them:

“This was the last thing I watched together with my 8 year old son/daughter before he/she died from cancer” starts crying (it doesn’t have to be true, just dramatic enough to shut them the hell up and to make them mind their own bussiness)

Damn I actually didn’t think about this a lot…

When I was a kid, my favorite color was green and my favorite animal… I remember it being turtles

Cuz they can just hide from all dangers… they always have a “home”… where they are safe…

Being an immigrant and growing up in an emotionally unstable household… I never felt like I had a “home”

Like… neither in context of country… or in the context of my “home” vs school vs someplace to go to… like the library or a friend’s house…

Like… when it’s time for school… I’m like ah fuck, this again (cuz of bullies and authoritarian teachers and classwork shit…)

Then when it’s time to go home… I’m like: oh no, yesterday we have a whole argument at home and stuff were thrown around and a few bowls and plates were broken, I kinda feel scared

And I don’t have any close frienda where I could just go to their place and chill out…

And the outside world felt scary to me to I didn’t have like a runaway “base” in the woods or something…

So I kinda liked turtles lol…

Just retreat to inside the shell when there is conflict…

🫠

For some time I also liked monkeys because Curious George… (also mandela effect time: but pretty sure it had a tail didn’t it?)

At one point, it was sheeps/goats… because 喜洋洋与灰太郎 (it’s a Chinese Cartoon I remember watching as a kid)

Some other animals I liked at some point:

I liked Owls because it was the first nocturnal animal I learned of…

Pandas because I’m from China…

Frogs/Toads… idk why… maybe cuz its amphibious

And now I have a cat… probably the most useful animal… gets rid of mice

So we have the Travelers timeline?

Humanity near extinct by the 2400s?

Is the Director gonna save us?

Lol that’s not how it works.

You can’t undo reality.

You cannot un-kill a person.

You cannot un-fight a war.

You cannot un-nuke the world.

So… the fear of the german language?

My parents have 2 different model RAV4s (cuz you need a car to do anything around here)

It’s funny how I always see them on the road and be like “OMG do they have the same car as we have? Why did it suddently get popular? Are they just copying our choices?” lmfao

Lol I was born in China and now a naturalized US Citizen and I still have the “Pinyin Name” as my legal name… I just never felt like any “English-language name” fits me… cuz they all gives off the “vibe” of being a ABC (American-Born Chinese) and that feels so “phony” to me.

I’d say just embrace your real name…

(I mean usually how it works is that: you just “Anglicanize” it a bit and drop the tones when people ask “how do you pronounce it”)

I get it… I’m not used to my IRL “Origin Story” feeling like straight out of a movie plot either lmfao

So… 60fps exists… why don’t we just use that for movies lmfao? (is this even a “hot take”?)

I like Revenge of the Sith more than every other Star Wars movie, including the original trilogy… (I like the volcano planet lightsaber duel)

Also as an introvert… I never went to a theater… 🏴‍☠️ (Did I miss out on anything?.. I like the ability to pause so… 🤷‍♂️) It’s not like Christopher Nolan is gonna get a heart attack over this lol

Lol that’s like saying you’d vote in favor of voter suppression laws in exchange for gun rights… yeeaaah no don’t do that lol

Don’t trust conservatives

Eh… I think this can stay… its more like a “How does someone make their laptop faster?” type of question… and the details are just one example… I think the ban on “How do I” questions is primarily to make threads more relevent to everyone… and I think advice here can be useful to everyone.

I have Asian parents… can’t be touching shit like that lol

I’m 23 about to be 24

I never even considered trying it… I was just so submissive to my parents… my mom told me alcohol, drugs, gambling was bad… don’t do these things… so I just accepted it as fact…

I mean I don’t really wanna live a life like some gangster anyways… so now I don’t even wanna start…

I lost a master password to a password database once and that shit made me even more paranoid about the idea of memory loss so I don’t want anything to do with alcohol or drugs…

I’m so glad my dad is not some gambler alcoholic like it is with the common trope of broken families… I’d probably killed myself by now if I lived in that sort of family.

When I turned 21, I talked about going to a casino just to “play a small amount” for funsies… but never ended up going since I was dealing with depression and that felt too extra…

(As for the porn stuff… I just ignored my mom’s advice…

This is 'Murica, tf you mean I cant see boobs lol… let the boobs be free)

Never even seen weed irl…

I was here since June 12, 2023 (this is not my first account)…

I feel like there was an explosion at the beginning, then it dropped to like half of the activity…

Then it just slowly and slowly declining till like this past month or so when it just had a sharp crash

I guess this place is too ML-Adjacent that normies didn’t wanna deal with it…

I mean they probably didn’t even learn of the block function and just saw the front page and noped out lol

Pls stay tho… I hate authoritarians so much, I don’t wanna deal with dictators like reddit

I hereby invoke my “English is my 4th language” excuse…

(okay tbh it’s not really a good excuse, since I came to the US when I was very young…

But in my defence I hated Reading/Writing classes tho… had self-confidence issues and took years till I felt like I “know” the language… math was always my favorite…)

Ahhhhh no I dont wanna touch grass.

The grass is lava.

(I’ve been procrastinating my writing project for like… months… probably a year… lol)

(Did you know, the outside world has monsters that will abduct people and eat them?

USA btw… ICE… 👀)

Invite them to a Hunting Trip… Dick Cheney style

No because killing a cow isn’t murder either