Oh lol I know someone like this. My (older) brother hates black people, but he is also smart enough to vote for Harris because we weren’t born here and he doesn’t want to be on the receiving end of racism. Now that’s what I assumed anyways, he never told me who he voted for. But he spoke against trump and said he’s a racist and doesn’t like trump, and spoke positively of Biden, saying that “at least Biden didn’t use Asian Americans as scapegoats [referring to covid], while that’s what trump did”, but he also refuse to recognize that he (my brother) himself is a racist lol.

People are so weird.

Oh I hate to break it to you, many people of color are very conservative, and some are also maga supporters.

The real advice is don’t date people from known conservative places, go to liberal cities where you can at least know they are more-likely-than-not, to be at least left-of-center, and possibly a leftist.

Its not just the extra headache of setting it up, I also don’t like the cost of it.

Nah, I’m only partially tech literate. I don’t know how in the fuck to use a terminal or command line stuff.

But I know what HTTPS is and how to check the header of an email to know if its phishing. I know how to use and manage PGP keys (although I have zero people to communicate with so I end up never using it, in practice).

Boot from USB is just spamming one of the F1 F2 F11 F12 button repeatedly then select the USB, very easy, learned that in 2 minutes using a web search.

But don’t ask me to set up a Lemmy Instance, I aint got the brain power for it, I’m likely to mess up setting up the security aspect of it then a hacker is gonna deface it like lemmy.world that time when they got hacked. I actually have zero clue on how to set up self-host stuff. I don’t bother with a NAS, I just copy my photos, videos, movies, wikipedia .zim files via a USB cable directly to a portable SSD (I keep multiple copies of the same files). If I need my files on the go, I just take one of the SSDs and put it in my pocket. No NAS needed.

(Also NAS are kinda expensive, and you have to buy the drives separately, so the NAS thing is kinda just expensive stuff on top of the storage you already have to pay for, so I don’t bother, I love my portable SSDs)

I know what’d happen if I try to kms. I’d walk up the the bridge, look down, then get scared of the heights and be a coward and decide to go home.

Pick up the cats one by one and see which lets me pick them up without trying to attack me.

My cat scratched me a few times on Month 1, but is fine with me now 2+ years in, so if you mean it’s all identical clones except the memory, then judging by her initial behavior, only my cat would let me pick her up.

Survival instincts is forcing me to live… I don’t have a choice… 🤷‍♂️

This is how you quickly defrost a chicken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2jlCx_xqFw

They’re still alive, but I really hate talking to them. I wanna ask about what China was like when they grew up, like a sort of documentary interview type of thing and I write down the answers so I have first hand account of it. Because I didn’t have much memories of it, I was only a kid at the time when we left for the US.

But asking questions like that really feels awkward since they’d start saying shit like “Look how much we sacrificed for you” and all that shit, so nah I’m good, I heard enough when they were talking to each other in the living room and through their phone calls with friends and relatives, I get the gist of it, they suffered a lot so therefore they think its okay to get “strict” with kids (aka: neglect and emotional abuse and manipulation), I don’t need to ask for specifics I’ve heard enough.

Reddit in a nutshell.

You can’t post without enough karma but how the fuck do you get karma if they don’t even let you post?

This is why Lemmy is better.

ShitIt being ShitIt lol

I just realized I haven’t watchrd porn for like months, maybe a year. I rarely do that anymore. When I was a teen, I did because hormones, but then I kinda didn’t care anymore. Perhaps its being asexual.

Still haven’t figured out how to masturbate. Yea I’m definitely asexual by the way I describe it.

My jurisdictions doesn’t have age verification, but either way, I’m always VPNed into Iceland or Switzerland; Except like banking and online purchases, in which case I use real IP since there’s not point hiding when its already linked to my identity.

One Word: TOR

(Well its technically one acronym, 3 words xD, but you get the idea.)

I like to just make disposable account whenever I feel like to post stuff, to compartmentalize. I mean, the anonymity is so perfect, you wouldn’t know if everyone on this thread is secretly my alt. (Its not, but it could be. You never know 😉)

Instructions unclear: Bought a tomato and ended up in The Bad Place.

I think the Lemmy userbase is too small and its easy for a few vocal voices to dominate the conversation.

There are often contradicting points that the Lemmy hivemind holds.

Like Lemmy wants to abolish the police but also wants to empower the police to take away people’s guns??? (Talking about the US btw)

Lemmy loves their doublethink

you know what ACTUALLY protects from powergrabs by payment processors? A fully centralised, government backed form of digital cash that is fully equivalent to paper money.

Only if the government is democratic, many governments seems to be autocratizing these days, which wouldn’t help when they start enacting puritan policies and refuse payment transfers. Not to mention, even some democracies banned porn (South Korea, for example).

fascism

You really think you can trust the police?

ACAB

The only way out of this is self-defence militias, but unfortunately, people left-of-center have already been disarming themselves while the far-right have been stocking up on ammunition, all thanks to the anti-gun rhetoric.

Yes but only if they are within 5 IQ Points of me, preferably lower.

Titles are easy when there are no standards.

Therefore, I hereby crown myself Emperor of my neighborhood, by the authority vested in me by the God of Pineapple Pizzas.

I shall henceforth be known as “The Holy Emperor of Pineapple Pizzas”