Except when it comes to healthcare and UBI, apparantly Americans don’t want to take any of that… 👀

But why do they even need to hack elections? The folks over at .ml told me that elections are pointless and the rich already controls everything!

???

According Chinese society: 38 would be too old, nobody would want you.

Dad was 31 and Mom was 24 when they married, you’re late to the train according to them.

My older brother is 28, he’s on a trip to China right now to supposedly meet “marriage candidates”

Mom is pressuring him cuz “once you get older nobody would want you anymore” 🤔

I’m 23 and mom is already jokingly like: “Hey I know this person’s daughter, do you wanna meet and ‘maybe become friends’?” (heavily implying marriage) I just fucking laughed… I’m so depressed I can’t even take care of a cat, how am I supposed to start a family lmao… I need to fix depression first…

Once when I was in my teens I heard mom want me to “hang out” with her best friend’s daughter and “become friends”… lol… maybe she should’ve thought about that before moving away from Brooklyn where they lived… we used to live like right across the street from them… but rent is a big hassle and parents wanted to have home ownership thats why we moved to Philly…

and I have been to their house… I’m shy af and didn’t wanna talk…

Yea I’m gonna be forever alone… I don’t even have the courage to talk to people lol…

Btw: Arranged Marriages =/= Forced Marriages

You have the choice to “veto” in an Arranged Marriage, but not in a Forced Marriage.

The “Arranged” is referring to who’s in the captain steering the ship, so parents and relatives are heavily involved in the matchmaking process and looking for “candidates”.

Off on a tangent, but:

I hear some Naturalized US citizens still attempting to use their Chinese passport to enter China…

China does not allow dual citzizenship… 👀

If they get on the CCP’s radar, they can’t get help from the US Embassy anymore since they entered with a Chinese passport…

And the worst part is the knowing winks like “I know you prefer cash” with the implication I’m a tax cheat. Fuck you, asshole! You’re just making more work for me! Now I have to log this myself and report it separately from my W-2s.

Nice comment, now the government is off your back 😉

I think it’s because: “If love wasn’t the reason to get into a marriage, then lack if love wouldn’t be the reason to get out of a marriage” (I read this from some random forum/website and it actually make so much sense).

In Traditional Chinese marriage, they look at practical stuff like if they have the wealth, housing, career, to raise children… that sort of stuff… love is secondary ti those things…

So in my parents time, people of marriage age would just get introduced to those who are also of marriage of the opposite sex. And like if they feel okay with it, they just settle and get married.

I think once I ask my mom why she went with my dad, she said something like “he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t gamble, he doesn’t drink”… like… lol…

I feel like a lot of people in China have those aforementioned problems.

They’re still married to this day… I doubt they have much sex besides for procreation so like… probably only those 2 times creating my older brother then me…

My mom is kinda scary tho, she once went full tiger mom mode and threatened to divorce my dad… because some stupid disagreement… and I was a teen during that time… kinda messed up my mood… I mean that feels world shattering if it happens… so… luckily it never did.

I’m the “Asian Nerd”, I’m always expected to do everything… 👀

So it’s a Germanwings 2? Electric Boogaloo?

So confused…

“No Mr. FBI Sir. I do not posess a ‘Death Note’ and Kira is obviously evil!”

turns around

pulls out piece of paper

bites finger

writes “Raye Penber” with blood

Pilot’s about to lose their job.

Appointed as the head of FAA & NTSB simultaneously*

Two dystopias in one peninsula 💀

Lol my mom taught me to never trust ATM machines and always go inside the branch.

Also for gas stations, never pay at the pump, always go inside to pay…

search “[Carrier Name] default SIM PIN”

if you get it wrong twice, then just forget about it (max 3 attempts), I mean just be careful and don’t let your phone get stolen lol

(Or if you have the PUK (its on the back of the plastic card that comes with your SIM Card (for physical SIMs)) you can just get it wrong 3 times then use the PUK to reset the PIN)

That feels worse…

At least you can change a phone number

How do you change your personal info? Its permanent and unchanging… One databreach and you’re fucked

Soon on TERF Island:

They’re gonna have AI cameras to detect if you “went to the right gender bathroom”, and if AI decrees that you’ve entered the wrong one, they’ll flag you as a “sex offender”, then activate the terminators posted at the store to “eliminate sex offenders”

All bank accounts require a phone number. VOIP numbers does not work.

Online banking through a computer requires a phone number for them to send a 2fa code to before letting you log in. (Phone number 2fa is the only 2FA option, and even if not, its often used as a recovery option to whatever other 2fa method there is, effectively making the phone number the weakest link)

But I guess if you don’t like that, you could tell them to disable online banking and avoid using electronics for banking, but then you’d have to either go to the bank every week and wait in an annoying line to verify you’re getting paid and that the amount is correct (cuz you can’t trust employers)

(Or use the sketchy ATM machine that could have card skimmers and fake PIN pads, can sometimes be much more dangerous than online banking IMO)

(Also some people need online banking like my parent have a small bussiness and my mom has to do a bunch of bank transfers every month through online banking…)

SIM PINs are 4-8 digits

The SIM Chip itself is supposed to limit entry attempts to 3, idk if anyone managed to bypass it

After that, it required a PUK Code, 8 digits I believe. Its sometimes found on the big plastic card thing (its like the size of a credit card, and you pop off a physical sim from it). 10 Attempts.

I think the carrier also has it.

So an attacker needs to either:

1. Guess the SIM PIN in 3 tries
2. Somehow hack the chip to bypass the limits
3. (a) Obtain the plastic card thing or (b) Social engineering to get customer support to provide PUK (I mean if they can manage to trick customer support, they could probably just get a new eSIM (which is immediately issued to their phone through the internet) anyways
   or
4. Somehow guess a 8 digit code in 10 tries

The thing is, I as a kid/teen messed with tech stuff a lot (got my parents SIM cards locked a few times 👀, they got so mad at me lol) and I found that sometimes I can reboot a phone and the 10 attempts on the PUK code would reset… idk how, maybe the SIM card had issues… or maybe it’s a T-Mobile issue.

Offtopic but:

OMG I can just imagine if my mom gave birth to another kid who grew up in the US and only spoke English, mom’s English would be like: “Go where come back?” (去邊度返來啊？)

Lol that sound so weird to a native English speaker but that makes complete sense in my multilingual brain xD

(“Where did you just come back from?” would probably be a more grammatically correct translation)

Who the fuck buys calandars? We get them for free at the Asian Supermarket lmfao.

My parents get like at least 5 of those every year lmfao

so many calandars that can literally ward off evil spirits (cuz red color all over it, and the big character 福 on it… and also a bunch of new year stuff on it)