They’re in China… (my family’s country of origin)

I don’t have a passport yet… submitted application still waiting for the US State Department… 👀

Also requires visa from PRC Embassy…

I thought it was too much hassle to have to deal with VPN and firewall issues and I didn’t bother…

If I knew I’d feel this lonely, I might’ve tagged along

That reminds me, haven’t been on a plane since we arrived in the US in 2010… 16 years away from my birth country… 👀

Also my brother seems to think I’m trying to harm him or something… mom asked me to help with finding the cheapest plane tickets, then there was some webpage loading issues, then he just said he would just do it on his computer instead…

And then I was curious and asked which seats he picked… I mean I’m always curious about stuff

He didn’t respond…

Like c’mon… it’s not like I’m gonna put poison on a plane seat lmfao… wtf bro?

So yeah…

But what happens when a daddy country and a mommy country gets really close and start to have feelings?

Gaming.

Don’t have the mental energy for it anymore… depression…

They never trusted their company to make it through the month?

Companies in China flop all the time, probably act this way because of their learned experience.

Or they never trusted themselves to have anything left after the weekend?

My parents were the type to always save.

They claim that Americans (they mean Americans that are not of Asian descent) cant afford anything because they always spend they entire paycheck at some bar and just constantly depend on their next paycheck in order to have money.

They own a house in Philly… and then they look at the renters and was like: “Hey son, you see all these people renting? It’s because they’re lazy and don’t work and/or they waste money gambling or doing drugs, don’t be like those people”

And then once my depression became a thing… they say that “America turned me lazy”… bruh its called depression jesus christ mom, do you want me to kms ffs

Oh I guess this is just Verizon MVNO fucking with me… fuck my life lol

My parents (and their parents) certaintly think my generation is better than theirs.

The summary is this: They lived in post WW2 Rural China, I get to live in the 21st century and also get to grow up mostly in the US… mom said her family money situation growing up was kinda shitty, in contrast she said in my childhood, I got to not worry about starving… they had rationing system…

Parents were born in mid- 1960s to mid- 1970s

Sure my credit card number is 0408 1516 2342 6769

Make sure to go buy a plane ticket with it.

(I’m not responsible for any plane crashes 😉)

Nothing to described is unheard of in Canada/the States. I’m kind of waiting for the “SIKE I WAS DESCRIBING THE US ALL ALONG” but figured I’d comment in case it was useful to anyone.

This isn’t some trick question. I was born in Guangzhou, China. My knowledge of these employement stuff from my parents experiece in Taishan and Guangzhou (there as Taishan Hukou-holder migrant workers, so basically second class residents), as as for the US, its from Brooklyn-NY and Philly…

Which might be kinda limited in scope…

Its kinda interesting both US and China has these “grass greener on the other side” type of people…

We as a species are so similar no matter where we come from

Is rural America different?

My immediate family has only been to Brooklyn-NYC, and Philly

So maybe my experiences are limited… 🤷‍♂️

Damn y’all have even more fucked-up parents.

Like every time I feel frustrated with my relationship with my parents, I go online and read the internet about shitty parents, and I always felt a relief that like at least my shitty parents are so much nicer variant of shitty

Its a reflective on memories… since like this shit is so fucked… I mean we only get like… what… 50-100 years here and forever die?

So yeah, idk why I asked this question…

Honestly when you get an existential crisis… the idea of “cringe” and “shame” doesn’t even fucking matter anymore…

You cannot avoid death…

Embarassing moments and stupid quesrions doesn’t matter.

Memories are already fading away, and nostalgia is just reliving moments in space time that can not truely be re-lived again…

Sorry if I sound cringe af, but the male brain doesn’t fully develop until 25, so I got like over a year before I could even scientifically considered “mature” or whatever that’s supposed to mean…

TLDR: Just remembering childhood moments… the adult world is cruel, wars, oppression, corruption, injustice… don’t mind me, feel free to ignore this post.

Before I learned how to solve rubik’s cubes, I just took them apart and re assembled them

xD

You could do that with electronics…

Its $1000 lego 👀

Average people need their phone service to work…

I tried using LineageOS on a motorola phone and I get zero data…

So… Yeah… I doubt the average person has time for troubleshooting this shit…

Also those phones require specific devices, you cant just flash random linux into your current phone.

Now look up “carrier whitelisting”

so yeah… good luck trying to get a carrier to allow you to use an “unapproved” device on their network…

I have this memory of getting a 3x3 Rubik’s cube from mom for… I think either X-Mas or New Years… Not sure if “favorite” but definitely most memorable…

I think this is the only time I didn’t have to “beg” for stuff… usually I only get stuff if I really nagged my parents a lot… and my requests get denied frequently (cuz money issues being a new immigrant) but this time I kinda just mentioned “I want that magic cube thing that I had before, I wanna solve it now”, I mentioned it like with the past two weeks, and she just went ahead and got one for me… (but its those cheap ones with the weird stickers that would eventually fall off… I kinda destroyed it cuz I’m bad at keeping stuff lol, like I broke or lost a lot of things I had) But hey, she didn’t get it because I begged, she actually wanted me to be happy… like that felt more emotional, more like a real gift than just being a “bribe” to keep me quiet and stop being annoying.

That was during my… I think early teen years, and before that I had a cube in my early childhood like at least few years before, can’t remember much about those earlier cubes I had except as a memory of recalling another memory.

I used to closer to her… I think I just got older and… um… life expectations (careers, sucess, expectation of being able to be independent and acquire wealth and win this game of capitalism)

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”

G.E.M.【單行的軌道 One Way Road】

No subtitles, but quick search for English Lyrics: Here

Has the word “Train” in it. MV has train. This qualifies???

I just randomly came across this song not too long ago xD

(Not really about trains per se, but more of used as a metaphor)

You are being bombarded by BROTHERLY LOVE

Please do not resist

🚁
💣
🏘️💥

His last question before getting banned was: “AITAH if I don’t feel anything about my best friend’s dying child?” 💀

Lemmy told me that I’d get kidnapped by ICE the moment a non-white person stepped outside…

I went to a post office in a predominently white neighborhood to apply for a passport (earliest available appointment cuz cities are always filled), the guy working at the post office was a brown guy with an “Indian Accent” (which I did not expect to be working in a white neighbood btw).

I’m ethnically Chinese and did not get harassed by anyone… Lemmy would have you believe there are lynch mobs and white-hooded KKK people trying to shoot you on sight, did not happen…

Also none of my family had been harassed by ICE yet… I heard some relatives and friends of my parent’s social circle cross the border just fine… my aunts be going on vacations and cruises… (my parents so jealous of their wealth and keep telling me “why can’t you be like them” 😭)

That being said, maybe me being Chinese and not Hispanic/Latino made the risks lower, not trying to invalidate the fears that other more vulnerable communities might face.

THE POLICE BOMBED A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD!