XiELEd

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm from the Philippines, a country in Southeast Asia.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It's a joke about them being good at cherry-picking

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"The most important impact you can have as a consumer is not that the lack of your personal revenue is going to keep the likes of Jeff Bezos up at night. It's that you're providing revenue and a user base to alternative businesses that are struggling to exist in a world where most people just use Amazon."

I agree! I think we should frame boycotts this way, I can't stand companies abusing their chokehold on the market. It's also a more feasible and tangible goal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I can still use Stealth for Reddit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, my mom and I (in the Philippines) saw an American talk about having lots of money quite loudly in a shopping mall. We were put off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I recommend tofu sisig and sweet & sour tofu!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Something similar happened to us in the Philippines. There was a huge propaganda and disinformation campaign on Facebook by the Marcos family (rumored to have partnered with Cambridge Analytica). Which led to people falsely thinking that Marcos I's regime was a golden age, and now we have his son as president.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Literally brainrot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Now I feel bad for the people whose anxiety I accidentally triggered...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I can relate as someone who realized they're actually more interested in the Humanities after choosing a STEM preparatory course. Then I remembered that the reason why I chose STEM is because my country doesn't give a shit about professions other than being a lawyer, doctor, or engineer.

 

Some stupid meme will appear in my head while I'm in public and a stupid grin will force itself into my face and obviously I don't want people to look at me and think I'm crazy, or worse ask what I'm laughing about and the only thing that was on my mind was "born to shit, forced to wipe".

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