Integrate777

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[–] Integrate777 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That can be applied to most hobbies in general. Not using an automated coffee machine? Time worth nothing. Cooking rather buying takeout? Building your own pc rather than buying prebuilt? Drawing rather than generating with AI? Time worth nothing, that's why.

[–] Integrate777 1 points 1 year ago

Oh nice. My parent's doorbell is a wireless one and I thought it was a trick. That they hid the battery and sold it with false advertising.

[–] Integrate777 12 points 1 year ago

What about finger guns? Like using your index finger and thumb as a gun. That's violent behaviour.

[–] Integrate777 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow. A path they built rather than just painting over existing paths. I'm impressed. Maybe they should do more of these.

[–] Integrate777 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm clearly approaching this from the point of view of language as a means to communicate and connect with people, while you see language as something that has to bring you clear benefits. I went to the trouble of writing a whole ass paragraph about how Chinese is not a single country language and there are several countries worth of people outside the firewall using it. Of course no other language under the sun will ever compare to English in terms of practical usefulness, but it's as good as it's going to be for a second language, up there with French and Spanish maybe. You don't have to assume everyone who disagrees is offended.

[–] Integrate777 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

People forget, but China itself has a population of 1.4 billion people. That's at least 4 times the population of the US, you never run out of people to talk to in Chinese. Not to mention, there is also Taiwan and Hong Kong, and several countries around Asia that host significantly large racially Chinese diaspora, such as Malaysia or Singapore. I'm not talking about recent Chinese immigrants, but people who have been living there for generations and have never stepped foot in China.

Language is for communicating with people, it's a rather narrow view to only see the business use for languages. If anyone wants to pick up a second language, Chinese is as good as it's going to get. You aren't limited to 1.4 billion communists to talk to with your Chinese skills, try a Taiwanese or Chinese Malaysian or smth.

[–] Integrate777 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You might be 40 years too late with that keyboard comment. Which major language still exists today with no easy way to type with a keyboard?

[–] Integrate777 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anyone has tasker? Set NFC on, wait 10 seconds, Set NFC off. Add the task as a widget and you're done. Been using it for a while now.

[–] Integrate777 1 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of a friend who's breaking Google monopoly by using only chatgpt. I don't know how to feel about it.

[–] Integrate777 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The worst thing about this problem are the apps. I'm using jerboa and voyager webapp. Rather than catching and throwing an error, both of them are crashing completely instead. They really shouldn't be doing that. I've had to disconnect from the wifi and remove the discuss account offline so it wouldn't crash on launch.

[–] Integrate777 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty sure you aren't discussing in good faith, but let me add that local Asians like me, aren't the least bit offended by being called "rice eaters". I do in fact eat rice almost everyday because I enjoy it. A majority of my countrymen enjoy rice too. It's also cheap and infinitely customisable, exactly as implied by ricing. I will genuinely be pleased if people in other countries enjoyed our rice dishes.

Again, if you aren't going to engage me in good faith, just kindly ignore. I will still stand by my point that this is a global platform, and everyone else shouldn't have to tiptoe around the "rice" term just because Americans can't treat Asian Americans decently. You guys generated all this baggage on the name of our staple food, maybe you guys should fix it back home first.

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