You can kinda trust them if you use an archived version of it from before.

Have you ever thought of just buying

owning

Um… no, I just pirate and put everything in harddrives/ssds

Harddrives takes up less physical storage than a bookshelf full of DVD/Blurays.

(Also: I’m broke lol)

Every time I pirate something x265, it looks like somebody took the pixels and threw it in the blender. Like I could notice the degredation in quality and it irritates me since it’s supposed to be 1080p.

I download the normal x264 and everything looks fine.

And I doing piracy incorrectly?

Becuase they’d be leaving a population that is gonna need be in need of doctors so it kinda goes against the part about helping people.

But like, I don’t blame them for leaving.

Yea, that’s gonna be more difficult.

My aunts/uncles in China just had to take care of my Grandmother until my mom became a citizen and filed a petition for my Grandmother. And now my Grandmother is here.

My mom also filed a petition for my aunts (her sisters) and that also would include their immediate family (their husbands and their unmarried children under 21). But seeing how the politics is now in the US, I’m not sure they would want to come when they get approved (or if they would even get approved). Unlike my parents, who worked shitty jobs in China and therefore the US is a much appealing option; my aunts are teachers, so they have like government pensions and stuff, and their kids would be over 21 when they finally get off the waitlist. (They’ve been on the waitlist for like almost a decade now. A lot has changed in politics and economy.)

I mean, they talk everyday through wechat, so its not like they are far apart anyways.

That’s a decision for a family conversation.

I was in Mainland China, I didn’t make the decision to come to the US either, since I was a kid. My parents decided and that’s it. Parent’s have to make the decision about the future of their children. If the adults agree, then move. Kids will understand when they grow up.

Learning another language was rough, but eventally, I grew to like this place. Much less pollution, much more diverse people.

(It’s a shame how politics can ruin what the US could’ve been)

Usually you can bring your immidiate family members with you (spouse and children) if its an immigration visa.

As for extended family. You can apply for your parents and siblings after a certain time residing in the new country or upon becoming citizen there.

You can also stay in touch via the internet while waiting.

If I was a Doctor, I’d just leave. Plenty of countries would welcome a doctor.

Screw the hippocraric oath, Hippocrates is dead and I’m not joining him.

I noticed that every Samsung phone is now OLED (branded as “AMOLED”), even the lowest of the budget A series.

AT&T has a whitelist system, they check IMEIs often and if your device is not approved, cell service stops working.

For Verizon, you have to call customer service to do a manual override.

Only T-Mobile allows any phone to work without explicit approval.

Probably some reason like they don’t want people complaining the service is bad because they use a “no-name brand” phone, so they just cut you off and blame your phpne because it’s easier for corporate. (Yay, capitalism! 🫠 /s)

I heard that Australia now has a Nationwide whitelist system that even block unapproved phones from calling the emergency number.

Technology is really getting enshittified. 😓

Low karma or account too new.

So cringe tbh. I was depressed and wanted to vent, they fucking automod-deleted my post because “karma too low”, like bitch, why did you think I’m making a throwaway?

“I’ll come up with a better name later” day

(Aka: Procrastination Day)

Why? I’ll explain the reasoning later.

It’s not “rude” it just feels weird because most of the time, it’s pointless, since most people people won’t be reading it. It’s basically a public PM to the OP (because they get a notification), so only one person is reading it, unless you tag a bunch of people from the thread.

But if its a top search result on google, then comment away, others will look up the same thing and end up on the same thread and then you can discuss. (Usually, only reddit threads end up on google tho, I never seen a Lemmy post on google)

Most people left-of-center in the US are too afraid to touch a gun. Meanwhile the far-right collect guns like trophies.

Guns mean nothing if the “good guys” continue having their fantasy of non-violence.

Edit: And while there might be individuals left-of-center who do have guns, it doesn’t acomplish anything unless we have a lot of them also collectively take up arms to defend against tyranny, as in an organized militia.

There are currently more right-wing militias than any left-wing ones.

You do remember, screens used to be made of transparent plastic, not glass

I’m not sure if bendable glass is scientifically possible. Glass is supposed to be rigid…

Well, thanks the Democrats for making it much harder to get a gun. But we “saved the kids” amirite?

So we’re doing the 25th and then have tariffs on couches?

Its more like “Can y’all list them all” question, but I didn’t know how to word it properly.

I doubt OP is actually North Korean, but if you want a real answer from the perspective of people from authoritarian governments:

I’m Chinese-American, and I was the second child born to my parents. My parent’s violated the One Child Policy. They have to pay a huge fine to get my legal documents (or else I’d legally not exist, like imagine being treated as an illegal immigrant in your own country), then my parents brought me and my older brother to the US (like way before 2025, for clarification) on an immigration visa.

So yea, that whole 计划生育 (Planned Parenthood) propaganda forced by the government as some sort of holy bible, my parents just tossed this bible in the trash, that shows just how much loyalty people really have towards the government.

But they did tell me to stop criticizing the government, so there’s that.

Even in the US (again, before 2025, before this fucked-up shitshow of a US administration), my parents, especially my grandmother (who also lived with us, in the US), told me to STFU about the government, both CCP and the US government. Like, apparantly, the fear of government sentinment stayed with them.

I mean, I guess it makes sense. Even though I got citizenship through my mom (Google: Derivative Citizenship in the US), my dad is a PRC citizen, and my grandmother is also a PRC citizen. I guess that’s why… two of the most powerful countries on Earth, they don’t want trouble to follow because I said sometime that anger the elites. (China has secret police stations in the US, AFIAK)

They do say stuff like recalling the time before China opened up, and acknowledging it was kinda fucked up.

But then the Taiwan stuff show up in their Wechat feed, and if I start criticizing, they shut me down quickly. I’m like: “So do you agree with them? Who not just abort me like they (the CCP) wanted you to?”

Sometimes she’d shut up, other times she actually told me she regreted giving birth to me. Yea, thanks mom, mother of the year amirite? (Seriously, who says shit like this to their children?)

Idk what’s with their flip flop stance.

I said I don’t like the CCP because they wanted to “terminate” me, but then my mom said: “but you are alive, right?”, completely dismissing the fact that I almost didn’t exist because of CCP.

I’m having an existential crisis because I don’t fucking understand my existence at all. In another timeline, I probably don’t exist.

Sorry I kinda went on a rant a bit, I’m not high I swear.

TLDR: They kinda eat up half of the propaganda, but they wanted another child probably to secure their retirement (there is not guaranteed social security at that tine), so they ignored the One Child Policy. Not very that brainwashed IMO. But not too open minded either.

As for my older brother who spend longer time in China than I did, he became anti-CCP, but learning about Tiananmen probably shocked him so much, he became this weird right-wing libertarian type of person. Racist AF, and skeptical of government, anti-vax, all that shit.

So yea, authoritarianism fuck up your mind, a lot.

Anyways, I’m gonna look outside, into another autocratizing regime (USA).

P.S, Imagine: You’re drowning in the ocean and rescued by a ship, but that ship is the Titanic (that would be going fron PRC to USA in this analogy), and the crew did a mutiny (2016 and 2024 elections) and are now sterring into icebergs (the ongoing fascism in the US). That’s me right now. I’m on the Titanic. And there are no lifeboats, no ships nearby to save me. I don’t have depression, I have stuck-on-the-Titanic-syndrome.

Piracy.

As in, plunder the ships, get the booty (treasure).

yaRrr 🏴‍☠️

I’m something of a Captain Jack Sparrow myself.

Edit: Serious Answer:

Boston Harbor. Dump the entire warehouse into it.