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!

I mean quick online search mentions the idea of local facebook groups to find people to do meetups with…

👀

sigh

Guess I’m selling my soul to corporate lmfao

Lol, miss the random fediverse infodump and traumadump? xD

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…

???

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”.

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 😉)

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…

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.