I vote for 碌柒 (67) Rule

You have the same mindset of an average American. “Not my country, I don’t care if people die there”

oxytocin

Unless you trauma-bonded with an abuser

Porn is illegal in the country I’m born in so I kinda feel “privilaged” to have emigrated and can watch it any time I like. (My state doesn’t have Age Verification Laws yet xD)

As to actually watching… eh… kinda asexual… so… eh… 🤷‍♂️

Or maybe just depression…

No idea if they still have them, I don’t live in NYC anymore. NYC, even Brooklyn is expensive as hell, rent was going up. My parents barely managed to borrow money from close friends + some savings to be able to afford a house in Philly, where I’m now. The last time I’ve been to the library was… idk 4-6 years ago… I literally only go to libraries to use their computer or like I wanna skip school and chill a bit there so I don’t get home too early.

When I was younger, I remember borrowing comics and stuff… I never actually wanted to read “books”.

I was facing a lot of issues…

On one hand, I barely know enough Chinese to read a Chinese book (except like a childrens book, which is just cringe for me, yes I know very hypocritical since I was a kid myself)

On the other hand, my English wasn’t remotely good enough to read an English book.

So like comics were the only thing I could read.

As for the DVDs, I didn’t pick them, my parents did. And it was interesting enough for me, so I just watched it anyways since there wasn’t much to do. Early days I wasn’t allowed much computer time / internet time, when I did have more access, I wasn’t knowledged enough to find free stuff to watch. So its just TV shows in Mandarin from those DVDs. It probably helped with expanding my Mandarin skills for a bit longer, because like it soon atrophys when you don’t use it. I haven’t really spoken Mandarin for like… 15 years. Except rare circumstances when there was a Mandarin-speaking classmate. I kinda remember the pronunciations, but I’m gonna have to think in Cantonese, then convert it to Mandarin… so there’s a bit of a lag, sort of.

How high is your proposed number?

Why is Big = Bad?

Proton have over 100 million users.

Do we fine Proton AG for a bunch of shitheads abusing their platform and sending malicious email? How do they detect it if its encrypted? Force them to backdoor the encryption?

I didn’t have internet till like the 2010s

What did I miss out on?

Omg, they were gonna actually give undocumented immigrants legal status, then fucking 9/11 happened and suddenly xenophobia popular again.

Imagine how much better that 9/11 never happened timeline would be.

I remember Brooklyn (NYC) Public Libaries had DVDs you could borrow. They even have foreign language TV shows lol.

Lol I never went to a movie theater in my entire life. Am I missing out on anything?

I kinda hate crowds lol, and since we have the internet, I kinda have even less incentive to go one.

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Frugal family, never had a tree. I didn’t care either. I just wished we did something fun as a family. I see normal families on tv and I feel jealous. My parents aren’t like bad, but they kinda aren’t good either. None of the holidays were really memorable in particular. I had “okay” moments, but nothing really “wholesome” that i could share.

Like any useful gifts or really just family time to some new place is all I want, fuck trees, I personally don’t care, it doesn’t really do anything.

I mean colorful lighting would look cool, but trees? Meh.

(I’m not born in a western country for context)

I’m Asian so living with family is the norm… (I’m a young adult, think lile college age, but I’m dealing with depression so college plans are on pause)

But idk, I remember I had fun times with my mother when I was just a kid. Now… idk…

So much depression from both trauma within the family, and trauma from outside (school… xenophobia/racism and bullying, and also political instability)

I’m not alone, but I’m lonely.

I have a older brother, but something happened years ago and we don’t vibe anymore. (sibling abuse, fighting…)

I don’t really have friends, I’m not good at keeping friends… so… yeah…

Not alone, just lonely.

I have a cat, but I’m not a good owner, so my cat is kinda indifferent towards me, it’s my fault for not being in a good enough mental state to play with my cat. I kinda messed up this timeline, I wish I could go back to re-do it.

Disagree. Without Section 230 (or equivalent laws of their respective jurisdictions) your Fediverse instance would be forced to moderate even harder in fear of legal action. I mean, who even decides what “AI deception” is? your average lemmy.world mod, an unpaid volunteer?

It’s a threat to free speech.

Rule 6

But yes, they could change it any time. And it’s not called the “quorum”, that’s a different thing, you’re talking about the filibuster. They could also just have the VP preside over the senate and ignore the parliamentarian by simple majority vote.

Its not really a rule, more like a gentlemen’s corrupt oligarchal pawn’s agreement. They could throw it away at any moment, like they actually did before:

Democrats did for judicial nominations (except the supreme court) during the Obama Administration, then republican expanded upon that got rid of the filibuster for the supreme court nominations under the 1st trump admin.

Childhood (well… minus all the moments I got emotionally abused)

I wish I could go back and re-do it. I didn’t appreciate how good it was to be carefree.

I could probably try to make friends in this new timeline… maybe do better this time to fix broken family relationships…

I know these signs might not seems like a lot, but as a 1.5-Gen immigrant that have lived here for most of my life, seeing these “immigrants are welcome” signs in the streets is a huge relief… it reminds me that I still have allies, that not everyone here is that hateful… it gives me hope…

Right now I don’t have a reddit account and I just lurk there, but if I really wanted to talk about, say, a specific TV show I like, or a Movie, or Anime, or a Book… that would not exist on the fediverse. It’s either just Reddit or maybe Discord.

If I wanna talk about stuff from a non-white perspective, the best place I’d really find my people outside the great firewall is Reddit.

I mean I the amount of Cantonese-speakers on Lemmy is like… single-digits

Quantum Immortality. There is at least one version of me that lives on.

It’s CEO of Linux trying to brainwash us! /s