I wanna mention this: If there are niche movies/shows you wanna watch but you can’t find a torrent for it… the the only way to really watch it is the mainstream sites and those require DRM and if you run Linux, Netflix, for example, would run on L3 Widewine instead of L1 Widewine and that means SD content only…

so yeah… depends on how this “average user” really want to watch niche content… or is even comfortable with the idea of torrents

(I’ve personally found a bunch of stuff that I literally cannot find torrents for… so yeah… there’s that…)

I wouldn’t call weird spiritual stuff “atheist”, per se.

Does your family burn those fake heaven money thing? Burn incense? Put a chicken on a huge plate as a “sacrifice”, then like hold the fake heaven money in their hand then like pray to spirits or whatever while muttering weird 4 character phrases like 心想事成，快高長大, 學業進步。。。 etc… then throw the fake money into a metal container with burning fire… you know what I’m talking about, right?

Idk wtf they are even doing lmao… so weird, I just never participate since I was a teen because those traditions just felt silly.

That, to me, is religion, even though its not “officially” religious.

I don’t think I’m gonna be burning fake heaven money if I have kids… like… nah… kinda weird lol… I don’t really believe in the spirits stuff and feels like its adding more pollution for no reason. Maybe I’m just too westernized and don’t feel attached to Chinese culture anymore.

My family is from Guangdong btw, maybe your family is different, idk, does your family do those weird rituals?

I feel like a “banana” lmfao… (“asian on the outside, westerner on the inside”), the only attachment I have is that I can still read basic Chinese characters… and speak on a 2nd grade level, that’s about it…

Oh btw, my mom is very anti-mental-health care and constantly think my depression is just “鬼纏住你” and tells me to wear some necklace or some dumb shit that “wards off evil” lmfao…

And wasting food will “被雷公劈” lolol.

I threw away food I didn’t like (I was a kid okay lol) and I never got struck by the lightning god or whatever so… okay boomers.

I’m naturalized but I’m still more pro-constitution than the dipshit in the oval office

I don’t care how long his family has been here, you shouldn’t be calling yourself an “American” when you literally wage war against the constitution and the American people.

I mean I’d eat human meat if it wasn’t illegal, just sayin’

what the fuck

I’m so confused

is archive.today dead now?

So archive.today owners got doxxed and they DDoSed the Doxxer as retaliation? Is that what happened?

Reincarnation seems interesting except I hate the “you shouldn’t desire anything” aspect…

like… what if its wrong? Why the fuck shouldn’t I get to enjoy my current incarnation?

I always wonders wtf are those for. I never seen it being used. Gen Z, born post 2000.

I swear I looked like a bum when I grabbed a slice of pizza with my hands

I used to eat pizza with chopsticks lmfao.

I remember eating pizza with the spork thingy in school and I feel like a fucking weirdo lmfao.

As for the question: Make sure you DO NOT FORGET TO

🎵 SHIT ON THE FLOOR 🎵

RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM

THEN THROW THE SHIT AT THEIR FACE

And make sure it get it on livestream, it’ll become the most famous video of the 21st century

Depends, are you in Alabama? 😼

(sorry, but you knew alabama is gonna get mentioned xD)

I was born in China, I remember very early on, I was taught the concept of 命運 (fate), 投胎 (reincarnation), 上天 (the heavens) 睇住你 (are watching you), and 報應 (karma)… lot of that stuff.

My mom told me that if I “waste food”, i’d 畀雷公劈 (get stuck by lightning by the “god of thunder”; or some bullshit like that)

A lot of Chinese drama has those spiritual themes

One time I was like: “so what religion are we?”

Then my mom was like 道教 (Taoism), but I was so confused like I thought it was 佛教 (Buddhism)?

So idk what ever the fuck their “religion” is?

My mom always said “唔可以全信但唔可以唔信” (you can’t believe it all, but you also can’t no believe any)

And she also told me the story about the tale of man that was “waiting for god to save him” when it was flooding" and said that guy was stupid

I used to believe in Santa, then I found out my uncle was the “Santa”, so yea I just stopped believing. I used to believe in ghosts cuz all the Chinese ghost stories in media, but then I stopped believing.

I read a lot of Western Atheism stuff… Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins… so I believed less and less…

I still sort of hang on to the reincarnation thing as a sort of copism, well not the karma stuff, but more as in “matter cannot be created or destroyed” so it must be recycled, that sort of way…

We weren’t able to see atoms for a long time, maybe there’s a “soul” that we cannot yet measure? (I know atheists are gonna say I’m being silly xD)

Like the “fate” thing is just so bizzare. I wasn’t supposed to be born as a second child during One Child Policy, so I feel like “maybe ‘god’ intervened and saved me?”. So bizzare, I wasn’t even supposed to exist.

edit: typos

Unemployed people exist lolol

Do you and your brother ever talk about your mother’s behaviour towards you? I wonder if there’s some solace you can both find in sympathy and support.

LMAO I think you’re mistaken

We are not the same

He is even more abusive to me than my mom was ever abusive to me… even though I’d say the root cause of his psycopathy is probably caused by my parents.

I literally had to run away from home when I was 6 and I was just crying and literally went to my mom’s workplace, in that moment, I was just scared and I wanted mom to protect me from my abusive older brother who was chasing me around the apartment.

Yes I know, its so weird that my mom is my best protector and also my abuser, and plays a different role depending on situation.

This is why we have such a strong trauma bond. She can be lovely when she’s not in the “tiger mom” “alter ego”

So really I love the “lovely mother” “alter ego” of my mom who she used to be like 50% of the time, but like recently, she’s just going “tiger mom” like 80% of the time.

I’m pretty sure my mom doesn’t even see any abuse, in her view: she’s just “disciplining” us and my brother fighting me is just “sibling just do that, it’s no big deal”

I moved to the US from China when I was around 8, my family is so fucking backwards and ableist but luckily I didn’t get born into the millions of other families that got stuck in China and their shitty abelism that discriminates against… check notes depression… like jesus christ.

If I were to dress up as a girl, I’m pretty sure my mom would disown me for being “mentally ill”

I know the US Government doesn’t exactly have a great reputation, but the people are very progressive and more accepting of LgBT and more mental health aware than China is… in China they literally kicked out an accepted University student because they later discovered his autism diagnosis… jesus christ.

bruh this is the 4th time you posted this…

is your CO2 detector working? 🧐

I didn’t really get into a habit of setting reminders/alarms so I sort of forgot about the concept of alarms

When I was in K-12 I got so used to my parents just waking me up…

so yeah…

I’m not really to be an adult, I wanna reverse time and re-do childhood tbh.

I’m mentally still reliving through all those traumatic moments through my childhood…

I still feel like a kid inside… its hard to grow when the toxic family envionment, which is why I have depression in the first place, keeps on smoldering me

I mean if you don’t have children there’s no need.

But if you want children, children that are born out of wedlock might face issues, from legal issues like taxes, jus sanguinis citizenship, and custody issues, to potential societal judgement for being a “bastard”/illegitimate child.

To make it worse, I don’t have a drivers license so I need my parents for transportation… so that’s why I really depend on them. And nk public transit cuz that’s too much anxiety and it takes twice as long and I don’t wanna deal with that. Being trapped in a bus full of strangers that do drugs (I mean… this is philly) is terrifying.

I mean… Karl Marx literally wrote a big “advertisement” for his ideology… 👀

I got so used to my parents doing every phone call and every appointment that I struggle with independence…

I remember being like late to school CONSTANTLY even with parents home and when my parents aren’t home, I didn’t even wanna go to school.

No joke, I remember my parents installing “child safety locks” on the apartment door and it can lock from the outside by turning the key a certain way…

cuz sometimes me and my older brother was at home and no adults with us, so they had to lock the door from the outside to prevent us from running away…

I think this lock was installed after my running away incident…