CloutAtlas [he/him]

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  • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.nettoMemes@lemmy.mlRednote right now
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    28 days ago

    The bus and metro passes are literally transferrable because they’re just a token not tied to any ID. Also they accept cash, and you can buy passes at a kiosk.

    I have personally even purchased a metro ticket for another person because we were going somewhere together and they left theirs at home. Within the last 2 weeks.

    You have been lied to. There are no WMDs in Iraq, MSG isn’t toxic, and Napoleon wasn’t short either, if you just blatantly swallow everything you see.


  • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.nettoMemes@lemmy.mlRednote right now
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    27 days ago

    I live in China. You put ¥2 into the slot and you get on. You can be wearing a fully balaclava, a face mask, or nothing. No-ones running ID on you to make sure your magical score is high enough before you are allowed to get on. You can get a transit token so you can tap on if you’re cashless. They’re sold without ID checks, foreigners can get them without speaking a word of Mandarin.

    You have been lied to and now you’re repeating those lies on the internet without even getting paid.








  • I met a yank in Sydney circa 2023 (so post BLM protests) who was like “yeah I used to back the blue wholeheartedly except for the few bad apples, but last year when I called the cops for a welfare check on my neighbour they put her in a headlock! The system needs to be overhauled and they need to be held accountable” or something along those lines.

    Like all the footage of police brutality and incompetence you can ignore, but it happens to an old lady you’re friends with that’s how you know it’s time to change the system?


  • I think in the west, independent contractors tend to be closer to petit bourgeoisie. Also depending on the industry, are used to cross picket lines during strikes and industrial action, like the freelance armorer that was in charge of the gun Baldwin used to kill that lady was there because the union film crew walked out due to unsafe working environments.

    Fwiw I don’t actually know if, say, NYC plumbers have a union and if/when there are independent plumbers, they would side with the workers. Although in my experience, small business owners tend to be tyrants just as often as big business owners.





  • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.nettoMemes@lemmy.mlThe Incredibles (2004)
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    2 months ago

    I don’t trust the “benevolent superhero” trope because realistically, you may get some Batmen, you’d get twice as many Banes and then a statistically small but present number of Jokers. That’s not even accounting for a Freeze style situation where someone is committing crimes to fund a relatively justifiable cause and your Ivy’s who are doing a net positive for the world but the methods are technically illegal.



  • Same energy as an old Irishman I met in Australia having a pint back in like 2019

    Him: “Where are you from?”

    Me: “Oh, I’m from China”

    Him: “Where in China?”

    Me: “I’m from Wuhan, it’s a city in-”

    Him: “Oh I know where that is!”

    Me: “I- really? Wow”

    Him: “Yeah, Mao used to swim the Yangtze river there”

    Me: “Uh, yeah”

    He went on to tell me about his admiration for Mao and Zhou. One of the few Westerners I met that knew where Wuhan was pre-Covid. He was really, really versed in Mao’s life. No Chinese relatives whatsoever.




  • Trump’s not even bad by republican standards, he’s just vulgar and baffoonish. Replace him with Jeb! or Ron DeSantis or your garden variety Republican and you’d get the same defunding, same deregulation and same enshittification as him, just more subtle.

    Come back when he’s killed a million Iraqi civilians over fictional WMDs or getting several million people addicted then dead over opioids by deregulating prescription.

    He didn’t commit war crimes in Vietnam, spill over to Laos and Cambodia. Come back when he pardons the perpetrators of My Lai. Come back when he interns Japanese and nukes civilians. Come back when he Manifests Destiny.

    Top 5 my ass