Lmao my first gay kiss was with a confused, left-ish, second-gen Guatemalan-American with homophobic, conservative, small-business-owning parents. He tried to impress me one time by telling me he was “kind of a communist”… but couple years later he accepts an internship with a Democratic congressman

Tbh most immigrants in the US (especially documented ones, and especially those who pursue citizenship) shouldn’t at all be seen as an accurate reflection of their native country’s culture. For one, most countries in the global south are multicultural with countless diverse local cultures and extreme sociopolitical differences region to region, not at all homogenous like chauvinist Americans assume. And two, it’s very difficult to legally move to America without a lot of money or connections, so many immigrants tend to have been the privileged few with radically different beliefs from most people in their home town. Basically a whole lot of selection bias

Even Mexicans living in the US, while typically not as reactionary as natural-born Americans, are mostly against Claudia Sheinbaum/ say she’s “in bed with the cartel,” despite most Mexicans in Mexico supporting her. My Mexican friend says those who choose to leave are often seen as “spiritually gringo” people lmao

America’s Vietnamese diaspora are mostly conservative and extremely anti-communist in general (especially first generation ones), I think there’s just a lot of them in Orange County. There were huge waves of Vietnamese immigrants in the 70s/80s, and the vast majority were from capitalist South Vietnam; privileged kulaks fleeing after the communist North won the war

Most older Vietnamese-Americans exclusively fly the outdated flag of South Vietnam, and will froth at the mouth if they see the modern unified flag 🇻🇳

Infanticide was common in prehistoric humans, not as a “culling the weak” thing, but as an alternative to abortion to ensure there were enough resources to ration among existing members of their community. And archaeological evidence suggests they didn’t have the heart to bludgeon them or anything; they just left newborns they couldn’t afford off in the wilderness

Food rationing was the norm in ancient humans. Especially among our sub-species, the homo sapien, even moreso than extinct human sub-species like homo neanderthal. Elderly and disabled members of one’s community would almost always be taken care of

how long have you had her compared to them? might change with time

I just don’t get why age gaps over a decade almost always seem to involve the man or masc being the older one and the woman or femme being younger

smoking’s definitely a good amount worse in the long-term. but there’s some evidence vaping may be worse in the short-term (e.g. more likely to develop a cough within your first year of vaping as opposed to smoking)

The average American works a good deal more than the average Japanese person

According to this, Latin Americans should be the gayest and Western Europeans should be the straightest. Ignore the gazillion pride flags at every corner in Berlin, Copenaghen, Amsterdam, etc… they just really like rainbows there

By “anti-Israel” he means “vaguely suggest Netanyahu should tone it down”

In China, some Chinese-American style restaurants have opened up and have become pretty trendy on Chinese social media

I was wondering why the article alternated from “Darline” to “Darlene” and then…

Her brother taught her to spell her first name “Darline,” a spelling she continued to use in adulthood

Soo her brother didn’t know the correct spelling of her name after their parents died, and she just stuck with the misspelled version bc it was all she ever knew being raised by his dumbass?

Only 71? Wow he was just a kid 😔 Pelosi is old enough to have been his mom

Isn’t that Mitch Mcconnell? Seems like there’s still pretending he’s alive

Might get 2 dead fash senators in one week if we’re lucky

For some reason the first two news sources reporting on it are both Israeli sources, lmao 👁️

I know a family w solar panels on their roof. 100% of their home’s power comes from solar, 24/7. Energy generated in the daytime stores up in the battery to be used at night. It actually generates a ton of excess energy they don’t need, which gets distributed to the local electric grid to help power other homes in the neighborhood, which they gets compensated for

side rant Solar is so rare in the US that Amerikans seem to just assume the dumbest shit about it… like people really think it’s completely useless whenever there’s a couple clouds? Sure it’s most efficient on sunny days, but there’s still quintillions of photons even when it’s cloudy, enough that a lot of solar-powered homes rarely even need to dip into the battery for power on cloudy days. 80% of UV wavelengths (light that’s invisible to us) actually easily penetrates thru clouds… this shit is 5th grade knowledge!

It’s antisemitic to… use the most historically infamous genocide by far as a frame of reference for genocide?

Does weed really help insomnia? I’ve tried it and it might’ve helped me sleep quicker on a small enough dose, but it always felt like lower quality sleep. More recently I’ve heard weed at night worsens/ causes sleep issues (at least in the long-term?)

Shrinkflation. I’m a pretty light guy but always find taco bell portions ridiculously tiny, I gotta order like 4 different things there to fill me on an empty stomach

Little Satan throwing a temper tantrum at his father Great Satan

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER

Fucking cornball. If I saw this from the window of a restaurant it’d make me not wanna go out of cringe