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shalom...i was joking but yeah i do feel proud of what my people have achieved and you should be too. i love watching historical documentaries on israel, especially i feel a certain kinship towards both korea and israel because as underdogs surrounded by not so friendly countries historically have made it and fiercely protected by the people.
Kintaro Hayakawa (June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973), known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor. He was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His "broodingly handsome"[2] good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessue_Hayakawa
tldr--to protect the white women from the sick man of asia. being asian male in anglo parts of the world vs francophone or colombia really opened my eyes .... it taught me a hypocrisy of our society .... its socially okay in vancouver bc to be anti-asian or anti-semetic but god forbid if you make fun of muslims or black. i speak from experience working at a 'diverse and open' startup and witnessing racism homophobia.... from ppl who openly describes themselves on social media as champions of social justice....exclusive of those that perceive to not have it rough....sometimes i wonder what the fuck im still doing here....time to find a place where i feel proud to be a citizen....i certainly do not feel canadian anymore ithought i was canadian....but i was dead wrong. i dont belong here and lot of my asian canadian friends feel the same. some have led violent criminal lives but i no longer feel judgement infact i feel they have far more success than i ever will....its hard not to feel envy...while i toiled through university they were able to use proceeds of criminal opportunities to invest in thee local real estate and are now multi-millionaires ironically investing in startups themselves and crypto. meh, lifes not fair i need to be happy with what i lack. c'est la vie.....
damn that just makes me not buy Apple even more.
I buy Samsung phones because I know they treat their workers very well for the most part both in Korea and abroad. In Vietnam, they built daycare, hospitals, school, park, housing for the entire workforce. In Korea, they give out huge bonuses to workers and will promote talented people.
I also buy Samsung for the same reason I buy Hyundai, it's not that I can't afford the more expensive brands, I do it out of patriotism for the motherland and scream "TRAITOR!" with the windows up when I drive by a Korean person in a Subaru.
You were probably never even looking at the correct figures. Given the track record of Chinese government at concealing the truth because it's deemed a threat to national security, how are they going to convince people this number is grossly understated?
If you cry you saw winnie the pooh irl, the 3rd or 4th time, people are gonna ask questions and demand you provide an independent inquiry led by a coalition of developed democracies.
That's not what they are doing here at all. This is a thinly veiled regulatory body which will pretty much ban/kill all PoW/PoS/or anyother pseudo science blockchain projects.
It will likely shut down once they realize corporate America has pretty much ditched blockchain and has moved on. The people who are writing optimistic comments are grasping at straws.
Blockchain industry had 5 years to go mainstream. All it did was create financial ruin for duped investors while enriching those who bought the pre-sale at restrictive amounts of capital to risk.
Blockchain is a shitty and slow database nobody asked for apart from the people selling it's tokens that is somehow necessary to appreciate and depreciate in value on terms dictated by the very controllers. SEC will blow you out of the water if you've been caught pumping and dumping. I am in the process of reporting/sending slack screenshots of people in Vancouver to the SEC for pumping and dumping.
Justice is coming. In the form of US extradition.
I think it's far more complicated than that although environment plays a big role, on those that are susceptible to it.
For example, in my AP Calculus honors class was mostly East Asian high school kids, in a school famous for gang violence (class of 05, I recognized their faces in the newspapers), started joining ethnic street gangs during this time. Like this Vietnamese dude was a high achiever like the rest of us tryna get into a good university, then the cops showed up and arrested for attempted murder for bashing some white kid's head in the hallway with a baseball bat. It was like a gang initiation thing, I hear many many other such incidents. Honestly, I was tense all the time. It was only when I was threatened with a deadly weapon over a scuffle, did I realize what I was dealing with. I asked that classmate why he attacked the student in the hallway, he replied
"cuz he was askin for it"
Pretty shocking since not long ago we were studying calculus together. Well, I hope the thug life was worth a permanent criminal record that permanently bars you from partaking in the mainstream economy.
PavlovsCat wrote a very generalizing statement about what "Asians" eat and then tried to smear it on me. It was a thinly veiled racism but then again people from UK doesn't seem to have a good grip on what is considered racist in North America. What he wrote would fall under sneaky bigotry. Not full blown racism but I'm used to seeing dogwhistling on reddit.
I only wrote that the corrupt Chinese elite exploit the people including taking prisoners organs, prostitution, all sorts of human rights abuse.
but somehow it's been derived to that removed comment which implied that I didn't view Mainland China unfavorably, please don't try to conflate it with sinophobia, I haven't made that case at all, it's just apalling behavior from the Communist party of China that pisses me off because it pains me to see what my Chinese friends go through.
I didn't know my socially liberal city was secretly racist until I joined Tinder and OKC.
Unfiltered, unbiased, completely raw racism against Asian males.
Sometimes I wonder if it's worth continue living as a North American. There's just institutionalized racism from Hollywood, which everybody takes cue from.
Especially when there's a vacuum of identity due to the mosaic nature of Canadian identity, it creates ethnic silos, and just an air of unfriendly unwelcoming misery that is Vancouver, BC.
Or maybe everybody is house poor and blame it on Asians in Ferraris.....whyflag
I literally just threw up after finishing my avocado sandwich.
should add NSFL to that link.
im done with HN for the rest of the day.
car manufacturing is far more advanced and difficult than a smartphone which you can carry on your hand.
Except, perhaps, to the PRC.
or people who has been unwittingly duped/brainwashed into buying that "China will overtake USA anytime now" propaganda.
it's not limited to race, I've definitely seen some white American dude shilling for China...smh
he's not in the clear from civil lawsuits which I'm sure this SEC settlement sets a precedent.
The only reason you see so many electric car companies in China is because of money laundering, scams and non existant regulatory enforcement.
There's no chance in hell China is ever going to release a car that people will trust/forced to trust outside of China. That would mean actual due diligence, not chabuduo. Especially, not after they put ecstacy in lego.
Xi should ditch the "2020 made in china", create a whole new country to label manufacturer label, "Made in Xina"
Xina? Hey I'll take it over "Made in China" because I'm a dumb ass consumer who has never seen Google Maps before.
Not at all challenging, considering the average CCTV (what a fitting name for a chinese tv station) anchor's range of emotional expression is limited to a knob.
Might as well just produce a deepfake anchor with Xi's ugly ass face instantly traumatizing millions of Chinese children, who knows how many falun gong infants were sacrificed to save the poor sick Chinese elite (they actually eat the fucking placenta for supposedly viagra effect jesus fucking christ im outta here never EVER gonna catch me going to China)
don't worry. give them time, they'll figure it out. they've been building cars for a long time, far longer than Tesla.
I really don't think Tesla is going to make it out of this one. It's facing it's worst nightmare which is luxury car makers as well as mainstream manufacturers jumping both feet.
They have been building vehicles far far longer and have the experience.
Without Musk, I just don't see how Tesla is going to make it out of this one.
the SEC doesn't give a shit.
if it quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it's probably one in their eyes.
you won't be alive to see it sadly. it would be as if it never existed in the first place.
whenever I see high quality submissions I bookmark it and promise myself to come back and spend time learning it.
this time...I promise myself its different
he's right tho. It facilitates humanity's problems by giving those in the power to abuse with impunity, steroids.
An entire generation of Chinese kids grew up thinking the Tianmen Square was a god damn festival singing "Wo Ai Beijing Tianmen"
then IMF and World Bank popped Japan's credit bubble. Same shit happening to China but because of their authoritarian rule, they will let it go to shit before they lose control.
there's already social unrest happening as China is getting its ass beat in the trade war
what's the point tho? you are not taking that money into your afterlife.
This is why crypto is so attractive to libertarians.
It requires getting something for absolutely no effort and conflates economic growth with semantic labeling of abstract pseudo academia aimed at the very people whom they are trying to steal money from.
Somebody needs to put together a "Wall of Shame". History will teach us as this period as a "Dark Period" where financial scammers flourished with the help of Russia to launder the very money they took from their people.
The comment section is absolute gold. I may have favorited this thread.
easy. the government feels threatened by ET's technological superiority. They could literally wipe us off this universe if they wanted to. This frightens the brass, so on. Just look at the people they interview, they are not some looney bins like Stanek.
https://www.netflix.com/title/80171742
the same cigar shaped UFO has been seen since the 60s
I'm not saying this is a 100% UFO but there isn't a very good track record of NOT silencing people who worked and several individual witnesses that describe the same thing.
If the blue pill is comfortable (As it is for most people who believe the government can do no wrong, they won't lie, on the contrary we see them censoring and doing as well as they please) then fine.
Some of us have taken the red pill, and see what's really going on.
How do you define proactive? I didn't get any notifications. I would've appreciated an SMS or even a courtesy call. As somebody who has to manage dozens of email accounts, it's possible that I missed it.
Stripe Atlas does not help you dissolve a company, it's an extra few hundred dollars in fees and more if you hire ppl.
In total, my mistake is going to cost me around 1000 USD, vs 100k. It was wrong for me to assume that Stripe Atlas would explain these potential pitfalls, all of which were not made clear when I signed up.
I think just for future cases, it would be great to explain these hidden costs like on this site:
https://flagtheory.com/stripe-atlas/
Had I been made aware of that site, I wouldn't have done it. The cost and legal exposure to the Land of Lawsuits was a stupid decision.
If you are not American, don't use Stripe Atlas like flagtheory writes on his website....if Patrick didn't promote it I wouldn't have joined Atlas in the first place so obviously he's doing a good job, but really wish that the hidden costs and risks are made clearer to non-Americans.
that is all. I don't hold a grudge against patrick or stripe, in the end, I did not do my own due diligence, and just blindly trusted what was advertised. it's my fault that I'm in this situation and I apologize if I have used strong languages, waking up to fact that you owe 100k in taxes, in an unfamiliar land, can cause panic.
also my behavior yesterday didn't really help much, but this is what full blown panic can do to people, I shudder the thought of someone who never saw this thread, go through the same shit.
im glad that there are people who find this thread helpful, please excuse my pissing on the American dream, saw Democrats won the house so my faith in America has been restored.
whew! thanks. yeah yesterday i was in just full out panic mode. i may have behaved aggressively in trying to get attention on this issue.
thanks, how do i input these changes myself? went on the delaware tax site but the amount is still $80,000. How can I just pay $400 on that website?