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  • Bad takes on US political systems & more US stuff

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Cake day: September 15th, 2024
  • Personal domains with custom emails. For email provider I use mailbox.org, which does allow custom domain mapping. The domain and email provider combo won’t be free but shouldn’t cost a lot

    It’s a lot easier to deal with corporate spams if all of them are emailed to, say, advertisements@example.com or shopping@example.com, or something more on the nose. Paired with a password manager and it is possible to tell exactly which service is leaked, if I’m neurotic enough to assign randomly generated email names

  • Way too many for Chinese (think every Chinese dish you know), but the one world I think about the most in this context these days is 老百姓 (lao3 bai3 xing4) (Also see a somewhat related Wikipedia article). Direct translation is “ol’ hundred surnames”

    It’s… a non-formal word for the “commoners” or the “average person”. This is a concept I don’t hear in mainstream media that much nowadays. I don’t think most news or mainstream media even refers to say the entirety of the lower to middle social class in one word… (Note that it is different from “Average Joe”, which does have a Chinese counterpart which translates to “Zhang three Li four”)

    On top of it, the whole concept of “a hundred surnames” representing most of society is kind of absurd in English-speaking countries. Societies with historical Chinese influences tend to have lots of ppl share the same surnames