Yeah, AliExpress is the baby version of the wholesale platform Alibaba, and they’re now a big enough company to also have their own cloud provider. Temu, Wish and Shein are all trash.

Yeah, nah, I’m not gonna pay 10x the price for a knockoff arduino from a local seller that just buys it from AliExpress anyway. There’s no better place to get electronic components and modules without bankrupting yourself

Pretty sure that about a year ago I commented on a post here where they referred me to trans people as “the transgenders” or something dumb like that.

I’ve decided to label myself bisexual homoromantic. Way easier than some rigid BS people enjoy policing.

I’ve gotten worse treatment in the lesbian community than any other. Demanding tolerance from others doesn’t immediately mean that those people demanding tolerance are tolerant themselves.

I think it’s also important for people to understand the mental effects of dating an ace person as someone who isn’t ace. I got caught up in that and it took a long while for me to stop thinking I was undesirable and gross.

Publicly listing companies, it’s not stealing when people are giving their money to you.

Could just be the kind of stuff I usually smoke. Its the kind of stuff where a single smallish bud would last a normal person more than a month, and I go through it in less than a week. Well I used to anyway, before moving to boringville

Most really good quality weed doesn’t smell much. Also you use a lot less generally.

Pretty much yeah.

When the kids weren’t passing, instead of trying to improve their circumstances and enable them to learn more successfully as well as up skilling the teachers, their solution was to lower the pass mark. This went on for years until the pass mark got to the 30% it is today.

Then again, my Zimbabwean friend always reminds me of the time that the students were given a text book that was a year or two behind, and in protest they burned them all. There also needs to be a certain desire to learn and better yourself. There are also those who walk 1h+ to school and back every day in the sweltering heat, pouring rain and sometimes through rivers.

The priorities of the government are really only to enrich themselves and keep the populous uneducated so that their propaganda works on them.

I love my country but holy fuck, shits fucked back home.

End poverty if you want to end the bulk of crime.

Yeah, no one is saying that isn’t the solution to a lot of crime (not sure about GBV though, it should come down with better education). Unfortunately when Mandela took over, the ANC did nothing to improve the education system for the poor, so now you can basically get through school by just showing up and sleeping in class.

How would that be possible when like 75% are poor? Should the rich be doing it at 3x the rate to keep up?

Good luck with that. The biggest criminals are the incompetent politicians, there’s more and worse poverty in SA now than ever before.

Somehow they can completely drain the country of money but at the same time can’t find their way out of a paper bag.

The marginalised and persecuted majority*

Though I’m fucking glad they disarmed, I wouldn’t trust the ANC to find it’s way out of a glass room covered with doors, never mind look after nukes. It’s bad enough the state power utility has a nuclear reactor.

Maybe, I imagine it will head that direction only if the EFF dethrone the ANC. They’re radicals and are openly racist.

When there isn’t a genocide in the works maybe that’d be true. But why not let him rather make jokes about the Palestinian kids being murdered, because fuck everyone right? It shows your utter disconnect from the matter. It’s fine that he punches down as long as it’s not you that’s being punched down on and having your right to be alive eroded every day while more and more hate murders happen to trans people, because that’s so funny right? Haha fuck them… You don’t sound like you’re really marginalised at all, nor persecuted for being alive, so I think until you are, people with your viewpoint should just stfu.

OP, any updates?