You can go to the indonesian subreddit and you’ll see them all speak Bahasa Indonesian. Reddit is banned in Indonesia. They still go there with VPN.

Chinese government is richer, they went after the VPNs.

Chinese citizens cannot be here, they cannot form a Lemmy instance where they speak mandarin to eachother.

Social media has to accept Chinese laws, which includes moderation by the government. They are only allowed to have political opinions that align with those in power.

Iran and America hate eachother. Completely different culture, etc.

My friend was born in Iran, his family did all the effort to get into Belgium. He’d rather be shot dead than to live in Iran. But he’s also a bit loco. Saying he would nuke Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan if he had the chance. Edit:forgot his favourite nuke destination which is india

But that’s just one guy. Sorry, had to include cuz random.

What most people would dislike about Iran would be the dress code. Girls protesting it and being arrested. For some reason never to be heard from again.

Just things that I would not want my wife or future daughter to live in.

My wife came from a Muslim dominated country, would be told to wear a hijab while she’s not even religious.

She likes that she can wear whatever she wants in Belgium.

And now… Would I be allowed to say things like this in Iran, or would it be removed by their government employees? I have no idea about Iran.

I just know that us Belgians are allowed to shit talk our government as if it’s a national sport.

Go to Belgium2 subreddit, everything is spoken in Dutch. Most of it is complaining about the government.

Why must you do this to me

Baby sha-a-a-ark baby sha-a-a-ark

Le chat mistral told me differently. I’ll have to talk openly about politics with a Chinese citizen before I change my mind.

It’s not fucking normal that a country with such an economy doesn’t have people on the global scene.

You have us, Europeans, you Americans, Aussies, Japanese, Indonesians (VPN), Singaporeans, … All here talking to eachother.

Chinese? Nope. Great firewall of china. I couldn’t even speak to my wife when she was in Shanghai unless it was on WeChat. Her emails were blocked. WhatsApp was blocked. The other phone she tried to use VPN on became completely useless.

China controls their population. Until enough Chinese citizens are able to tell me otherwise.

Brilliant economy, brilliant growth, but god damn, allow them to come out of their hole.

deleted by creator

Can the Chinese even discuss politics like we do here? Haven’t seen anything on rednote beside “political studies” and some Marx praises.

Must admit it’s a bit more difficult with all of it being in mandarin, but god damn, are they under surveillance.

EEE aaaaa uuuuuu.

Qwa?

EEEEE AAAAA UUUUU!

QWAAAA?

GIVE ME THE DAMN WATER

Literally nothing. Still have tomorrow to watch something tho. This might be the first week in more than 5 years that I haven’t watched anything aha

Reason being that I’m used to watching it with my wife and she’s out of the country since last Sunday

Wanpies is a way to say one piece, the anime. Made this name years ago and re-used it here.

It’s been almost a year since I’ve caught up with the manga tho

If empathy is free, then why don’t I have any 🦍

If the major stakeholder and CEO is actively being an unelected politician addressing policy changes onto the public, then repercussions need to happen.

It would not be wise to show people that they can achieve plutocracy. Plutocrats only lose their power by losing their wealth, so if that’s what has to happen, then that is the plan.

Wasn’t the opinion of my psychologist about me. She told me I’m mildly autistic and that I show little empathy.

For example I saw a dead pigeon on the bike lane and my concern was: my wife behind me might ride over it and be distressed.

And it’s not that I care about her being distressed if I’m saying the truth. It’s that her distress would be a pain to handle. That the bike would be dirty which would cause further distress to my wife.

Her response to seeing the dead pigeon was that she thought it was sad.

Empathy is tricky 🤷🏻‍♂️ the only thing I feel about this truly, is guilt. But that’s all.

Took 2,7 seconds on le chat

I’ll be getting 20 days time off and on top of that I can choose between 4 months of time off if I so wish.

Other options are 1 day off for 20 months or half a day off for 40 months.

The thing I’m truly desiring from this is that the flemish government is protecting me from being fired the moment I request this extra parental leave.

If they cannot prove that they fire me for good reasons, then they’ll have to pay me 6 months wage on top of the rest.

So if they are going to downsize, or whatever, they’ll be less prone to pick me.

I’ll take either the 20 or 40 months on this one.

My wife doesn’t have a choice, she’s 7 weeks pregnant now. Taking off work until 1 June. Then maternity leave starting 1 august (is what her HR said, even though internet says 6 weeks instead of 12, but perhaps it’s cuz it’s a physical job) until 15 weeks after the birth.

Personally I will do anything I can to make sure we have a long term source of income.

Keeping a good relationship with the place that pays me my wage will be beneficial.

I’ll take a bulk of 1 or 2 weeks of paternal leave when the baby is born. Take one day off afterwards for 2 years.