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Beans grown in the spring are top priority to me.
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phantastus

#kit pls confirm#silent hill#????#phantastus

LMAO so like the reason this happened, apparently, is that Kindergarten Cop was fairly popular in Japan, and at the time was the easiest reference to use. So when Team Silent was like “?????? wtf do american elementary schools look like anyway” they turned to that movie. And that is why Midwich Elementary is the school from Kindergarten Cop.

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Kindergarten Cop was filmed in Astoria, Oregon. A lot of movies are filmed in Astoria

Google ‘Astoria, Oregon fog’ and you’ll kind of get an idea, but it literally looks like what they wanted Silent Hill to look like. It’s on the coast so it can get foggy pretty easily.

that’s the real reason

look here’s the opening of silent hill 2

and here’s a stock photo of Astoria

now with all of that said i still want to believe Japanese people just really like Kindergarten Cop

#take THAT 7 year old comment! not so high and might now are you

We did it Reddit!

I stand on top of decade long dormant accounts, reposts, and bots while I hoist this achievement high above my sunhat.

What sporadic reblogs and manchild meltdowns over shit that doesn't matter will we unfold in the future? I don't know yet, but thanks for joining me as we find out :')

Also in the time it took me screencap those numbers 100 more reviews got added lol

I can't reblog that post for some reason (I don't think I'm blocked? I dunno)

But like this is really easy to figure out and confirm.

You can add in simple/traditional Chinese to review filtering by going into your steam settings.

When I add them, 100k more reviews pop up.

I've said before and I'll say it again, OP is the definition of twitter brain rot that needs to not have any kind of following anywhere

Say 555 out loud

Five Hundred Fifty Five

Fivehundredfiftyfive

It's exactly the same

Like there's so many other things you can pick about learning German that's actually annoying.

Like here's an actual annoying thing with numbers

Say 25

Twenty five

In German, it's fünfundzwanzig (i.e. they say the five first and then the two).

The irony of them developing this way of pronouncing numbers yet eventually culturally agreeing to serialize every single part manufactured there (even nuts and bolts), which mind you still have to be read from left to right, is astounding.

#after one hundred though the first number is said first#so only the last number and second to last number is swapped in the entire number#example#1398#EinTausendDreiHundertAchtUndNeunzig#only the 9 and 8 are switched#it's hard to convey this in a squidward meme

If you're caught smoking weed in the PRC, you will go to jail for 10 years. If you sell the same weed you can receive the death penalty.

This is true.

You can understand the context as to why, what with the over 100 years of the opium crisis caused by the British.

But that's still true.

Because you have family members who defected to Taiwan 70 years ago. The next 2 generations of any family who stay in the PRC (whether they had a choice in the matter or not) were absolutely persecuted economically and personally. Your father will never get promoted in the company he's been working in for 40 years.

This is true.

This isn't North Korea btw this is the country with the 2nd biggest GDP in the world.

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springbeanz

I'm on mobile so I can't like do a timestamp, but go exactly 4 minutes into the video and watch for like 30 seconds, the rat part.

I learned about Yeonmi Park for the first time today and I went "Oh that's the girl that's in the Joe Rogan screencap that's a sort of meme" and I wanted to see why and yeah ok I get it

But at the same time I saw that section of this video where Hasan's like as long as you look the part you can make westerners believe anything, like North Koreans eat rats all the time, unbelievable stuff right?? Pure propaganda.

And I'm like....my girlfriend, born in mainland China, definitely confirmed that certain provinces in the PRC DO eat rat.

Like it's not a starvation thing, it's a cultural thing. Certain Asian countries eat rats. Like that's actually true.

You know the episode of Nathan for You where the gas station owner says he drinks his grandson's pee? I watched that with my girlfriend and she was like why are you laughing? That's true! It's a thing people do in mainland China as well. One city in particular boils eggs in grandson's pee and it's supposed to be a medical remedy.

Like I'm serious ya'll. Talk to multiple people that can actually give you the information you need and/or want about a subject. You really have to go outside your bubble to get actual information about anything. Particularly the east, we know so little culturally and people take advantage of that to mold our fucking mushy minds.

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Sorry I guess I should've posted this after watching the video in full, but Hasan does address her claim of rat eating as "yeah it's probably true because of the ramifications of western blockades since the Korean war" . I'm pointing to my above post as it still stands. I highly doubt he believes the PRC is in the same exact situation as North Korea. He's pulling shit out of his ass just like she is. God the absolute confidence of this man, he's looking in a mirror when watching her interviews and doesn't flinch.

I'm on mobile so I can't like do a timestamp, but go exactly 4 minutes into the video and watch for like 30 seconds, the rat part.

I learned about Yeonmi Park for the first time today and I went "Oh that's the girl that's in the Joe Rogan screencap that's a sort of meme" and I wanted to see why and yeah ok I get it

But at the same time I saw that section of this video where Hasan's like as long as you look the part you can make westerners believe anything, like North Koreans eat rats all the time, unbelievable stuff right?? Pure propaganda.

And I'm like....my girlfriend, born in mainland China, definitely confirmed that certain provinces in the PRC DO eat rat.

Like it's not a starvation thing, it's a cultural thing. Certain Asian countries eat rats. Like that's actually true.

You know the episode of Nathan for You where the gas station owner says he drinks his grandson's pee? I watched that with my girlfriend and she was like why are you laughing? That's true! It's a thing people do in mainland China as well. One city in particular boils eggs in grandson's pee and it's supposed to be a medical remedy.

Like I'm serious ya'll. Talk to multiple people that can actually give you the information you need and/or want about a subject. You really have to go outside your bubble to get actual information about anything. Particularly the east, we know so little culturally and people take advantage of that to mold our fucking mushy minds.

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thrift store resellers are like if landlords were egirls

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28 Statistics About Clothing Donation & the Used / Second Hand Resale Market
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only about 20% of donations to thrift shops are sold in retail locations. The remaining majority of used clothes are handled in numerous ways, including being exported to lower-income countries and landfilled. This contributes to environmental harm. This number is even higher when we consider the fact that large numbers of low-quality or damaged items are discarded at the first sorting.
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What happens to secondhand clothes that don’t sell? Estimates from the United States show that only about 20% of textile donations are sold through thrift shops, while the remaining 80% are sold to resellers [editor's Note: by "reseller" this article is not referring to Depop sellers the top post is referring to, they mean commercial resellers], sorters, and graders, repurposed into low-quality textile materials for stuffing or rags, and sent for disposal. 45% of this remaining amount is domestically and internationally reused and resold, 50% is used for low-grade textile needs, and 5% is landfilled or incinerated. The fiber-to-fiber recycling only amounts to about 1% of this amount. (NIST, 2022, Facilitating a Circular Economy for Textiles Workshop Report) . Almost half of all second-hand clothing donations that don’t sell are exported to different countries. While African countries receive the majority of low-quality items, Latin America receives the medium-quality pieces, and the high-quality, branded items are exported to Japan which has a rich second-hand clothing market. (Hansen, 2010) . It is estimated that between 40-75% of textile donations that don’t sell are resold in bulk to textile sorters, graders, and brokers by charitable donations like thrift shops. These textile recyclers across the United States and Northwestern Europe transport their bulk second-hand textile purchases to warehouses and sorting plants, where the textiles are sorted according to different properties like fiber content, weight, quality, fabric type, and garment type. This intensive sorting labor is often done by underpaid immigrant workers in poor working conditions. (Hansen, 2010) . According to Southern California Goodwill’s vice president of retail operations Ray Tellez, Goodwill locations across the Southern Californian region track how long each piece is displayed for sale in the retail locations and the pieces that aren’t sold in 4 weeks are sent to Goodwill outlet stores. These outlet stores usually sell items for lower prices and per weight (i.e. 99 cents per pound of clothing) in an effort to keep donated and second-hand textiles out of landfills. While there are regional differences in how Goodwills across North America handle this process, this general outline of the process is the same in different regions. (Strutner, 2021) (Goodwill Outlet Store Locator) . According to Brittany Dickinson, who is the manager of sustainability for Goodwill Industries International, only half of all donated clothing is suitable for sale to retail customers through online or offline stores. The remaining half of donations are either sold to Goodwill outlets or to salvage dealers. Of the 50% that’s approved for sale to retail customers, only 38-48% of pieces are sold within the approved time frame. The rest is first sent to Goodwill outlets and later sold in bulk to salvage dealers. (Chiu, 2023) . Buffalo Exchange, which is another popular thrift store in North America, purchases second-hand clothes from their owners rather than accepting donations. For pieces that aren’t in a good enough condition to be bought by Buffalo Exchange and resold, they collect donations for local non-profits. The second-hand pieces that do not get sold in their regular retail locations are sent to their outlet stores in Texas and Arizona. (Porter, 2019)

there is so much unsold clothing from the secondhand market in the United States that we have collapsed the textile industries of several other countries by exporting unsold thrift store donations to the global south. there is no shortage of second hand clothing and never will be. resellers could not possibly buy enough donated clothing from thrift stores to ever make a dent in the global supply even if their market segment (which is borderline nonexistent) was double the size it is now. ask anyone who has actually worked at a Goodwill or Value Village about this, they'll tell you the vast majority of donated clothing goes straight to outlets/landfill/exports, and the majority of the remaining clothing that actually ends up on racks sits there until its time expires and it ends up at the outlet/export/landfill. there is no conspiracy of Etsy resellers taking all the good clothes away from you. it's an entirely invented moral panic from TikTok and I don't think the people I see posting about it ever actually shop secondhand, and if they do they've never been to a Goodwill outlet where they sell (yes, even plus size) clothing shoes and textiles for a dollar a POUND.

Becky who buys one XL sun dress a month to flip on depop couldn't budge the global export market if she got venture capital backing for it. it's just too big, and Americans buy and donate too many new clothes, for individuals to do anything about it in either direction.

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a family member of mine claims to make $100k+ selling second hand clothing and considering the amount of inventory they have that i’m aware of i very much believe it.

hundreds of shirts, pairs of pants, jackets, shoes, you name it taken out of my local second hand market by one person.

understand there’s at least hundreds of other people locally in every other major city doing this and i’m being conservative here. just look at the tutorial videos on youtube they have hundreds of thousands of views.

i did it for a little bit 8 years ago to get by between college and a new job. it’s not hard to find the right inventory but if you don’t time it right it gets snatched up by other people doing the same thing. again, this was 8 years ago this was going on. i can’t imagine what it’s like with the amount of resources out there for anyone with $100 to just go start doing it.

she can be right about the insane amount of excess of clothes but eliza is insanely wrong about the resale market. there’s shit loads of people doing it and every major thrift stores caught onto it.

it’s an absolute chore finding actually decent clothes for yourself nowadays (i.e. no holes, extreme wear, etc.). that’s the point. there’s no more GOOD clothing. which basically means there’s no clothing.

eliza takes what she sees online and extrapolates that to her own personal experience living in washington (i.e. more rich people and high dollar department stores donating clothes for tax write offs per capita vs other major cities donating clothes) and assumes it’s the same everywhere and it’s not.

if i had as much confidence as her in claiming to be right about everything i would actually be doing something with my life

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I reckon the funniest thing about the anti-Chinese propaganda you often hear is that even if it's all true the worst you can say about China is that it's as bad as the West. Like genocidal treatment of ethnic minorities, suppression of political opponents and lack of effective democracy, uncontrolled pollution of water and air etc etc. It's all things a say USamerican wouldn't even have to leave their borders to witness. The only difference is the framing

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The fewest. Not one of. The fewest.

Can't really say it's just because of population/workforce size. India's percentage of immigrants in 2015 was 0.39%. Also China is most definitely facing an imminent labor crisis due to their aging population, so it's in their interest to have a better than the worst in the world immigration rate.

Like that's not propaganda, that's statistics. No one's moving to China. Why is that? Why do you think that is? Western propaganda?

Ok, why do so many Chinese migrate to the West? Are they also influenced by western propaganda? Do you really think that? The US does everything in its power to keep as few immigrants coming from China and India as possible, making them jump through so many hoops on a yearly basis (regularly filing paperwork with strict deadlines, constant checks on schooling/employment and only expected to be employed in highly desired fields, higher taxes than citizens, etc.) until they get their greencard/citizenship in 10-20 years. It's a nightmare experience. Why do you think people still do it?

I highly recommend talking with Chinese immigrants living in the west and asking them why they migrated. Why they put up with the US immigration process. It's quite enlightening.

Like I'm not being flippant about that. Please talk to PRC immigrants. Even if it only just makes you hate the West more because of how shit immigration policies are in most countries, you now know they still consider it a viable better option and pursue it with their whole life behind it. Again, why? Only they can tell you.

#my monthly schizo post#i get to make another one in 2 days because its a new month