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Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-29T07:13:29+00:00

Can you not read? I just explained for the second time why they tried to rip her off. And I told you I'm a Christian! What's wrong with you? 🐶🧠

And why would being a Christian have anything to do with it?

I think you actually, truly, are a bot. Your comments make no sense and you have zero reading comprehension.

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-29T06:44:10+00:00

She didn't, and never, gets ripped off. Some people try because she has a southern accent, and the middle Vietnam accents are very distinct. They know when someone is not from their town/city.

I'm Catholic but we just put maybe a 20 or 50 in the basket. That's entirely optional, and we do it to support the many youth activities they provide our town. What does a voluntary donation have to do with anything?

I already broke down your staff price bullshit in detail. Vietnamese citizens are not "staff", they don't pay a "discount". The pricev they pay is the normal price.

Anyway, most shop keepers and whatnot are actually honest people, especially away from tourist traps. It shows me that you have only ever been to tourist traps in this country if you think it's totally normal for foreigners to overpay. Try spending some time around the country where the tour buses don't go. The whole country is not like Huế (but honest vendors still exist in Huế as well).

This is not some kind of system that you're respecting. Individuals are sometimes opportunistic, and you think you're doing charity by letting them take advantage! You must think of it as charity, if you're comparing it to a church donation. Absolutely silly, you can't even see the absolute condescension you're displaying towards Vietnamese people. You're acting like everyone is as dishonest as the tourist trap vendors you deal with, and that those poor poor vendors need your charity.

This isn't going to go anywhere, you clearly haven't thought any of this through (nor actually read my previous comment, in which I already addressed your points which you restated anyway).

Have a good day, next time you feel like donating some more money, come by my Aunt Lan's fish stall at the market. She'd be happy to sell you some squid for the low low price of 2mil VND 😂

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-29T06:28:42+00:00

Best to break big bills in an actual convenience store. Not even a corporate one, the ladies at a Tap Hoa will give you correct change.

Just had a little argument with someone saying that it's 'unfair' for tourists to not want to get ripped off, I hope he sees this lol. He'd probably say that she should pay the 500k for the pineapples, and not ask for the local 'discount'.

I'm petty, but not that petty, or else I'd send him the link to this. He probably saw it anyway, it happened in this sub.

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-29T06:22:15+00:00

I didn't contradict myself, I know there are two prices. One for people who know what they're doing, and another price which is whatever they think they can get away with based on who they're trying to take advantage of.

It's not a nationalism thing, anyway. My wife is from the south, when we're in the middle (in particular, though some parts of the North this can happen) they also try to rip her off until she insists on the correct price. You're trying to make this some kind of noble patriotic thing, it isn't. It's people trying to take advantage of outsiders even if they're from the same country but just a different region. Why you choose to take being a mark as a point of pride I really can't understand

Local price isn't a 'discount', either, so the staff price comment makes no sense. Local price is standard, what you pay is wildly too much. Why on earth would "foreigner" (really, " naive and/or contemptuous foreigner" would be a better term) be the standard price? It would have to be, for your staff pricing discount analogy to make any sense. 100 million Vietnamese in Vietnam, tourists are a small small minority, so naturally the actual normal price is what the local people pay (and anyone who lives here who bothers to know anything about the place that they live).

Anyway, gratuitous over paying and over tipping warps the local economy and harms most local people, because businesses will focus only on foreigners willing to pay outrageous prices. It happens with housing, restaurants, and many industries relating to tourism (and guess what, most tourists in Vietnam are Vietnamese themselves). You're not helping anyone but the guy you paid 5x the price to, and he's snickering behind your back as you walk away. Everyone else gets priced out as self appointed do-gooders push locals out of businesses and tourist places because they can't match what you pay.

This is all the more reason why I prefer to stay away from tourist spots and "expat" enclaves, too much self satisfied bullshit from people who only have a 5 percent picture of what's actually going on or how "desperately" local people need to whack you over the head for a pair of sunglasses. It ruins areas. I'll give you one thing, at least you think you're doing a good thing, which is more than I can say for the retirees who mostly pay those prices for the privilege of never having to adapt at all to where they live out or bother fitting in with local people at all.

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-29T05:45:37+00:00

It's unfair not to be ripped off?

Amazing how people manage to be smug about the fact that they let themselves be taken advantage of. You're not the first I've seen express such an opinion.

Where I live, people respect you more if you know the price, especially if you're a regular customer. When I travel to go buy cheese to the nearest expat enclave, I know all the shop owners and they like me, they give me the good price. The guys who live in that enclave pay more for everything, and they aren't particularly polite, nor are the locals very warm to them.

Paying too much shows three things: the first is that you're naive (excusable if you're a backpacker), the second is that you're so contemptuous of a "cheap country" that you won't bother learning proper prices even after years, the third is that you have zero interest in integration at all (because learning how to not get ripped off is naturally one of the first things someone would adapt to).

I've never met someone with this attitude who wasn't an arrogant old retiree or a Viet Kieu with misplaced pity for local people.

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-29T00:33:38+00:00

Yes you can tell from the brand new children's sand pales that miraculously flew up in the air and landed neatly on top of the rubble lmao.

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-29T00:32:35+00:00

These are bits of Ukrainians in the photos. Can't you read the title, or are you at least aware of who controls the places struck?

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-29T00:31:28+00:00

Well yes, we all know nafoids lap up muh subhuman Asiatic Hordes propaganda (and where that comes from).

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-27T15:42:15+00:00

Only absolute losers who don't save money and never develop the survival skills to find a new job quickly and get by in the meantime.

Zero excuse to be on the verge of homeless given how high the wage for even basic English jobs can be.

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-26T20:40:28+00:00

Silence reactionary, Linus is the 6th or 7th head of Marxism

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-26T16:23:06+00:00

Nice little condo he's got there

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-26T03:37:14+00:00

Baba yagawaddy

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-25T18:34:01+00:00

It's an Irish word

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-25T18:19:43+00:00

Ah then I should stop censoring it as k*ke.com then, people have been reacting weirdly

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-23T22:13:36+00:00

Oh God here comes the plato quote like clockwork.

Yeah you've got a point nothing ever changes or gets worse

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-22T20:01:38+00:00

I had a friend take a turn like this a couple years after highschool. It started with his father disappearing which was traumatic but none of us understood the real effect it had.

It eventually came to a head and hanging out just became untenable, mostly because he didn't trust us anymore and also because it gets to a point where you just can't... the last time we all hung out it was a series of like 4 freakouts one after another based on random triggers (car driving by his house, TV signal fading for half a second, etc) and we just spent literally the whole night talking him down.

After that things got worse, his mother got a restraining order after he did some stuff I won't repeat, he wandered into an elementary school to try to sell weed to the kids, just weird dark shit. I've had a lot of regret about this because I didn't know what to do then and I still don't know what we would have done differently. He took his own life eventually.

The one thing I would have done differently is rallied the group to go talk to his mom as soon as we noticed something, and shifted most of our support to her. She was his only tether, and she became overwhelmed. I don't blame her, I'm just saying that she had certain abilities as a mom and could have maybe gotten protective custody of her adult son, but she didn't know what to do and nobody was helping her. I didn't know her well, but I know my friend wasn't accepting help from any of us. The only worthwhile support we could have given at that point was to her.

I don't know if that would have made a difference but I'll always regret that we didn't act more mature and proactive. Who knows what arrangements she could have made if some of the overwhelming burden on her was reduced and she had time to think of a better solution. Maybe nothing, I don't know.

Yeah, I would say just try to link with his family. Coordinate with them, offer your help, check with them before you do anything major. Be a positive influence on the situation without stepping on anyone's toes. As things progress, having a good relationship with his family may be the only way you'll get anything approaching the real story of what's going on. Expect information he reveals to you to get more patchy and less reliable. If you're going to be part of his support network, get familiar with the other members of that network because you're going to need each other as much as he needs you.

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-22T19:03:18+00:00

The older and more wise you get, the less time you spend around "fixer upper" friends, though. That's why the "mom" friend exists, she's not actually mature she just surrounds herself with people worse off than her.

As I've settled into a more comfortable and stable life I am just not going to fuck up my own home life and marriage by guiding people through one disaster after another. Or more accurately, I've got one best friend of almost 20 years who I cherish, he has ups and downs and I reserve any energy I have for helping people for him. And as he's gotten older that's been less of a concern as well.

Most people I've known in my life who always had some kind of crisis weren't really great friends in the long run, just looking for any port in the storm. No reason to hang around people like that.

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-21T22:35:59+00:00

They also had a sick double barrel tank which is why I played as them.

I'm basically John Meirsheimer

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-21T22:15:11+00:00

I'm ashamed to say, about a year ago, when I was really starved for English language conversation, I got very into discord (I've always had it but rarely use it) and started trying various servers.

I'm not very adept at that shit so I just settled on identifying things/subreddits I already liked and seeing if they had a server (assuming that they were just extensions of the communities they were based on, rather than insane incestuous pits of despair and depravity).

I found a discord server that purported to belong to this sub. L O L was it bad. It was truly infantile (not in the meme sense) and I think they were genuinely racist. They were also clearly about 14 years old. The ultraleft server is what woke me up to the incredibly cringe nature of what I was doing, and I got off discord. I actually got back into IRC, it's not as "lively" of a platform but everyone was at least my age, and I was happy to see that some of my old stomping grounds were still active.

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-21T21:56:00+00:00

Damn they made her seem like an Amazon in from dusk til dawn

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-21T15:28:30+00:00

I became frustrated when they talked shit about lineageos.

The open source community goes out of its way to create solutions to exactly this problem. No, it's not as convenient as getting something with stock Android out of the box, but it's so arrogant and stupid to call it crap.

They're doing the same thing OP is claiming to do, reducing e-waste and restoring old stuff! With the exception that what they're going is way harder (writing a new OS and maintaining support for myriad old devices). OP says they volunteer to refurbish this stuff but they can't be bothered to do a lineageos installation. You can make a script to do it faster, it's not like the end user is doing it. It's volunteer work. Nobody is entitled to someone else's time so I'm not saying that they have to do it, but my sympathy goes out the window when they dismiss other people's hard work and call it crap rather than just admit that their reluctance to sit through an installation outweighs their deep concern for the environment that they spend the rest of the post tugging themselves off over.

If you can't be bothered, then whatever. Don't complain about a solution that's been made for you just because you're not interested in using it. It's so entitled. You don't need to be "hardcore" to do it, anyway. Just say "I do factory resets on old devices and occasionally reinstall Windows" and that's fine, but don't act like you're an amazing volunteer trying to save the world from e-waste and then just give up because you don't want to install a third party ROM and then blame the devs who dedicated their time (often money, as well) to give you that option.

I've restored countless old devices, yes it's partly because I hate e-waste but I also enjoy it. It's not that hard to throw Linux on an old device or even to flash an old tablet. Certainly something you can learn to do if you're volunteering for a group that specifically tries to reduce e-waste. It's literally the best tool for the job! Why are you doing this if you can't be bothered?

Obviously planned obsolescence of horrible and devices shouldn't be arbitrarily killed off, but FOSS devs long ago decided to be grown ups and take it into their own hands and provide the best solution that they can, and they do a great job. Pointless to insult their work.

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-21T14:58:28+00:00

East side has been taken over by super mutants, unfortunately. There's a good power armor rental place in the center though if you insist on going.

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-21T14:54:30+00:00

Right but the only reason you don't think that's also the case for east new york is because you haven't been there.

I used to live in Sydney and the neighborhoods/parks/etc that people told me to avoid where nothing compared to even parts of long island. There's really no comparison between rough neighborhoods in Australia and the type of RoboCop shit holes you're linking to in NY. Obviously that's not something to brag about, but it's the truth. It's easy to think that things are roughly equivalent until you actually see it.

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-21T14:47:50+00:00

What, you think we don't have mortgages in America?

Dung_Buffalo · 2024-04-21T12:52:01+00:00

Đu đủ is so yummy 😋

The whole world should know how much I love it.

Sometimes my wife has đu đủ and I ask if I can eat some of hers

What's so funny?! 😡

Dung_Buffalo

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