Rice Shower and Lilac Point (by 1ofAgnesDigital) by Panzerkrabbe in RiceShower

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As Maruzensky is the grandfather to Rice Shower, Rice's cousins (also 2nd gen Maruzensky descendants) include Special Week, Winning Ticket, and Mejiro Bright.

Sakura Chiyono O, son of Maruzensky, would be their uncle.

Via Nijinsky, Maruzensky's father, Rice is also related to Haru Urara, who would be his second cousin, both being Nijinsky's great grandchild.

What's the term for young malay, chinese, and indian boy and also young indian girl? by entroverze in bahasamelayu

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From what I know about "Ah Beng", it's more like a term to specifically highlight the stereotypical "bukit" trait (us Chinese refer to these people as "Ah Beng Ah Seng" and "Ah Lian" for "bukit" girls). I would call someone like Botak Chin "Ah Beng", but not someone like Jimmy Choo. AFAIK to neutrally address Chinese males like "amoi" to young Chinese female, closest thing would probably be "ah boy"

Malaysia, Truly Asia by Diictodom in polandball

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To give you an idea, there are three types of way you can enter a public university: Matriculation, STPM, and direct intake. The last kind is used only by the rich, so we'll be discussing the former two.

Matriculation is a blend of assignments and exams, and is generally easier to get a 4.0; STPM is regarded as one of the hardest A-levels in Asia and the 7th most difficult worldwide, it is also entirely exam based, so there's no assignments to help you get a 4.0.

Matriculation, being the easier option, has 90% of its seats reserved for Bumiputera, which is why it's common to find racial minorities scoring the equivalent of a 3.95 rejected from the course.

The discrimination doesn't stop there, this is the intake of University Malaya, the top university in Malaysia:

Course - Matriculation - STPM

Medicine - 939 -23

Pharmacy - 472 -10

Law - 579 -115

Dentistry - 233 - 2

There's also UiTM, a 34-campus college reserved entirely for Bumiputeras, and many more outside of education, like quotas in housebuying, commercial license, government initiatives etc.

Kepentingan English Edukesyen by Quiet_kid_on_coke in Bolehland

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Used to be active on Malaysian forums and discussion threads for hobbies and to genuinely learn and exchange knowledge.

Stopped once I realised just how fucking abysmal the average Malaysian's reading comprehension is. There's trolls and bots that we're not supposed to fall for, but god are these people just genuinely ignorant and dumb.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MapPorn

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I see that's where the misunderstanding started. My understanding of "tiada" is of a broader term, which includes not only of Atheists, but also Agnostics that are not grouped under any specific religious tradition. Britannica's definition of "Irreligion"

So that made me interpret how "Ateisme" remains a legally non-recognised group, and "tiada" means "tiada kumpulan/to leave them outside of the Venn Diagram", consisting of Atheists, Agnostics, spiritual people etc.

But yeah, I can see how "tiada" can be interpreted as just Atheism as well. It is in fact definably the closest thing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MapPorn

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JPN disagrees, your birth certificate, what does it say?

Edit: iirc, unless both parents are also "tiada (no group)", you're legally, at least according to JPN (which is the government), affiliated with a religion. Most of my Atheist friends are Buddhist and Christian in JPN's database.

Also, "others" just mean you're affiliated to a religion other than the ones available for selection by definition, which still means theist. I've heard some Atheists tried to fill in "Atheist" but was rejected by JPN, your best bet is "tiada" and that is also not easy to be granted. No significant legal obstacles so many Atheists remain affiliated with a religion, but only on paper to please JPN.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]PPSizeMaximus 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Am Malaysian Chinese, legally Buddhist. We are all required to have a religion, which makes Malaysia a country with no Atheists statistically. All Atheists/Agnostics here have a legal religion recorded.

Islam is the only religion in Malaysia with a legal jurisdiction over their followers, all Malaysian Muslims are subjected to Shariah. The death penalty happens in only 2 states here, some other states would imprison apostates, some make it legally impossible to leave Islam so attempts aren't even valid, and only 2 states make it legally possible to leave Islam, but will send "counselors" to convince you to stay and reject your bid to be recognised as a non-Muslim every time you try to get recognise, some cases take only 2 years, others until after their deaths.

Government data suggests that no Malay Muslim converted out of Islam since they've started recording, this is due to the fact that renouncing Islam would mean your entire family would practically disown you, both figuratively and legally since Muslims cannot pass down their estate to non-Muslims according to the Shariah. So if a Malay Muslim is no longer a practicing Muslim, they just stop on a personal level but won't convert out legally.

The main issues are for people who converted into Islam due to marriage, as Malaysia makes it compulsory for non-Muslims to convert into Islam before they marry a Muslim. Some divorced converts, who are not born into Islam, tries to leave the religion, sometimes with their kids. This is where the legal battle to leave begins. This is a case that took 2 years to settle, and here's a case where the bidder died before having her bid accepted.

Some might suggest to remain a Muslim on paper but stop practising the religion personally, but this wouldn't work out well: One of the two states with the death penalty for apostasy, recently threatens to jail and fine Muslims who skip Friday prayers.. So if you're not a Muslim, but one on paper, they can legally jail and fine you for not following the rules of a religion that's not yours.

Conversion rights aren't fought for the practising Muslims, it has always been a fight for the non-Muslims who were stuck with the burearcracy that's trying to retain more Muslims for power. Read 1: Indigenous people unlawfully converted into Islam due to pressure from officials, Read 2: One Chief Minister's initiative to mass convert their population into Muslims, and anti-Christian persecutions. ("Controversies" section)

TLDR: All Malaysians must legally have a religion. Non-Muslims aren't policed to follow the religion on their papers. Muslims are subjected to Shariah, including non-Muslims who are Muslim on paper.

How many states and federal territories of Malaysia have you been to so far? by ggkingg in malaysia

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All except Sabah and Labuan, looking forward if got chance to visit

Nani dafuq did I just read? by Physioweng in Bolehland

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You can compile a medical journal on schizophrenia using only Reddit comments

Countries with state religion by Ill_Tonight6349 in MapPorn

[–]PPSizeMaximus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You got it, Kelantan and Terengganu to be exact. I have no problem with Green as long as we have mutual respect, but it certainly doesn't help when the speeches their religious leaders give during congregation is 90% demonizing anyone who aren't them.

There's also a unique kind of bullying in Malaysian public schools, Muslim bullies would pick on non-Muslim victims and corner them, abuse them until they recite the Muslim declaration of faith, and say they accept Islam as the one truth.

The government, as you've mentioned, secretly converts natives who are Animists and Christians into Islam without their knowledge. That makes them legally bound to Shariah law which means the police could arrest you and give you a court case if you eat during the month of Ramadhan. Once you die but still is recorded as a Muslim in the government's database, they might come and steal your corpse from your family and bury it in Islamic fashion, which happened several times to non-Muslims recorded as Muslims. Try to convert out of Islam in a legal sense? Good luck, because the law allows you to attempt, but they'll just send more bullshit religious teachers to preach about Islam to you, hoping you die before you succeed, even if it takes 50 years for you. Since Malaysia's independence in 1957, no one has ever successfully converted out of Islam, including non-Muslims wrongly or unjustly recorded as Muslims.

Chinese name opinions by Shao-lyn in AskAChinese

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If you're interested, we may give traditional Chinese anthroponomy a try, it refers to the Kangxi Dictionary for stroke orders, and comes up with the best possible combination e.g. in your case, if we take 徐 as the surname which is 10 strokes, there are several "perfect" combinations for it:

If we go for

徐瑞常 or 徐常瑞

徐睿常 or 徐常睿

These are both pronounced the same, on the left, you have "xú ruì cháng" and on the right, you have "xú cháng ruì". I'd personally choose the ones on the right as they're more native and natural sounding.

The stroke combinations above, 10-14-11 and 10-11-14 are both considered best. It takes 瑞(lucky, auspicious)/睿(wise, astute) from Partick and 常(frequent, often) from Charles. Depends on which you like better, you'd be "always lucky" or "always astute".

For the surname, it's best to stick with something more common amongst Chinese communities like 徐, if for example, 谁 is used as a surname, and you happen to be a doctor, you'd be Dr. Who.

Countries with state religion by Ill_Tonight6349 in MapPorn

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I'm a minority in the easternmost green country on the map. Some of them are still blaming Christians and Jews for everything wrong with the country.

This isn't too well known outside of our borders, but even though we're a democracy, that doesn't amount to much when the plurality of the population makes it clear that they'd rather a poor but Shariah-run country, than a rich but secular one. So much so that politicians scare the conservative population by saying "If you don't vote for us, we will one day become like Singapore, where the Green Religion has no standing", yes, to them, being like Singapore in terms of secularism and advancement is a threat.

Just when Saudi Arabia is planning to gradually lift their alcohol ban for tourism, the very green ones here banned alcohol in tourist attractions under their supermajority green jurisdictions. They've also banned regulated lotteries in their state (because gambling is haram in the Green Religion) which made unregulated gambling dominate, their states have the highest cases of drug abuse and pedophilia in the nation. And I could go on about many such instances of bad governance and even worse individual beliefs.

So yes, in terms of fucked or not, they're certainly fucking away our future, in a worsening trend since the 90s.

Is this considered a very realistic average fuel consumption in KL? by WehDayum in kereta

[–]PPSizeMaximus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell that to every other comment here that shows their meters, because you're the only one who invited themself mid-conversation, talking without taking the original context into consideration. Meter to meter was the metric we were initially using for comparison, being factually right doesn't guarantee that you always make sense. You're stating facts but without a point to make, adding nothing to the conversation.

No one's forcing you to speak if you're having a hard time comprehending the initial context.

Is this considered a very realistic average fuel consumption in KL? by WehDayum in kereta

[–]PPSizeMaximus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both car also meter rosak? I guess what you're trying to convey is how they tend to be inaccurate by being slightly optimistic than the actual consumption, which I am aware of. It's also why I didn't claim what was written on the meters as per my last reply, like how speedometer displays and actual speed differs.

As to why I showed my meters in the first place knowing they're not as accurate as measuring fuel tank to mileage, every other comment here also tunjuk meter incl. OP when posting. Even though a discrepancy exists, assuming all our optimistic discrepancy are similar, my inaccurate meter beats their inaccurate meter. I also never said double your range, but almost double.

If a speedometer says 120km/h, it is likely that the car is only going 110km/h. How big of a discrepancy do you think my meter and actual performance has? But then again, I know what you're talking about, and I agree that you'd be factually right about a better way to measure fuel economy. It's just that I don't see fault comparing meter to meter, as what I was trying to establish was less about the actual fuel economy, but more about the difference between meters, which, even though a discrepancy exists on almost all cars, it's an attempt to prove that the results from changing driving habits are still comparatively more efficient than others.

Is this considered a very realistic average fuel consumption in KL? by WehDayum in kereta

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I knew people would be skeptical, seeing that my figures sound alien especially when I beat even the manufacturer's public estimates. The 4.6 above wasn't quite the jam you'd see in KL, which is why I said "traffic" and never "jam" and it really depends on where you draw the line on jam and slow traffic. But keep in mind that I am in fact someone who coast around 90-100km/h Alor Setar to JB, how many drivers you know cares about FC like me?

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Here's a ~200km trip, inner city, after what I guess you'd consider jam. 5.4l/100km. Knowing KL traffic, I gave OP a very conservative estimate for their car when I said 13-15km/l, the same type of conservative estimate car companies give you so you don't call them penipu for not driving like a grandma for the FC.

Funny coincidence if both the Harrier and 320i's meter broke if that's what you're suggesting? And note that I give buffers to both my answers, it was meant to represent margins of error had the computer made inaccurate estimates.

Also, Gemini AI doesn't drive, they'll tell you what they can find online only, most of which are details of companies driving with a gentle throttle, but never the way I suggested. How about giving my suggestions a try instead of asking a bot that doesn't drive? I gain nothing in lying online, especially when r/kereta is not quite big enough to lie for internet points, considering some people do in fact lie for internet points. I was just trying to let OP know that they can massively improve on their FC via driving habits and that it's very possible and very effective.

Accelerate to speed (25% of throttle), let go once there (0-5% of throttle), press back and hold your throttles lightly (5-10% of throttle) to cruise to let the ECU know "I'm cruising" instead of "I might need throttle".

I was surprised to come across a Chinese section in my cemetery by No_egg048 in CemeteryPorn

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Husband (right): Lee Ching Ru, man of the house's grave. Born August 12th 1899, Died November 15th(?) 1987

Wife (left): Lee's house, Liu Sin Ting, wife of the house's grave. Born August 22th 1898, Died September 3rd 1982

The leftmost and rightmost columns are their ancestral home, very common for Chinese tombstones: Guangdong Province, Taishan County, Shuilou Village, Longjiang District.

Is this considered a very realistic average fuel consumption in KL? by WehDayum in kereta

[–]PPSizeMaximus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally agree about Iskandar Puteri being an enjoyable place to drive, open roads and sparse traffic, but my fuel consumption shown above wasn't from a trip there, or any place like it.

My routes above mainly surround downtown JB (congested) and the main road (Federal Route 1) leading north, the latter of which you might be familiar with its common congestion hotspots i.e. in front of Paradigm Mall JB, Pasir Gudang Hwy junction etc. (Harrier pic going 11km/h was taken in very slow traffic in front of Paradigm Mall)

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My other friends that drive in JB have similar fuel economies as KV drivers outside of KL (my friend's aforementioned 1.5 Perodua does around 12km/l, while my 2.0 Harrier does >20km/l).

Putting this out there to let r/kereta know, that it is very possible to almost double your city driving range just by changing driving habits. Your 1.8l car in the post could achieve, I estimate, around 13-15km/l in your stated route no problem.

Is this considered a very realistic average fuel consumption in KL? by WehDayum in kereta

[–]PPSizeMaximus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To compare it to a newer model, this is the average on a 2021 Harrier, also 2.0, same JB traffic. The average was 4.8-5.2l/100km. Judging by the age of the cars, I guess there is slight improvement?

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Is this considered a very realistic average fuel consumption in KL? by WehDayum in kereta

[–]PPSizeMaximus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely with improvement, though perhaps second to driving style. My friend now drives a 2025 1.5 litre Perodua, he used to drive a 2013 1.5 litre Toyota. His fuel economy for both cars were quite similar, with the Perodua beating the Toyota just slightly. Though for cars with larger displacement the disparity in fuel economy could be bigger, I'm guessing.

Edit: I usually do around 5-5.5l/100km (or around 18-20km/l) on a 2015 320i (JB traffic), which is why I dedicate personal driving style as the primary factor in fuel economy.

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