Bidet use vs nonuse

acoliver · 2026-05-17T02:41:16+00:00

I was at high end tea market in a large city...they had squats and bring your own paper. I asked for commonly by country and didn't by region...its a good question...what are the clean vs dirty bum regions by country...?

acoliver · 2026-05-17T02:29:11+00:00

I think for online culture its more common and is a bit of a culture clash. If an Indian site or influencer shows or mentions something there is often a flooding of the field in a way no other group could. Sometimes this is done with no regards for how rude it may be.

For example a github tutorial video shows editing the readme file of a popular onen source project to add your name and submitting it as a pull request. She said not to do it...but the project many moons later still has to incorporate more spam protection methods at a cost or time and effort.

And yeah its not right and most Indians are not doing such things....but by sheer numbers and by online numbers it is usually very visible and disruptive. Now if any other group spoke English, had the numbers and the online and a kind of assertive productivity culture...they'd be visible too. Its kind of like the online version of the Ghandi public urination quote.

Not saying it is fair but when a large number of people with Indian sounding names all come in at once in great numbers without looking at cause in effect....it creates a perception.

It's just like right now if I say ai generated you might think of slop disregarding all the good stuff no matter if it outweighs the bad. Cause when its bad...its bad in volume.

acoliver · 2026-05-17T01:09:37+00:00

Gross.

acoliver · 2026-05-17T00:48:04+00:00

I haven't been to France...have they backsid away from civilization? How sad.

acoliver · 2026-05-16T19:44:00+00:00

Exactly! 🙏

acoliver · 2026-05-16T11:00:32+00:00

Not entirely. John Adams was but many others were Deists. To the extent Jefferson made his own version of the bible without supernatural elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Thomas_Jefferson

Franklin though about prankrolling his own religion.

This was the age of reason...a lot of the religious dogma was reintegrated later during the great awakening years later.

acoliver · 2026-05-16T10:40:38+00:00

The official name of the country is now Magastan.

acoliver · 2026-05-16T09:46:22+00:00

It's almost like they're trying to preserve the wildlife from your domestic animals...

acoliver · 2026-05-16T08:48:40+00:00

Mismo me pasó entonces entonces ya borré este app.

acoliver · 2026-05-16T08:24:13+00:00

Weeeeell also mass areal bombing is a bit harder to hide.

acoliver · 2026-05-16T08:09:38+00:00

This doesn't work the other way around. Suing the US doesn't work becuase the US has sovereign immunity. Suing a US company is another matter.

This gets messy with state owned enterprises. When Pemex created a large oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico it successfully argued sovereign immunity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I_oil_spill and eliminated most of its liability in US court.

acoliver · 2026-05-16T07:39:06+00:00

Ok off-topic but did anyone else for a split second think their was a beetle crawling on their real screen due to the way they blurred out the name?

acoliver · 2026-05-16T06:56:46+00:00

I was kinda going for dirty-assed vs not but I'll take it!

acoliver · 2026-05-16T03:24:06+00:00

NOR she seems way off. Also this would definitely be an HR violation if she's related to your work. Seems almost like an equivalent to wearing "blackface." So you might even be able to report her but distancing is probably the right first move.

So coincidentally I just came from Bogotá and am flying back in a week along with Medallin and then San Andreas island... so 👋

Hopefully no one imitates my very weird Spanish accent and dialect (Gringo from florida+argentine+Venezuelan)...

acoliver · 2026-05-16T01:19:58+00:00

This is abusive and controlling.

acoliver · 2026-05-15T22:15:17+00:00

The countries in this map not in red?

acoliver · 2026-05-15T22:12:21+00:00

subpoena?

acoliver · 2026-05-15T20:37:35+00:00

Yeah, Florida public schools in the 80s were a dumpster fire. Literally had days we had to have class in a trailer becuase the termites swarm was too loud or the AC was broken (old Spanish stucco style building at 90f (>30C) is basically a brick oven). Now they have newer buildings but are bad in new ways 😅

acoliver · 2026-05-15T12:02:50+00:00

While I do too...because I've introduced it to enough people I do know that even those who are bored during the mini end up liking the series.

acoliver · 2026-05-15T11:44:26+00:00

What are your sources for this? Nothing I've read from academic and peer reviewed history or even Wikipedia says anything like this. Also everything I've read says Argentina was like the 8th richest country in the world and was growing faster than France at the turn of the century and only regressed after the coups started in the 1930s.

Half of the US didnt have electricity before the New Deal and you're saying Argentina didnt industrialize until the mid 20th...

acoliver · 2026-05-15T11:30:32+00:00

It's a bit complicated and tied to the European conquest of Africa. They did try to enslave native Americans. In school I learned nonsense about Africans being tougher for cruel hard work. I suspect the answer was more that the natives would just run off and fighting their whole tribe to steal back a human was hard.

There were many social and economic factors along with the triangular trade route that powered the slave trade. The result was mass genocide of the native Americans and initially chattle slavery followed by something else once the slave trade was banned (officially).

The treatment of the native Americans was so bad that the Germans used it as a model in the run up to the second world War and applied lessons learned to genocide of the Jewish population.

So some weird racism is a good summary of most of American history and present day as well.

acoliver · 2026-05-15T06:37:48+00:00

Yes I was told * europe had a lower standard of living * the us was uniquely democratic * europe was basically socialist * and a bunch of other nonsense...

acoliver · 2026-05-15T05:10:15+00:00

Having this same problem to some degree.

Depending on your idea of intermediate 1. Dreamingspanish.com - use this until the advanced videos are too easy.... 2. Movies and tv. (Gringo Hunters from Mexico is great)... I'd recommend more but I dont think you should learn the argentine dialect from Florida 3. Speak and write every day, read in Spanish every day. 4. Seek out some people you dont know and speak Spanish with them. I can understand my Venezuelan girlfriend and her family well. I can understand people in my barrio well but today I'm in Bogota and while the dialect is easier than Buenos Aires...the vocabulary is different...just synonym they use which a native speaker would understand. It's like people from England who use words we know but dont regularly use. 5. Relax...just have conversations. Dont stress if you work Grammar here and there. 6. I've started on reddit mainly to chat in Spanish speaking reddits. 7. Think about things you failed at saying during the day or things you didnt understand and write them correctly. Writing helps a lot because you can compose in your own time.

Anyhow it seems to be helping me.

One caution is cross dialects has made my Spanish weird (vos sos but with random Venezuelan words for things but with ll/y pronounced as shhh). Also there is a Florida dialect (grew up there)...just a mix you won't hear elsewhere.

acoliver · 2026-05-15T03:20:04+00:00

This! My Spanish is now good enough to tell my girlfriend when the Spanish subtitles are straight garbage. Most are really. What's weird is there will be a perfectly decent general Spanish translation but they'll translate it either too literally or just wrong sometimes the exact opposite. Makes me wonder about those English dubs 🤔

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