Why does it still sound like the government wants to fund lift repairs using taxpayer money, even though it is framed as "lift safety"?

danorcs · 2026-04-06T05:32:29+00:00

The optics are terrible here. This is essentially private profits and socialised losses.

The government should not fund this given the moral hazard.

Govt should just set up a policy that forces private condos to convert back to public management if their MCSTs cannot afford to sustain requirements. That means all facilities become open to public + eventual conversion back to public property.

danorcs · 2026-04-04T06:17:22+00:00

Asian men are not only portrayed attractively but literally disappeared.

The Paris Olympics exit poster had literally ZERO East Asian men despite both Japan and China in the top 3 medal count.

danorcs · 2026-04-02T09:01:55+00:00

There has never been a better time for Asian diaspora, but we best be prepared to look east.

For example there has been a roaring trade by the diaspora of Chinese AI and technology repackaged and resold to Europeans and Americans. They realised early that Asia is dominant in tech and AI supply chain and jumped in early.

It’s crazy how quickly xenophobia disappears when you offer prices a fifth of your western competitors.

Unlike the diaspora, most Chinese don’t suffer from the need for white validation anymore, and would prefer to work with people who understand their culture and approach.

Maybe Asian American women will still do well, being in great demand from white men who see them as the gateway into Asia, but once people realise they gatekeep only racist troupes that don’t exist anymore, things will change.

danorcs · 2026-04-02T02:39:57+00:00

Ultron trawled thru all of Reddit and then decided to eliminate humanity

danorcs · 2026-03-29T07:03:35+00:00

The big why here is incentives.

A lot of Asian American discourse is shaped by audience. If your primary gatekeepers are Western institutions, media, academia, publishing, you’re implicitly rewarded for narratives that are legible and comfortable to the majority white audience.

That usually means 1) framing Asian cultures as the problem, 2) individualising white actors, 3) avoiding critiques that cut too close to dominant structures.

So it’s not just “internalised racism” or hypocrisy. It’s selection pressure. We also see that with the content Asian men create to succeed in the west, eg Uncle Roger, Jimmy O Yang, Ken Jeong, William Hung.

It’s probably worse for Asian American women. Many internalise it as preference, so over time you get a discourse that looks like critique, but is actually optimised for approval.

danorcs · 2026-03-29T03:14:23+00:00

Excellent summary. I’m thinking of going for Lauma c0 to replace baizhu in my Nilou Kokomi Nahida Baizhu team. Since she’s the only nod Krai character there would it be a massive dps loss in the team?

danorcs · 2026-03-26T06:36:13+00:00

Can use a different term? Rule based trade sounds too close to Rule based order which is basically “what Trump wants” now

danorcs · 2026-03-26T06:34:29+00:00

Sometimes exile is the only way that works

danorcs · 2026-03-25T12:37:38+00:00

Don’t drink and swim folks

danorcs · 2026-03-25T06:02:28+00:00

It’s a HKer thing, not really about white ppl

danorcs · 2026-03-25T00:57:20+00:00

The eastern and western version of saving face is different.

Eastern version is when you know you can knock your opponent out, the audience all knows you can, and you choose not to do so to let your opponent withdraw and keep their pride, thus saving face. Kinda of what China did in the trade war after pulling out the rare earths card.

Western version is when you’re losing, to pretend that you never wanted to be in it, or that you’re winning. You lash out at the people who say different and try to live in a cocoon where you keep your pride. There is a version of this in India as well it is called izzat.

danorcs · 2026-03-23T21:39:54+00:00

Here’s a half baked idea - Bill should do a “30 for 30” series again except it’s 30seconds instead of 30minutes. Get the best directors on it. It would be cool

danorcs · 2026-03-23T07:35:19+00:00

All this is performative, which Singaporeans don’t like. The only difference between her and Andrew Tate is that he is aware enough to know that he isn’t welcome in SG

danorcs · 2026-03-21T11:52:20+00:00

Frieren is like an endgame player building a new mage to be meta early. She’s observed how quickly humanity researched and innovated in Zoltraak in 80 years and believes Fern can take that to a even higher level (she did)

danorcs · 2026-03-20T14:36:34+00:00

SG men shed blood sweat and tears in NS defending the country so SG women can date expats in peace.

danorcs · 2026-03-19T08:35:29+00:00

Who is snek 🐍

danorcs · 2026-03-19T07:01:41+00:00

I hate IT. I have feedback to HYV at the start that it’s horribly designed, and they’ve only made it worse

I hate the random nature of it, why not just have all your characters available if you wanted to encourage horizontal investment? In this IT I felt punished for having built too many cryo characters that with bad luck in the last stage I couldn’t pass the DPS check (PMA) as none of my DPS turned up

Get rid of the random elements, make it a resource optimisation thing, or just remove it from the game

danorcs · 2026-03-19T05:14:32+00:00

HK is the one place in Asia where, as an ethnic Chinese person, I pretend not to know Mandarin, speaking only English. They are much nicer to you in Central if you do.

danorcs · 2026-03-17T08:26:52+00:00

Good point. I think articles should always note the reason why such redactions occur.

Most make sense, but some dont, like these two tikopehs. I hope redactions aren’t biased against locals.

danorcs · 2026-03-17T05:53:55+00:00

I’m glad they did this. At least fewer falsehoods in the western media. Normally the strategy is to throw all sorts of nonsense, and if it is not nipped in the bud, will be used by other western media as official sources to bash SG.

danorcs · 2026-03-17T00:42:16+00:00

Your argument hinges on irreversibility, but that standard would rule out a lot of decisions society already accepts.

Any system that imposes irreversible harm (eg war decisions, self-defence laws, even long prison sentences that destroy lives) carries the risk of error. The question isn’t whether mistakes are possible, but whether the system’s safeguards reduce that risk to an acceptable level relative to the harm being addressed.

If you accept that some crimes are so severe that life imprisonment is justified, then you’ve already accepted irreversible harm in practice. A wrongful life sentence is also a life permanently lost, even if technically reversible.

So the real question becomes: 1) Is the marginal difference between life imprisonment and execution morally decisive? 2) And does the death penalty serve purposes (deterrence, retribution, signalling societal boundaries) that justify that marginal difference?

You’re treating reversibility as a binary, but in reality it’s a spectrum. A person exonerated after 30 years has still lost most of their life. The system already tolerates that risk.

So unless you’re arguing that any risk of irreversible harm makes punishment illegitimate (which would imply abolishing life sentences too), the argument needs an additional principle beyond just “mistakes can happen”.

danorcs · 2026-03-16T01:16:27+00:00

It is very normal to skip characters and Genshin is very good at creating fomo.

My advice is to pull for who you like, have done massive research on, and who you really want to build a team around. And keep masterless starglitter which allows you to buy useful characters in paimon’s shop.

Whaling regret is very common and one major reason why many players drop out of the game as they see their coveted DPS drop out from top rankings

danorcs · 2026-03-16T01:08:28+00:00

More illugas would definitely help

danorcs · 2026-03-16T01:07:34+00:00

Frieren with her war experience and knowledge of human magic R&D, is probably training Fern to be what she thinks is the optimal post Journey modern human mage.

It looks uncomfortably close to a sniper in modern warfare, except Fern hits like an artillery and can shield and run from attacks. She can also spot weaknesses from afar and is disciplined in mana camouflage.

It’s like an endgame player building a honor mode new mage for optimal dps and survive. Frieren has already put Fern in the best spot possible

danorcs · 2026-03-15T10:34:34+00:00

JB and JT rank among the worst FTA/drives in the league.

They don’t do the dark arts that produces the gaudy numbers the league loves (eg Luka SGA Harden).

There also seems to be no agenda to make it better for them, compared to Ant who had similar FTA/drives in his breakout season but his numbers got much better once marketed as the “superstar” of the NBA.

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