Liberals Beware; I will crawl on your face.
Personally I use Xiaomi. (Before that, I used Vivo. Both are Chinese companies btw) Their phones are pretty high quality despite their cheap price compared to other phones of similar quality, but they put ads in their system apps (But this can be mitigated through various means) and have a few analytics-related settings, but you can turn those off after snooping around in settings if you’re concerned about privacy.
i think it’s more of a tell that we are literally educated to serve the USian market, not necessarily means that our countries are americanized or westernized.
Here in the Philippines, it’s both😭
When I was in Elementary, our schools had an English-Only Policy where speaking our national language (Tagalog) outside of Filipino classes was penalized. We also have an entire market for overseas work (OFWs or Overseas Filipino Workers)
I’ve also heard that sites like YouTube will implement AI systems to estimate users’ ages based on the content they view, and apply restrictions accordingly, such as blocking the viewing of videos deemed problematic, and an ID will be needed to prevent these restrictions. But considering that the majority of YouTube’s “kid’s content” is either brainrot or ElsaGate content, this will more likely be used to silence opposition, such as coverage on Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.
I have just watched Takopi’s Original Sin and it’s some really heavy stuff. It sheds light on some very real issues in today’s society such as bullying, domestic abuse, suicide, etc., and how unfair conditions can lead to such behaviors. However, the ending feels a bit… Libby, for lack of a better term? (Spoilers ahead)
So in the end, Takopi sacrifices himself so that the two rival characters Shizuka and Marina become friends instead of enemies. The anime presents this as a happy ending (of course, as the main conflict between them has been resolved in a positive way), but at the same time, during the time skip at the end, Marina still has the facial scar she gets from parental abuse in a time skip from a previous timeline, which implies that her household problems likely still haven’t been resolved.
Also, it seems like a wasted opportunity to not address how the contradictions within Capitalism perpetuate these situations in the first place, whether it be Shizuka’s poverty (with her mother having to turn to prostitution to keep them afloat), Marina’s abusive parents (unable to properly seek help, causing her to turn to bullying Shizuka to vent her frustrations), Azuma’s parental neglect (always being forced to push himself as an attempt to gain his mother’s approval due to work culture), etc.
This