greenled @greenled@qoto.org

@peterdrake What was the old COdA-403a?

@hrisskar I'm a fan of many of the people who are involved in it, but I don't currently have the disposable income to give it a try.

Eventually when I'm a little more financially independent I'll get it for a little while and see if it measures up.

If you end up getting it, please update!

@freemo @Sphinx

@MichaelArk Mi español es un poco... poco, pero es bastante bien para mis examenes. Cómo es tu ingles?

@iulius o shit, toki pona!

Voy a aprender, pero ahora no puedo decir nada en este lingua. Creo que es mas importante que mejorar mi Español y 中文, y aprender Toki Pona despues si tengo tiempo.

@realcaseyrollins It's the distinction between toxic and constructive masculinity maybe, I associate the term more with positive traits than Trump's bluster and general Trump-ness.

@stevenroose @freemo @snow Yeah, I mentioned in another reply thread that hoping for abstract "it would be fine if the population just dropped" is fine because it's not a real possibility and isn't already affecting people.

The outbreak def wouldn't be such a big deal if it hadn't started in China during Chinese New Year while people were crossing the country to visit relatives, so perhaps to a certain degree Confucianism is to blame.

That said, edgy teens would definitely meme a plague in Europe, however impotent it proved to be.

@freemo @snow I do happen to speak the language, but my Chinese is really rusty. I should probably pick it back up when I graduate but I only got like half of that message

@freemo @snow Yeah, I know, it's just kinda shitty to pick that issue to latch onto specifically when it's a real and current threat and not some abstract possibility like the world ending immediately.

It would be perfectly fine to hope for something that's unlikely or near-impossible, but to muse in such a manner about something that's already affecting people is in deeply bad taste.

I'm not so much personally offended due to my own *personal* struggles as I am bothered by the choice of an issue that's so heavily stoked in racial issues and nationalism to illustrate said morbid point.

Btw @snow re: the whole "哦，系咁噶啦，本來身體因為空氣污染有問題嗰啲人咪仲開心，大陸大停工。" thing, I'm Korean, but nice try.

@snow @freemo Like, you do you but COVID not being dealt with has a tangible effect on the lives of others and to cheer it on is some really insensitive stuff. If you want to see the climate crisis addressed, pick a solution that's not the potential sacrifice of thousands of Asian lives.

@snow @freemo People are dying. My grandmother is in a hospital that's dealt with a recent COVID outbreak at this very moment. I can't attend school because all of them are closed in Hong Kong.

Have a little respect for people affected by the issue.

@realcaseyrollins Fuck Pete but Limbaugh considering Trump an icon of masculinity is concerning to me

@snow @freemo Is this a joke?