i made gulai tonight i am fixed

also honestly the architecture inside is just freaking stunning. i love PDX and the cool new roof but my true love is always CGK terminal 1

@skinnylatte both of my parents are COBOL-era programmers and they cant seem to understand what i do either, but having just enough preliminary knowledge to make the misunderstandings annoying/amusing

currently i get biyearly, out of nowhere text asking "so do you know how to build compilers now?" mom i have worked on SEVERAL

@skinnylatte my mom does this in the microwave with a pyrex pan and saran wrap to cover. so low-effort yet so good

e-bike and lycra sports bikers discourse is a distraction from the main problem, which is that all non-car people traveling w/ starkly different purposes and speeds are forced to negotiate with eachother to safely use the criminally small amount of space alloted instead of just getting more fucking space

@skinnylatte hey atleast they recommended a place actually serving dimsum instead of like, din tai fung

@skinnylatte i still have a mild, but pretty grounded-in-reality fears of irrational racist moves ultimately leading to deportation tho.

with shit like the random muslim ban, or DoJ falsely accusing a bunch of Chinese professors of being a fucking spy, the bar has dropped as low as back when they used to prosecute and deport people for being “suspected communists”

ugh its one of those days where i want a real breakfast

longing for an actual izakaya restaurant instead of whatever the fuck these are in the US

new kiki bouba just dropped

@skinnylatte this is a good deck but i see that folks are still missing the very key takeaway: the buying power is in non-Singapore SEA countries is insanely low. china/japan/korea seems to get this and fare much better w/ their startups entering our markets

@skinnylatte also midlly annoys me of how the Asian "eat dirty and gross foods" way is a lot more sustainable, healthy and "natural" (i.e., close to what our ancestors ate for centuries) than the health-aware & environment-aware diets of the west but people refuse to admit it because weird stigmas

@skinnylatte i feel this bc i’m quite a picky eater by asian/chinese standards but my white friends are so confused over how as an autistic person i seem to be ok with eating everything