Anyone who is ever surprised that a minority person does a bad thing should remember that no matter what culture you’re from, machismo and patriarchy comes first before yourself.

I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me

Going home #SanFrancisco #GoldenGateBridge

From a 2023 story about immigration detention in Denmark: “In 2020, the Centre of Europe’s Anti-Torture Committee published a report outlining conclusions from their visit to Ellebaek. The report said that Ellebaek’s detained migrants were subjected to excessive force and racism; restricted access to open air, sometimes even to 30 minutes a day; denied access to mobile phones, punished by 15 days of solitary confinement; and placed naked in observation rooms if found to be at risk of suicide. Hans Wolff, the Anti-Torture Committee delegation’s leader, described Ellebaek as a place ‘not suitable for humans’. He even threatened to take legal action against Denmark in the European Court of Human Rights unless the country implemented the Committee’s recommendations within three months. Yet in response to the report, the Justice Minister at the time, Nick Hækkerup, said that Ellebaek is a deliberately hostile place. Since 1997, ‘motivation enhancement measures’ have been enshrined in the Danish Aliens Act – outlining that deportation centres should keep people seeking asylum in isolated institutions with low living standards and minimal welfare to encourage them to leave”

Shado Magazine

Living in fear in Copenhagen

In our third investigation Polina Bachlakova exposes how Denmark is infringing on the rights of people seeking asylum in Copenhagen

#Immigration

I was curious about my vinegar aversion and looked up why I didn’t seem to have any vinegar in my southern Chinese (Teochew and Cantonese) coastal cuisines at all. We also have almost no fermentation culture Apparently, the climate, widespread availability of fresh food, and centuries of global trade in our ports and regional preference for food caught / prepared on the same day meant we have almost no need for food preservation. Those cuisines dislike any flavors that overshadow the ‘original’ flavor of meats, seafood and vegetables. So yeah we almost never used any vinegar. I could not even eat northern Chinese food for a long time. Coz of the vinegar. It took me a long time to be able to eat anything that was vinegar heavy. Now, my favorite ones are Yucatán foods flavored with citrus. The first time I tried Tabasco and Sriracha, I was so mad. Hot sauce should not have vinegar (to me). It should just be straight up chillies, made fresh, daily, at lunch. ;) I still don’t like Tabasco or American style sriracha. But I can now have a panucho with cochinita pibil with a lot of zest and acid. Most people in my family cannot even deal with a drop of acid or vinegar. That was me, until very recently! #Food #ChineseFood