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  If you’re an elderly Chinese person in SF Chinatown, living in a 8x10 box in Chinatown and being around your friends, walking and taking the bus, eating all the food you care about, having cheap groceries everywhere around you, having health and food services that speak your language, is an infinitely better life than living in a suburb with no one your age and nothing that reminds you of home. I don’t understand why this is so hard to understand, but over-prioritizing big homes over community...

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  Some days I forget that not everyone has the same gut bacteria. I am so very happy eating all over South and Southeast Asia. Not everyone in Singapore is like this. I have forged my gut of steel through three decades of exposure, constant street food eating, and just generally spending copious amounts of time in my many parts of my favorite parts of the world. My friends have photos of random aunties I don’t know in India and Indonesia putting food in my mouth. In a train. In a bus. On the...

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  I think Chinese vegetarian food is spectacular. They’ve been doing it for thousands of years. Lingzhi Greens in Singapore is a Chinese fine dining vegetarian spot that hits it out of the park. I always enjoy going there Their herbal soups are also very good https://maps.app.goo.gl/7GAkJdQ99ePgnzQq6?g_st=ic #Food #Singapore #ChineseFood

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  I keep buying these deranged flavored chips - Sichuan sauerkraut fish chips - chilli and sour cream - draft beer flavored potato chips That’s how much I dislike salt and vinegar I would rather eat anything else #Food #PotatoChips

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  India is a country of extremes. The other night we went to dinner at a fancy spot, fancier than anything most places, but the power went out 14 times (I counted). The streets are full of people in luxury cars alongside people in grinding poverty. I’ve been coming here for 22 / 23 years; you see this in some places more than others. I know people in Bangalore who make so much money that would be 75th percentile in the Bay Area. But there are also people who have almost nothing. A decade a...

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  In India, you can get food from various towns and cities delivered to your train seat, when your train halts somewhere for a bit 100% refund if they don’t make it #India #Trains #IndianRailways #Food

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  Reading about bland food on Reddit. In four decades of life I think I can count the number of times I have had food that might be considered truly bland.. with one hand. I intend to keep it that way

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  I feel incredibly lucky to be able to eat the Indian food from the city of Mangalore. It is so phenomenally good (and not easy to find abroad)

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  Haleem is one of my favorite foods! Always a good day when I have some! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haleem #Food

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  Me, at lunch in Bangalore: I feel so lucky to have so much food with so much flavor

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  Stifling my laughter as I read some recent western Buddhist convert say they think Buddhist theocracies will be amazing. Who’s going to tell them about Sri Lanka and Myanmar and how very not amazing it was

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  TIL that people have parasocial relationships with specific bears because of Fat Bear week They seem to know all the drama of each bear

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  When I first watched Dexter I thought it was unrealistic that he had so much plastic wrap and then I came to America. To a business Costco, specifically I was just telling someone how it’s taking me years to finish my 1000 sq ft roll of aluminum foil from Costco

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  Indian Supreme Court rules that cancer drug markups are extortionate, orders them to drop Prices are expected to drop about 70% Sadly the woman who sued to bring the case to court did not live to see it. RIP Sarojam Radhakrishnan https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/23/india-cuts-cost-cancer-drugs #India

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  Riding the Chennai metro Alstom driverless trainsets #Transit #Chennai #India #Trains

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  lol at Chennai immigration some woman ahead is me is like why do I have to fill the health declaration form? I’m from Australia! I’m already at the front of the line I don’t want to go back to the end of it God do you know what happens if someone from Chennai tries that in Australia??

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  Malaysia is unhinged

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  White evangelical protestants in the US are the only religious group 'in which a majority says empathy can become dangerous when it leads people away from a society guided by God's truth' https://www.axios.com/2026/10/20/religious-divide-empathy-democrats-republicans

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  In a Chinese restaurant in Malaysia and every table is a group of 10-12 friends and or family having dinner together. Full house. Every single spot is like this (and there are lots of restaurants) I guess we don’t have much of a loneliness epidemic here. Here, you’ll have to fight quite hard to be completely alone

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  New York City is hiring someone to lead their product management team. I know them personally, good team https://cityjobs.nyc.gov/job/executive-director-product-management-in-brooklyn-jid-46142 #GetFediHired #Jobs #NewYorkCity #CivicTech #CityJobs

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  RE: https://mastodon.art/@petrikas/116125821528139989 Middle class kids like me can get one throw every decade maybe. I’m about to throw a dart again. I’m aware lots of things had to have happened for me to even be able to do this. Primarily that my parents without college degrees experienced a once in a lifetime economic growth story in a country that suddenly became rich in their lifetimes. And that I have a passport that lets me go anywhere i want.

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  Public housing in Singapore: 40-50 floor apartments on the left. Multi-storey parking on the right. Parking building has rooftop garden. Ground floor has daycare for children, and seniors. Bridge connects from residential to rooftop garden. Within walking distance: public swimming pool and gym, costs US$1.20 - $2 per entry, cheaper in a yearly pass. There are 5 supermarkets within walking distance, several wet markets, and laundromats on the ground floor of many buildings. When it’s rainin...

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  In an interview, lesbian chef Melissa King says that sometimes her girlfriends get drunk and need to eat potatoes. ‘But I’m not a potato queer. I never have potatoes in my house. I have rice.’ That’s my sexual orientation from now on. Rice queer

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  This is a good headline

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  Kalimantan (Borneo) is burning. Here’s the haze from my home in Singapore

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  These companies are responsible for setting up much of Southeast Asia ablaze. https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/two-spore-listed-palm-oil-firms-named-in-greenpeace-report-on-indonesian-plantation-fires

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  Nobody who has ever said ‘let me explain’ on TikTok has ever explained anything correctly

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  RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/117442014571216424 I hope everyone who hoped for this for Elon is happy. All the minorities told you they were just going to do this to people of color.

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  My goal for Q4 is to look even gayer

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  I’ve been a watching a lot of videos of people in Singapore and Malaysia being upset at Indonesia over the haze (for good reason) But I am trying to imagine what it’s like right now for the people and orang utans of Kalimantan and Sumatra living near the wildfires right now :/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/21/indonesia-borneo-sumatra-fires-smoke-toxic-air