Well, to be fair it happens in Canada, in the UK, even in China (in that in all three you get news stories of cops doing just that). But it seems to never happen in the USA (if we’re to judge by reportage).

For one side of the fence it’s probably 梁朝伟 (Tony Leung) and for the other side it’s probably 张曼玉 (Maggie Cheung). I fell in love with both in the movie In the Mood for Love and its follow-up-in-spirit 2046. And Maggie was killer funny playing herself in Irma Vep.

We need a second +1 (or maybe a +10) button for answers like this.

Cops talk down a person in a mental health crisis instead of shooting them.

Well, once there was this question about a random anecdote I’ve never had the chance to share, and I didn’t have one. (I tend to overshare.) But in the process of realizing I didn’t have one, I suddenly noticed I had one and typed it in.

🤭

I don’t even mean just their politicians and whatnot. Not just the “newsworthy” stuff (according to billionaire-owned news organizations). I mean their entire victim culture (left and right) that makes them look at everything with an electron microscope for any hint of something they can take offence at. I mean their insistence that their social issues are universal, but others’ social issues are localized and unimportant. I mean their insistence that their understanding of how to do things is how everything should be done (something which set the pretty fantastic gains the Chinese LGBT movement had made in two decades of careful diplomacy back about … two decades).

Just talk about anything except FUCKING AMERICAN POLITICS. PLEASE!

edited to add

For a hint of what I’m talking about, look at this:

Just positively going over everything with a fine-toothed comb to pick out any opportunity to take offence.

Anything that’s not the latest American political talking point infecting the rest of the world with its toxicity (“left” or “right” both—not that the USA has a meaningful “left”).

If it was a bit more common I’d assume it was just a joke. The fact that it was widely spread, but not omnipresent is what makes me think they believed what they were saying.

It’s a well-researched phenomenon, actually, confabulation is. There’s even some evidence that a particular part of the brain does it. Our memories are actually kind of shitty. Things that get repeated often enough turn into “truth” if not quickly corrected when they show up. (This is how in the '80s, during the Satanic Panic, memories of “Satanic abuse” that would be physically impossible were generated and held by the unfortunate victims of unscrupulous lawyers and psychologists.) And once there, it’s “confrontational” to face them with reality.

So I’m pretty sure the people I talked to believed the story after repeating it likely dozens to hundreds of times.

I have found that doing so is counter-productive most times. (When it is productive, it’s productive in the sense of a little fact to remember for future ambushes.) People get very, very, very defensive when you point out that they’re probably confabulating and that their memory is flawed and likely deeply fooled.

I wonder if the random letters “shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee” might have anything to do with this question?

This right here.

I’m always amused at “shouldn’t be sweet”. Westerners have such partitioned tastes. You’d die in Thailand where every bite of every food is supposed to activate all tastes at once.

If bananas are evil, call me the Devil.

Bitter melon. Even after nearly a quarter of a century of giving it a chance, I just can’t stand it. It’s the taste I can never acquire it seems.

Most boiled vegetables. “Hey, how about this? Let’s take something that tastes good, looks good, has texture and turn it into bland slop with all the snap of an overripe leaf of lettuce! Bonus: how 'bout we do this in a way that leeches all the nutrients out! What could possibly go wrong?!” There’s so many ways to cook vegetables that don’t make them lose flavour, texture, and nutrition. Why are we boiling them!?

Cooked lettuce. They stir-fry lettuce here, and also cook “lettuce hearts”. I like lettuce when it’s raw. It tastes good. It gives a nice crunch to things it’s in. Even if you do something like put it on a hamburger and then leave it under the heat lamp until it wilts its … tolerable. It lacks the texture and “snap” of good lettuce, but it doesn’t taste offensive. As soon as you cook it, though, it develops this taste that puts me right off.

I’m growing jasmine, aloes, and chilies in window boxes right now.

You can look on your profile. Every post and comment you’ve ever made is listed there, and if you haven’t turned off vote reporting it shows votes too.

In Chicago, sausages are fine art.

This alone would have me downvoting you for the sheer chutzpah of putting “Chicago”, “hot dog”, and “fine art” together into a post without intervening negatives. Hell drop Chicago and I’d still downvote for the chutzpah.

There are a few hot button topics that seem to garner huge numbers of downvotes. Feminism. China. Anything related to Gaza (pro- or anti-genocide). Elon Musk. The list goes on and is often really bizarre when you see it spelled out.

Never used reddit and on Lemmy I have the separated vote counts turned off.