the Planet*

(US is not the only country is the world where people are suffering, less US-Centralism pls)

Just use an app that force your screen to flip upside down (Android allows this)

I sometimes looked myself in the mirror… like I got so used to seeing my reflection in glasses, that if I ever like go without glasses… say if I get lasik, then I’d look so weird…

I literally had this thought earlier today… like… do people who get lasik still wear fake glasses so they look good aesthetically speaking? Or as you said, “to look smart”?

In the US, you go to a post office, and you have to hand over the physical, original copy of your proof of citizenship when apply for the first time so the postal worker can attach to the packet of stuff they send to the US Department of State… and they only give it back after they finished processing your passport application…

So while waiting… (takes a few weeks to process) you have:

-No Passport -No Certificate of Citizenship/Naturalization or Birth Certificate…

Meaning no proof of Citizenship…

Which means its kinda awkward if you get approached by government agents during this time… and have no proof of your claim to be a US Citizen…

Apparantly for people with birthright citizens, they can just get a birth certificate for like $10-$30, which I didn’t know before… TIL

But since I’m foreign-born and naturalized (or technically speaking, it’s Citizenship via Derivation under the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, but its too complicated and I don’t wanna write a paragraph on that), I would need to file a N-565 to get a replacement copy of my proof of citizenship…

And it’s $500 for the filing fee…

Yea I don’t think people are gonna really wanna spend $500 just for an extra “backup copy” they statiscally don’t need, unless it actually gets lost in the system and then they’d have no choice but to pay $500…

And that also takes time to process…

(And before you ask: Yes it is night time here, but I don’t really feel like sleeping right now lol)

If this was asked in China, I bet nobody would seriously say “I wanna live in the past”

(at least not in the context of traveling back to the 1950s or something like that…)

“Why would you light your passport on fire?”

-u/[email protected]

idk Gen Z slang has infected my brain…

(send help… I’m Gen Z 👀)

maybe this is actually an scp that the foundation managed to successfully hide away from the people

I’m not saying its an literal actual trap, its more of a colloquial/casual way of saying things that some people apparantly didn’t get… 🤷‍♂️

Its like you know people say “the cat showing the belly is a trap” thing? Even tho not every cat would scratch you.

Yeah, but they took the original copy to be mailed to the department of state, for Online Renewals it doesn’t need to leave your hands, but I’m not eligible for a renew cuz my last one was issued in 2016/2017 when I was under 16 (valid only for 5 years), and I don’t even have it anymore.

I have a printed-copy of the Certificate and digitized versions stored on my phone… but my point is, it feels “less legit” to present it compared to the physical original copy.

Your foreign birth certificate does not prove citizenship btw.

A replacement for Certificate of Naturalization/Certificate of Citizenship is $500

I have derivative citizenship…

N-565 costs $500 to file

not exactly cheap

Oh… I just googled it… didn’t even know birth certificated are that cheap…

Cuz people who do not have birthright citizenship have to pay $500 to file for a replacement Certificate of Naturalization or Certificate of Citizenship…

kinda expensive ngl

The only reason why they had to do the plane crashing on the ground is because it’s #TooSoon… (cuz… you know…)

As a germophobe: What the fuck?

Like I hear stories about kids (in the US) eating lunch in the toilet stall… like… is that actually a thing or just a myth?

Alt Universe: “My name is Edward Snowden and oopsie I forgot to start the anonymization program and now CIA agents are waiting for me at the airport”

If you have no morals, and if you’re in USA, you can give them ads for your local gun shop 💀

(/joke, pls don’t do this lol)

Too late, I think the entire neighborhood might already know us as “Oh, it’s THAT family that always have arguments in the house”

The thing is, we’re East Asian so this just further reinforce their “Asian strict parenting” stereotype in their minds 💀

(or perhaps nobody cares that much since they’ve already expected this much yelling due to that stereotype)

Lol, I thought the walls were more noise-isolating…

unfortunately, Bose did not make these walls

Like I don’t hear neighbors often unless I really put my ears close to the wall outlet and hear their tv on the other side…

The only time I heard it when the parent was yelling at their kid next door…

I actually had a teacher that pointed out the 13th amendment prison exemption.

She was also a black muslim, as in actually wearing a hijab. (the point of this being that it was diverse af and not just white teachers)

Also focused a lot on COINTELPRO and the spying on civil right leaders that type of stuff.

And the Jim Crow stuff, sharecropping… etc…

Also that the emancipation proclamation itself probably did not free any enslaved people, since they only applied to rebelling states, which would obviously ignore it.

(Philly btw… my school was rated so bad btw… like 2/10 on the greatschool .org thing lots of fightings and stuff, the point being that its not some rich neighborhood)

But they taught almost nothing about Asian Americans… :(

Just a brief mention and that’s all, probably why racism towards Asian Americans are still so common and still socially acceptable… :(