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(re: 宏福苑大火 / hong kong fire, post in cantonese)sorry I'm pretty bad at literature also it's annoying that I'm still sensitive to "it's not X it's Y" even when it's in cantonese
宏福苑大火 / hong kong fire, post in cantonese香港咁多新市鎮之中，除咗將軍澳之外，同我最有恩緣嘅就係大埔 我細個嗰陣唔知點解有一排要成日出入教育學院，所以對大埔、廣福道、同埋大埔中心一帶都幾有印象 唔知點解，我老豆間教堂又喺大埔，所以我自問都算有一兩個 percent 係大埔人
venting, politics, hong kong fire(v0182 (EXTN (ST the one silver lining is that it's clear that the spirit of mutual aid from 2019 is still alive and well when catastrophes like this happen, even in a place as individualistic and cutthroat as HK I suppose that's just human nature though when the problem is more chronic or systemic, uh I should volunteer more )))
venting, politics, hong kong fire(v0182 (EXTN (ST cause at the end of the day, it's not your house that's on the line, it's not your life you're risking (and even if it is a lot of them don't seem to care) why do the safer thing when you can just do the cheaper (or more profitable) thing and, most of the time, it'll probably be fine, and if it's not fine, it's someone else's fault anyway I'd ask what happened to basic human empathy but I think we all know )))
venting, politics, hong kong fire(v0182 (TANG (ST I'm mad at the fact that it's very likely that nothing will change substantially over this culture and policy-wise people will still think that safety is just an annoying obstacle, or being overly paranoid, and governments will continue to be ineffective at enforcing safety-related rules
we can do better, we know how to do better, and we simply won't in the name of a myopic pursuit of infinite growth and profit )))
techbro nonsense (made up)(v0182 (XSTM (ID #:nonsense JumpsCare, the extended warranty service for Jumps, the world's first AI-powered trampoline as a service )))
generative AI(v0182 (TANG (ST it's funny how generative AI has ruined at least a few Canonically Good writing techniques that make you seem Professional and Educated so now people have to write Worse to get taken seriously )))
generative AI(v0182 (SPON (ST it will take many, many years after the generative AI bubble pops for me to take any sentence with the structure "it's not X, it's Y" seriously )))
