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This month’s Ask PHlemmy: What worries you most about today’s youth?
- Im worried about the kids of today being driven to become terminally online. The opportunities for children to go out and have fun are diminishing because of rising costs and increasing car centric infrastuctures. I feel like this is why more and more children are becoming depressed and isolated
  
  Dami rin misinformation
  
  ahhh yes the death of third place tbh I can see why baguio is so crowded during the tourist season it is one of the cheapest places to go out relative to Tagaytay and LU
- Baka mas wala na silang pag-asa.
  Mas mahal na ngayon ang bilihin
  Mas konti na ang sweldo
  Mas magulo na ang buhay ngayon.
  old man shakes fist at cloud
- Lahat na lang kaaway nila, lol.
  Religion
  31 million
  Mga batang malilikot sa pampublikong lugar
  Influencers na kesyo magisip daw ng ibang hanap buhay
  Filipinx
  Mga hindi sumusuporta na gawing subject ang Baybayin
  Appropriation kuno kay Whang-Od
  Si tita na tinatanong kung may boyfriend ka na ba
  Si ninang na kinakantyawan ka na tumataba
  Hindi sumusunod sa escalator etiquette
  Mga bumibili ng alaga imbes na mag-adopt
  Lahat ng nagsisinungaling = gaslighting
  Bakit may piyansa, dapat wala
  Mga tsuper na kontra sa jeepney modernization kasi maingay ang patok at barumbado mag-drive
  Kamote riders (read: lahat ng may motor... na hulugan lang naman daw)
  Gumagastos sa kasal
  Mga FOMO
  Hindi gumagamit ng footbridge
  Lahat ng pulis
  Mga legislation hearing na "hindi naman importante"
  Christmas party at mga group performances
  
  Lumaki sila sa panahon ng ragebait eh. Either you do or you dont support a thing kaya maraming galit.
- the term situationship idk maybe I'm just old fashioned but if you're gonna date multiple partners at once at least be transparent about it with the other parties
  
  pagkaintindi ko sa situationship parang MU ng nakaraan, este non-committal dahil di pa talaga alam kung anong gagawin sa buhay hahaha so di naman siyang bagong bagay feel ko
  
  TIL na may term na "situationship".
  
  It's MU for gen Zs. Im all for dating multiple people for all genders too basta ba naman upfront agad.
- Hindi sila marunong mag-google
  
  to be fair yung mga results ni google ngayon parang kailangan lagyan mo pa ng website name sa dulo para lang makita mo yung kailangan mo or go further down sa results cause everything is so SEO focused nowadays unless you know the weird search parameters like filetype:pdf and alike
Manigong bagong taon sa ating lahat na naririto! Nawa'y maging maganda ang taong ito sa atin 🎆🎇
- Happy New Year, and if you're able to type, that means your fingers are all still complete. Heh.
- Happy New Year mga ka-lemmy
- Happy New Year 🎊
- new year
Looks like r/PH has been getting posts about my Evangelion uploads. Thanks to those who have been talking about it!
For the uninitiated, the tagalog dub has been considered lost media for decades! Not only did ABS-CBN air it just once and never again but no uploads exist anywhere and no one has stepped forward with recordings. I myself have never watched it and only learned that a tagalized version aired in the late 90s, thanks to an r/PH thread a few years ago. There was no way I could have recorded it even if I was aware of its existence because it conflicted with Gundam, a series that's more popular in the family despite being Eva fans as well.
Fortunately, someone replied to my Gundam Wing post correcting me about the actual air date (of GW) and revealing that he has recordings to prove his claim. The conversation led to him saying he has the Evangelion series (all 26 episodes!) as well as a few other rare anime and he sold it to me.
I don't make any money from the channels, but I think it was well worth it. The wife would probably thump me on the head when she finds out, lmao.
- am curious how do said tapes even withstand erosion? and do you mind explaining the restoration process I imagine it ain't cheap? also gow do you even come accross these tapes
  
  am curious how do said tapes even withstand erosion?
  Tapes are honestly robust. Not many people know that so they tend to give up on their tapes if they get flooded, dirty, or the ribbon gets cut. Plenty of VHS got discarded during Ondoy when it could still be remedied. Dust, molds, and sticky shed - they can be cleaned. Huge pain in the ass, though! Here's me cleaning one that's super dirty.
  and do you mind explaining the restoration process I imagine it ain’t cheap?
  When I first started, I just bought a cheap VCR and a digital dongle that's around 2k all in all. The results are okay, but you run into problems when the tape is in bad shape. I have since learned a lot and upgraded to better equipment.
  It's expensive (due to rarity), but luckily for me, VHS restoration isn't a thing here so you can buy stuff much cheaper than those in the US. I was able to get an S-VHS player here for 9k when on eBay it runs for 84k++
  Digitizing is real time. I copy it losslessly, upscale it a bit to 720p, then compress to mp4. I can't afford a frame TBC (device used to clean VCR signals that was pricey then and is more pricey and rare now) so sometimes there's not much I can do with super old and poorly-recorded tapes even if I have 80% of the highly recommended capture setup.
  also gow do you even come accross these tapes
  Most of it is from the little I was able to save from my own recordings. Used to have like 60 tapes but only set aside 15 when we remodeled the house a long time ago. The rest, I buy off Carousell or FB for dirt cheap because the seller just wants to get rid of it. Some are donations.
  I regret getting in the hobby late in the game. Those who own recordings likely disposed of them many years ago. You also have to contend with cartels who buy tapes just so they're the only ones who have copies of any lost media.
Not only tipping, but we should also stop vilifying people who do not practice CLAYGO in public kasi parehas lang root nyan. Employers don't want to hire more cleaners (or in some cases yung security guard pinagliligpit kahit wala naman extra) and they're relying on you being a fucking crab that will post and shame others who don't fix the table for the next customer.
Kawawa naman mga nanalo sa lotto, baka ipa-subpoena raw to verify that they're real people. Pano naman security nila? Para lang i-appease mga bitter este bettor?
Laugh trip pa sa kabila... hindi daw believable yung 50-51-52 na combination, lmao. I've been betting for a long-ass time, and three straight digits aren't uncommon as you think. Meron pa nga instances na 4 straight, iirc.
Edit: Pero, at the same time, this is why it's good to have senators like Tulfo. No other senator is going to bring up a "poor" question like this sa floor and at such a quick span. Makikita mo nga si Koko pasilip silip dun sa picture nung winner, clearly showing he isn't actually familiar with the viral photo.
Very ironic na si sir 88M pa ang nagpu-push mag-tax ang tao
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/money/economy/893360/marcos-signs-ease-of-paying-taxes-act-into-law/story/
- Tbf, his alibi for "tax evasion" is that he was under the impression that his staff took care of those. Sure it's good practice to check if your staff is doing their job, but from what we know of BBM (a bum), I wouldn't expect him to do that.
  It's also not unheard of to miss filing ITRs out of oversight. My first employer failed to do it for 3 years and I only found out when they couldn't give me my TIN number. It wasn't malicious or anything.
  That said, I do like this law because it helps freelancers pay taxes easier by digitizing BIR services. They don't have paid leaves so they don't have the luxury of setting aside a day to do that.
  
  I definitely guilty for hating the guy without considering his move, but kudos to his admin (not him hehe) for doing thia digitize thingy
  Pero sana nga lang mas maging easy talaga at walang delay sa proceasing. Alam naman natin na kahit sino pa nakaupo, may issue parati sa mga government offices. Parang yun drivers license ko, ilang months na wala pa rin ID, papel pa rin dala-dala ko
Naku pu CIMB, miscommunication ata sa team nila
Happy new year ebriwan! Open si ako for commissions 😺
- mod must be into some freaky stuff if this shows up in their feed XD
  
  Haha, naka-sort by NEW yan. Nagkataon lang kakapost.
Kumusta yung first week back nyo last week? Between my unplanned covid leave and planned leaves, I was away from work for three weeks. Ang hirap mag-adjust and mag-focus ulit. Not sure if post-covid effect or ako lang talaga.
Also, the first email I read back was the announcement of the Philhealth contribution increase, so that was fun.
naalala ko nanaman ~~course~~ subject namin nung college na Software Technology Research Methods tas yung code STRESME HAHAHA
I never thought that this year would bring someone to me that would so drastically change my outlook in life that I feel as if I can be myself after decades of being forced to fit into something I'm not. I've never felt so light, like a massive burden has been taken off my shoulders. These innate connections and natural compatibility, as well as so many other things that I have never felt before in my life. Feelings so intense and overflowing that there seems no end in sight. I can truly be myself around this person and she feels the same way about me too.
This is way better than a dream. I never would have looked for this, or thought it was possible, but here I am. She is real. If there's something greater than true love, this is it. Everything just feels so natural and so free, there are no walls between us and we can just be ourselves, and the other just gets it. Never felt or seen in others such a wonderful feeling before. I once thought love was something else, but now? There's no doubt that this is it. It's definitely her. No doubt at all.
I've always had nagging doubts and limits to myself in my past relationships, but this one, there's none of that. Never have I felt the whole of me react like this to someone before, and neither have I seen others feel this way. She is definitely the one. I've never been more sure about anything in my life.
- Nice to hear testimonies like this. Enjoy sa valentimes. Nood kayo rivermaya concert
  
  hopefully we can scrunch up enough for valentines :)
2024 na, pero abusadong mod pa rin sa kabila si kalbo @choco_mallows
Is it true @decadentrebel that you’re UndustFixation on YouTube?
- Yes.
  But YT's content ID is annoying so I'm more "active" on the FB page counterpart.
  
  Thank you so much for leading me there! Your page is a gold mine of nostalgia
Meron na pala Mastodon account yun GMA news, bot lang pero mukang nagre-ready na sila kung tuluyan na bumagsak si Xitter
https://mastodon.social/@rssgma
EDIT: oops, unofficial accnt pala
Filipinos: Tama lang yan modernization! Kawawa naman environment. Gawa gawa lang kayo rason mga tsuper.
Also Filipinos after hearing the 40 peso fare: Ano ba yan, pano naman kaming mga commuter??
- 40 peso fare?
  
  A congressman argued that for jeepney modernization to push through under the "PrObLeMa NyO nA mGa TsUpEr YaN", the fare has to be 40 pesos or roughly 10k/day in earnings, whichever is higher.
  Naturally, those calling the drivers drama queens and pounding their chests about the environment, disagrees with it. Bakit daw mga pasahero sasagot, bakit hindi gobyerno — which is 1000% the reason why the drivers have been picketing for years, lmao.
- That makes sense. Although it would have been a lot easier had I not tagged the_yaya as a bot because technically she isn't anymore (due to some API fuckery).
Hindi ko gets mga nagpopost na 25 cents lang yung ganito nung 80s, 25 pesos lang 1pc chicken, et. al.
50 cents in 1990 is almost 3 pesos now while 25 pesos is around 143 today, so tama lang yun.
- i think it's more like tinatali nila to numerical value ng isang bagay rather than market value
Kabwisit talaga astroturfing ng Jollibee. May 73 year old na empleyado kuno.
- idk i don't feel like seniors should even be working like yun na yung twilight yrs mo and you're still working pero then again the pension system is so fucked na di nmn sapat yung binibigay
That's a good point, but easier said than done with increasingly elaborate salisi methods. Itong ketchup modus nga lang is amateur hour. You can just ignore them when you realize na it's just a rehash of the "dura" tactic. Yung matindi talaga yung nambabangga kasi mangyayari talaga yun and 99% of the time hindi sya modus.
Madali nga makita bulsa o bag mo na nakasukbit sa harap e pero madami pa rin nadadale.
Now this is just stupid. Ang mga ninanakaw sayo kadalasan are smartphones or your wallet, and hindi mo pwede iwan yun.
tfw yung isa mga kinaiinggitan mong mga pretty boy fit/toned umm something star e wala na din abs
like gets wala na din naman siya time mag workout at less motivation kasi nga ano ayon the grind HAHAHA yun na yon e workout na yon
ewan ako kaya kelan HAHAHA
Lakas ng tawa ko dun sa E-bike training seminar skit ni Michael V sa Bubble Gang, lmao.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTuFj1wCXAs
- Highblood na nga ako sa mga tricyle driver, dumagdag pa tong mga e-bikers na to.
  
  Recently lang ako naka-encounter ng e-bikers (didn't know that's what they're called) and they really need to be regulated. They don't wear helmets, hindi nila tinatabi even if they sense a convoy of vehicles piling up on their six, they don't make hand gestures when turning, and they often end up on busy roads.
  On a related note, dapat may coding na rin mga motorcycles. In theory wala kasi they're small enough to fit into anything, but in reality that isn't the case. There's so many of them parang kotse na rin sila with the space they take up. Heck, the riders themselves would be the first to tell you that they don't have any glaring advantages against traffic anymore.
You know, this puts those many posts asking for donations for dogs/cats into perspective. Nung isang araw duda ako dun sa pusa na nasagasaan yung lower jaw and basag yet the clinic was able to restore it back. Feel ko it's a different cat and the original actually didn't make it.
- some of it is legit but indeed others can be sus af
I've revisited the first fanfiction I ever posted on a website and it sure is cringy af hahaha.
- it always is... high school cringe fests
As someone who has rode an e-jeep many times when I was still commuting, I just want to clear some of the misinformation:
Jeepney drivers NEED boundary not just because they only make money when they hit the quantifiers, it's so they could make more. It's even more imperative that they do once the modernization happens so they could pay for the loan.
I don't get what OP meant na dapat hindi payagan ng mga pasahero yung ganyan sistema. What does he want us to do, boycott jeeps? Lmao.
Tell me you don't ride a jeep without telling me you don't ride a jeep, lol.
Kung regular ka sa jeep pag umuulan, you would know na may cellophane na trapal yung jeep na pwede ibaba once umulan. It's virtually impossible to get wet once that's in place.
The downside is pag tumila na ulan, ang init sa loob. That's the same problem you have with an e-jeep except it's 100% of the time. Nakasara bintana kasi may aircon pero yung aircon naman mahina so para kang naka-sauna. It's literally the reason why I quit working in the office!
- The boundary system is what motivates poor driving habits among PUVs. It literally incentivizes them to break laws in order to maximize their income. It should be removed.
  
  That's the thing. They drive "aggressively" (or poorly) because they need to make money. If they're going to take it away (as well as institute modernization that eats more into those earnings), they need to replace it with a system that guarantees it's going to make as much.
  That's ultimately the crux as to why they're against modernization - the government isn't really doing anything to address those concerns. Willy nilly implementation lang, bahala kayo sa buhay nyo.
- Umuunlad na pala tayo
  https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2024/01/30/2329494/puvmp-removes-philippines-third-world-status-transport-group
Dami na naman hater dun sa role ni Liza sa Lisa Frankenstein, lol.
Bakit hindi na lang daw sina Kathryn Bernardo. Hindi lang naman acting basehan to penetrate Hollywood, you need to have the "look", and Nadine and those guys don't.
What about Dolly? Tell me you didn't watch Triangle of Sadness without telling me you didn't watch Triangle of Sadness, lmao. Yung role niya kaya dun katulong sa ship.
Extra lang? No one knows that yet. Even if she did, everyone starts small. Some even break out from small roles.
Pinoy pride? Hindi mo naman maiiwasan mga ganun comments sa video. A pinoy making it to mainstream is going to attract those reactions. That's just how it works.
I seriously can't see why we shouldn't be happy one of our own made it to a Diablo Cody film and she's not playing a stereotypical Filipino role. She's actually an equal! Mas ok na yan kaysa yung pilit na NJPW aswang costume ni TJ Perkins who's like a right wing nut with creepy female wrestler fanfics, ugh.
- Isn't that what 60% of r/PH is about anyway? Only in da pelepens lang daw nagiiwan ng pinagkainan, nagcocounterflow, nag-aanak at nangungutang, bumibili ng iPhone for da clout, bumoboto ng hindi abogado, sumisingit sa pila, hindi nagsosoli ng wristbands sa concert, ginagawang palusot mental illness para umabsent, and so on.
  I guess that sub revels in the self-hating whilst r/PH still thinks it's superior to FB?
- I've seen it, it actually does the opposite where they excuse every bad thing that happens here for whatever reason. Frankly, I think that's worse and it worries me that there's a trend of people having misplaced nationalism. I'm okay with people pointing out if something wrong is happening, even when it's exaggerated at times because at it's core, things could be better.
Hi @decandentrebel ginamit ko 6-year old post mo sa reddit for reference para mag inquire ng CCTV sa Dynaquest. Sadly pangit ang experience ko nung kinausap ang taga Mandaluyong (Kalentong) branch.
Would you still advise me checking with another branch? Baka mas smooth? Or maybe another store altogether?
- Can't speak for their CCTV expertise because I think that's a different animal from assembling PCs, lol. I don't even go to DynaQuest anymore when PC building, I just buy from the cheapest (but reliable) Shopee stores + FB/Carousell sellers and put my own together.
  That said, try Eton Cyberpod? That's the branch I've been to the most back then.
  
  I’ll give Eton a shot, thanks!

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