No-lemm Me Tangere or El Phi-Lemm-busterismo

Flat Earth. I'm astonished how many people close to me still believes that the Earth is flat and that we are prohibited from falling off by an ice wall at the edges.

Anyway, I've been through a conspiracy theorist phase myself (cringe, I know) so I can't really say I'm better than them.

Why can't our government enact a law that limits car ownership to those with a dedicated parking space? There are multiple cars here that take up sidewalk space and if sinita mo sila, ikaw pa yung mali kasi andami naman daw puwedeng pagtuunan ng pansin, yung kotse pa nila.

TIL that "Ped Xing" means "pedestrian crossing". I've always thought it was a translation of "pedestrian lane" for Chinese people BABAHABAHAHAHAHA

Solo camping! I was always fascinated by survivalist lifestyles and with my recent watching of Yuru Camp (btw, definitely an anime I can recommend if you like slice of life), well my interest in it was bolstered. Wala din kasing medyo magandang camping spots dito. Yung camping spots mostly are for hikers, which technically is in the same vein but I don't like walking up gravity that much.

Utang na loob. I mean, it's good to pay back but the moment you pay back, they feel like they are indebted to you and they pay you back. That makes it an endless cycle of give and take and is often weaponized to win elections or favors

Does the Data Privacy Act of 2012 have the same powers as the GDPR or CCPA in that it will compel companies and corporations to delete data from users in Philippine territory?

EDIT: We have the rights to, as per prescribed in the IRR of the Data Privacy Act:

e. Right to Erasure or Blocking. The data subject shall have the right to suspend, withdraw or order the blocking, removal or destruction of his or her personal data from the personal information controller’s filing system.

1. This right may be exercised upon discovery and substantial proof of any of the following:

(a) The personal data is incomplete, outdated, false, or unlawfully obtained;

(b) The personal data is being used for purpose not authorized by the data subject;

(c) The personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected;

(d) The data subject withdraws consent or objects to the processing, and there is no other legal ground or overriding legitimate interest for the processing;

(e) The personal data concerns private information that is prejudicial to data subject, unless justified by freedom of speech, of expression, or of the press or otherwise authorized;

(f) The processing is unlawful;

(g) The personal information controller or personal information processor violated the rights of the data subject.

Lemlem?

Finally finished Food Wars up to the fourth season!

Jisas is here!

Hmm, I can talk about the entire Cold War. From the Acheson-Lilienthal Plan which led to the Baruch Plan whose rejection sparked the Cold War arms race to the 1970s detente to Reagan's "MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!", I can talk about it with only minor stops. Oh, isama na din yung more obscure proxy wars during the period such as the chess wars (Soviet school of chess, Karpov, Kasparov, Fischer) and yung Transfermium Wars (Dubna Institute, UCLA-Berkeley, CERN)

With the recent Oshi No Ko debacle on incest, now I'm trying to rationalize society's unfavorable opinion on incest. What element in incest makes it bad? If both people love each other romantically, is of the right age and neither was coerced into doing so, then what right does society have to keep them apart?

Okay, someone may argue that the same bloodline can cause genetic deformities and disorders in their offspring. I get that (Hapsburg jaw is a thing after all). But if that's the case, then shouldn't we also frown upon getting together with people with inheritable diseases (i.e., heart disease, cancers, diabetes), genetic disorders, or harmful lifestyles (i.e., cigarette smoking) that increase the risk of offspring suffering due to those inherited ailments/disorders? AAAAAAHHHH

Now I can't seem to find how incest is objectively and morally harmful to society. Does anyone know a strong argument against it?

As much as I am a fan of Spy x Family and Violet Evergarden, they are more for more mature audiences as they have quite the adult themes. Violet Evergarden is set in a war world and although the story is not set in the war itself, the flashbacks (especially THAT scene during the attack on the fortress) are nonetheless too violent.

Spy x Family might seem like a wholesome family anime but it has underlying political and war themes. Bond's arc as well as Yor's assassination techniques in Ep 2 is something that I would not really recommend to a nine year-old kid. There's car explosions and use of dogs for warfare

This is technically not a book but rather a letter linked to a book, written by Aldous Huxley to George Orwell regarding 1984. It highlights the difference in the principles and philosophies that guide the totalitarian governments of Huxley's "Brave New World" and Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four":

Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.

Marahay na hapon man po saimo!

When I was making my Lemmy username, I was reminded of Oshi No Ko and KonoSuba so I went with the name "Aqua". As for the "synonym" part, I saw a Red Skull meme saying that the word "synonym" has no synonym - now I know there is actually a synonym for "synonym" (that's poecilonym)

I've found another nostalgia-invoking anime song, which is Snow Halation from the anime Love Live! School Idol Project. S1E2 palang ako so I have to restrain myself from playing it on repeat or else I'll diminish the significance and ruin the experience for me when I get to the Snow Halation scene, whenever that is.

Was watching economic news lately, and NEDA had said that we are on track to becoming an upper middle income country. I could not believe it then I realize that our Gini coefficient's to blame HAHAH too much income inequality.

Hope our economic planners could do something about our country's wealth gap, though I think that if there's something they could have done, they would have done it ages ago.

Then the catchphrase of Lemmy then will be: Lemmy share my thoughts

If anime openings is to be talked about, I like a bunch:

• fantastic dreamer by Machico (used in KonoSuba)
• Tomorrow by Machico (KonoSuba S2)
• Seishun Complex (Bocchi the Rock)
• Inferno (Fire Force)
• Kaikai Kitan (Jujutsu Kaisen)
• Daddy! Daddy! Do! (Kaguya-sama: Love is War)
• Mixed Nuts (Spy x Family)
• Caste Room (Classroom of the Elite S1)
• Renai Circulation (Bakemonogatari)
• Idol (Oshi No Ko)
• Isekai Showtime (Isekai Quartet)
• Paradisus Paradoxum (Re:Zero)

I usually download the openings to the anime immediately after I watch them so that I can get my dose of anime nostalgia any time, so yeah