Wandering Adventure Party

@DripDripDrip@vivaldi.net Even as a non-Spanish (+variants) speaker, I can hear the difference.

Two things are simultaneously true:

1. Spanish speakers in the U.S. have been unjustly marginalized and racialized
2. Spanish is a European colonial language that continues to be imposed on indigenous peoples of (what is now known as) the Americas

So let’s stop pretending that linguistic purity is a moral high ground—it’s just another mask for power.

@scottag When you order dim sum, are you attentive to Cantonese tonal accuracy—all nine of them?

Getting my wife the ROG Ally with the dock ended up being a good idea because, not only can she play games on a TV, she can watch Crunchy Roll too.

When I go to a Mexican restaurant in San Diego, I always preface it with “I’m from Canada—sorry for my bad Spanish pronunciation.”

They always smile and are understanding.

Because they get it. I don’t come across Spanish in my daily life.

Here in San Diego, some stranger had the chutzpah to correct how I say “birria.”

Fine, but I physically can’t make a rolled “rr” sound.

And not only that, why am I not allowed to Anglicize some Spanish words to make it easier to communicate?

Nobody pronounces “spaghetti” like an Italian does.

Or says “chow mein” like a Cantonese speaker.

We don’t walk around saying “croissant” like we’re auditioning for a Parisian mime troupe either.

It’s called language drift. It’s normal. It happens everywhere.

So why is it suddenly a crime to order tacos without performing a full phonetic homage to the motherland?

I’m not disrespecting the food. I’m ordering it. I’m eating it. I’m paying for it. That should be enough.

Correct me if I call it “beef stew.” Don’t come for me because my tongue doesn’t do linguistic gymnastics on command.

It’s birria. Beer-ya. That’s what my mouth can do. Deal with it.

Looks like Stadia all over again.

Netflix is removing 22% of its games library.

https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/netflix-games/netflix-to-remove-over-20-mobile-games-including-monument-valley-trilogy-and-hades/

@MishaVanMollusq Taco Centro.

@ramsey It was buried beneath the meat.

About to try birria ramen—which I’ve never tried before.

A certified San Diego stew.

@rob Pretty high, and the commute on top of it is rough.

@rob Out of curiosity, how much is the rent?

OH NO THE APOCALYPSE IS UPON US!!!

@rob That commuting time would be a dealbreaker for me.

Really wish I could go to Tijuana, but being a Canadian, I know it would be trouble coming back to San Diego.

@Wolf We were there yesterday. She complained about how expensive it was.

I can’t convince my wife to go to a Chinese restaurant in San Diego.

No one really talks about the physical cost of being pale.

You step outside and the sun immediately declares war.

I burn like a lobster in under 30 minutes—even with sunscreen. Lots of it.

And the funny thing is—I’m not even Irish white.

By European standards, I’m dark. People mistake me for Italian or Spanish all the time.

But apparently, that’s still too pale for the sun.

It sees me and just goes, “Close enough.”

Just spoke to a San Diego local who commutes every day to Orange County.

Which is a 2.5 hour round trip.

This is how people want to live?

Went to San Diego’s pan-Asian neighbourhood, browsed a local music shop—this is what I found weird:

It only had K-pop.

There was no J-pop, nor V-pop, nor Cantopop.

What’s more, none of the people who worked there were Korean. They were Chinese, Vietnamese, etc. They all loved the pop music of their respective cultures.

And yet, the only thing they were allowed to sell—in this pan-Asian neighbourhood—was K-pop.

So I asked why that was. And apparently, their shop is some kind of pilot project to assess the feasibility of “Asian music”—and they’re convinced Americans only have an appetite for K-pop.