Yep, it’s “Estadounidenses” in Portuguese as well. The distinction (and occasional confusion/debate across languages/cultures) makes sense, considering how those cultures learn about continents.

In contrast, English-speaking countries teach the seven-continent model, in which there’s not really any place called “America.” So when we omit “The United States of” for brevity, native English speakers still understand where it’s referring to.

“USians” is an interesting shortcut. It may not be proper English, but it still seems understandable enough in text. Hopefully everyone who vocalizes it, pronounces it your way. If I ever hear “Oosian”, I’ll probably assume they meant “Asian”.

Neat buzzword ya got there. Anyway, I acknowledge that you’ll continue ignoring 9-9-6. Consider your attempts to dodge it a success. And congrats on your success :)

On a lighter topic: I’m still curious about “USian”. Appending a suffix like “ian” to an acronym is unusual in English, but this is the second time I’ve encountered it on Lemmy. How is it pronounced?

Wow, that looks like a lot of work to avoid the 9-9-6 thing. I like this first one though:

What about unpaid holiday in the USA?

Was that at the top of the list because it was meant to compare to 9-9-6, somehow? I mean sure, unpaid holidays suck, but that’s not even in the same ballpark as working 72 hours per week, every week. At that point, you’re just living to work (as a robot/zombie slave cursed with a depressed human brain and flesh body).

As for the rest of the list: I appreciate the effort, but would it have been much harder to use an unordered list? And do you think it’s not possible to gather a big list about China that isn’t just as bad or worse?

Just out of curiosity: When you say “USians” IRL, how do you pronounce it? “You-ess-ians”? “Yousians”? “Oosians”?

There are laws that limit it, and 72-hour work weeks are pretty extreme, even in the US. Do they happen? Sure. I’ve known people who have had to do hours like that for a week, maybe even two. But it’s not their normal schedule like 9-9-6 workers.

So you didn’t visit any factories with suicide nets. Great! I’ve also never witnessed a mass murder. Lucky us!

You chose the easier, less common example, but ignored the more common one that I mentioned. So whatabout 9-9-6? I’ve spoken to people in that 9-9-6 life, and exactly zero of them were happy about it.

9-9-6, suicide nets on some factories… Sounds like a happy place to be.

It’s interesting how much pro-China stuff seems to have flooded the Internet lately. They’ve even been inviting (maybe paying?) YouTubers to visit their country, despite not allowing YouTube to be accessed (legally) on their Internet. This campaign seems to be effective though.

I’m not even really anti-China. I used to conduct a lot of business with Chinese factories, and might do it again someday. But let’s not ignore reality and pretend it’s all sunshine and rainbows over there.

It’s interesting how often I see memes here that require knowing so much non-obvious context to understand.

Anyway, that sounds like a really cool art installation. Anyone know the name of it?

This text doesn’t make sense, right?

People are still mining with GPUs? I’m kinda surprised that’s still profitable

I once ordered a WiFi-enabled automatic dog feeder because I had to attend a work thing for a few days, and I wanted a guaranteed way for my dog to get fed at a reasonable time (in case of an unreliable dog-sitter).

Coincidentally, lightning fried my modem the day before the feeder was delivered, and I discovered that the feeder is incapable of working without Internet.

So, there exists a product that is 100% dependent on the functionality of some remote servers and all of the infrastructure that connects the feeder to them, or the dog doesn’t eat. Horrible design/engineering.

Must we connect everything to the cloud?

Is there more info on this somewhere? I’ve been pretty fascinated by that sort of thing since I started using IPFS and Peergos.

Crypto’s on sale again?

I used it to send some money to a friend in another country.

The fees from the more “conventional” services were really expensive to send money between our two countries, for some reason (government [dis]agreements, I assume).

I just sent crypto instead. It was much cheaper and simpler.