• AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Broke: Wanting the Mainland to reunify with Taiwan in order to finally bring an end to the legacy of the Century of Humiliation

    Woke: Wanting the Mainland to reunify with Taiwan so Taiwan will quit humiliating itself on the world stage

        • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          Putting milk in tea is popular in Taiwan, Tibet , Thailand and Hong Kong, (and Europe) whereas it’s less so in most of China. So they made a hashtag about not being “mainland Chinese”.

          Imagine being proud of being A: lactose intolerant and B: putting milk in a beverage that didn’t require milk.

          Utter cringe

          • oregoncom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            Milk Tea is an ethnic Mongol invention (an ethnicity no present in any of the “milk tea alliance” places and the majority of whom live on the mainland) and being lactose intolerant doesn’t stop you from drinking milk tea.

          • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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            lactose intolerance is item #328472938472938472948273892375928712389079348723983498273489470278123978567293237856298374982374982347 in fake mayo shit, 80% of Japanese people can drink milk even though only 5% of them are lactose “tolerant”

            that remaining 20% has a microbiome that reacts badly to milk (and this is changeable), but the vast, VAST majority of lactose “intolerant” people don’t