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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 06:31:41 JST Adrianna Tan

   Saw a hilarious * comment on a NZ food blog where an American says ‘this is America!! Provide American measurements!!’

   * devastatingly annoying

   ** it was not America, the food blog was hosted in NZ. And even if it was.. wtf ahahaha

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 06:34:41 JST Adrianna Tan

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     One time I went to an event and the organizer was convinced that anyone who had signed with a .in email address was ‘a hacker’

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     Asta [AMP] (aud@fire.asta.lgbt)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 06:36:51 JST Asta [AMP]

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     @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I can't decide whether this is racism or it's because of the association with hackers of the phrase, "I'm in".

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 06:36:51 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Asta [AMP]

     @aud lol definitely mostly racism

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     Zack Stern (zackstern@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 06:47:05 JST Zack Stern

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     @skinnylatte my personal favorite was hearing an American at a Narita airport shop asking “if they take cash,” and being angry and misled that the answer was yes (of course) they take yen bills and coins… no they don’t take U.S. dollars.

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     Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈 (recursive@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 07:07:00 JST Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈

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     @skinnylatte every time I see something like that I get even more annoying about using metric