Notices by Arno (arno_in_sing@mastodon.online)

@skinnylatte as non-resident citizen you get these? As tax paying foreigner (non-PR) I don’t.

@skinnylatte I love Kaya, until some nutcase puts XO in it but whatever if that’s your thing, but the eggs are too runny to my taste

@skinnylatte it’s cultural dominance, when you have the power and reach to set the frame through which things are described and thus set the baseline for what is normal and what is not. This only gets worse with AI than being trained on that dominant culture.

@skinnylatte this is the Dutch one in case you missed it https://www.instagram.com/zeehondencentrum?igsh=Mm54NHc2MjFjNjgy

@skinnylatte what annoys you? The style, the points he is trying to make, or both? Housing is a mess in the NL, the title is pure clickbait though.

@m @skinnylatte but also bus drivers. At some point ~2015 bus drivers wanted more money, government responded by importing several hundreds. Add in that the main “labor union” is captive of the ruling party and it doesn’t look good. So to some extent I can understand the anti immigrant sentiment. But not from educated Singaporeans.

@skinnylatte @m its complicated; Singapore is a hub because it’s easy to bring people in (plus other things). And the squeeze for locals is not so much on the high end. The lack of minimum wage, the relatively high wages, and the freedom to import workers really squeezes the bottom half of the labor market. For example construction work is 100% done by underpaid foreign workers.

@Sustainable2050 @phiofx before flaming “Asian countries” you may want to reflect on the moral leadership of “the West”. Who are knowingly buying that Russian oil? Oh yes the EU is. Let’s put the unfolding genocide in that open air prison camp called Gaza on the table as well as Germany’s response to S Africa’s ICJ filing and there is little reason left for any flaming of India. Modi’s Hindu agenda is pretty nasty by the way but that’s a different story.