controversial/reddit-malaysia-controversial-2024-01-01.jsonl

{"title": "Originally Malaysian food?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v2j8z/originally_malaysian_food/", "num_comment": 37, "flairlabel": [], "header": "We're a melting pot of cultures, so nearly all of our food is from elsewhere. Rendang is from Indonesia, laksa is from Thailand, even our bak kut teh is southern Chinese. Yee Sang is either Malaysian or Singaporean but no one can definitively say which of the two.\nI'm not sure if kolok mee is a Malaysian-only dish, or is it brought from china.\nAt least Singapore got chilli crab.\nNasi lemak gua. Uniquely Malaysian \ud83d\ude02\nEDIT: Thank you for the list. I don't think less of Malaysian food just because our food is pinjam ke original ke apa. Its still good. just curious.", "comments": [["Rendang is from Indonesia, laksa is from Thailand, even our bak kut teh is southern Chinese.\nIt's new year eve, people are allowed to get high all day.", "You have the green light now go \ud83d\ude02"], ["Nasi Goreng USA and Chicken Chop comes to my mind, oh and Budu lol", "Can\u2019t say budu much, it can originate from thailand cause they have a similar fermented fish sauce called pla-ra and taste is similar to budu oops"], ["Nasi lemak is more Malay-cuisine food rather than Malaysian. There are a lot of Malays in Indonesia, especially in Riau and Sumatra who has also been eating nasi lemak for centuries.", "I thought Indonesia is Nasi Uduk? It's still santan based rice, but the spices used is different and the sides is also different.", "I agree. While a lot of people like to say that nasi uduk is Indonesia's nasi lemak, the two dishes are distinctly different. The spice blend and condiments are different, resulting in each having its own unique aroma and taste."], ["Bak kut teh is invented in Malaysia. So is pan mee - especially chili pan mee."], ["yee sang was invented by anthony loke father:29091:"], ["Cambodia and Thailand have their version of nasi lemak but without sambal.\nKolo mee is just a variation of wanton mee.\nNasi talipot in Sabah and Nasi Kerabu?\nBKT is original Klang Crusine. Hokkien mee (big noodle in black caramel sauce) is original Malaysian no?\nHow is laksa Thai? I thought it was uniquely Malaysian."], ["Malaysian western food, chicken chop is invented in Malaysia.\nIn fact, you can't find chicken chop in western countries"], ["Its crazy how Chicken Chop is the only modern day food from Malaysia that I known originated here (Plus we all first thought it was a western food right?)"], ["Geez where the heck is your homework from? By your logic, all food is from Africa because all humans are from Africa. The techniques, knowhow and philosophy are always from elsewhere but the resulting product and dish due to difference in produce, weather, influence and geography, is what makes them local and in this case, Malaysian.\nRendang: Yes more Indonesian than Malaysian but Rendang Tok is renowned from Perak. Typically Malaysian rendang is a lot less dry than Indonesian rendang.\nLaksa: Please enlighten me on what the Thai so called 'origin of laksa' is called? Similar to which one? Penang's tamarind asam laksa? Sarawak prawn and egg laksa? Melaka's coconut nyonya laksa? Yeah I don't think so.\nBak kut teh: Even if there is a precursor in southern China (the CCP may well have fabricated one just like they did for Yang Zhou fried rice, which is from HK), is it as significant to the people there as it is to the people in Klang? If you travel to the West and find BKT, will it be more similar to the Klang variant or Chinese variant? If it's the Klang variant then Malaysia will claim that, thank you very much.\nKolo mee: The style of dish is essentially Hakka mee and common everywhere, but the unique curly noodles (in contrast to Kampua mee) are locally manufactured and the red variant with char siu sauce is definitely local.\nFinally, to answer your question, here are some dishes off the top of my head:\nNasi lemak\nBak kut teh\nKL Hokkien char mee\nChicken chop\nChilli pan mee\nSalai masak lemak\nPongteh\nNyonya laksa\nAsam pedas\nLontong kering\nPatin tempoyak\nNasi kukus\nNasi dagang\nNasi kerabu\nLaksam\nKai si hor fun\nAsam laksa\nNasi kandar\nPasembur\nChar kuey teow\nPenang Hokkien prawn mee\nNasi daging air asam\nBihun sup daging\nTuaran mee\nPinasakan\nKolo mee\nSarawak laksa\nManok pansuh", "Hmm curious, what is you source to say Yang Zhou fried rice came from Hongkong, and not Yang Zhou, China?", "Ask and you shall receive. https://youtu.be/J3ahehPxJHE?si=gLVn_3xab-MiRa2N", "Huh.. that 1 minute video provided no proof whatsoever. It just claimed \"just go online and you will know that both (Yangzhao fried rice and Hokkien Fried rice), are Yue \u7ca4 dishes\".\nAnd HongKong does not own Yue, culture. Guangdong is also Yue, and on the mainland.\nNot even talking about the political status of the current HongKong, if it was created before British colonisation, wouldn't it still be counted as from China?", "Ooh wow I feel your butthurt. Proof? It\u2019s more than enough of an argument to persuade me, because it\u2019s just food buddy. It\u2019s not like killing citizens for protesting.", "Wow.. saying it is HK is an 'argument' for you.\nI was curious because the name LITERALLY says Yang Zhou fried rice.\nSure thing mate.. Oh by the way, paper, compass gun powder were all invented in HK too. It was invented in mainland China initially, but after a crackdown on protesters, the inventor magically changed to HK.\nOh and by the way Isaac Newton became Malaysian, since GB invaded and killed so many Indians, but is now also HK after May 13 incident.\n:).", "I was curious because the name LITERALLY says Yang Zhou fried rice.\nHokkien mee (be it KL, Singapore, or Penang) is not from Fujian. Ragu Genovese is made in Naples instead of Genoa. Baked Alaska is from New York City.\nConsider your curiosity quenched.", "Ohhh.... I will take those at face value.\nIn any case no proof that YangZhou Fried rice is from HK though, so I am going to disregard what you said and follow the general consensus that it was created by a magistrate of Yangzhou.", "Even if I give you the benefit of the doubt that it was created in Yangzhou, the argument that one would stir-fry sea cucumbers and scallops with fried rice, let alone have that popularised to the masses, is far-fetched. And there's no doubt the dish is popular. I'm just far more interested in the popularised version of the dish which I believe means more to the Cantonese and overseas Chinese, than the 'notarised' version does to the good people of Yangzhou.\nIt just sounds far more likely to me that it's an effort from the Chinese to compensate for their self-eroded traditions with a conveniently-named dish."], ["Dey Laksa is Perlisian lah. We made it first.", "Thailand used to control Perlis before they had to cede it to the British.", "Yes. We have unique identity. Not to Malaysian not too Thai"], ["I suggest you check out ikanmas.in for the origin stories of many Malaysian food. A lot of the iconic food we have today is the result of migrants recreating their hometown's food using locally available ingredients, and made for the local palate e.g. kek lapis, roti canai, pulut mangga, ipoh sar hor fun\nSometimes our version is superior to its original counterpart due to the intermingling of local cultures e.g. curry chee cheong fun, nyonya kuih, kam heong crab etc.\nAso in regards to rendang, it is the creation of Minangkabau people, but it is also created specifically for their frequent travels between Indonesia and Malaysia. So Malaysia played a part in its creation story."], ["There are no \"original\" Malaysian food. Malaysian cuisine is a mixture of regional cuisines, either from the \"Malay world\", China, India and the Middle East. Everything from roti canai (India), nasi lemak (regional), CKT (southern China), laksa (regional), satay (Indonesia), rojak (Indonesia) etc.", "We are the poster child of liminal countries. Traders, preachers, explorers, migrants all came from somewhere else, stay here awhile, and will be moving onto someplace else later."], ["BKT & Laksa is local, there are influences but its unique to the region\npan mee and its similar variants are quite unique to us.\nthere are quite a few more really, soong beef noodles, hokkien mee etcetc\ngoing by your logic no dish belongs anywhere, som tam would be laotian"], ["Laksa sarawak Nasi kerabu"], ["OP got his facts from a kopitiam conversation"], ["Ayam golek, Ayam masak merah, Ayam Titanium"], ["Asking what is originally malaysian food is like asking for original american foods\nIt's ridiculous, since this nation is built off different cultures interacting with each other."], ["i don't know how much indonesian or derive from other nation can it be, but umbut masak lemak putih sounds and taste pretty traditional malay for me. also have you ever heard of ikan pekasam? paling-paling busuk nasi dagang pernah makan tak?\nOP really needs to touch grass further than his backyard"], ["Pisang goreng cheese viral. Also no such thing as food that originates from Singapore."], ["Ayam percik, nasi kerabu, nasi dagang, nasi ulam, peknga"], ["there's no originality when it comes to food, if you dig deep enough, everyone copied something."]]}
{"title": "Internet Subscription Tax Relief", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vg9pc/internet_subscription_tax_relief/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": ["Economy & Finance"], "header": "Does anyone here knows if it's legal to claim the tax relief RM2500 Lifestyle category for Internet Subscription? This is the new CelcomDigi plan, would you be able to claim for it or not if I subscribe the plan?\nAnyone here accountant or tax agent? Haha. Comments and replies are greatly appreciated.", "comments": []}
{"title": "MET MALAYSIA - Laporan Cuaca 1 Januari 2024 (pagi)", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vny6r/met_malaysia_laporan_cuaca_1_januari_2024_pagi/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": ["Environment"], "header": "", "comments": []}
{"title": "Towards 2024: What Malaysians want", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vlwc5/towards_2024_what_malaysians_want/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": []}
{"title": "Price Hiking", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vpkux/price_hiking/", "num_comment": 11, "flairlabel": [], "header": "I'm often shocked when supposedly 'premium' establishments significantly raise their prices. The prices at Genting during the middle of this year were exorbitant, with even a bottle of Dasani going from RM1-2 to RM8-10. I understand it\u2019s \u2019Genting\u2019 but bruh hahaha it\u2019s just crazy. Similarly, my recent visit to Changkat revealed astonishing entrance fees to clubs and inflated prices for liquor and even water at RM5 per glass (mind blown). I question whether these places applied for a special premium license to justify their such steep price hikes. Is there such thing? Sometimes I notice their signboard and it shows \u2018premium\u2019. All in all, crazy shyt man!", "comments": [["The rental and tax is illogical as well. They just pass it to customer."], ["Free market bro. We don't buy, they will feel it and reduce price."], ["The name already premium. If you find it expensive, it means your wallet isn't premium deep. You're not the targeted customer, but more of window shopper", "In that case, I\u2019m gonna open a hawker stall, name it premium chicken rice, and charge RM20 for a plate of chicken rice because I can and because I have premium on the name.", "Yes you can, but better hope no non-premium customers come expecting cheap prices and then complain on socmed because it's premium priced.", "This needed to be shared on social media, man. It's reaching absurd levels. It exemplifies how one can exploit their establishments to the extent of charging RM5-8 for a glass of water."], ["Singaporeans are their target market. Not locals.", "How amusing! The bouncer at the club entrance in Changkat actually asked if I was from Singapore, of all things."], ["Just don't buy them. See if they can stay in business with that ridiculous price they charge"], ["You need to remember, they\u2019re paying exorbitant rental fees. Do you expect them to charge at Rm 2 and yet be able to afford 10s of thousand rental ?", "Aside from all the rental bs, logically, paying 10 bucks for a mineral water, don\u2019t you think it\u2019s crazy? Haha"]]}
{"title": "PDRM Court Summons For Driving with an Expired License", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vfp32/pdrm_court_summons_for_driving_with_an_expired/", "num_comment": 5, "flairlabel": [], "header": "Hi. My dumb ass forgot to renew my license when it expired in March of this year. Kena caught at roadblock, issued a summons form with no amount. Just a magistrate court date for February.\nI know, I\u2019m stupid. I have already applied and paid for a renewed license via MyEg.\nThe question is do I have to attend court and pay? Or can this kind of summon be paid online? I work far away from where the court summon is issues so it would be a multiple day leave to travel.\nAlternatively, how can one check and double confirm the timing/date/location of the summons so I ensure I don\u2019t miss it?\nI\u2019m not looking to appeal should I attend, just want to pay for this expensive mistake and hopefully not get my license suspended.\nHopefully as someone with a clean record and first time offence, the judge will grant leniency.\nAny advice for me?", "comments": [["The question is do I have to attend court and pay?\nIf a magistrate summons you, you better show up.", "Agreed. OP, just show up during court, make a statement that you are wrong in this situation and try to make an appeal for the fines given by the judge. Prepare to bring some cash as well."], ["Better attend. If lucky, may be offered discount"], ["Straight to jail"], ["Dude, chill. You can usually settle the fine online. Check the PDRM website or call them to confirm. Save yourself from court drama, and next time, set a reminder for that license renewal."]]}
{"title": "Crows / Pigeons overpopulation", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v8es0/crows_pigeons_overpopulation/", "num_comment": 6, "flairlabel": [], "header": "any of you being pissed with the literal shit of crows and pigeons in your residential or work area?\nhas anyone wrote in to wildlife department or any authorities to solve this issue", "comments": [["You take their land, habitat and trees and then get angry when they shit.. what they are supposed to do? Use the toilet? The minor inconvenience of shitting is enough for you to kill and take a life?", "Exactly. Do we have any forest left for animals to live in? Our royals will strip and sell every last tree and parcel of land for profit and these poorfags will be raging against dogs and crows for shitting on their 15 year old c1bai axia that they paid rm40k for because we need to protect daihatsu and Geely from open market competition.\nGo kill a bunch of harmless animals to get over your pathetic miserable lives."], ["Councils tend to shoot the crows now and then.\nNever heard of anything being done against the pigeons though - in fact more often than not I see people feed them.", "Some believe more pigeons at your shop = more wealth."], ["Bangsar need to sort out this problem. Last time went for mamak and park near the mall area there my car literally covered in bird poo. Will think the second time when going to bangsar again."], ["Yeah, those winged poop machines can be a real headache. Some folks write complaints, but it's like telling pigeons to follow traffic rules \u2013 good luck. Maybe invest in an umbrella hat?"]]}
{"title": "Can someone explain to me what is this \"planta\" and \"sabun lux\" thing on Twitter attacking PMX?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vo8av/can_someone_explain_to_me_what_is_this_planta_and/", "num_comment": 15, "flairlabel": [], "header": "I see some X users like https://twitter.com/Salim_Iskandar aka Parpukarri kept talking about some Planta and sabun Lux thingy. They were also some long-ass videos which I did not bother to watch. He thinks it'd be the downfall of the Madani govt (yawn).\nI am just curious what is the context. Can someone do a TL; DR?", "comments": [["Drop the soap = ass raping in jail\nPlanta = lube for anal sex", "To be fair, planta is way cheaper than lube."], ["It's just an evolution of the peliwat insult\nUsing sabun and Planta to licinkan the butthole\nBasically it's \"terpaling Islam\" having buttsex in their head, rent-free", "You don't really want to understand the mindset of walauns tbh, they have no brain capacity\nPH fans spin around like a washing machine, Walauns just stand in one place spewing sewer shit", "I would still prefer to bring back the court to reverse its judgement on PMX. All he has is a pardon from ex-Agong which really means the conviction still holds. This is why he can still be called a peliwat. I also don\u2019t think a 70 year old can rape a 20+ year old. But you can\u2019t argue with that when the judgement is still valid on paper.", "First one I can somewhat believe, as there are many closet gay out there.\nBut then he kena same charge same way at height of his political career, again. I mean dude, even the blind can see what's up.", "The fact that saiful changed his statement from rape to consensual after being told it's unlikely for a 68 year old man to rape a 20 year old , cements its bullshittery to me.", "Ummmm didn't the royal pardon voided the whole case itself?", "A pardon means he is a free man and does not need to undergo his sentence.\nHis conviction still stands.", "I\u2019m not sure exactly. But pardon means forgiveness which inadvertently also means Agong forgave him as \u201cpeliwat\u201d. Which is why many who wants to attack him can still use this against him especially when they have no more bullets against him.", "Please dont mock walaun.. Low iq is considered OKU and we dont mock OKU", "I get the gay references. But I think it's in context to an interview he did with a former inmate of Sg Buloh who was also incarcerated at the same time with Anwar."], ["PN meme game is weak. Its not even funny and the common folks don't even get the reference unless its explained. Anyone remember kakistokrasi?"], ["I cant believe you still listening to parpukari...."], ["The guy claimed it was a normal accurance in prison to have gay sex orgy. They use planta and soaps as lubricants. And the guy claimed anwar on some occasions joined those orgies.\nBut for me, its just too farfetched. I dont think its true."]]}
{"title": "Spent the last evening of the year at Teluk Batik", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v5ocu/spent_the_last_evening_of_the_year_at_teluk_batik/", "num_comment": 1, "flairlabel": ["ITAP"], "header": "", "comments": [["been there. looks good."]]}
{"title": "TRX Exchange New Year Fire Work", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vfsv6/trx_exchange_new_year_fire_work/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": []}
{"title": "Deputy education minister says use of face mask encouraged at schools to curb spread of Covid-19", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vp23p/deputy_education_minister_says_use_of_face_mask/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": ["COVID-19"], "header": "", "comments": []}
{"title": "Malaysians usher in New Year 2024 with religious activities, family outings", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vmi0h/malaysians_usher_in_new_year_2024_with_religious/", "num_comment": 1, "flairlabel": ["Culture"], "header": "", "comments": [["\"... with religious activities...\"\n\ud83d\udc80"]]}
{"title": "Public Transport in KL", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v3qaf/public_transport_in_kl/", "num_comment": 13, "flairlabel": [], "header": "I've been browsing threads here for quite some time, and it's interesting to note the varying opinions about the public transport system in KL. Many mention that KL is not very public transport-friendly and that having a car is essential for day-to-day life. I'm curious to hear more about your experiences. Have you personally taken the LRT, MRT, Bus, or ETS in KL? What were your thoughts and observations? Do you find public transportation convenient and reliable, or do you agree that having a car is necessary? How do you benchmark as a public transport-friendly city?", "comments": [["It is improving.\nPrior to moving overseas, my commute was completely by walking and by LRT (and I have friends who do that too) and going around in KL solely by public is very much possible. Any public transport system is time consuming when compared to driving, but the daily/monthly passes for citizens make it very much worth the hassle for me. I expect things will improve more once LRT3 and the MRT Circle Line are built, enhancing connectivity between lines.\nThey have a lot still to improve with respect to to bus lines and pedestrian walkability. Frequency wise, they are doing quite good even though Malaysians have unrealistic expectations of LRT operating at a 2-min frequency.\nTo compare it with capital cities of developed countries, we are still lagging behind but when looking at other developing/historically exploited countries, we are doing quite well.\nThe country I am currently living in, Japan, has some quirks too. People always talk about how good the public transportation in Japan, but once you get out of Tokyo and Osaka things start to go down. Some cities still require cars to get around properly, and with the whole population decline thing, rural train lines are actually going off one by one as they lack the ridership.\nWhat Malaysia needs to improve now, is the public transportation in cities besides KL and Penang. Kota Bharu, Kuala Terengganu, Kuantan, Alor Setar, Ipoh, Melaka, JB and Kuching all deserve a good system. It may not be full-on train lines, when a good bus system can actually do the job really well.", "Kuching desperately needs a good bus system. But no, for some reason they need a flagpole and that overdesigned Sungai Bintangor bridge.", "And they decided it is better to run a long-ass beta \"lab rat\" program to run some fake Autonomous Bus, and pump in a tons of money to have it powered by hydrogen."], ["The further you go into the CBD, the better it generally is. Generally, the trains are pretty great. They\u2019re frequent enough (could be better) and they are clean and efficient. The KTM is not meant to be rapid transit, so that is why it isn\u2019t frequent. It\u2019s commuter rail.\nThe ETS is meant for inter-city travel throughout the north. I have never taken it before so I can\u2019t say much about it.\nCertain journeys are convenient by train. Sunway Velocity, The Exchange, IKEA/MyTown, and Pavilion BB are on the same corridor. If you live in the city then sure you may not need a car, but even that is stretching it.\nThe problem lies in the buses and the overall city planning.\nKL has too little buses for a city its size. Despite numerous bus lanes, no driver has ever respected it, based on my experiences. The bus lanes are also limited to the inner city areas, and the outer suburbs (arguably areas that are most needing of bus services) do not have bus lanes whatsoever. Bus stops are not that well maintained. There are some nice ones with shelter, but a lot are just a pole. In Malaysia\u2019s hot and humid weather, it is so much more important that we have shelter. There isn\u2019t also much information on the bus stops. A lot have just nothing but a QR code to scan. A screen showing arrival times and routes would be nice. The stops also don\u2019t have much organisation, like codes or specific names. I\u2019d recommend a book called Better Buses, Better Cities to learn more about optimising public buses\nSo, the low number of buses, lack of respect for bus infrastructure and unprofessionalism causes low frequency and reliability.\nMalaysia is stuck deep in car-centricism. Transit-oriented development has been neglected. Most Malaysians are \u201chard-wired\u201d to want to drive cars, as cars (especially expensive cars) are seen as a status symbol. So, public transport has been regarded as \u201clower\u201d. This has caused development to prioritise driving instead of transit and walkability. As a result, even if the trains itself or buses are good, getting to them will be a huge problem, hence the first and last mile problem. There are a lot of other aspects to this problem that I won\u2019t cover in the interest of time.\nIn conclusion, I would say that KL public transport is good only if you only go to certain places. Out of these limited places, either just drive or wait 45+ minutes for a bus that may not even come. And even then, driving in KL is a nightmare."], ["I use the public transport in KL often and have used the ones in London (almost a year there), Tokyo, Beijing (almost a year there too), HK, Singapore and Shanghai.\nFor KL, It's ok, but can be better. On a scale of 1-5 it is a 3.5.\nIt's definitely modern and good but there lots of room for improvement.\nMaintenance - of the station facilities and the train itself. How many times have you seen screens not work or lights at the station not light up or escalator rosak? Don't even mention our bus stops some are just a physical pole by the road.\nFirst and last mile - to use the MRT/LRT people need to get to the stations. In most cities mentioned above either they have bus, shared bicycles or walkable/sheltered paths. Here lots of these paths are half gone or taken up by cars whose owner think that pedestrian walkways are free real estate. Otherwise the user has to share walking path with cars on the dangerous roads or worst- highways. Creating a less car centric and more pedestrian friendly urban design can really make people want to use the public transport more but they requires effort and cooperation with the city councils.\nReliability - I mean, no public transport system is perfect. Delays or malfunctioning trains occur in other places too but the frequency of it occuring in KL is too high for a relatively new system.\nEven the ticketing machines at stations sometimes rosak. The speed at the gate opens is also slow compared SG, Tokyo or HK (they use FeliCa NFC system), even though it's a few hundred millisecond, the perceived difference is there.\nFrequency - the train frequency is considered low even during rush hour if compared to most other nations. Also for some reason Prasana thought 4 car length was enough to transport ppl in KL when many countries use 6.\nOperating hour - not much complain but would be cool if they open from 5 to 1 daily for those super early workers or super OT employees or partygoers, not just events. Cadangan only.\nSafety/commuter civics - in SG they had volunteers in MRT to make sure idiots don't do stupid things. In China there are police officers doing bag check at every entrance and on the platform to ensure safety. In KL, the polis bantuan are sometimes there but sometimes not. Look at the women coach, no one enforce. Have ppl in the train and on the platform to keep watch.\nAll in all, it's there but not quite yet. Really hoping they complete the circle line asap. Even simple things like human centric design such as having the MRT arrival TV at the entrances (so commuters can decide to stroll or parkour up to the platform) can help make the journey better."], ["It's improving. The last mile is where the problem is. I need to drive 3km from my apartment to LRT or KTM. I guess stay anywhere 500m away from station will solve the problem but not everyone is so rich."], ["its ok, not good not terrible\nKL is quite public transport friendly, buses are terrible; greater kl is not that friendly\na huge part of why its a problem is cause our city planning is trash, people are stupid, and locals go holiday compare KL to Tokyo Greenline."], ["It's only good when you live somewhere with direct link to mrt/lrt Station and your destination is also direct link to any mrt/lrt station. Otherwise, a car is still very necessary unless you want to risk your life every few minutes trying to cross the road with no pedestrian crossing/lights"], ["If you want to go to KLCC, forget about Persiaran KLCC station on the MRT Line 2. That will have you walking 10 min under the sun compared to LRT\u2019s direct connection to the mall.\nThis is one example of poor last mile connectivity. Not to mention most of Line 2\u2019s stops take you to places with lower footfall where ppl are better off driving anyway (eg: Equine Park, Jinjang, Kepong)"], ["lrt, mrt, good. monorail, mid. bus, horrible. ktm, deceased. (hopefully they will increase the frequency after track repairs)"], ["Not sure about KL in entirety but at least KLCC has amazing public transport, including mrt and lrt. But monorail can have higher frequency though"], ["A car is still essential. Outside of KLCC & Bukit Bintang area, train stations are quite far from each other, and we have poor infrastructure for pedestrians to navigate between them. LRT and MRT frequency is good for me. Bus IMO has the chicken and egg problem... people avoid it because of low frequency & still get stuck in traffic anyway, so we have less bus and bus lanes because of the lack of ridership.\nAt least things are getting better. It's unfortunate Ampang Park LRT doesn't directly connect to MRT, what a wasted opportunity. I haven't been to TRX yet though, looks neat."], ["I ride trains and buses to certain places including workplace. To get to the stations and stops, I have to walk under the sun and along busy street which makes it inconvenient and loud. I'm not complaining about the distance (10-15 minute walk) though as it's good for me to move around. The bus arrival time is almost always reliable with the help of Moovit app.\nConsidering where I live in is a concentrated residential area, I wish there are more locals taking public transport. Never seen the bus half full and most of the time, the passengers are foreigners. The route I am taking, there are at least 3 different bus lines and I have tried all of them. That shows how the bus facility is under appreciated."]]}
{"title": "2024", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vbkje/2024/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": [], "header": "happy new year everyone!\nada yang renew license single tahun 2024 ni? kita geng hehe. #forfun", "comments": []}
{"title": "Want To Visit Malaysia This Year. What's The Cycling Like? \ud83d\udeb4", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v9sgj/want_to_visit_malaysia_this_year_whats_the/", "num_comment": 8, "flairlabel": [], "header": "Hello. How's the cycling infrastructure? I'd be visiting Kuala Lumpur first of course, so I was wondering what it's like to get around by bike. I want to do at least one cycling tour so recommendations on companies are fine too.", "comments": [["KL and Malaysia as a whole isn't very cycling friendly, you can watch this Danish vlogger who has lived in Malaysia for 10+ years, he has been filming himself cycling in Klang Valley area, by watching his video you can get a general sense of how KL/Malaysia cycling infrastructure looks like\nhttps://youtube.com/@mysustainablefuture", "wow this guy is determined \ud83d\ude05", "that's disappointing to hear. just got the bug to consider cycle touring Malaysia---guess i should refocus to Taiwan. That's too bad. I think the food and maybe people more friendly in Malaysia."], ["Our city is not really cyclist friendly, it's actually quite dangerous to ride around if you're not familiar with the road."], ["horrible, it's basically a try not to die situation here. all we have are just painted bicycle gutters. most of the time, motorcyclists use the cycling lanes"], ["None."], ["KL's got some decent cycling paths, especially around parks like KLCC and Taman Botani. For a cycling tour, check out \"Bike with Elena.\" Just watch out for the traffic \u2013 it's like playing Frogger on two wheels. \ud83d\udeb4\u200d\u2642\ufe0f"], ["I like to cycle around the city, not for commuting but leisure sightseeing. I will plan my route and avoid big highway whenever necessary.\nI ride around with a foldable, so I could just bring it into the trains and subway if I wanted go further without risking my life cycling on the highway.\nOn the weekend however, many cyclist can be seen cycling along the highway in the morning before the traffics picks up. I'm just not into those sort of cycling."]]}
{"title": "Should we overhaul the driver\u2019s education system?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vos0j/should_we_overhaul_the_drivers_education_system/", "num_comment": 34, "flairlabel": ["Education"], "header": "I can\u2019t help but feel that our driver\u2019s education system is flawed. Looking at the average Malaysian driver\u2019s mentality and mindset, I believe that it is holding us back from our society\u2019s potential.\nWould it be better if licensing in Malaysia were more similar to the processes in Europe?", "comments": [["These mfs have no idea how roundabouts work. First 10 lessons going around roundabouts.", "I kid you not, when I attended driver's school, neither the lessons nor the exams covered roundabouts. The \"left lane to exit 1 and 2, right lane for exit 3 and so on\" thing was discovered by me on the internet only recently.", "Its in the book and syllabus, you guys need to study that to pass the exam right?", "My undang \"teacher\" was thirty minutes late to the class. He never covered that topic, nor did any related questions came up in the exam (by some chance idk). My mother, who also taught me how to drive, also seemed oblivious of that law. When it comes to roundabouts, her solution is \"just don't drive parallel to others, they might need to change lanes\".\nNevertheless, I live in a small town (Ipoh) and traffic isn't too heavy, so you can agak2 your way through roundabouts. Things only changed when I came to KL.", "Man, that kinda explains why people are so clueless around roundabouts in the klang valley. Sabah they quite pro, maybe better training.", "Because in Sabah if you suck at roundabouts you probably will get hit by Hilux\nI travel to Sabah frequently for work and I had to git gud at learning how to drive in Sabah.\nDriving in WM is ezpz just gotta watch out for the J/P/D plates, or a random Myvi going the speed of sound", "I don't recall having a \"undang\" teacher \ud83d\ude05 Thought it was just a booklet to memorize", "Agreed. Trying to use a roundabout will give me a heart attack especially here in JB.", "Roundabouts are second nature for me.\nI live in Shah Alam."], ["The problem is they don't care, not they don't know", "Should give them real consequences then. The duit kopi has got to stop and real enforcement should be carried out responsibility. This whole situation is a chicken and egg problem.", "Well it's easier to migrate to a country that has strict rule of law than to hope to change this lek lu cincai country from top to bottom", "Duit kopi has to stop? Bro, even Santa will ask what colour you want your dragon to be."], ["No need.\nWe just need enforcement.", "Enforcement more on lane hogger, blur driver and phone use.", "You will need education on enforcement, and corruption too.", "Yea this. We got a handbook of rules (not sure now, I'm old). Everything from round abouts, lane-merging and T-junctions were all there. Though the emphasis at the time was a lot on passing and memorising the steps to do so, like everything other educational thing in this country."], ["Lesen very expensive overhaul that first"], ["Oh it definitely is flawed. Duit kopi settles everything. Theory just covers maybe 20% of what you actually need to know. And fuck me how are people still clueless about using roundabouts? It\u2019s as if once we enter one, all rules don\u2019t apply."], ["The problem is not in the teaching but the attitude and the enforcement. Just take a look at the highly educated nations with high HDI such as Singapore \u2014 as soon as they cross the border the whole civilised mindset is put on pause."], ["I personally do feel that the driving syllabus should be more technical covering basic defensive driving techniques. There should also be like an annual/bi annual rechecks (?) or recertifications for senior citizens after they passed a certain age to certify that they are still fit for driving especially in terms of vision and hearing capabilities"], ["Yes.\nWhen I took my lessons they didn't even teach you how to physically change a tire. I wanted to but the instructor was like 'tak payah lah' which is absurd because knowing how to change a tire in theory doesn't translate to being actually able to change a tire. So many corners cut.\nAlso the bribes. So shit.", "I agree. Most of my driving skills and mentality comes from those driving school youtube channels. My instructor prepared me for passing the exam and maybe a bit of knowledge about Malaysian roads. So far, I\u2019ve been teaching myself \u201creal driving skills\u201d ever since getting my Ps."], ["Strict enforcement and punishment. Like ccp. Got saman? Cannot renew license. Each saman will deduct point. After reaching 0, gantung license.\nActually we do have that, but biasa ya bayar duit kopi boleh settle. So in the end, ketamakan is the main cause."], ["For me, need ongoing strict enforcement. This may very likely be unpopular, but the gov needs to stand their ground on this 1 instead of worry too much on what people say in twitter.", "I\u2019ve got an idea. Why do we even announce speed cameras? Shouldn\u2019t they be kept hidden as to their location? If we know where the cameras are, nobody will actually follow the speed limit outside of the zones.", "This actually started when AES introduced. Many people questioned the legality of speed traps. If im not mistaken, the findings were, need to inform road users there are speed traps in the area."], ["In addition to this, the way roads are designed is plain stupid. Road markings are often not up to date, and the roads themselves are not well maintained. Highways should also be designed properly. I remember trying to enter a highway only for there to be a fucking wall on the on-ramp."], ["This was an actual quote from my driving teacher: \"Malaysian driving test is the easiest to pass and easiest to die.\"", "Very accurate"], ["I took Singapore's Basic Theory Test (same as our Undang) during my licence conversion. Their Undang has one important thing that ours didn't teach --- what to do when your car skids.\nThey also have two theory tests before the practical, first is this Basic Theory Test, then they have a Final Theory Test"], ["I think rather than education being the main problem, the attitude of drivers are the issue, like I bet there's 3 people here that will say \"I don't care how gila I drive my car, if my car can drive 200km/h, I will drive 200km/h in taman area.\""], ["No one knows how to use roundabouts in JB (Speaking from a citizen from Kluang - we have 5 roundabouts and most of us are born to be expert in it xDD). So it actually depends on where do you from and how does the driver behaves in there."], ["Wholeheartedly agree. Ill be marked misogynistic but get fucked, some bitches doesnt know how to drive. Hogging fast lane going 30kmph while playing phone, IN THE HIGHWAY. They dont even watch right or left they just fucking move masa tukar simpang. Almost died twice this month.\nMen does shit like this too, but its just more common among women, or at least where im from. And its tiring sia tukar lane pun x bagi signal. Belajar apa masa lesen ntah."]]}
{"title": "Business licence question", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vph2v/business_licence_question/", "num_comment": 4, "flairlabel": [], "header": "Hi all, wishing you all happy and prosperous new year \ud83c\udf8a.\nI own a barbershop (rental shop) , its a studio type so have large space still available. Note : Business licence is still in-progress being approved , applying through a runner.\nI want to ask , can i use the vacant space for setup other small business? I'm thinking of setting up a billiard table, and charging RMxx/hour to use it.\nSo my question is if I got licence for Barber services , can I still do this 'other business ' in the same shop? Legally there would be ay issues?\nThanking in advance.", "comments": [["the fastest way to have the city council up your ass is to run an unlicensed billiards hall.", "So its illegal then...got it. Thanks for info\ud83d\udc4d", "there's plenty of \"illegal\" stuff you can do outside your license, like selling sundries or whatever, and no one will care. particularly billiards is dangerous.", "I see.."]]}
{"title": "Traffic on PLUS highway", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v4y1u/traffic_on_plus_highway/", "num_comment": 7, "flairlabel": ["Tourism & Travel"], "header": "Hi there, I visit Malaysia every once in a while and I don't drive here as much, however when I travel towards JB using PLUS highway, the traffic will come to a standstill and when we drive past, there was nothing stopping the traffic. Is there a reason why is this happening? Cheers\nEdit: This happens during off festive seasons, and I could imagine the worst during festive seasons.", "comments": [["Hills and vehicles with no power \ud83d\ude02\nThere's always a buildup of traffic near the Nilai turn off. My theory it's various small cars and lorries slowing down as they climb the hill.\nAlso the dumbasses that tailgate & have to brake. Causing a chain reaction to happen behind them", "Yeah tailgaters are so dumb. I try to be a good driver and maintain some distance, an idiot always tries to slip in front of me. Another group are people who totally black out their windows, so i can't see past the car right in front of me."], ["The traffic will come to a standstill and when we drive past, there was nothing stopping the traffic\nWatch this video that explains how traffic builds up."], ["It\u2019s because people who are slow don\u2019t let ppl who want go fast go through, then a pileup occurs when the front brakes. Seriously Malaysians don\u2019t understand what the right lane is for instead just sitting there going the speed limit\u2026", "The number of times I've seen the left lane completely empty while the middle and right lanes are moving slow is baffling to me. It's like people are allergic to the left lane. I don't understand."], ["1) Theres some areas 3 lanes become 2.\n2) Certain exits and entry are kind of busy like ayer keroh. So, some cars from right lane last minute cut through to exit the highway, and some cars that just entered the highway not yet pickup speed straight enter right lane.\n3) the above also happens at busy r&r.\nWhen theres not many cars it wont create traffic jem, but when 10-20 cars do it in a short time frame, that creates the traffic jem."], ["Ah, the PLUS highway dance \u2013 comes to a standstill for no apparent reason. It's like Malaysian traffic has a secret flash mob agenda. Maybe the traffic jam is just practicing its festive season routine even when it's not festive. Cheers to the mystery of PLUS!"]]}
{"title": "PM hopes 2024 will bring more positive changes to the country", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vm07v/pm_hopes_2024_will_bring_more_positive_changes_to/", "num_comment": 5, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": [["Yea sure /s\nSST, LVG tax, petrol subsidy reduced"], ["I also hope 2024 will bring more positive change to the country by hoping there will be some reform by current government."], ["Good luck, Madanon."], ["Hopefully 2024 brings 1 SGD = 4 MYR"], ["Susahkan rakyat saje"]]}
{"title": "BMF Scandal", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v58mo/bmf_scandal/", "num_comment": 17, "flairlabel": ["History"], "header": "Yooooooo just found out that back in the 80s we got this big scandal regarding BMF and loans to Hong Kong. And the leading man behind this scandal was a Malaysian / Singaporean / PRC by the name George Tan. I only know about it thru this movie Golden Finger, it doesnt portray the scandal fully but a bit of hints here and there and how they mentioned \u201cTimurlaysia\u201d got me curious. You guys should watch it!", "comments": [["The lesson is a public listed company backed by multiple reputable banks can be a scam/ hoax too."], ["Just watched it and yes, BMF was also the first thing that came to my mind when \u201cbank persekutuan\u201d and \u201cTimurlaysia\u201d were mentioned"], ["Haha yes.. good way to learn of past saga before 1mdb scandal. Your parents may heard of this as well."], ["is this movie in cantonese or Mandarin in malaysia?", "Cantonese, nei hiu kwang tung wa mou?"], ["I watched boy and the heron instead, quite regret it honestly", "Not good meh?"], ["gonna look it up. thanks!\nedit: quite good reviews at Rotten. interesting!", "Ohh its actually The Goldfinger not Golden Finger \ud83d\ude05", "Like the James Bond film?"], ["It\u2019s always Mahathir\u2026.\nhttps://www.malaymail.com/amp/news/malaysia/2017/01/24/declassified-cia-documents-suggest-dr-ms-links-to-bmf-scandal/1299821"], ["lol bn apologists gonna have a tough time defending their lords again and again and again..\n1mdb, bmf...what next ? Perwaja? or the forex loses we faced?\nonly one thing ties it up altogether, umno..."], ["will watch definitely!"], ["I thought for a moment that they were remaking the Bond film"], ["Wow, I only knew about IMF, which corruption scandal tied back to our current PM."], ["Imagine this movie getting banned here lmao"], ["Probably where Jho Low/ Ah Jib gor got his inspiration"]]}
{"title": "Found this interesting hotair balloon place at KL", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vkll0/found_this_interesting_hotair_balloon_place_at_kl/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": ["Entertainment"], "header": "Found this interesting new attraction at Sg Besi called KL Base. Basically it was the old airport with runway visible from the roadside. Turn in from Siu siu Restaurant through a long private road till middle part. Alson had Foodtruck Park (called KL Flyzone) , Inflatable Park and other event-based activities. Understood they have some plans and projects to turn it into new exciting hangouts.. Found their site called klflyzone.com.. Looks like they need more publicity.", "comments": []}
{"title": "Funfact: Kuching Airport Starbucks", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vqaj9/funfact_kuching_airport_starbucks/", "num_comment": 2, "flairlabel": ["Tourism & Travel"], "header": "You guys probably know, but a quick Funfact, that if you happened to be outside of Starbucks at upstairs I think you do a little planespotting there, but it just covers up a little bit of view.", "comments": [["The view is horrible though. The old airport before reno had better ones.", "That's I say about covers A little bit of view"]]}
{"title": "Dataran Merdeka, few mins past midnight 1/1/2024", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vatku/dataran_merdeka_few_mins_past_midnight_112024/", "num_comment": 3, "flairlabel": ["Entertainment"], "header": "", "comments": [["No fireworks at Mardeka too?? I was at KLCC, they just had fountains and the tower had a lightshow for 50 seconds maybe.", "There's was an official announcement from KLCC a few days ago saying they will not have any fireworks display.", "Went there last night too at klcc, whoever sold those horns\u2026 you need to get your noggin bonked"]]}
{"title": "2024 Year New Happy", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vco8h/2024_year_new_happy/", "num_comment": 1, "flairlabel": ["Meme Monday"], "header": "", "comments": [["For Malaysian memes every day of the week, please check out c/memeeveryday at our sister community monyet.cc! (why?)\nI am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns."]]}
{"title": "We have huge fanbase, communities here are well growth as well. But still we did not being included in Steam sorting system. But clap to you all the dedicated gamers who has been good since day-1 gaming, we are still one of the best amongst SEA country according to ExoPhase", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vmvhv/we_have_huge_fanbase_communities_here_are_well/", "num_comment": 1, "flairlabel": ["Entertainment"], "header": "", "comments": [["just like Square Enix think we poor, what else is new?"]]}
{"title": "From TRX. Welcome 2024", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vg6gm/from_trx_welcome_2024/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": ["Entertainment"], "header": "Instagram: @yong.chuannnnn", "comments": []}
{"title": "Random abandoned building i found in Alor setar kedah around 2017", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vprqh/random_abandoned_building_i_found_in_alor_setar/", "num_comment": 7, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": [["Backroom, local version."], ["Looks rather clean for an abandoned building"], ["looks a bit like those scene in movie, with someone locked up at the other side."], ["OP toggle collision off, got into the backrooms 2017"], ["Definitely backroom vibes there\u2026.."], ["looks like it would make a sweet bachelors pad, industrial decor style"], ["I don't think abandoned building would be that clean tho.\nI went to my company old vacant building before and all the wire had been ripped out and became habitat of drug addict. All the glasses broken, walls filled with graffiti, full of trash and couple of needles on the floor. I even found an owl in the building top floor lmao."]]}
{"title": "Happy New Year my fellow Malaysian peeps \ud83c\udf8a\ud83c\udf89\ud83c\udf87", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vbxnl/happy_new_year_my_fellow_malaysian_peeps/", "num_comment": 1, "flairlabel": [], "header": "Fireworks go boom boom pow", "comments": [["And to you have a prosperous new year"]]}
{"title": "This Malaysian restaurant has had enough", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v74c0/this_malaysian_restaurant_has_had_enough/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": []}
{"title": "Technology literacy in Malaysia", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vnap0/technology_literacy_in_malaysia/", "num_comment": 121, "flairlabel": ["Science/ Technology"], "header": "Just watched a few tik toks in Malay promoting cheap \"gaming\" laptops and oh my god the gullibility of the people in the comments actually made me mad. And the sad thing is that Malay speaking content creators take advantage of these people and either shill shitty product for exorbitant prices or outright scam their audience.\nSo what do yall think?", "comments": [["Not just the Malay speaking audience, its every single society segment.\nThem young ones didn't have to troubleshoot their tech as often as millennials have to back in the day. If you never have to meddle to get things going, you won't have any incentive to learn more deeply than just using the thing.", "True. I used to think Gen Z would be better at tech so when I found the opposite, I thought it was weird until I read a similar comment like yours.\nA lot of the tech we have today is very streamlined compared to the late 90s to early 00s. They don\u2019t grow up tinkering a PC because a phone or tablet already fulfil their needs. Wifi routers now come with apps that make set up a breeze. Pirated stuff was rampant that we learned how to detect dangerous sites and deal with malware. Printers still suck, but we have less and less reasons to even print something in the first place.\nApart from PC gamers, I could now see why Gen Z is less tech literate. It\u2019s not their fault.", "You miss a huge point. Most of tech is now becoming less open. Everything is pretty much solder in and can't be changed. Only pc remain customizable. In the future even car knowledge is going down", "yes, which is why we need to have a right to repair thingy going on like what people are fighting for in the USA", "True. I'm GenZ but my first phone was a 5 year old Redmi 2 that crashed all the time. Troubleshooting all of the endless issues made me interested in tech and knowledgeable about the intricacies of android like different runtimes. Eventually I picked up coding in form 3 and pretty much self learnt python and some C++.", "I agreed, I helping someone with a Computer Science degree, asked him to reseat his RAM.\nHe said he don't know how to open his PC case, and don't know how remove RAM...", "TIL CS student learns how to build a PC", "OMG. He will not survive..", "To be fair it\u2019s software and not hardware specialisations.", "yeah! there is now entire generation that dont know how to use a game controller!", "More likely don't know how to use a physical keyboard without auto correct than controller.", "You... Did you watch Thor? That story threw cold water on me. Man, next gen gamers be wild.", "I have never touched a Nintendo switch ever in my life, of course I'm not going to know how to use that specific game controller", "i mean there kids now literally pushing aside controllers trying to press the screen as if its touchscreen.", "well then that's an entire issue", "True that. My first PC was supposed to be fully spec-ed to the teeth, and my dad paid an arm and leg for that. Turn out the shop conned us and gave us shitty parts. Gotta work and fix it so often that I learnt how to put together a PC pre-internet times"], ["its the case of anak nak gaming laptop but bapak bukan gamer. so bapak pun beli saja since it says gaming laptop. well idk what spec are we looking at but im pretty sure the newer gen stuff can be used for \"budget gaming\"", "half of my friends tak tau boleh upgrade RAM and think 8gb is the maximum..\non a 3060 laptop...", "oh man i used to game with intel intergrated graphics XD", "Integrated graphic are getting good and more efficient lately", "Speaking of which! Some of them ironically didnt know that they ran some games with integrated graphics but they didnt know.\nall they say is \"bapak ah game tgh lah sial\"", "Yo but amd intefrated graohics is freaking awesome tho. Got an old amd cpu with it for like Rm99 and it can run gta 5 high setting like a boss", "Yeah, I have a Ryzen 5600h with an integrated graphics card and it runs pretty well on 2010s games. Don't expect the same performance in modern games though.", "wtf really?", "the APU of Amd back then is really good for super budget setup,it still is good with the ryzen architecture", "And it\u2019s what Steam deck based on also", "I game on an MX 130 lol. In 2023.", "Here I am stressing about putting 4 stick into my mobo n if the XPM would be disabled. While simultaneously fussing about the ram timing.\nwtfisitsocomplicatedsigh", "nahh itll always folo the slowest one. just keep it simple n use same model/brand/series for all the slots.", "I bought hyperx Fury just before covid as stock is running out. Its more expensive compared to like silicon power, so was checking out if can mix n match.\nIn fact, the seller only had rgb in stock precovid, so my case only the ram is lit fabulously lol. Damm sesat look.", "ignorance is bliss i guess\nthe problem is before they find out they planned to buy a new laptop.. or a prebuilt", "Some laptops can swap RAM nowadays tho, so I'd still blame it on those users for not educating themselves.", "The worst part is i once called them out but they say \" we're not rich like you\" but spend money on games thrice that amount.", "it really depends on the laptop model though, most laptop allow upgrade but there are some that are ass enough to have their RAM soldered onto it and non-upgradable", "I dont disagree. but they bought specifically gaming laptops that are gimped with 8gb ram with an empty slot. but they dunno anything about it", "Yeah you are right but these tiktok scammers are not selling new gen stuff, they are selling laptop 1 malaysia level chromebook from 2010's and advertise them as gaming laptops.", "owwh if thats the case we can flag that to tik tok as false advertizing. maybe go even better send to KPDN(idk what they can do rn really) XD", "Nah cuz \"gaming laptop\" is a really broad term. A laptop can be considered a gaming laptop even though it can only run minesweerper so that's an unfortunate loophole", "yeah thats quite a loophole.", "I don\u2019t think that would fly as \u201cgaming\u201d laptop. You would have to be a gigantic idiot with zero knowledge on what modern gaming is to fall for such a claim.", "Except the people who are selling those stuff are not telling what generation CPU it is. I saw several ads telling 8th generation i7 below with no dedicated GPU \"gaming\" laptop"], ["I don't use TikTok but based on the stuff creators are promoting on YouTube it's pretty bad everywhere\nbomb power supplies\noverpriced trash\netc etc", "Yep same on tiktok but I think it's even worse. Promoting literal e-waste with that annoying ass voice and smug accent"], ["i5 i5 bagus bagus, turns out it is gen 1 i5? and the wow 16gb ddr3 ram? lol", "No shit I saw a vid saying that acer nitro 5 has 84 gb of ram lmao. I immediately called out their bullshit"], ["As a millennial myself with a computer engineering background, I started to avoid answering computer illiterate person about why their laptop/PC/smartphone is too slow for gaming. I'll just tell them to go and buy the most expensive device they can afford. If the games is still lagging, that's mean you are just too poor to afford a gaming device.", "That's a very nice and simple way to put it. I'll be using your answer as well but of course without the mention of poor part hahaha", "then they go buy macbook XD"], ["Not just Malays la. I was actually quite surprised as well. I thought in this age these new gen would be somewhat literate regarding tech. Boy was I wrong. Type keyboard guna dua jari telunjuk. Words & excel x payah cerita la. I mean. Don't they teach all these in school? I remember started to learn all this in primary school. Sudah abolished ka?", "No, it is never abolished, its just idiots being idiots"], ["A lot of people don't know how to google. I think half of our problem can be solved easily if people know how to use their phone effectively lol. Heck I think significant of my time can be reduced if my clients know how to use the internet and not just social media smh\nI own a printing store so I deal with a lot of printing stuff and I'd say 80% of my customer don't even know how to send thing through whatsapp. Also the amount of people who SCREENSHOT THE IMAGES FROM THEIR GALLERY AND SEND IT TO ME instead of just sending that goddamn original images is so damn high then they got pissed when the img is so blur", "Googling the right thing is definitely a whole separate skill. There should be a whole free course on how to properly use Google", "Well I agree, googling the right thing (niche thing I suppose) def need skill. But googling in general shouldn't be too hard like what do you mean you don't know how to find \"contoh surat rasmi buka akaun bank\" \ud83d\ude2d", "You're right about that ain't gonna lie. There's even ChatGPT now to make it easier although giving the right prompts itself is also another whole separate skill \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d Not a W situation at all hahaha", "Googling isn't hard, it just not the default behaviour anymore. I've noticed that more and more people prefer to be fed information rather than seeking it out themselves.\nIt's not that Googling is hard, it's just it doesn't even cross their minds to do it."], ["I have a computer store and I was surprised that many customers came to me asking if Chromebook available. Most just look at price rather than spec\ud83d\ude13", "Yeah but you gotta take their budget into consideration. A lot of people can't afford a 1000+ laptop for work ya know", "welllllll its like that for many things really ahahaha malaysian right? ahahahaha. me imma spec person. but price.... well price is price ahahahaha gotta lower my expectations XD", "Or stock the actual decent Chromebook from Joi, Acer, Asus, etc instead of out of support Chromebook from years ago."], ["Hey there, currently in the United States. The same thing can be said for more \"rural\" areas, advertisement targets lower-income and technology-illiterate individuals. even worse is the credit payment plan, since America loves credit. A cheap 300-dollar laptop can cost 1000 with interest."], ["Yeah especially when they say chromebook is good. like bruh no\ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0fget a refurbished laptop instead its far better", "Nothing wrongs with Chromebook if all the user need to do is browse facebook or watch youtube and some light typing on googles docs.\nVery good battery life and relatively secure."], ["Scrolled very long in Malay gaming scene and out of the many videos I only saw two honest creators smh.", "Please share who the two honest content creators are, they definitely need more love from us."], ["r u sure they dunno bout the specs\nim more astonished of the prices", "Yep. Saw one claimed acer nitro 5 has 84 gb of ram lmao", "84GB of RAM??? Gahdamn bro they tryna do server stuff for NASA bro", "plot twist: 84GB DDR ram."], ["GAMING PC MURAH BOLEH MAIN PUBG , DOTA2.\nSPEC : 2nd Gen i5 + GT730.\nTechnically can play PUBG and Dota 2 at 14fps at 720p..", "Then they sell it for 2000 lol", "14 fps?? \ud83d\udc80\ud83d\udc80\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d", "dota 2 maybe not, since when my friend forced me to play dota 2, with my current Minecraft server PC(i3 4170 GT720) I can run DOTA 2 at 120fps", "Benda ni boleh buatkan orang kena gelak kaw-kaw dah...", "Im surprised they still even have those in stock"], ["Thats why Malaysia is syurga scammer.", "a prc supplier once admitted as much to me"], ["I am guilty. I have zero knowledge of computers.", "That's what google is for my dude. Just search up linus laptop buying guide and learn from there. Oh and avoid the malay speaking side at all cost cuz most of them are shills", "Go to buildapc before buying anything!"], ["Those are mostly kampung people who are less likely to be technologically literate.", "Yeah I know. Really sad to see tbh cuz they are getting scammed hard"], ["It's norm wait till you join pc group and just to watch drama unfold."], ["If anyone here is looking for a gaming laptop and can at least understand English, I recommend this youtuber called Jarrod's Tech. He helped me in my decision to get my gaming laptop and so far I'm very happy with my purchase.", "or go to places like r/laptops", "Here's a sneak peek of /r/laptops using the top posts of the year!\n#1: Got drunk and puked on my Lenovo Ideapad gaming 3, is there any way to clean under the keys or could any professionals do it? | 371 comments\n#2: i added an extra heatsink to this poor laptop. | 148 comments\n#3: Is this bad | 162 comments\nI'm a bot, beep boop | Downvote to remove | Contact | Info | Opt-out | GitHub"], ["can you share those tiktok acc? would love to expose them", "Search up gaming laptop on tiktok and you'll find plenty"], ["Can play Dota2, cannot play Minecraft"], ["Business opportunities selling refurbished business or office laptop that just decommissioned."], ["People nowadays do not bother to Google and do any basic research before buying anything. Surprisingly from my circle of friends this goes the same with degree graduates."], ["I know a ton of people that put their Wifi router in a cabinet somewhere, or behind their TV, and yet blame TM for shitty connections."], ["Honestly, I myself had lost track of todays gaming tech. I was a gamer back in the days, and my knowledge in pc can be considered advanced. But nowadays, im totally lost. In terms of OS and softwares, I am still up to date a bit, but in terms of hardware.... nope. My knowledge are more towards phones now.\nWhen buying a pc or laptop, i just find my friend who is knowledgeable in this, tell him what i want to do, my budget, and then he will list down the specs that meets my needs.\nI dont even remember the graphic card used for my son pc. Hahahaha"], ["Malaysian in a nutshell:\n\"Oh they have a lot of following so everything they say must be true!\"\n\"HOLY SHIT MURAH GILA!\" *proceeds to buy without even look at the products components\nKesah lak murah ke tak, asalkan ada perkataan \"gaming\". Same thing \"gaming\" chairs. For god sakes most of them aren't even good for your back."], ["We are NOT yet a first world country and many people in Mlysia are not ICT expert,please be real", "Yeah I know. But at the very least they have the knowledge of googling what this and that is. Instead, they just blindly believe what this random person on the internet is saying", "Maybe they are dumb, truly dumb"], ["There's a seafood/durian Chinese guy who's selling used Chromebooks as \"Gaming laptop\". So it's not a racial thing. Generally, many tech illiterate people are in the country."], ["I don\u2019t play games. So I just buy a M3 MacBook Pro and upgraded the ram to 16GB."], ["As a millennial, I see a profit opportunity. If that's what the consumer wants, its what the market will provide.", "Sounds like market ripe for disruption for people who can tell the truth. Whether the good pc is affordable or not i dont know lah.", "good acceptable spec for me usually will range 2K+. anything below is just for school/office work n presentations n maybe for online/retail shops. doing those office stuff."], ["Another thing people often overlook in laptop specs is GPU wattage. There's a reason why some laptops are cheaper than their counterparts (+quality).", "I made that mistake with my previous gaming laptop. I got a Dell G3 the cheap one with GTX 1650. I didn't know the TGP was pretty low at the time. The i5-9300h was also probably bottlenecking my laptop. It was a rookie mistake. Now I moved over to the Lenovo LOQ series with my GPU having 115W TGP. No regrets."], ["What are their specs?", "Intel celeron should tell you everything. The other one i saw was a chromebook that can't even run the os properly", "\ud83d\udc80\nAnd they are passing them off as gaming laptops? That's a scam.", "celeron? lol wtf", "Celeron should be banned"], ["most people are not interested in learning stuff outside their interest, like food folks will be ignorant to what they eat.\nit is just for some of us, interest had to be learnt the hard way when we were growing up."], ["I think the people who usually fall for all this stuff usually dont have the time to actually do research on the matter (too many other commitments), or they are just too trusting especially when its a source they are comfortable with (influencer, friend, uncle etc) or they are just dumb MFs. Its not just a malay thing, its a people thing."], ["I don't think it's just technology literacy. That might be one of the key component. But I think it strikes deeper into media literacy. Identifying scams in media, be it audio or visual or both is a general skill, the reason one would believe in conspiracy theories spread through WhatsApp is the same reason people will fall for scams like these.\nIf you have strong media literacy, you would not be as easily preyed upon by these scummy business tactic. (not impossible, just harder, and avoid the drunning kruger effect)"], ["I know basic computering but nothing fancy. But even as me whose not really a tech guy can see this scam is just, haih, theyre using gullible people, parents especially.\nThough, id say good for them. My parents doesnt buy me shits that easily when i was a kid, even phones are second hands that able to use basic smartphone stuff. Gotta learn the hard way id say"], ["It\u2019s the consumer culture here in Malaysia. Tech is sold at less than reputable stores and there\u2019s only one big box store and they rip you off.\nCompared to say Best Buy in the U.S., video cards, CPUs, pre made PCs are all clearly displayed and the consumer is informed.\nMalaysia doesn\u2019t have good consumer protection laws and the general mentality is if you get ripped off then it\u2019s your fault."], ["I'd say it's an intersectionality of several factors.\nMalaysians are generally penny-wise and pound-foolish. That's how so many are so easily duped into voting for the wrong parties, selecting the wrong leaders, making ill-advised spending, etc etc.\nNext, its technology literacy. For one thing, I noticed many in the malaysian population are, and might never be for the next 5 years, not ready for AI. By the time AI really runs in this country's economy and industry in full force, many might be losing their jobs. Of course, politicians might wanna prevent that from happening to save jobs, but that might just drag us further behind---as if we're not lagging already---in terms of output and production.\nthird, orang kite mentality. I've seen Malays scamming fellow malays into get rich quick schemes, saving plans, and even bogus Nabi relics exhibition. Looking at Hadi Awang is enough, another well known snake oil salesman. A lot of Malays are willing to trust a stranger just because he or she is from the same race instead of using critical thinking and analytical skills to discern truths for themselves"], ["I have no idea how to see how good they are. But I always ask for the specifications and compare it in game requirements test to see if can play or not.\nAlways check in game requirement test before buying."], ["Probably because people using certain languages usually wouldn't look at the details of those products in other languages due to lacking competency to read and understand long passage plus jargon, so these content creators took this advantage. For example, I used both Italian and Jap to search for best pc 2023, but the recommended vids to watch lesser in Italian which almost all contents come from the same creator (and you never know whether it's accurate without comparison). This can form information cocoons when ppl are unable or fewer to actively search for contents in other languages. And information cocoons are almost every part of society makes wealth from.\n<image>\nBtw I think only Eng and ch can direct more comprehensive search results...other languages..no."], ["genuine question from a tech illiterate:\nwhat do y'all think of those custom-built laptops like Illegear, Aftershock, Level51 etc.? Are they worth the price?", "No"], ["As someone who manages the IT of my department any pc/laptop with gen 8 and below is not worth it. Obviously these content scammers don\u2019t know what they are talking about. Even in Shoppee there are seller selling gen 6 for more than rm1k"]]}
{"title": "What date is today ah?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vl6aa/what_date_is_today_ah/", "num_comment": 32, "flairlabel": ["Meme Monday"], "header": "HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!", "comments": [["For Malaysian memes every day of the week, please check out c/memeeveryday at our sister community monyet.cc! (why?)\nI am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns."], ["Not sure of the format. but i geddit :29091:"], ["Can't wait till 3A/3April/2023A"], ["Peterrr helppp i dont get ittt", "Chinese word for 4 is bad luck.", "Wasnt it death?", "It is, that's why is bad luck or bad omen", "Thanks", "It is death, that'd be why in chinese hotel you will not find level 4, there are only level 3 and 3A for the 4th floor"], ["Drake Hotline Bling Meme", "*starts playing the Arabic remix"], ["Was wondering what does it mean... lampi betul hahahaha. Happy new year everyone!"], ["32/12/2023"], ["4/4/2024...", "3A/3A/2023A"], ["2024 babyyyy, hasta la muerte"], ["I hope by 203A3A, I have a kid who's finished high school with flying colors.... but I'm getting waaay ahead of myself\nAnyway, Selamat Tahun Baru, semua\u2764\ufe0f"], ["curious, did the same meme ran for 2013A?"], ["2023A is the lawak tandas of this year NYE celebration", "it's funny"], ["2023 called and asked for the joke back.\nGuys, it's already stale, 4 isn't something we Chinese get fussed that much lah, 3A or 4 is just a preference. We deal with it instead of protesting and screaming agenda Yahudi.", "Haha cina scare 4:26561:", "Haha Yahudi coming to take your rights. /s", "I thought it wasn't a big deal as well until people started having level 3A and 13A in buildings. That much work is a big deal.", "You know I've seen a big tauke demand they paint a wall red because he wanted it despite ruining the facade?", "what's your point?", "Things like these are usually the decision from one fella. Tauke no like, so change.\nBut most of us can deal with it, the reason why they put 3A is because they want to make sure the 4th floor sells out. That's all.", "so people might not buy if the floor was labeled as 4th?"], ["lol. Happy New Year, Happy 2024 ! Let's Go !!!"], ["I remember joking that i will respond to a scene with a 444 patch on my arm, lets just say I got the desired reaction form my cina friends"], ["I gotta say, being afraid of puns is pretty much a solid reason to never judge others' beliefs."]]}
{"title": "BDS: McDonald's Malaysia has no grounds for lawsuit over boycott campaign", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vmjms/bds_mcdonalds_malaysia_has_no_grounds_for_lawsuit/", "num_comment": 57, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": [["Earlier discussion\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/malaysia/comments/18u3h2q/gerbang_alaf_restaurants_has_requested_bds/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3"], ["As much as I think this one is misguided, boycott is a form of free speech. Letting corporations successfully sued will set dangerous precedent.", "Boycott is fine\nTelling people \"Ini company yang menyokong Israel\" (while being factually wrong) is not.\nIn an Ideal world, courts should be saying \"okay to boycott, but if you claim something , you have to prove it\"", "The problem is that it wasn\u2019t factually wrong.\nMcDonald\u2019s Israel was funding the Israeli efforts by providing soldiers with food and money.\nThe issue is also American support as McDonalds US has some endorsement of Israeli activities or items which gets money funded via McDonald\u2019s Malaysia royalties.", "4 different companies\nAlonyal ltd\nGerbang Alaf\nLionhorn Pte\nMcdonald corps\nPlease provide proof on how Gerbang Alaf money has made it's way into Alonyal ltd money\nThe issue is also American support as McDonalds US has some endorsement of Israeli activities or items which gets money funded via McDonald\u2019s Malaysia royalties.\nYou're also free to provide proof", "Well, whoever made claims and getting sued should show their card first- BDS should show how Gerbang Alaf is funding Alonyal and how Alonyal is funding the Jewish state.\nSince Gerbang is suing, BDS should come up with evidence or they are all talks no substances", "What are you on about? I am talking about McDonald\u2019s Israel not McDonald\u2019s Malaysia whose royalties etc are paid to the US branch.", "Maksudnya you have no idea\nCool, thanks for confirming my initial beliefs about you", "What are you on about lmao?, I am talking about McDonald\u2019s israel you know a regional office.\nMcDonald\u2019s Malaysia isn\u2019t involved in providing funds etc to Israel neither is McDonald\u2019s US, it is McDonald\u2019s Israel a body independent of McDonalds US.\nPeople are boycotting McDonald\u2019s due to its perceived help with McDonald\u2019s Israel and the fact the money is taxable to the US government fuelling potential decision in its aid to Israel.", "Freedom of speech doesn't = Freedom from consequences.\nI.e. if its defamatory.\nI'm free to say KFC is shit, that's a personal opinion and FOS.\nBut if I say KFC pays for terrorism via erotica staring their chicken, that's defamatory, and I'll be libel for it.\nPlease don't sue me KFC.", "I agree and I learnt this in my short law lesson in class for media. Freedom of speech doesn't equal to freedom from consequences when it's defamatory. Even if your claim is true and it's the truth, as long as the affected party is able to provide evidence that due to what you said affected their reputation and etc, it's defamation.", "Problem is that McDonald\u2019s did help Israeli int the form of its regional offices and historical issues.", "Good. Then BDS has nothing to be afraid about then.\nCan seek punitive damage too.\nAnyhow I doubt this is the only thing BDS has said about for McD to start this ball rolling.", "You are correct, but I don\u2019t get why you can\u2019t understand when it\u2019s the same context?\nMcDonalds Israel and some other McDonald\u2019s - Helps Israel\nCorrect in inferring that McDonald\u2019s in someway is supporting Israel thus a reason to boycott\nMcDonalds Malaysia - donates to Gaza\nCan be inferred that McDonald\u2019s Malaysia in someway isn\u2019t supporting Israel thus shouldn\u2019t be a reason to boycott\nSo when someone (ie BDS Malaysia) make a blanket statement that we should boycott McDonald\u2019s in Malaysia because they support Israel can be a ground of Libel. Thus them suing can be a reasonable protest to that statement.", "I am aware of that contextual however it should be asserted it is the comes down to long historical issues with McDonald\u2019s US as well as how the cooperate body while not intending too failed to place restriction on the assistance and help towards armed forces of any nation.\nAs for Starbucks it came down to them sueing a union for Starbucks employee on their pro Palestinian statement by the US branch leading to massive boycotts and eventually Starbucks conceded.\nI am sure the people who initiated the lawsuits have probably had their careers dumped by the cooperation for the media backlash and sales drop as a whole.\nBoycotts them giving a million dollars to say they care about Palestinians could of been seen as a token offering as it took a while for the action to come out and the explanation of their issues with Israeli counterpart all leading to further leading to consumer mistrust.\nMcDonald\u2019s has pretty shot themselves in the foot with this lawsuit as well as this is another PR disaster.\nThey will go the way Starbucks went.", "McDonald\u2019s Malaysia are owned by the Saudis, so why no boycott other Saudis product? Again it is acceptable to boycott McDonald\u2019s. There are no harm to it. But if you make a written statement in someway saying that McDonald\u2019s Malaysia is supporting the Israel. They are justified in the legal action. I\u2019m not arguing on the ethicality of it. All your reasoning are based on the ethics. Which is a different topics from what McDonald\u2019s Malaysia is doing.\nA hungry person stole an apple a singular apple from a multibillion corporation. It is still wrong by the law but from the ethic to let him go is not wrong. But does the corporation has a legal stand to ask for compensation on the apple? Yes.", "What makes you think I don\u2019t boycott Saudi goods as well? It\u2019s well known the majority of the Islamic community hates the saudi government. Yemen deserved didn\u2019t deserve what happened to it and continues ti happen to it.\nMany Muslims do boycott goods related to Saudi Arabia with exemptions made for religious aspects.", "I\u2019m not saying you. This is not about you. This is about McDonalds Malaysia and BDS Malaysia. It\u2019s not about the ethics. From what is given here from both sides. BDS Malaysia is in the wrong unless they provide evidence. If the evidence is\nMcDonald\u2019s give money to Israel, thus McDonald\u2019s is supporting Israel\nis true. Then why\nMcDonald\u2019s Malaysia give money to Gaza, thus McDonald\u2019s Malaysia is supporting Gaza\nis not?", "I can agree with that, I am asserting the issue is with people originally commenting McDonald\u2019s was not doing it rather than specifying the issue about regional bodies etc.\nAlso this would be a bad PR move for McDonald\u2019s Malaysia as a whole as it will further antagonise the community - this is not a justification against for their justified action but rather just an opinion.\nI don\u2019t know enough about BDS McDonald\u2019s Malaysia particular statements.\nIn Australia BDS is about reducing the funds sent to the US in a visible and semi impactful manner.\nSimilarly to BDS America.", "Making comments only from the title without reading the artical or understanding the situation is a dangerous precedent.\nMcD is suing them for defamation, the spread of false information. Not for the boycott/freedom of speech.\nFor example, If I call you a pedo and as the result you receive tons of hate comments online, live harassment and negativity impact your live. You have the right to sue me for defamation.\nAlso before the company sue someone they normally ask the person/organization/company to withdraw the statement they found wrong publicly. Chances are they refuse to say they were wrong and made a mistake. So McD is suing them.", "Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence.\nBoycott is fine, and cannot be stopped. But if someone starts lying (or claims unproven allegations), then they're potentially in trouble - libel and slander laws exist for a reason.", "BDS: Freedom of speech\nMcDonald: Freedom to sue", "Boycott is part of democracy. It's another form of voting, albeit with your wallet.", "What if the boycott is based on false information? That just becomes libel or slander at that point", "It isn\u2019t false the issue. The issue is well known that Israel McDonald\u2019s a regional office was involved in the findings. While local cooperations in Malaysia fund the US side of things which has had a role in McDonald\u2019s Israel establishment and historical issues.", "Again it\u2019s McDonald\u2019s as a whole and McDonald\u2019s as an entity. Terrorist organization bombing people claiming they\u2019re Muslim (Islam). Thus that mean Muslim here in Malaysia are terrorist by association? It doesn\u2019t. The (supposed) Islamic Terrorist is different Muslim from the Malaysian Muslim. So people can make a blanket statement that islam is a terrorist religion, it is in someway a freedom of speech, but if they write that Anon Bin Anon is an Islamic terrorist (by association) then it is libel and some other action to Anon can be also construed as a Hate Crime.", "(1) McDonald\u2019s Israel does have the flexibility to do as it deemed but it was also due to the global body not enforcing laws and regulation as many cooperation do so.\n(2) The boycott argument is that the money is sent to America which funds the American war efforts. Reducing the amount sent and business impacts will lead to a weaker US push.\n(3) the Boycott of American products has already began impact US policy.\n(4)The argument against a cooperation and individuals are different. organisations are led in whole by a small set of influential business decision markers which is not the same of individuals or groups beyond the control the other individuals within the same structure.\n(5) I do not boycott McDonald\u2019s because of the action of McDonald\u2019s Israel but rather the action of the government it funds.Reduction of consumption in whole or part is better than none.", "I think the Streisand effect will make some people boycott them even longer now"], ["It will be tough for Gerbang Alaf to win this, because McD brand is not owned by Gerbang Alaf, they are just a franchisee.\nBDS can argue that they are targetting McD globally, and its not a defamation per se specifically to Gerbang Alaf's McD.\nBased on that, Gerbang Alaf need to provide a prima facie or proof that BDS is out to get them specifically.\nWill be a long battle at the court, Palestine dah wiped out from the map pun belum tentu settle. (unless both parties decide to settle outside of the court)"], ["Umm what the fuck is this I thought boycott doesn't work"], ["In the same line of thinking...\nIsrael uses equipment made by Boeing and Airbus for their military. So if you sit in the airlines that use Boeing and Airbus planes... you're also contributing to those company. So don't fly anywhere okay... don't fly to go for prayers... don't fly go holiday... Just sit at home. Thankfully Intel and AMD didn't come and support Israel... Wanna see what kinda boycott these jokers come up with. That would have been good. Keep them off the bloody internet.\nWanna help Palastine...do something that matters.", "In the same line of thinking...\nIsraelis breathe air. You are also breathing the same air as them. Don't breathe air then. Lets see if they can do that. I hope they do that."], ["You know at the end the Malays will just come back and McD will do a massive marketing to lure them. The same people who boycott won\u2019t be doing it long."], ["Good job Mekdi!"], ["I'm going to protest American companies to show I'm against genecide. The first thing I'll do is post about it on American owned social networks using my iphone \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02", "That's called using their tools against them.", "American social media not really it\u2019s owned paritialy by non-US cooperation.\nThe IPhone uses parts made by Arabs etc.\nIt\u2019s a nuance thing.\nThe reality is you\u2019re overthinking what the boycott is, it was always aimed at reducing the consumption of goods or services in products deemed optional.\nNot all cooperations work with Israel so not all cooperations are boycotted.\nThe ones that do, also would be analysis on their importance to the individual etc.\nThe majority of boycotted products are products replaceable en-mass.", "McDonald's, KFC and Starbucks, etc also have asian made or non American made parts used for their everyday operations. They also import a lot of foreign ingredients and hire a lot of non-american, and yes Muslim workers.\nAlso iphones are replaceable as are American owned social media networks.", "I am well aware. I think you\u2019re not realising the point of a boycott, it\u2019s to reduce the sales directly to the end seller which in short the objective of reducing the consumption.\nThe majority of the goods boycotted are basically: replaceable. Will it impact other industries sure, that\u2019s why it puts more pressure on the cooperations.", "The point of the boycott is to not support certain american companies because they \"support\" genecide. But other companies that \"support\" genecide no need to boycott because it would be too inconvenient for the said boycotters. I'm sorry not trying to be rude, but it just seems so ironic and hilarious to me.", "To be fair you couldn\u2019t spell genocide.\nThat aside, it achieves the aim set in motion and it is your lack of ability to think which leads to the perceived irony.", "You don't need to spell words correctly to have rational thoughts. Those who like to point out spelling mistakes usually do so because they have nothing left to say in the argument.", "I gave an argument. You failed to read or understand the point of it.\nReduction in consumption of goods that fund a government that engages in the crimes against the victim nation etc."], ["So if I say, \"don't eat McDonald's food, it's unhealthy and expensive\", no one bats an eye.\nBut if I say, \"don't eat McDonald's food, it's funding the Israeli government\", that's grounds for a lawsuit? What are we, Americans?", "Because the former is factually based, while the latter is not (or at the very least, not provably factual regarding McD Malaysia).\nThis is actually a strange situation - if the boycott campaign was ineffective, Gerbang Alaf would've likely ignored it, and the fact that BDS Malaysia was making... questionable claims would've been quietly ignored. That they're not is indicative that it's had some impact beyond just their reputation, and as such Gerbang Alaf is taking serious action to point out that the claims by BDS Malaysia are unsubstantiated.\nI expect that this is just the first in a multi-pronged response by them, let's see how it goes.", "Because the former is factually based, while the latter is not\nNot really sure about that, though. I mean, when you consider the stuff the mamak and kopi tiam places offer, McD's aren't that bad. Hell, I would argue (if someone would bother to pay me lol) that because of the higher premium price of McD's, you're less likely to overeat a McD cheese burger than a super oily koay teow goreng with teh tarik.\nBut when I think about it some more, I think I kinda agree with Gerbang Alaf. McDonald's is headquartered in the US, not Israel. Plus there's also the RM1 million contribution made by McD Malaysia.\nI understand the reasoning of the BDS movement, but in this particular case they boycotters picked the wrong target.", "I mean, when you consider the stuff the mamak and kopi tiam places offer, McD's aren't that bad.\nDing ding ding. That's why you don't make specificclaims unless you damn kau certain. Saying McDonald's is unhealthy is generally supported by facts, but if you start making specific claims - ie, McDonald's is the unhealthiest food in Malaysia - then you're in trouble.\nBDS Malaysia seems to have alleged that McDonald's Malaysia was either supportive or funding Israel, and that's the kind of specifity that you need to watch out for - they could've stopped at something more moderate (ie McDonald's should do more to help Palestinians) but they didn't, and are know paying a price for that.", "Not quite, some instagrammers listed examples and reason why mcd is not healthy and is not hazard and got sued and we know the drill later.\nYes they sue, just not in this big media coverage but they will sue", "Can you share the examples? I suspect that these guys made the mistake of trying to be specific, and as said elsewhere, that can screw you over if you cannot prove it.", "This is the right way to get people to lose weight"], ["Why doesn\u2019t anyone boycott facebook? Iirc mark zuckerburg has Jewish blood or follows Jewish tradition in many instances."], ["Only on r/malaysia i see people going hard defending mcd", "I have been boycotting McDonalds months ago (I have no money)", "Me boycotting mcd bcs i dont have money but just went there yesterday to redeem my free double cheeseburger lol", "only on r/malaysia I can see this stupid comment.", "Gotta use waze/fb/instagram/apple product i guess"], ["BDSMalaysia"], ["McD Malaysia should do what Russia done, rebrand to different name , Russia McD replacement still use same supplier as original McD, same menu just rename etc"], ["All BDS is asking McDonald's Malaysia is to openly condemn the Israeli genocidal policies and publicly state its support for the Palestinian people. I tried to look it up and McDonald's Malaysia has not been able to release that particular press statement.\nThey can't even do that while being able to make other statements tiptoeing around it.\nhttps://bdsmalaysia.com/2023/10/15/press-statement-by-bds-malaysia-in-response-to-the-statement-by-mcdonalds-malaysia/\nLet me be clear - I hadn't boycotted them because I agreed (past tense) that their entity was different than the rest of McDonald's corp.\nHowever, this legal attack on BDS (which consequently might damage BDS effort on companies that do directly support Israel) and the fact that they have hesitated to openly condemn Israel, are sending a hint that they are not that independent after all.\nBoycott on."]]}
{"title": "Enjoy getting your \"Rail Rewards.\"", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vbb62/enjoy_getting_your_rail_rewards/", "num_comment": 9, "flairlabel": ["Meme Monday"], "header": "\"The term \"getting railed\" is a colloquialism or slang phrase that is often used to describe (ahem-ahem) activity in which one person is engaged in vigorous or intense sexual intercourse, particularly involving penetration.\" (Quora; 29 Jul 2021)", "comments": [["For Malaysian memes every day of the week, please check out c/memeeveryday at our sister community monyet.cc! (why?)\nI am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns."], ["This says more about you than the ad.", "I second this.", "I can't argue with this :26554:"], ["<image>", "rail.. my.... life?", ""], ["Being railed is rewarding"], ["I too, enjoy getting railed as a reward \ud83d\ude06"]]}
{"title": "Lobak PPR tenants have amassed RM1mil in rental arrears, says rep", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v2nb1/lobak_ppr_tenants_have_amassed_rm1mil_in_rental/", "num_comment": 9, "flairlabel": ["Culture"], "header": "Chew Seh Yong says some tenants have not paid a sen in nearly 20 years.", "comments": [["The Seremban City Council has said it will seal units and tear up agreements with residents who refuse to pay.\ncity council will not gonna do this lmao. they never done anything in 20 years they wont do something new now:26554:", "If they do, it will be a political suicide lmao.", "Lol so true"], ["No action taken so don't need to pay lor similar to ptptn loans and iwk bill"], ["Hire the service of Abang-abang Ah Long, let them keep 25% of the collection. The problem will be solved in a short period of time. Hahaha...."], ["Give more subsidy to b40 , only choice"], ["Start clamping the cars. Only unclamped after dues are sufficiently paid."], ["It will be waived"], ["Damn, 20 years?"]]}
{"title": "Which Jalan/ area can easily be made more walkable?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vpwa1/which_jalan_area_can_easily_be_made_more_walkable/", "num_comment": 1, "flairlabel": [], "header": "Are there any areas, where you think cars should totally be banned, and the area should solely allow pedestrians only?\nI\u2019ll start: Jonker street Melaka.", "comments": [["Old town Ipoh"]]}
{"title": "The \u201cNot your typical Ah Fook\u201d workshop", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v4fu8/the_not_your_typical_ah_fook_workshop/", "num_comment": 42, "flairlabel": [], "header": "Located in Seapark, PJ. I\u2019m fascinated this workshop has been a regular spot for luxury sports car repair and maintenance. By chance, you could sometimes find a Ferrari or Lamborghini at the repair bay. Although the workshop exterior looks old and ordinary they are well known by folks around here for ages.\nHas anyone had experience visiting this workshop for a repair? What\u2019s your feedback about this place.\nP.s. Both cars look like an Aston Martin. Correct me if I'm wrong. There are also 1-2 \u201cabandoned\u201d Bently parked outside last time but I believe they have been removed ever since the condo development (Ruby Seapark) in front.", "comments": [["both cars look like an Aston Martin\nActually left is an Aston Martin, specifically the DBS. Right is a 3rd gen Bentley Continental GT. I get your confusion.\nSome workshops are like this though not everyday. I know a guy who sends his Aston all the way to Sungai Buloh just because he knew the shop owner since he was in Naza then Aston Martin KL so he knows his way around the car.", "The first pic clearly shows the difference.", "Correct. If you\u2019re into cars, then clearly you can tell the difference between an Aston and a Bentley. I\u2019m just pointing out to those who can\u2019t. Considering the 3rd gen Continental is drastically different than the prev gens and Bentley took the Aston Martin DB9 and draw it on a tracing paper to design the 3rd gen Continental."], ["I'm quite fascinated on how these workshops can get the proper mechanics and possibly even tools to service these vehicles.", "The Best Ever Tool, The Technician.", "Sometimes workshops like this are family owned and passed down to generations. I know this one Wak in JB who worked for Cycle & Carriage in Germany and specialises in bodywork and paint before returning to Malaysia and opening up a shop here. His workshop doesn't look fancy but man, his workmanship is absolutely amazing.\nUnfortunately he moved his shop away from JB to Pontian due to his sick mother. But if there\u2019s any major repairs and restoration, I'm definitely sending my car to him.", "For the most part it's not very different from most cars.\nThe main difference is that these cars sometimes have software that require specialty reader to do their service.", "Have you not watched Mat Armstrong on YouTube?"], ["Looks can be deceiving. Shop might look run-down, but the technician/mechanic inside is better than the atas workshops or even service centers that charge you twice the price for mediocre workmanship. I've experienced this before."], ["And in the shop row behind it you have the best duck rice", "From Penang. Picked up an M3 in KL. Stopped by for the best duck in Sunrise and happened to park here. First thought was.... Damn, this must be some fantastic workshop !! Look at all these cars!!!", "M3 ?!!Damn that's one hell of a car,M3 G80 i assume?or maybe m3 e92?", "Model 3?"], ["You send your luxury car to this workshop so the mechanic won't fook up your car."], ["There's a workshop along Jalan Kuchai Lama that looks like absolutely run down, but is one of the official certified Porsche service center in Malaysia."], ["Sometimes it\u2019s all about the r/kereta workshop familiarity. Yes workshop should have clean garage. But a rundown looking workshop isn\u2019t that bad too"], ["Most of these Ah Fooks worked at luxury car service centres before opening up their own. The clients who have known and trusted them from the original svc centres would \"support\" them by taking their cars to the new workshops. What more, they can get parts at cheaper prices as well, let alone labour charges."], ["Also dumping ground for cars that people send to fix but no money to pay for the repairs"], ["It's Seapark, part of old PJ. It's not really surprising, many residents there's are old money rich.\nJust swing by to Kampung Tunku beside it and you'll understand. It's called Kampung Tunku because of the many Tan Sri's and Tunkus who live / lived there."], ["Ah fook might be a bloody good mechanic, or better than those at the authorised service centre. If so, I 'd like to buy this Ah fook a beer."], ["that workshop always have sick cars, there was a 997 gt3 once when i ate at the food court behind it"], ["The shop beside used to be dai chow restaurant thong kee(not the cafe) 20 years ago. The best sweet sour pork ever. Sad they closed"], ["I get my RS4 and S6 sedan serviced in a workshop near Assunta hospital/Campbell's factory\nPlace looks just like this picture\nThey at least didn't try to swap out stuff like parking sensors and my sports differential, steal my air compressor and coin purse; unlike Audi \"Damansara\" (near Ikea) and Glenmarie, whilst my car was still under warranty\nEff those guys\nEdit: the neighbor is a paint shop, and has some of the best lauk in PJ at their cafeteria"], ["Why nobody mention about the opposite building(Use to be\"Ruby Theatre\")?. And as now I'm a middle age man, I realized the road is sure getting smaller around Sea Park."], ["Was at this same spot last month and spotted an Aston Martin\n<image>"], ["I\u2019m fascinated how people find this fascinating.", "think it's more from the contrast between the luxury cars and the run down state of the mechanic workshop", "What are you expecting? Welcome to Malaysia", "typical kopitiam reply. nothing to add, only snark and edge lord comment.", "Oh my god you are so cool being edge lord in a online forum, can i suck your dick already?", "Wut?", "You sound quite experienced at that", "People who need to get out the house more often", "Look it\u2019s a car, let\u2019s take a photo (in Homer Simpson\u2019s voice)"], [":26555:"], ["Reminds me of the time we and a friend were driving down to beranang and passed by semenyih (the road with a ton of car repair shops). My friend mentioned how old one and run down of the work shops looked and looking further inside there were 2 R33s in there. Kind of gave that old school workshop vibe where looks were just bare necessities."], ["There's a saying, sometimes the best mechanics is the \"pomen bawah pokok\"."], ["This workshop is always full of luxury cars!"], ["Talked to the owner before they only work on luxury cars, normal cars they won't bother"], ["anyone has good recommended workshop for Audi?"], ["Some mechanics had experience in official service center, then quit to run his own service shop"]]}
{"title": "It\u2019s started, Happy New Year everyone", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vaqnl/its_started_happy_new_year_everyone/", "num_comment": 60, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": [["Fuck lah KNN give me back GST!!!! Stress max seeing getting taxed here and there", "I'll grab popcorn when Madanon reintroduces GST while demonizing bossku and Formula boy grabs his bald head saying it's a good thing under Madanon :26554::26554::26554:", "Anything as long as I\u2019m not paying 10% for imported stuff since it\u2019s GST. Inb4 10% GST", "10% GST? That puts us inline with our neighbours.\nThailand has a 10% VAT, Indonesia has 11%. Singapore has theirs set at 8%. Meanwhile we have to pay several different taxes because (frankly) scrapping GST is a rather boneheaded populist move.\nMeanwhile, ours was set at 6% and tu pun dah bising.", "Singapore GST now 9% already", "Oh it just happened apparently, takes effect today. Wiki hasn't been updated yet.", "exactly \ud83d\ude02", "Yeah seeing how others are now at 10+/-,\nNot surprised if GST is reintroduced but at 10% lmao", "I saw a tony pua podcast saying 6% is regressive since the cost for small owners to collect the tax is close to the tax collected, it should be more than 6% to be sustainable, but our salary cant cope with that.. And the work for checking and refund process to business owners is extremely demanding and cant be process fast enough. The sudden stop and six month tax free also destroy the government finance.\nShould just suck it up and stay with it but deep inside i think he knows it is a must for populist move."], ["Kind of hard to know what is the rate. Shopee doesnt display it. Or is it the displayed price readily inflated by the lvg tax.", "10%", "Yeah just check and the displayed price of all oversea item is already added with the 10% tax.", "is that really how is works? i was fiddling around in shopee last night too and couldnt understand why the LVG amount wasnt displayed even for overseas items at checkout\nnow it makes sense why the listed prices are not rounded off. would still be nice if they could give a breakdown though", "The other day bought a motherboard for rm69, today I checked the price rm75.9, the tax is added to the product in homepage alr", "i just checked out some kpop albums too. prices were RM9X.XX a day or two ago, now its all RM1XX.XX lmao", "If I knew this would happen would have bought all the things I needed earlier :(", "Same. I knew the tax was coming but didn't expect it to be this bad, thought it was a select few things and they will only list the tax at checkout rather than listing it outright everywhere.\nKinda sucks cause there's quite alot of things that can only be obtained from overseas, not to say there's a local alternative to it (like my kpop albums sigh)"], ["Its doesn't matter what kind tax\nOur business man\nGst? Fuck yes , raise price!\nSst ? Fuck yes , raise price!\nLower tax? Fuck yes , raise price!\nCost lowered? SORRY I CAN'T READ"], ["ABC, GST."], ["Is there product list on low value goods? Or how is it defined?", "Basically anything purchased online from overseas RM500 and below per item (not per order) excluding tobacco, liquour, and/or cigarettes. There are other conditions you can read up on sites like this", "Even from china? Because usually china item the cheapest", "Non low value goods already have tax. Basically everything is taxed, no more exceptions."], ["The thing is, this tax affect local sellers too. All my cart items just got the prices raised for no reason. Local sellers will also raise their price arguably because they bought their items from overseas.", "If items are imported and sold, they would already be taxed 10% duty and SST. I don\u2019t know which idiot seller would only import 2 items and keep it \u201clow valued\u201d just to save a few bucks. Nothing should be changed.\nWhat you\u2019re seeing are sellers just increasing price and blame it on LVG because consumers like you are ignorant to how LVG works.", "I don\u2019t know which idiot seller would only import 2 items and keep it \u201clow valued\u201d just to save a few bucks.\nThe tax are calculated based on unit price, not bulk price. Even if you buy 6 unit of Rm100 item you\u2019ll still be taxed 10% for each item.", "Doesn\u2019t matter.\nNo supplier in this world will give you a deal without a sizeable MOQ to begin with.", "10% of RM100 * 6 is the same as 10% of RM600 tho", "Domino effect \u2026.. when gov implemented something that does really go on check \u2026. you see seller rubbing their bird hand together and said it is time for profit \u2026..", "Wrong reason. Its because they no longer need to compete with lower oversea price, and because there is no need to offer needless discount, just raise the price match. Consumer would pick local anyway for faster shipping."], [""], ["I checked, i think even though shopee states that, but I think their system has yet been updated which shop need to be taxed. From what I understand, only shops with 500k sales, not sure anually or monthly that is taxed. Small shops are not affected.\nSo, in theory, only big official stores are affected. But I had checked like huawei official store, price of its product remains the same. Even at checkout, no tax is added.\nLazada also same.\nSo, I think in the mean time, the taxes are not yet applied in shopee and also lazada.\nOr they count 500k sales annually in that specific platform only then applicable to be taxed. Maybe Huawei official store dont reach that amount, so not taxed. I only track a few stores but all that i tracked are not taxed. If anyone have tracked some other products from other big stores that may have 500k above sales can try check. \ud83e\udd14", "Nope i checked and all the small shops oversea items also have pre applied 10%, what you see price already included with the tax. The 500k sales means they SHOULD register with LHDN for this tax(not sure for what), but regardless of sales, their item will still get tax. I saved a lot of china items before and the raised price fits the 10% amount.", "Not just LHDN, Kastam Malaysia too.. companies gotta register with Kastam", "Thank you yeah i actually meant the customs", "Big official stores like the ones you mentioned already have their items taxed since day 1. Moreover they are more than the LVG threshold of RM500.\nNothing changes for big stores, only small store peddler would get a price hike."], ["Shoot. Forgot about this."], ["Thank you madanon", "Need madanon version of this gif"], ["Sonofabitch"], ["How much %?", "Holy hell", "New tax just dropped.", "Actual audit", "10% below 500, 30% above 500, that 30% not mention because its old rate and thus can use excuse \"we only add 10% tax on item below 500 to protect local brick and mortar traders\":26554:"], ["Ah AliExpress has put on the 10% tax too \ud83d\ude2d"], ["Looking at the comments, I feel a little relief after binging overseas items last night at the very last minute\nMeanwhile, I am targeting a cheap laptop from a local seller, which I saw suddenly today jacked up price more than 20% than yesterday, like WTF?", "I did just that but couldn\u2019t finish buying everything \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23"], ["Tax the poor eh, we should start uprising"], ["What website is that ?", "Shopee"], ["Man,there goes my hope of buying a new phone.", "A new phone is not a low value good below rm 500", "Unless the new phone is under RM500, it doesn't count."], ["How much?"], ["So what are defined as LVGs? Do they provide that information to us or are we supposed to do our own homework?"], ["How is all this going to affect my gunpla shopping?"], ["this is for the item from outside only right? pls be right"], ["Can explain? What it is?"]]}
{"title": "Just now at kelana jaya", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v4m0g/just_now_at_kelana_jaya/", "num_comment": 80, "flairlabel": [], "header": "Anyone know what's this", "comments": [["<image>\nsome fire near nxp", "Ohw I thought someone having early new year celebrations", "just fire, no work\u2026", "badum~", "New years Bon fire \u2026.. semangat satu Malaysia", "You took that picture yourself? Those buildings kinda look like the PPR near Sunway Setia Jaya", "yeah"], ["Yes we get it. You vape.", "Bro has the mouth of a sperm whale", "Dude be flexing his vape skill fr fr"], ["gender reveal, malay version", "Pronouns are Black?", "Nig/ga", "congratulations it's a fire!", "Chinese version would be white smoke from incense sticks?", "Sunat, yes?"], ["Thought it was some dude practising smoking/puffing tricks.", "Have to say that's a mighty impressive smoke ring!", "Someone is vaping, fire hazard style"], ["It's that blue caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland"], ["Red indians smoke signal", "Translation: send nudes", "No, send dudes... bro in a fight"], ["M. A. K. K. O. H. I. J. A. U.\n... I don't get the code."], ["Admiral Kuznetsov"], ["Snoop Dogg spotted"], ["Its a Native American smoke signal."], ["Looks like a transformer explosion smoke? Probably from a tnb power distribution."], ["<image>"], ["Looks like a transformer explosion?"], ["That's a save point. Dont disturb the game's character please"], ["OP can cross post to r/BeAmazed"], ["sekolah menengah bathroom:"], ["Seems like they haven't chosen a new Pope yet"], ["Hembusan naga yang sebenar"], ["something exploded"], ["High skilled Vaper"], [""], ["Smoke signal"], ["A Barrier is forming... Is this another Shibuya???"], ["Kelana jaya incident"], ["just passed it. smoke getting bigger and darker."], ["U F O"], ["VAPE NATION"], ["Giant Vape"], ["Is that a prison?"], ["A rift in space and time"], ["I asked for fireworks on NYE\u2026 not a literally fire\u2026"], [":26554:"], ["A Garganta."], ["awal main recall\""], ["Bro flexing with his vaype"], ["KL fire, penang fire."], ["Sorry i was vaping m(_ _)m"], ["A UFO but in smoke"], ["Someone finish their phone credit, need use smoke signal"], ["jokes aside. ives seen a few videos like this not in Malaysia. can anyone explain what causes this phenom?"], ["Attack of the titan. Smoking pot."], ["I saw that too from Bangsar South"], ["Sending signals...."], ["monster vape"], ["vape naish y'all"], ["A new pope has been elected."], ["Holy fire"], ["Didn't know we had American Indians here."], ["Transformer letting out all the magic smoke."], ["someone vaping laa"], ["Damn his vaping is so damn good that bro can exhale a smoke signal."], ["Actually passed by this, it was a fire at one of the factories."], ["The world is coming to an end as we know it"], ["Nah it\u2019s just Homelander grappling with some kind of stomach issue."]]}
{"title": "Kapten Malaysia from 1980s", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vmlxx/kapten_malaysia_from_1980s/", "num_comment": 10, "flairlabel": ["Mildly interesting"], "header": "", "comments": [["Heh\nColek"], ["Is 70 sen considered cheap back then?\nThere\u2019s a siri komik nasional?", "my mom say yes"], [""], ["Wow, didn't know that we had a Captain Malaysia haha"], ["I love how the title have nothing to do with the picture"], ["Why is the coverpage showing a lady in baju ketat yg tak senonoh??? Must ban the komik before our innocent remaja get their hands on this komik. \ud83d\ude09\ud83d\ude09Rosak minda diorang, tau? \ud83d\ude09"], ["Ibrahim Hamid was most definitely tweaking when he made this."], ["I've heard of Captain Boleh but not Captain Malaysia."], [">Saya percaya Allah itu satu dan dan tiada Tuhan melainkan dia\n>Aku tak suka pembuli, tak kisah dari mana\n>Mu kecek molek sikit\n>Dia member aku"]]}
{"title": "Making mistakes in the new year? Ernest Ng has gotchu back", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vo7a2/making_mistakes_in_the_new_year_ernest_ng_has/", "num_comment": 4, "flairlabel": ["Meme Monday"], "header": "", "comments": [["For Malaysian memes every day of the week, please check out c/memeeveryday at our sister community monyet.cc! (why?)\nI am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns."], ["Sos"], ["Aiyyaaaa why u gotta speak like uncle roger la and put your manglish in written format haiiyAaaa", ""]]}
{"title": "Sukunadua", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vazju/sukunadua/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": []}
{"title": "Happy new (tax) year everyone.", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vnabl/happy_new_tax_year_everyone/", "num_comment": 25, "flairlabel": ["Meme Monday"], "header": "", "comments": [["For Malaysian memes every day of the week, please check out c/memeeveryday at our sister community monyet.cc! (why?)\nI am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns."], ["baik kasi balik 6% gst", "Anwar will add the 6% on top of the current sst and lvg"], ["so is it LGV or LVG? lol", "Low Value Goods", "yeah LVG makes more sense, i am just picking on the spelling mistake in the picture lol", "The Customs Department uses LVG, so it\u2019s probably that."], ["It mentions that items \"brought\" into malaysia, so if its merchants who dropship from outside of malaysia, they get taxed, but products who locally ship within malaysia are exempt from the 10% tax?", "Yeah, pretty much that. The rule is just extension to the current import tax for purchases from overseas, just with items under RM500 included now.", "So as long as the online merchant's I buy from ship within Malaysia, I won't get penalized with the 10% tax id it's below rm 500."], ["I find it kinda weird when it's being \"demonized\" as increasing the cost, not being considerate of the B40s etc etc. But, the fact is just that they're removing the threshold exemption on import duty for goods below RM500.\nBuy from a local producer/distributor, done. I guess now importers would do things in bulk, which may be a good thing since buying in bulk would usually give you bulk discount. But, this could also give a reason for sellers to up the price for the \"risk premium\" too.\nI guess, bad marketing?", "Its because generally sellers will raise price instead.\nIf you locally price your item at RM3 and foreign equivalent items went from RM3.50 to RM 3.85, you know the market can bear a RM0.50 difference, so you will raise your price to RM3.35. Still 50 sens lower. Your net profit may literally double from this.\nNot everyone will do it... But generally this will happen or atleast is perceived to happen.", "correct me i am wrong but isn't the main reason people buy foreign equivalent items because it's more cheaper? Wouldn't saying foreign equivalent items went from RM2.50 to RM 3.10 would be more accurate as the purpose is to give local supplier the advantage. But if local supplier took the opportunity to raise it to rm 3.30-3.50 instead just seem counterproductive."], ["How can they find out if you buy from overseas ?"], ["Tax is for the benefits of the country. Don't complain. Expect less potholes/religious agendas/racism this year /s", "Yes, Tax helps to benefit the country... IF AND ONLY IF they are actually used for the country.", "affordable education/health services ?"], ["Got problem?"], ["Inilah Malaysia Madani. Rakyat susah", "Ini untuk barang import.", "Yeap kita tak perlu risau, pada tahun 2379 kelak Malaysia akan menjadi hab penghalisan and pemprosesan barangan terutama di dunia. Kita tidak perlu lagi bergantung dengan barangan dari negara luar. Wawasan Madanon 2420 :29091::29091::29091:"], ["Please don't complain guys, you'll see how reforms will benefit us in the long run. Give or take 70-80 years. By then our currency will be higher than SGD (Singapura sudah tenggelam bawah laut) :26554::26554::26554:\nYay, let us pay more taxes :29091::29091::29091::29091:"], ["So you made 41k in sale this month then?"], ["Does it get charged upon payment check out? Anyone know how it is implemented?", "From the items in my cart that I remember, the 10% is already added to the displayed price. This is true for both Lazada and Shopee. A lot of them are more than 10% too ;_;"]]}
{"title": "RPK: Money can\u2019t buy lawyers so Tun M, Daim and Muhyiddin may have to fight their battle without legal assistance", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vqxyb/rpk_money_cant_buy_lawyers_so_tun_m_daim_and/", "num_comment": 5, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": [["This old man still making up random stories? He used to be an Anwar d1ckrider during the reformasi days."], ["Isnt it mahathir who challenge anwar to get him?\nHe is just answering the challenge, isn\u2019t he?"], ["\"Attorney-General (AG) has advised the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) that the manner in which action was taken against Daim and Dr Mahathir is both unlawful and went against the Federal Constitution. \u201cBut they (MACC and PDRM) have been instructed by Anwar (Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim) that action has to be taken against the trio by hook or by crook,\u201d Police and MACC used as political tools to silence political opponents/enemies?? \ud83d\ude06", "You missed the most important part in your quote above:\nInterestingly, the Manchester, UK-based RPK claimed that the Attorney-General (AG) has advised the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) that the manner in which action was taken against Daim and Dr Mahathir is both unlawful and went against the Federal Constitution.\n\u201cBut they (MACC and PDRM) have been instructed by Anwar (Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim) that action has to be taken against the trio by hook or by crook,\u201d asserted RPK.\nJust a reminder also that RPK is the very definition of yellow journalism, and that the article is entirely comprised of unsupported claims and allegations by him.", "RPK already completely lost his credibility since 1MDB days. We can just treat his words as total crap."]]}
{"title": "Report: MACC to summon ex-PM, principal private secretary this week for questioning", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vqp7e/report_macc_to_summon_expm_principal_private/", "num_comment": 1, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": [["Jeng Jeng Jeng ! ex- PM duringcovid-19 from east coast. Ismail Sabri \ud83e\udd23 So PMX continues vendetta against all those against him \ud83d\ude01"]]}
{"title": "How do i start a hobby/model kit/TCG shop?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vqmsx/how_do_i_start_a_hobbymodel_kittcg_shop/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": [], "header": "Just considering an option if my company bites the dust in the future. It lost a lot of revenue last year.\nI am also aware it might not be the most lucritive of businesses but i am curious none the less.\nWhat people do i contact for supplies? Will i need permits? Are there other things i'll need get?", "comments": []}
{"title": "/r/malaysia daily random discussion and quick questions thread for 01 January 2024", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vfsa8/rmalaysia_daily_random_discussion_and_quick/", "num_comment": 18, "flairlabel": [], "header": "This is r/malaysia's official daily random discussion and quick questions thread. Don't be shy! Share your joys, frustrations, random thoughts and questions. Anything and everything is welcome.\nApa tanda si pinang kelat,\nBila dimakan terasa malan,\nApa tanda orang beradat,\nBila Monyets berdebat dengan sopan.\nDad joke: 2024 resolution: Walking away from my bank account\nI\u2019m getting rid of all the negative things in my life", "comments": [["Minor announcements:\nmonyet.cc: Check out our Malaysian Lemmy community! (why?)\nSPM Megathread: Updated 2022 with SPM resources such as trial papers, modules, notes and more!\nMental health wiki: A list of mental health services in Malaysia\nI am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns."], ["Why is malaysia\u2019s reddit so dead?"], ["Hey quick question, my trans girlfriend is coming to visit me in Australia, and is doing a layover at KLIA. She's got the right gender markers on her passport and looks amazing, but she's worried about being harassed by security. She'll only really be there for 6 hours and won't do much apart from use the toilets and maybe shower.\nCould anyone give reassuring advice?\nI wanted to make this an actual post but it got deleted by mods."], ["Great start for the new year.\nMy selipar just got stolen at the self service laundry."], ["My new year's wish this 2024 is to get 30 followers on twitter, even if i rarely post my own tweets, mostly just retweets and likes, i would still be grateful for that."], ["I want to gift my sis with a cheap espresso machine with frothing wand under RM200 just for her to play around before dropping big bucks for a legit one. Can anyone suggest some brands on shopee/lazada?", "Gemilai CRM2008"], ["Got a call from Digi cos I wanna switch to Maxis. Current plan with them is Rm40 no 5G and 30GB data. Maxis Rm79 160GB data with 5G and very stable at my area.\nAfter trying to convince me and failed, they just hang up the call without saying anything. So that's how telcos are when you terminate them?\nAnyways, Happy New Years nyets! Hope 2024 will treat all of us with more kindness."], ["Happy new year"], ["Welcome to 2024!\nThe year which will produce a large increase in motorcyclists on the road.\nWonders of expensive petrol"], ["This year my resolution is to stop buying gunpla\nCoz I'm gonna dive into miniature hobby after I clear my current backlog", "MG Narrtive ver ka tho"], ["Happy 2024 nyets!"], ["Combed my hair to see more gray hair. Alhamdulillah.\nI am surprised I made it to this age, to be honest. Never thought I'd live past 20 when I was in my teens.\nDeath is coming for us all, whether we like it or not. It's not a rare tragedy that will only come for the unfortunate.\nIdeally, I want to die in my 90s as a cult commune founder, after living a long healthy life, and successfully breeding a few generations of my own ubermensch. But if I die in the near future as plain Jane (plain Joyah?) who never accomplished much and peaked in primary school, that's okay too.", "forever 17\nI'd live past 20\n\ud83e\udd14", "My age exists in a wave function, not a linear function."], ["just asking is how to apply driving license in Malaysia if I already have obtain a driver's license in another country.", "https://www.paulhypepage.my/foreign-driving-license-conversion-in-malaysia/#toc_Converting_Your_Foreign_Driving_License_in_Malaysia"]]}
{"title": "AKB48 announces a new sister idol group based in Malaysia, KLP48", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vq1ab/akb48_announces_a_new_sister_idol_group_based_in/", "num_comment": 16, "flairlabel": ["Entertainment"], "header": "", "comments": [["YOASOBI announces new sister group in Malaysia: YOUSOHAI", "YOABABI works too"], ["They knew our \"Mak kau hijau!\" meme."], ["Counting down until PAS and the fun police come frothing at the mouth with pitchforks\nMark my words", "\"This promotes fun and therefore is bad.\" -PAS", "\"Girl exposed skin bad!\"\nBut\nquietly masturbating furiously"], ["BNK 48 & JKT 48: Welcome."], ["Potential Lyrics:\n[Chorus]\nSohai Cibai Pukimak\nAnjing Lanjiao Putang ina mo\nBobo Babi Mak kau hijao\nBangsat Duma Ka ni na\n-edit\nReference.", "Now then, this is poetry.", ""], ["Wow, malaysia variety of group48. interesting"], ["They have sister groups overseas?"], ["What languages they sing ?", "Japanese in the Sohai Dialect"], ["KLP48 is gonna be a hit in malaysia\nIts business of \"scouting the prettiest talentless girls you can ever hope to find\" fits very well with the local industry"]]}
{"title": "High-profile court cases to look out for in 2024", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vmfzp/highprofile_court_cases_to_look_out_for_in_2024/", "num_comment": 2, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": [["I thought the stalker case would be critical since he is the first person to be charged under the law, but no, it was just a byline under the Paul Yong rape case.\nThe stalker trial will set a precedent for subsequent stalkers in Malaysia. Too low a punishment and it fails to be a deterrent."], ["Very good read actually, thank you for sharing OP!"]]}
{"title": "Four new deaths, 50% surge in Covid-19 variant infections in S\u2019wak", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vmfcg/four_new_deaths_50_surge_in_covid19_variant/", "num_comment": 1, "flairlabel": ["COVID-19"], "header": "", "comments": [["Mask up, people."]]}
{"title": "9 Malaysian business & industry trends we predict will take off in 2024", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vm5vc/9_malaysian_business_industry_trends_we_predict/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": ["Economy & Finance"], "header": "", "comments": []}
{"title": "r/Malaysia geopolitics containment megathread for 01 January 2024", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vi83g/rmalaysia_geopolitics_containment_megathread_for/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": ["Geopolitical Megathread"], "header": "r/Malaysia geopolitics containment megathread\nThis thread is for all news and discussion on Malaysian geopolitics - primarily the current Israel-Palestine conflict. Please post links and discussion posts as root level comments below!\nGround rules: To keep things civil, personal attacks, flaming and/or bigotry will result in a ban. Also, throwaways are not welcome: you must be >3 months old and have >30 karma to participate.\nRationale: Why we have set this up\nThis thread is sorted by New, and will be refreshed every day!", "comments": []}
{"title": "happy new year", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18varie/happy_new_year/", "num_comment": 2, "flairlabel": [], "header": "bottom text", "comments": [["Happy 2023A"], ["Happy new year, hope it will be better but be ready for worse"]]}
{"title": "New Year\u2019s Eve plan?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v6996/new_years_eve_plan/", "num_comment": 109, "flairlabel": [], "header": "Let\u2019s talk about how y\u2019all spending NY eve. I used to love celebrating it in another country pre-pandemic. And now, I\u2019m just gonna Netflix and chill \ud83e\udd79", "comments": [[""], ["Us lonely people stay at home with our best friend, computer", "Alone but not lonely! \ud83d\ude06 pretty sure some of us also have chosen to stay home", "Same here OP! Ordered in some food and gonna find a good flick to watch \u263a\ufe0f", "Nice! I\u2019ve been on Netflix documentaries marathon since afternoon \ud83d\ude02"], ["Imagine myself outside with a bunch of friends counting down\u2026..\nI\u2019m just at home with my dog watching some tv shows. No GF no besties to spend it with.", "Spending it with yer dog also very nice ah!", "Thank you :D! Happy New Year and may 2024 be a wickedly awesome year for you my friend.\nI hope 2024 turns out to be better than 2023 for me personally."], ["Finishing Red Dead Redemption 2", "Good luck champ. Best game for me"], ["Going to gym to be the first person who bench 100kg in 2024.", "TeamNoSleep"], ["Making my newborn baby sleep and hope he does not woke up due to fireworks lol", "Aw haha! Funny my friend says shes gonna stay home too so that her cats wouldn\u2019t freak out bcuz of the fireworks \ud83e\udd79"], ["I'm literally in front of my computer reading manga while scrolling on Reddit. Maybe I'll do some diamond painting later"], ["Game, work tomorrow.", "Are you in the retail or service industry? \ud83d\ude0a", "Retail"], ["Bro, I need to submit FYP before 12am. \ud83d\ude14. Guess I just pretend to enjoy doing my Final year project only lor", "Broooo so last min ah u haha!"], ["Shooting the fireworks... By myself.", "Broooo", "Shot the fireworks... By myself."], ["I'm actually so bored I started working lmao.", "\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d anything but work"], ["plan?"], ["Sleep at home"], ["You mean you netflix and chill or you NETFLIX AND CHILL?", "In literal sense only \ud83d\ude1d"], ["Sleep. Tomorrow still had to work bro:26559:", "\ud83d\ude3fbrooo"], ["netflix, wandering inside my own head and just live another day like the usual", "It really is just another day \u263a\ufe0f", "i\u2019d like to believe that new year is just a state of mind, you can have new year everyday as long as you keep that mindset because after all we\u2019re our own universe"], ["Wish all of you a prosperous and happy new year 2024. That's my plan."], ["Just outside of my house with stray cats while watching people playing fireworks and also playing Mobile Legends."], ["watched Pendatang movie with burger ayam double cheese special at home. syok apaaa"], ["Sitting on my bed. Came to my room 2023. Leaving for 2024"], ["Gonna stay at home, reflect on some life lessons learnt in 2023 and hopefully not make the same mistakes on 2024. Then keep my cats company so they don\u2019t get scared by the fireworks.\nHappy new year everyone \ud83d\ude0a"], ["sleep"], ["PLAY BALDUR GATE 3"], ["Booked an Airbnb near TRX, chill with some friends"], ["Open up Animal Crossing New Horizons, docked it on the TV, celebrate the New Year's Eve with my wife (who is playing the game too), and those animal villagers that I have."], ["Netflix and chill because im so done with people"], ["Play lethal company\nFUN"], ["Gonna sleep through it cause 1/1 is not a holiday in Johor \ud83d\ude06", "Say what?", "Yup, not all states have 1/1 as public holiday.", "\ud83e\udd79"], ["I thought the fire works were cancelled because of Gayyyzaaaa."], ["All NYE events were cancelled for solidarity with Palestine and flood victims.", "Not true. There are countdown concerts at TRX & Sunway Velocity \ud83d\ude43\ud83d\ude42", "Waiting for comments commenting about the countdown concerts being insensitive", "This is why I\u2019m in Bangkok watching scantily clad girls prance about on stage while waiting for fireworks.", "Happy for you", "If only Malaysia would dedicate Langkawi to scantily clad dancing girls. \ud83d\ude02"], ["work", "\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffd"], ["Trying to finish a book.", "That\u2019s nice, I could only manage 1-2 pages before i pass out \ud83d\ude02"], ["nice great view directly at KL center in my room, thats good enough for fireworks this year, usually go out with friends but not this year, bit lazy", "Nice! I\u2019m very very lazy too lol"], ["Need plan?"], ["Dinner at The Traveling Duck then Goldfinger movie. With family & partner. Just nice.", "Niceeee!"], ["I'm old. I plan on being asleep by 10pm.", "I would want to sleep earlier if i can lol"], ["Working till 11pm and tidur. Never celebrate this.", "I like the idea that New Year gives a sense of fresh beginning \ud83d\ude0aThat said, I prefer to \u2018celebrate\u2019 Jan 1st."], ["I'm sitting on the couch and questioning my whole year of 2023. Kinda anxious to start my new year.", "Treat it as a great opportunity to start things anew and with hope \ud83d\ude0a"], ["As I get older, staying at home is the best.", "Word."], ["My post Covid joint pain and lethargy ensures I don't go anywhere", "Ahhh, hope u feel better soon!"], ["Netflix and karaoke at home with the fam", "Karaoke, that\u2019s cute! Haha"], ["Cry myself to sleep", "Nooooo \ud83d\ude2d"], ["Comforting all my dogs and cats coz fireworks \ud83d\ude2d", "\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d"], ["Celebrating NY in game."], ["Watch anime, play games, jerk off, etc. Same old same old."], ["I kena covid for 3 times, 2 times on end of december and I'm quarantine in my room now. I wish I got to celebrate new year eve outside next year.", "Aw, you will be by end of next year! Speedy recovery to you!"], ["As someone live and work in JB \u201cyou guys celebrate New Year\u2019s Eve?\u201d", "Honestly didn\u2019t know that \ud83d\ude15"], ["Cutie coming over to Netflix and chill ^", "\ud83e\udd73"], ["Usually house parties. This year decided to go to Langkawi - randomly", "I like this random plan heh"], ["stay at home, watch letsplay horror vids on youtube. i just don't want to get into an accident and die while celebrating new years lol", "Brooo \ud83e\udd72\ud83d\ude02", "it's true haha. there's bound to be accidents and deaths this new year!"], ["McD & YouTube for me"], ["When young, go out watch fireworks with my dog. Now that he has passed away, i just stay home lay in bed and checkout on shopee at midnight to save rm5"], ["Reading a book and then stuffing 12 grapes in my mouth before 12.01am then back to reading my book."], ["Alone, gaming, sleep"], ["Apply kerja \ud83d\ude22", "Hey Happy New Year and all the best to you! I will also have to start applying haha"], ["I was celebrating with my vtuber waifus. The hololive event was amazing."], ["Need to be giga Chad to the gym\nIs what my resolution every years"], ["Watching firewoks from home"], ["Nothing, more playing games, drink some cocoa\nPlanning to doodle some more OC stuff"], ["Well I was sad to hear KLCC wouldn't have a fireworks show so would've gone there. Still enough fireworks are the house :D"], ["i stayed at home and play state of decay 2"], ["Finished Hogwarts Legacy.\nI feel more satisfaction than go out count down and stuck at Highway for more than 1 hour"]]}
{"title": "International student coming to malaysia soon. Is MSU university any good(business foundation/finance).", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v9m4n/international_student_coming_to_malaysia_soon_is/", "num_comment": 1, "flairlabel": [], "header": "As the title suggests i'll be an international(from sudan) student soon in KL.\nI was wondering if MSU was a good college since i dont find many people talking about it or should i find other options???\nAlso any tips for an international student would be amazing. I speak arabic as my first language and pretty fluent in english.", "comments": [["No, not really. I have only heard bad things from my friends."]]}
{"title": "Penang to give priority to mega projects in 2024", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v2gaf/penang_to_give_priority_to_mega_projects_in_2024/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": ["Economy & Finance"], "header": "Chief minister Chow Kon Yeow is confident Silicon Island will replicate the success of the Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone, which brought economic renewal to Penang 50 years ago.", "comments": []}
{"title": "Happy 2024 Nyets! \ud83e\udd73", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vojze/happy_2024_nyets/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": ["Culture"], "header": "", "comments": []}
{"title": "Padu", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v7qry/padu/", "num_comment": 12, "flairlabel": [], "header": "If we work in non government sector, will PADU system detect our salary?", "comments": [["From what i understand from this. You are supposed to update it. So probably no", "Good \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 I doesn't gov get our personal info \ud83d\ude02", "Gov don't know your name? XD", "Unless you never pay taxes, the government already know you income anyway."], ["I heard it will IF you have filed your incum tax. So when i check it out on Jan 2 I expect to see all my details - up to and including my Covid jabs.\nOf course, if it doesn't crash 1st :26554:", "I think it will not crash as it's didn't give you any money to update,\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02"], ["Reject this PADU aka Digital ID dictator bullshit.\nIt is as if the only solution to fuel subsidy is to give up our privacy and get the people of Malaysia further segmented, first by race, now by income.\nHow are they going to further divide us? They can use PADU as a SSO for webservices, and rat out who are critical of them online.\nAnd boom you lose all sort of subsidies.", "Yes, I think I don't want to update the info. This is terrible", "Sadly many monyet in this sub has Govern-Me-Harder mentality."], ["You don't pay income tax or have EPF?", "\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 terrible \ud83d\ude14"], ["https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/amp/category/nation/2022/11/08/invoke-staff-will-get-shares-when-company-is-listed-says-rafizi/"]]}
{"title": "PAS lists out DAP\u2019s top 10 \u201cvenomous narrative\u201d throughout 2023", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vp6qa/pas_lists_out_daps_top_10_venomous_narrative/", "num_comment": 18, "flairlabel": ["Politics"], "header": "", "comments": [["Summoning the GOAT /u/jwteoh ...", "jwteoh! jwteoh! jwteoh!", "lmao, new year new me, imma pass the torch to you guys, please save it so you can copy paste it next time."], ["PAS ending the year/ starting the new year by introducing 10 fitnahs.", "It's cool how you started and ended your sentence with the same word."], ["Anything PAS"], ["Below is a chronological list of some of DAP\u2019s domineering struggles throughout 2023 which would have \u2018cross swords\u2019 with PAS so to speak:\nThe then DAP Selangor state EXCO Datuk Teng Chang Kim behaved barbarically by linking liquor issue to prayers (January 2023).\nThe then Penang deputy chief minister II Prof Ramasamy Palanisamy questioned the dominance of the Malays in the public service (February 2023).\nFormer DAP publicity secretary Tony Pua claimed that Malaysia no longer needs Malay political parties (June 2023).\nDAP tried to fan racial sentiment by politicising the Kota Bahru Municipal Council\u2019s compound on a boutique owner whose staff was fined for wearing shorts in the latter\u2019s business premises (June 2023).\nDAP chairman Lim Guan Eng made a 3R (race, religion and royalty) slanderous speech claiming a \u2018green wave\u2019 will destroy Chinese temples and that non-Muslims will face various sanctions if PAS were to win the Penang state election (July 2023).\nDAP Ipoh Timor MP Howard Lee Chuan How committed misinterpretation of Quranic verses by urging Muslims to support the unity government (September 2023).\nDAP vice-chairman Nga Kor Ming condemned the costumes of Hamas fighters that were worn by school pupils in conjunction with the Palestinian Solidarity Week while urging the relevant authorities to take action (October 2023).\nDAP veteran leader Tan Sri Lim Kit Siang displays his chauvinist attitude by raising the issue of the Federal Constitution allowing non-Malays to be a Malaysian Prime Minister (November 2023).\nDAP Federal Territory chairman Tan Kok Wai pushing for the unity government to conduct local authority elections in Kuala Lumpur (December 2023).\nDAP Beruas MP Ngeh Koo Ham proposed the appointment of non-Muslims to sit in the special committee formed by the Federal Government to study the Syariah law (December 2023)."], ["Couple months later, \"Gong Xi Fa Cai\" wishes from PAS."], ["This is no longer Parti Islam. Should rename as Parti Melayu Sr-Malaysia, PMS."], ["who have neglected their Islamic values and would even consider their fellow Malays to be racist for defending the Malay race or Islam\nYes, all these are very islamic and not racist in nature, Zurk Ahmad must have his head so far up Hadi's ass\nHadi: Other races are challenging Muslim's political power: https://www.nst.com.my/news/politics/2023/08/939467/voting-mandatory-if-other-races-are-challenging-muslims-political-power\nHadi: Non-Muslims must be grateful for \u2018being given a place\u2019 here, should just let Malays continue leading country: https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2023/06/07/hadi-non-muslims-must-be-grateful-for-being-given-a-place-here-should-just-let-malays-continue-leading-country/73042\nHadi: Only Islam can rule, others must be 'pak turut': https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/357628\nPAS politicians insinuated that their rivals are the enemies of Allah: https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2023/06/27/pas-man-says-sorry-after-calling-on-allah-to-defend-kedah-from-enemies-video/76640\nMuhyiddin claimed Christians of being in cahoots with a group of Jews to \u201cChristianise\u201d Malaysia: https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2022/11/19/muhyiddin-in-hot-water\nDr. M: Parties led by non-Malays are 'parti pendatang': https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2023/09/04/dr-m-calls-parties-led-by-non-malays-039parti-pendatang039\nNon muslim woman fined for wearing shorts in Kelantan: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/non-muslim-malaysian-woman-fined-for-wearing-shorts-in-kelantan\nNon muslim unisex salon ban + closure: https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2022/12/856735/terengganu-govt-enforce-unisex-hair-salon-ban-warns-offenders-fines\nNon muslims are the root of corruption https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2022/08/20/pas-hadi-claims-non-muslims-non-bumiputera-make-up-the-bulk-of-roots-of-corruption/\nPAS/Zul Zuhaimy: Mahu sembelih orang bukan Islam: https://www.utusan.com.my/nasional/2022/11/mahu-sembelih-orang-bukan-islam-zul-huzaimy-mohon-maaf/\nPN: May 13 rhetoric election propaganda: https://www.thevibes.com/articles/news/78211/netizens-raise-alarm-over-may-13-hate-content-posted-on-tiktok\nHadi: Malaysia has to be ruled by muslims: https://buletinonlines.net/v7/index.php/malaysia-mesti-dipimpin-oleh-melayu-islam/\nSanusi demolished colonial era legally built Hindu temples and label critics 'drunk on toddy': https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2020/12/03/lfl-slams-kedah-mbs-heavy-handed-defence-of-temple-demolition/ https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/553910\nPAS: Nurse's clothing too tight: https://www.malaysiadateline.com/dakwa-pakaian-nurse-ketat-mp-pas-kena-sekolah-dengan-presiden-persatuan-jururawat/\nPAS: No concerts because they promote hedonism: https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2022/08/25/pas-urges-govt-to-cancel-all-upcoming-foreign-artist-concerts\nPN: The Malay Proclamation: https://www.bharian.com.my/berita/nasional/2023/05/1096600/proklamasi-orang-melayu-kini-dapat-sokongan-pemimpin-pas-bersatu-dan\nAmar (PAS): Not having tap water is not a big deal. Villagers know how to dig their own wells: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2023/08/08/kelantan-villagers-know-how-to-dig-their-own-wells-says-amar/\nNik Abduh (PAS): Citizens should pray instead of requesting/begging for help: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2021/06/29/pas-mp-dismisses-white-flag-campaign-says-better-to-pray/\nPS: Omitted a few non 3R articles.", "Next time any PAS BS: u/jwteoh i choose you!"], ["And how many \"venomous narrative\" has PAS said throughout 2023?\nNurses' uniform\n\"Sepupu Lim Kuan Yew\"\nCalling non-muslim voters as ingrate\nJust off the top of my head."], ["Lame"], [""], ["Attacking DAP makes no sense because DAP is not fighting with PAS in election"], ["Top 10 like the most minor stuff lol. Where is PAS list for this year", "I'll be watching, no worries"], ["Case of the pot calling the kettle black"]]}
{"title": "New Year", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vaswh/new_year/", "num_comment": 0, "flairlabel": [], "header": "Happy New Year To all That's here. May you year be properous . Take care", "comments": []}
{"title": "Question about trains in Malaysia", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18v4s61/question_about_trains_in_malaysia/", "num_comment": 13, "flairlabel": ["Tourism & Travel"], "header": "Hello everyone it\u2018s my first time as a tourist in Malaysia, what a beautiful country! I\u2018m travelling with the wife and my cousin and his wife also.\nI have a question about trains: I booked a train from Ipoh to KL and it says \u201ePlatinum\u201c on the booking page. I also wanted to book a train from Penang to Ipoh but all the seats were booked already. Question is, is \u201ePlatinum\u201c a passenger class or is it a term for the whole train? I would really like to go to Ipoh by train. So is there a standard class that I can always just walk in or only reserved seats with \u201ePlatinum\u201c?\nIs Grab a viable option if there are no trains available? Do the drivers even go so far? We want to have a quick way because we don\u2018t want to spent much time in transportation. We are 4 persons.\nAppreciate any help of you guys! And sorry if this question was answered before.", "comments": [["Let me answer as a frequent ETS traveller. Because the other doesn't seem accurate in information. The Platinum class is actually the whole train, the class just means how many stops the train will go.\nPlatinum is the one with the least stops, which is the most \"express\". Gold will stop at more stations, with Silver stopping at the most. Platinum trains also have first class seats, at extra cost from standard Platinum, which are bigger with staff serving food (food is not free I think, never tried it). Gold trains don't have class separation in seats.\nFor Penang, there's only 1 Gold train a day and as you guessed for it being cheaper it is always full. Usually you'll need to book 2 weeks in advance. Platinum is usually possible to get tickets 1 - 2 days before or even on the same day except during peak travel seasons.\nI have never seen Silver trains, maybe they only exist on other lines or to other destinations.", "ETS Silver only exist on Ipoh-KL section, hence why you haven't seen it"], ["Platinum is a class, you could walk in and ask but that depends on luck (often booked)", "Thank you!"], ["There are Silver, Gold and Platinum with Platinum being the most expensive. It's a class term.\nYou can reserve all 3 types online, but if you only see Platinum, I'm guessing the other 2 types are sold out or just not available. What you see on the website should be more or less the same as tickets available at the counter.\nAs for Grab, it depends on your luck. What about taking buses to Ipoh?", "We looked up the busses but they did not fit in our schedule that well. Thank you so much for explaining!", "Please dodge the buses unless you're really tight on cash they're a horror with scheduling and breakdowns", "We will dodge them, budget is not the issue, we just all like trains very much. We\u2018ll try our luck at the train station and otherwise get a grab/teksi", "Alright safe travels!!"], ["If you're gonna take a train from Penang, go to Penang Sentral at Butterworth. Take a KTM Komuter train from there all the way to Ipoh since it's the final stop for the train. No booking required just like you're taking a commuter type of train. I suggest you to download the KTMB Mobile app from the app store so you can check the train schedule from there."], ["From what I understand the main difference between platinum and gold is the train is pretty much direct to ipoh with almost no stops whereas gold has some stops in between.", "There's actually 7 stops on ETS Platinum between Ipoh and KL - Ipoh, Batu Gajah, Kampar, Tg Malim, Sg Buloh, KL (Old Station), KL Sentral"]]}
{"title": "Smoke earlier today first time seeing this", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vafrm/smoke_earlier_today_first_time_seeing_this/", "num_comment": 2, "flairlabel": [], "header": "Saw this earlier today from my condo and was damn shocked. Heard it was a transformer explosion or sorts", "comments": [["Barbecue"], ["So\u2026.no pope yet\u2026 /s"]]}
{"title": "Yeahh! 12:00am rn. Happy new year, \u65b0\u5e74\u5feb\u4e50, Selamat Tahun Baru.", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18vbq3g/yeahh_1200am_rn_happy_new_year_\u65b0\u5e74\u5feb\u4e50_selamat_tahun/", "num_comment": 1, "flairlabel": ["Wholesome"], "header": "", "comments": [["Woih cina, happy 2023A /s"]]}