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/u/HaplessHermit, every single one of your comments in this thread is some variation on "It's less bad than being stripped of the ability to travel outright, so it's better than the bad press."

The point of /u/thisisinsider's work was to draw international attention to this KSA policy and to provoke change through corporate action. As far as drawing attention, it worked. It didn't bring the results we in the West want, but nor has it worsened the political situation for women. It's a step in the right direction for the long term, even if it didn't persuade Google and Apple.

Ugh. You all deserve medals.

Chinese food in the US is synonymous with pork in absolutely everything. There are exceptions, of course there are, but they are much too rare to put that on the diners. The kosher Buddhist Chinese place in my city went out of business during covid, and that's that. I don't go out for Chinese anymore. I've visited China but not lived there, and since then I've always imagined this as a cultural view of food that is just incompatible with the western concept of "vegetarian." I don't want to go out to try a tofu dish if I'll be picking the garnish off. I don't think there is any obligation for Chinese cooks to cater to American plant-based and pork/shellfish excluding diets, but other than the very rare Buddhist place, not sure where I would even go that I could just relax and enjoy my meal. Or order more than one dish off the entire menu. Do you have any insight on this idea of different cultural culinary attitudes? Is that a real thing in your experience?