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by yongjik 4y ago
Umm, the yellow turban rebellion happened in 184 AD. It's like saying West Europe can't control cultists and citing Celtic druids.
872.
by yongjik 4y ago
Last August my wife and I visited Maui, bringing a physical sunscreen (Zinc oxide based, I think). My wife put on so much that her face almost looked like a kabuki actor, and I looked only a little better. On beaches we'd see all tho
873.
by yongjik 4y ago
Maybe I'm biased, but I really don't think "Chinese solar panels causing landslides" is a genuine concern for Korea's energy policy. That sounds like half a level above "Windmills kill birds!"
874.
by yongjik 4y ago
South Korea also wasted recent years trying to shut down nuclear reactors and painting the nuclear industry as evil anti-environmental cabals. It's infuriating that Korea's politics is governed by either conservatives (who think
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by yongjik 4y ago
Given how many people reject any decarbonizing plan as political ploy, we might as well need magic to make it work. :/
876.
by yongjik 4y ago
You must have slept through the entire Texas cold snap saga of February 2021.
877.
by yongjik 4y ago
Saying that The Day After Tomorrow had a lot of bad science is a bit of an understatement, isn't it? It's like saying Hershey's chocolate bar has a lot of chocolate in it.
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by yongjik 4y ago
You're probably right about that, but I'm just saying that "They kill dolphins!" is a low-effort remark, when America is doing much more damage to the ocean via CO2 emission.
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by yongjik 4y ago
Japan emits 8.5t CO2 per capita (2019), much less than the US (14.7t), though it's still worse than the UK (5.2t) or France (4.5t).
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by yongjik 4y ago
Disclaimer: IANAL(inguist). Unlike school grammar, most linguists consider English tense as just present and past, or "non-past" and "past", to be precise. There are several arguments for that: * The auxiliary verbs &qu
881.
by yongjik 4y ago
> Finnish has longer and better swear words than any other language. Great, trying to sell it as a World Language and they managed to insult 99.95% of the world with one line! (Well maybe less than 99.95%. We can all agree that English
882.
by yongjik 4y ago
> It's a great political tactic: there's no end conceivable to the "climate emergency" and you it's hard for most establishment political hacks to ever disagree with that messaging without risking being labelled
883.
by yongjik 4y ago
> How about some DATA: go to https://population.io , select Rep. of Korea, plug in some age/gender b.s. and scroll down to "Age Distribution" at the left column. Now look to the left of ~20yo (younger than 20),
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by yongjik 4y ago
That's why I prefer the Superior(TM) Korean age counting. You are one year old when you're born (it's your first year!). You are two year old on the next New Year's day. (Congratulations, it's your second your no
885.
by yongjik 4y ago
> this is national virtue signaling and there's no way that ICE cars are going away. Germany is planning to ban new ICE sales by 2030. Japan and South Korea, 2035. You can keep saying "they are not going away," but the t
886.
by yongjik 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic... Almost all major industrial countries plan to ban ICE car sales by mid-2030s, some as early as 2025 (Norway). California's plan is not particularly
887.
by yongjik 4y ago
In the current system the government essentially forces you to choose between overpaying, wasting a lot of time reading up on the arcane rules, wasting a lot of time and then overpaying (because the rules are never that easy), or ponying
888.
by yongjik 4y ago
I don't think we've solved these problems in the past. We simply didn't have such problems at the scale we have now.
889.
by yongjik 4y ago
On the other hand, judging from the past 5-6 years, freely giving out voice amplifiers (Facebook and targeted ads, anyone?) clearly didn't turn out well either, so the optimum is probably somewhere in the middle.
890.
by yongjik 4y ago
The usefulness of armed citizens in preventing/fighting tyranny is greatly exaggerated. Americans would be served better if the second amendment is abolished.
891.
by yongjik 4y ago
> Maine, Alaska, Hawaii... what's the point of being a far-off-forgotten small population state to a superpower if the other neighboring nation is offering better protection of my interests? That's like asking, what's the
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by yongjik 4y ago
Yep, South Korea sent four ex-presidents to prison (three were pardoned, one is still in prison). It's not a perfect solution (obviously we'd prefer if we had presidents who didn't commit crimes), but I think it's a net
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by yongjik 4y ago
I think you're overly optimistic about web of 15 years ago. You are more likely to end up with "CatLady05's archive Aug 2007 - list of beaches in Thailand (I'd like to visit some day!) - (blah blah) - summer trip to Ven
894.
by yongjik 4y ago
Let me give you an example. Back in the 1990s the ozone hole was considered a serious problem. Scientists argued that with unchecked emission of CFCs the hole will grow larger and cause serious harm. Limits on CFCs were implemented, the h
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by yongjik 4y ago
Consider it from Taiwan's point of view. Through hard work and a bit of luck they created a world-class golden goose industry that literally outcompetes everyone else. And then their biggest ally (or the country they thought were the
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by yongjik 4y ago
Meh, the so-called "fake Kim Il Sung theory" isn't a new info found in 2011, it was a raging conspiracy theory all the way back from 1940s. If you speak Korean, search for "김일성 가짜설", you'll find wiki pages the
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by yongjik 4y ago
You assure your bus driver doesn't have a habit of popping pills by making them go through rigorous certification, give them decent wages, and punishing them harshly when they do pop pills. You may object it's not perfect, but not
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by yongjik 4y ago
I don't understand. What control do I have over a tired/drunk/high truck driver running a red light into an intersection I'm passing in? I can be actually assured that no drunk driver will smash into my seat in a subway
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by yongjik 4y ago
As in, "melted runway at London Luton airport has gained sentience, named itself The Global Warming, and is holding the rest of the UK as hostage with its super-area-heating power; negotiations are ongoing"?
900.
by yongjik 4y ago
Yes it will stretch out.

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