yongjik

7 ms·

91.
by yongjik 8mo ago
Savings are literally being passed onto the consumers. The #1 reason people buy imported goods is that they are cheaper: if they're the same price as domestic goods then there will be little incentive to buy imported goods and domesti
92.
by yongjik 8mo ago
Okay, I'm really talking out of my ass, but my very uninformed take is: Protectionism is "working" for China because it's still a poor country, it was much poorer only a generation ago, and when you have no industry, it&
93.
by yongjik 8mo ago
Protectionism may work in some cases, but even when it works, it works by making things more expensive. People don't buy American cars because it's cheaper to make similar cars in Mexico. Fine, so let's force companies to m
94.
by yongjik 8mo ago
If you are a US citizen, voting Trump out might be unironically the most significant decision your country could make for the next 100 years of mankind. Not because the alternative is so great, but because Trump is so horrible that it'
95.
by yongjik 9mo ago
Someone was defending it on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918803 /sigh
96.
by yongjik 9mo ago
...and look at some comments here, every day I get confirmation that Trump supporters will defend everything , there's no coming back. Thankfully they are <40% of US voters now. Yes, that's a depressingly large number but hav
97.
by yongjik 9mo ago
Well, when I hear "people have personae" I'd imagine something like "This person is an esteemed professor at MIT but he's also a regular in erotic fanfiction forum," not "he's friends with a child sex
98.
by yongjik 9mo ago
Worth mentioning that Park Chung-hee's "five-year economic development plans"[1] were the centerpiece of Korea's economic development during the 1960-70s, and we can draw direct parallels between that and Stalin's f
99.
by yongjik 9mo ago
I know it's fashionable to blame capitalism on everything, but dealing with excess produce is legitimately a hard problem because they have a shelf life and someone has to harvest them and move them to where consumers are.
100.
by yongjik 9mo ago
Yeah exactly, if the US actually took its rule of law seriously, we won't be having this Trump problems because he'd be in prison for the rest of his life. Biden really dropped the ball here.
101.
by yongjik 9mo ago
You know what's really funny? After the threats made, stocks of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix barely took notice. A lot of Korean stock buyers are deranged gamblers who'd feel right at home at r/WallStreetBets, and even
102.
by yongjik 9mo ago
The whole point of the article is that there's no such thing like "functionally passive" and people will invariably twist themselves into knots if they actually try to give it a, let's say, functional definition. You cou
103.
by yongjik 9mo ago
The sentence isn't that unnatural when you realize that it's full of standard linguistic terms, such as "clause", "subject", "semantic roles", "action", and "agent". Pick a random
104.
by yongjik 9mo ago
Today, when Trump's goons kill a man you see it on the news. When it becomes a war, your side will drop bombs, burn houses, and kill people every day. And you will cheer them on. Because the alternative is defeat and death. War is
105.
by yongjik 9mo ago
At the rate things are going, I wonder if America can hold together until the midterm. The Trump regime is acting like it wants a civil war. If anyone told me in 2024 that America may see its own Tiananmen, I'd have laughed, but I&#x2
106.
by yongjik 9mo ago
The group of Americans who are the loudest at cheering for the 2nd Amendment rights are cheering for ICE these days. To them, "the security of a free State" means that it has a caste system with the "good guys" at the t
107.
by yongjik 9mo ago
The median American voter voted for Obama, and then Trump, and then Biden, and then Trump. They are angry about inflation, hate billionaires, don't want to start a war, and don't know who pays tariffs. Basically, the median Ameri
108.
by yongjik 9mo ago
> "Left" > get so touchy about Greenland lmao
109.
by yongjik 9mo ago
You know what, I kind of like this letter... as an educative example. After Trump, this should be a required reading for every American student in their American history class. The letter is short, the premise is stupid, and the way it&#x2
110.
by yongjik 9mo ago
It's different. 9/11 was an outside foe, which was dismantled by US forces, and its leader was executed. America "won" against the perpetrators of 9/11 in the conventional sense. You cannot defeat MAGA the same wa
111.
by yongjik 9mo ago
I know I sound like a broken radio, but: Google "urban heat island effect site:realclimate.org" Scientists have been aware of the effect and correcting for it since before you heard about it. In general, if you can think of som
112.
by yongjik 9mo ago
Sure, as long as you keep the milling machine and its product in your garage and gloat over it, the government will do nothing about it, because it doesn't know (or care). You so much as walk around with your gun in the streets of Seou
113.
by yongjik 9mo ago
Well, I mean, the US is straight up demanding money from its allies (in the form of an "investment agreement" exclusively controlled by the Trump government), and threatening them with economic doom if they don't comply. Stea
114.
by yongjik 9mo ago
Just shows that the second amendment is an obsolete idea, and in today's real world it's more likely to oppress people's right to protest than help them fight tyranny. ICE goons can shoot people because in America, law enforc
115.
by yongjik 9mo ago
I downvoted you because you're spreading baseless conspiracy theory. Few denies President Park was grossly incompetent in how she behaved during and after the Sewol ferry disaster. Also, the ferry was illegally and unsafely modified a
116.
by yongjik 9mo ago
> The second is to prevent anti-imperialist arguments and perspectives from reaching the eyes and ears of young western people. Sounds like you're complaining that these measures will make it hard for authoritarian governments to as
117.
by yongjik 9mo ago
Well, South Korea hasn't executed anyone for 20+ years, so death penalty is more or less symbolic here. Also, Yoon is very unpopular, and he's a moron, so he has zero use for America even if he somehow magically teleported there.
118.
by yongjik 10mo ago
> Lets be honest, you know in your heart that the vast majority of americans want to stop school shootings, don't you?? I don't think we know that, and I think you're looking at your fellow Americans with rose-tinted glass
119.
by yongjik 10mo ago
I also remember that but I think it was attributed to someone else. The site hosted several (internally famous person) facts, but none of them were as famous as Jeff Dean.
120.
by yongjik 10mo ago
They hate the "government" which is an abstract evil entity. They love Trump, the police, and ICE. MAGA was chanting "president of peace" only a few months ago, and did anyone complain about Venezuela? Not a peep. The

More ›