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I think it's pretty significant that President Lee mentioned the 1997 financial crisis: arguably, it was Korea's version of 9/11. It shook the country in a way people didn't realize was possible, and the country was, in
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Funnily enough, according to some South Korean news, the Korean government deliberately postponed having a final written deal, or at least that's what some news articles claim, because it was such a horrible deal for Korea. I think the
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Riiiiiiiiight, I totally believe that.
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TBF I don't think Trump supporters get the ridiculousness. If they could get it so easily from another politician repeating it, they wouldn't be supporting Trump in the first place. What Gavin Newsom is doing is, I think, a bit m
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Another fun arbitrary thing is which meridian you decide to cut, because the earth is round. If you do an image search for, say, "world atlas," you'll see all the maps have cut the Pacific in half, so the West Pacific is at t
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IMO, being able to cry louder for persecution complex does not equal a moral high ground.
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I'm roughly in the same camp and my take is: it's wrong when you're being cruel to migrant workers from poor countries willing to work for pennies. It's also wrong, but not just that, it's wrong and stupid when yo
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I'll be first to admit that Koreans aren't great at how we treat our immigrant workers, so if you think that's some kind of gotcha, it really isn't. Yes, the Korean government (regrettably) mistreats workers frequently,
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Koreans also have the concept of punishment being proportional to offense. You tell Koreans an illegal immigrant worker in Korea was rounded up in chains and stuck in places where they have to take a dump in front of others, at least half
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I can assure you, if OSHA raided Hyundai's plant and even arrested managers for unsafe practices, the majority of Koreans would've been like "Yeah fuck Hyundai, serves them right, go America!" But that's not what ha
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As a supporter of nuclear, I think most nuclear supporters will be happy if we achieve carbon neutrality by any means. But as other commenters pointed out, renewables are not achieving that in most places. According to Google, a staunchl
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> Sounds like he must have been a pretty bad guy. So let me get this straight, you didn't know who was Charlie Kirk, you only decided to look him up after he died, and you're so noncommittal about it that after 24 hours you sti
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The second amendment was passed when there were slaves, and I guess the 2A supporters at that time didn't see it as contradiction. These people aren't mellowing on their position on 2A; they're instead starting to think &quot
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You can say you're (rightfully) upset, without throwing employees of a major investor onto a jail without functioning toilets. The problem is that the US is sending deeply conflicting messages. Does it want Hyundai's investment o
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Wow, only 60km/h. If it was a modern bus hitting a building at that speed, most occupants would be able to walk out. Really puts into perspective how much safety improved in the past 100 years.
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First mover disadvantage. The US was among the pioneers of modern democratic system, and arguably the most successful one, which paradoxically trapped its descendants into thinking there must have been something magical about how it was in
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There's a regime change like "the second TV debate was a clown show, most swing states saw +5% move away from the incumbent, with the usual stronghold states still holding their established positions, and the latest poll listed in
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Mamdani ran against Cuomo, a disgraced sex offender, and the incumbent Adams, whose corruption scandal was so bad that Trump pardoned him to sow chaos among the Democratic party. If I were a NYC resident I'd vote for a sack of potatoe
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I'm fine with that. So go ahead, annex Nigeria, you coward.
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I just checked my city's website and our residential water rate for 2026 is $2.97 per CCF (which is apparently "100 cubic feet" = 748 gallon, aren't Imperial Units beautiful). So, a dishwasher that's using 5 gallon
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I don't think Trump really cares about international students. Trump's real enemy is colleges (and the educated people colleges represent). Anyone who responds "But isn't it a good thing that there are more opportunitie
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> The inability for intelligent people to frame their policies and positions in ways very stupid simple people can understand "disease very bad. disease may kill. inject this. you less likely to get disease." => "How da
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There is a theory that if we could find the same janitor and get them to plug the same broken vacuum cleaner to the same socket in exactly the same way, mankind's energy problem will be forever solved, one way or the other. There is an
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South Korean internet is dysfunctional enough that it's possible that Google is not showing the correct site at the top because the government site's designer helpfully decided to make the site "secure" by adding to robo
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> we simply don't because the rich people would lose a bit of money and they control everything. This is at best an oversimplification, and at worse another convenient lie we tell ourselves because then we ("the never rich enou
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I think the point is, despite America having "constitutional protections for freedom of speech, that are greater than any other country," it has fallen to such a sorry state that a government officer is fired for reporting inconve
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They are starting from the conclusion of "I'm not going to lift a finger to do anything related to the climate, and the society shouldn't, either," and then they're working backwards to find arguments that justify t
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This is a clickbait article one could've written when Google was new and people were getting used to the idea of "You can just search for things on the internet." It's just dressed up with mentions of AI for better &quot
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Distraction from the fact that there's not going to be a perfect solution that solves the climate without inconveniencing us "common folks." By advocating for a perfect solution that sticks it to the bad guys, one can put off
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Yet, when Al Gore created _An Inconvenient Truth_ back in 2006 everybody was ready to mock his private jet. I think billionaires are a distraction. MAGA had no problem talking about "coastal liberals" with their billionaire conne

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