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by yongjik 6d ago
Sino-Korean words are different from Sino-Japanese words in that the sounds are very "rigid": most Chinese characters have one canonical sound, and it is pronounced that way regardless of where it appears (modulo some mostly pre
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by yongjik 6d ago
Korean could serve as a point of comparison, as modern Korean is written mostly without Chinese characters (you could mix them in if you really want to, but approximately nobody bothers), but it does have spaces between words. And yes, whe
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by yongjik 13d ago
I think it's worse. It's not that the government doesn't care that the public hates it; it's more like the government is doing whatever it wants and half the public is going wild absolutely loving it. Well, maybe a bit
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by yongjik 15d ago
> Common language, culture, and context makes a more peaceful world. As a South Korean - well, considering that my country once went through an existential war against our mortal enemies, the other Koreans ... Common language and culture
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by yongjik 16d ago
North Korea has all sort of nasty names ready to throw at America, South Korea, or others, though at least I think they're just name-calling, not considering them as "official" names. (So, in a twisted sense, even North Kore
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by yongjik 16d ago
By attacking Iran, Trump fucked up the one thing that the average American voter will never forget, because they are reminded of it every day: the price of gas. The midterms won't look pretty for him.
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by yongjik 22d ago
> the woman activist who followed ICE around and who tried to run over a cop ... Lol, just three comments from being "pro-legal immigration" to ... whatever this is. If pro-Trump commenters are like this, couldn't they at
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by yongjik 1mo ago
I think a few things are mixed up. * First, ex-president Yoon was a drunkard idiot: he believed that he was surrounded by evil commies, who manipulated legislative election of 2024 to give the opposing Democratic (Minjoo) party a resounding
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by yongjik 1mo ago
As a South Korean, I don't like this news. Not because I'm against ending the war, but because I don't think there's any real chance of this happening. This is at best a distraction, and considering that there are a to
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by yongjik 1mo ago
That's a very Orientalistic interpretation of what we have, where a Japanese company is understandably afraid of a batshit crazy leader of the world's most powerful nation with a history of exceptionalism and ignoring internationa
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by yongjik 2mo ago
Me go market, find juice, say sugar free nice! sugar free! me take juice, me take sugar, police take me, why? hell!
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by yongjik 2mo ago
Increasing gas prices seems very well correlated with people not voting for the incumbent party, and I can't imagine these people not feeling they're being punished by the price, so ... ... yeah I'd say punishing the pe
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by yongjik 2mo ago
> They do what their handler wants to see, that’s all, and that’s what they’re trained to do. This sounds like a tautological argument that doesn't really mean anything. Hypothetically, in a near future a super-powerful AI could br
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by yongjik 2mo ago
For some reason, I can access old.reddit.com from home, but I'm blocked in the subway. It's been like that for a few days. No idea why, or if it's even intentional ...
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by yongjik 2mo ago
Imagine reading the title again in the voice of the Asian Father Meme. "You could have come up with Kimi Delta Attention, but you didn't, did you."
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by yongjik 2mo ago
I know it's a cold and cynical take, but if it has to happen somewhere, better for it to happen in Europe, the US, or other developed countries. These countries can at least do something to keep climate crisis from getting worse. (Or
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by yongjik 2mo ago
> Air travel seems like this as most airlines and manufacturers seem to bend over backwards for their wealthy and high margin passengers and basically treat economy class as ... You got it backwards. If economy passengers preferred bett
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by yongjik 2mo ago
I don't say this often... but I feel this post could have been a tweet. Maybe two.
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by yongjik 2mo ago
KOSPI is "crashing" to ~6800 from the highs of ~9000, but that's still 110% higher than 1 year ago (~3200), so let's not get ahead of ourselves yet. It remains to be seen where it will land. * Also, from what I heard in
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by yongjik 2mo ago
The interesting twist is: now what does that tell us about people who say they will cut the waste of government incompetence?
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by yongjik 2mo ago
Well, I guess that makes a certain philosophical sense, but if we allow for the existence of an extra-physical god (or gods) that we can't test for, there's no reason to believe that one particular story is more likely than others
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by yongjik 2mo ago
Sounds fine to me. Why would you need tires in interstellar space?
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by yongjik 2mo ago
That's a really funny way of looking at "Some right wingers end up repelling their children through sheer bigotry or just being terrible parents, and as a result, these poor children will find solace and friendship in an ideology
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by yongjik 3mo ago
To expand a bit, even saying 대약진 _daeyakjin_ "great leap forward" wouldn't have turned many eyes, because _dae_ is just a common prefix ("great") and _yakjin_ is also a common word meaning "leap forward, push f
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by yongjik 3mo ago
Due to the geopolitical situation, South Korean military has invested a crazy amount of resources on firepower. It has 2,780 self-propelled artillery vehicles, which is number #3 in the world (after Russia and China). The US (#4) has 1,52
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by yongjik 3mo ago
> People dramatically underestimate what thousands of organized humans can accomplish when they are adequately fed, aggressively supervised, and denied alternative career paths. Somehow I feel personally attacked.
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by yongjik 3mo ago
Maybe off-topic, but sadly, climate change is an inconvenient topic for everyone. There's one thing that the poor, angry, ready-to-eat-the-rich masses hate more than the world warming up, and that's higher gas prices. Polices to
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by yongjik 3mo ago
At some point, people should agree they are responsible for the opinions they hold. Otherwise there's no point even arguing, because the only alternatives are that (1) the modern society fails, or (2) we will have an iron-fisted eco-f
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by yongjik 3mo ago
It's a two-sided sword. When you are the consumer, blame the producer. When you are the producer, blame the consumer. In this way everybody can blame someone else and ensure that nothing is done. For example, more people buying EVs
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by yongjik 3mo ago
Is this supposed to be sarcasm? As far as I know, America is the only nominally democratic country where cops routinely shoot people, and their number one excuse is that they thought they could be shot. Nothing makes cops more trigger-itch

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