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actually so fucking mad rn. westerners only care about korea if it benefits them somehow and of all things to latch on to it's the transmisogyny cancer. because they havent traumatized enough of us already ig. shut the fuck up about 4b i dont wanna see it.

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Thinking about the time my mother thought it was normal for a 1st grader to take the subway to school across the Han River by herself.

In retrospect I agree with her but everyone else does not. One day I went to a park another subway stop away with a classmate because to me 6 year olds going places on the subway was a normal thing to do and the friend’s nanny freaked the fuck out because she couldn’t find the kid after school. The park security called my mother because he saw a couple of six year old children out in the wild and went “I must call her parents” and my mom was just like. Yea she can take the train home. He was like “????? she said she was in the first grade????”

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Umm what the fuck US presidential election???

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Mandatory caveat that Obama’s presidency had problems so the tumblr people don’t try to shoot me but anyways I often think about this one interview that Obama did a few years ago and in it he was asked what he was most proud of in his presidency and he was like we severely upped the efficiency of most household appliances in the US and reduced our carbon footprint a lot with that and helped people save on energy bills and that’s the sort of thing nobody ever notices

And he was right. I’d heard nothing about that. And I looked into it and there was a massive effort during his presidency to improve the efficiency of everyday household objects and do stuff like give people the means to install solar panels and track how much electricity they were using.

I missed this and I’m a person who’s generally in tune with what’s going on politically. Like there’s so many unsexy mundane things the government is working on all the time that are super important. And I kinda like the idea that a president’s proudest achievement is that he made your appliances eat up a bit less of your electric bill.

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I can't explain how much I love baguette child. I would protect them with my life.

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Posters for National Theater of Korea's production of Macbeth, designed by Yuni Yoshida and photographed by Noh Juhan. [1][2]

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"porn brain" is a far right conspiracy theory, misogyny in porn is a result of structural societal misogyny and not the cause of it, the way to help sex workers is decriminalization and worker's rights, banning sexual expression is fascist. i will not be taking questions at the time.

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One would think tech companies would appreciate an opsec-conscious applicant but even they are all “what are you trying to hide” and recruitment portals often have “only whitelisted domains allowed” issue. And if it says they have an issue when you enter the info at least you know, but sometimes they just yeet your application into the void.

Also this does vary by region but Google and other email providers often let you skip phone verification esp. if you are on private browsing, and using calls instead of SMS is usually possible (although landline in a different location would make it untenable)

Google sucks ass, but in terms of applying for jobs and whatnot I can’t think of a single reason having a Proton email would be better than a gmail.com

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Proton email addresses being blocked by websites is such a thing that Proton has a whole support article on it (idk how that is not against some kind of antitrust or fair trade violation… alas)

even if the website itself doesn’t block it, employers sometimes find it sus. it could really affect people’s job prospects

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agreed, but being blocked because “hmm why are you using an end-to-end encrypted email service that doesn’t require phone verification?? suspicious.” is a real thing that happened to me a few times (they didn’t say that outright, but well-known E2EE addresses like proton and tutanota emails were consistently blocked while any other email passed through) so be judicious about that

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Any environmentalist who decries urbanization instead of sprawl doesn't know what they are talking about

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Actually cannot stop watching this

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they call me Gregory House

the way Kutner and Amber live in my head rent-free

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Dr. Chi Park is my least favorite House character. I want to like her but I cannot.

First of all what the fuck kind of name is Chi Park. Was there ever an explanation that I missed?

With surnames coming first in Korean, her name would be 박치, a colloquial word for someone who has no rhythm and can’t sing or dance on beat. It is arguably worse than being Kim Chi. No 1st gen immigrant Korean parent would name their kid that. Like yeah it might be from her Filipina side I admittedly don’t know a whole about, but her father would have been like wife… there are plenty of Filipino names that aren’t untenable combined with this surname. And I don’t think it was oblivious producers meshing together Asian-sounding syllables, because her father of 15 seconds of screentime has a perfectly sensible and generation-appropriate name. And US-born AsAm kids have Anglo given names more often than not so I wouldn’t have minded Chelsea Park or whatever. Chi Park was a Choice. I could see it being a funny nickname like Bookie Monster or Park-ing Lot, but she wouldn’t use that in a professional setting. I just can’t get over it.

And I can understand the whole pull yourself up by the bootstraps model minority immigrant thing because a lot of immigrants and 2nd gens are in fact like that, but refusing gifts from Adams is dubious to me, like we don’t turn down free shit immigrant or not. (There might be a neurodivergent explanation for that, but attributing it to immigrant parents 🤔 girlie your Asian parents would take those designer shoes and sell it second hand for cash money. It’s possible that her parents concealed the handouts they did take to instill independent values in her, but from what little we get of her parents they don’t seem like that type, and even that type of parents will tell you refusing free gifts because of your ego is for rich white people)

Her character isn’t particularly endearing to me and I feel like she ended up being less interesting than she could have been, but these little things make it worse and I’m mad that I got a Korean character I dislike if I’m being honest.