Author: yonghokim
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So I keep hearing about this mythical …
So I keep hearing about this mythical “reasonable and afraid” crowd who we can establish reasonable conversations with. Let’s see: I see how the Korean media covers their activities and their positions, and I want to throw up. It’s disgusting. I go to their website, and I want to puke. It’s worse in online spaces.…
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Are we sure that by using the …
Are we sure that by using the “latinx” term we are not further reinforcing the misguided notion of people who don’t care that “people from latin america” are “latin people”? Unless people are engaged in intentional identity conversations, “latinx” can easily pass as a typo of “latin”.
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You can’t gather up a group of people…
You can’t gather up a group of people who are wholeheartedly convinced that something is wrong and they have every right to say that it’s wrong and tell them that they ought not to say what they believe, and instead convince them to say “oh i think it is very good, it’s just that.. XYZ..…
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The WeChat Sure flan animated emoticon is…
The WeChat “Sure” flan animated emoticon is a stroke of genius
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I think we broke their product recommendation algorithm…
I think we broke their product recommendation algorithm..
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It’s unfortunate that the real fake news and…
It’s unfortunate that the real fake news (and no, I don’t mean Fox News.. i mean, the real, original fake news.. fake news *sites*) is not surfacing to the public attention anymore, because it’s been suspected to be one of the factors leading up to 45*’s election. It would be unfortunate that just because we…
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There’s not a single quality open license photo…
There’s not a single quality open license photo of Korea’s daytime street life on the internet. Which is saying something. Either the photo is shots of nature of empty streets, with no life forms on sight. Or a shot specifically framed on a building, an event, a landmark, in a way that it’s clearly not…
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it’s a bit strange because my high school…
it’s a bit strange because my high school years are a bit of a blur, then the last 2 years are pretty clear (it was the most busy years), then college is generally a bit blurry except for classes taken, then my early years at work are crystal clear – like i remember what happened…
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Im going to a conferece that starts today…
Im going to a conferece that starts today to cofacilitate at two sessions, and turns out that until today morning: 1) i recalled the flight as belonging to the wrong airline (i entered my confirmation number to the wrong website first) and 2) i had the order of the two sessions mixed up. I prepared…
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the multiverse doppelganger hypothesis is misleading the universe…
the multiverse doppelganger hypothesis is misleading. the universe is not a random number generator. just because a combination is possible, doesn’t mean it will naturally occur if you simply wait it out or run it a very large number of times.
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facebook is running a survey that pops up…
facebook is running a survey that pops up and takes over the entire screen (you can’t click on anything else until you respond or close it) where it literally asks “do you agree with the following statement: facebook is good for the world” fuck you facebook. manipulative piece of shit
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oi just realized i didn’t have lunch today…
oi.. just realized i didn’t have lunch today. i had a heavyweight project looming around 11:30am, said “oh well, might as well.. start..?” then the project rolled over until 3pm, then did a few more things, and i’m like wait a second, did i eat strangely not hungry
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45* we’ll do it trade war in…
45*: “we’ll do it (trade war) in a very loving way, loving loving way” all the immigrants who fell for trump saying he would “deal with immigration with heart” are now just learning that Mr. Embarrassment to the Human Race (TM)’s limited vocabulary defaults to “love” and “heart” to refer to things that are not…
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Seeing Nunberg in the news keep reading as…
Seeing Nunberg in the news, keep reading as Nuremberg. Nuremberg.. Nuremberg trials, ooh yeah..
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Online TV show closed captions seem to sit…
Online TV show closed captions seem to sit at a curious intersection between mid-English proficiency watchers (me), no-audio environments, and the hearing impaired. The first two.. or maybe just the first category doesn’t really need audio cues like “music is playing now”, but since the segment is small enough to lump all three together, we…
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Our office in Los Angeles was a residential…
Our office in Los Angeles was a residential/commercial mixed zoned space with office on the first floor and residential rooms upstairs, and I used to live in one of the rooms back in 2007. One day, I woke up around 7am on a Saturday with a police’s gun fairly close to my head (I don’t…
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When I read that Falcon Heavy reuses its…
When I read that Falcon Heavy reuses its main boosters to save costs, I thought they just dropped to an ocean location to get picked up and repaired. Then I saw the footage a week later – holy shit the rockets descend back to a pre-painted landing zone circle vertically? It’s hard enough to keep…
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meeting mom again gives me insights into my…
meeting mom again gives me insights into my management style. i’ve been nagged into doing things to oblivion at home. may explain why i’m very hesitant to nag others to meet their deadlines and check-in on project progress, etc.