> is using “oppa” if ur not korean okay?? like idk american australian etc.
i think this can be a more complex topic
you (and a lot on the internet) are approaching it as a “can a korean person say X word vs can a non-korean say X word” type frame.
which has its merits and probably happens to a certain extent
I’d invite people to consider the following issues as well:
A. to what extent is “oppa” romanticized outside of the korean-speaking-sphere and/or kpop fandom culture? Are people aware of how oppa is used in the language overall, or only narrowly aware of oppa in the domestic fandom culture?
B. do people use some words in isolation? for example “my oppa is so cute” as opposed to “우리 오빠 너무 귀엽다” and how do these interlanguage jargon mixings exacerbate any pre-existing tokenization of the language? Do they further A?
C. Are people aware of the tendency within the korean language to convert/linguistically imagine interpersonal relationships and hierarchies using the language of family and how oppa is part of this larger phenomenom?
I decided to return the rowing machine after two weeks of back pain. I don’t have enough time left in my 3-month return period to verify whether the back pain started due to pulling something wrong while rowing or whether it was just the usual bad posture sitting at desk.
UPS was set to come pick it up yesterday. I stayed home all day, except for 1pm-2pm when I went to a chiropractor next door. I come back, and there’s a UPS “we missed you” sticker. Ok cool, they’ll be back tomorrow.
Today morning I went to the psychologist 8:30am-10:20am, and *just in case*, I pulled the boxed machine outside my door.
I come back and it’s gone with a “UPS picked up your package” sticker.
Two days in a row and they come exactly during the only 1-hour window I am away from home.
La forma de gobierno en Estados Unidos es una república democrática. A través de las elecciones, “contratamos” a personas para que nos representen en los varios niveles de gobierno. Ellos trabajan por nosotros, desde los concejales hasta el congreso federal.
La representación es esencial.
Las personas debieran sentirse representadas, o al menos que tenemos el mismo poder al decidir quién nos estaría representando.
Bajo esta forma de gobierno, nuestro mayor desafío es la tarea de dividir los votantes en distritos
Lo primero es que los distritos deben tener un número casi igual de personas.
No sería justo para las personas en el distrito si hubiera una gran diferencia de población entre un distrito congresional y otro.
Hay otras leyes: la Ley de Derechos de Voto, por ejemplo, prohíbe la discriminación contra las minorías. Si hay un barrio que es mayoría población negra, no se puede dividir la comunidad demasiado hasta el punto en la que sería difícil organizar la comunidad para tener representación en el congreso.
El distrito también debe mantener la integridad geográfica de las ciudades, condados, barrios y comunidades con un interés común. En California, los distritos deben ser “compactos”. No pueden tener una forma tan inusual que parecieran tener brazos y piernas.
Pero las personas también se mudan a otras regiones. Cada 10 años, el gobierno hace un censo para llevar un conteo.
En California, una comisión independiente, bipartisana, y diversa tiene que analizar los datos y los borde s, y escuchar a la gente para trazar los nuevos bordes de distritos que cumplan con todos los requisitos.
En el 2010, por ejemplo, la ciudad de San Diego agregó un distrito de concejal número 9. El nuevo distrito combina el área de clase alta de Kensington con City Heights, la cual es una comunidad muy diversa con altas tasas de pobreza,
Y transfirió el centro de la ciudad desde el Distrito 2 al Distrito 3. Esto resultó en un nuevo centro urbano dentro del Distrito 3, y el Distrito 2 se transformó esencialmente en un recinto costero.
Se necesitó mucha discusión y varios mapas para llegar a esta decisión.
Este año, con el nuevo dato del censo, y los Demócratas siguen ganando ventajas, el proceso para crear los nuevos distritos es menos partidaria. Pero eso no significa que tendremos menos desacuerdos sobre los distritos.
Habrán muchas conversaciones sobre cómo los nuevos bordes, incluyendo distritos escolares, concejales, y el congreso, tienen que ponerse en el interés de las comunidades con intereses y contextos sociales compartidos, y tienen que mejorar la representación en el gobierno, porque la representación es lo más importante de nuestra república y eso empieza con los áreas que nuestros representantes en el gobierno representan.
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we live in a Democratic Republic the ideas that we hire people through Democratic elections to represent us in every government that serves us from the city council to the US Congress
representation is key
people must feel like they’re being truly represented or that they at least have an equal say in who should represent them
the most basic Challenge and responsibility, then, in this form of government, is the act of dividing us up into districts that should be represented
first the districts must have roughly the same number of people
it just would not be fair to one person if his congressional district had far more people than another person and there are other laws: the federal Voting Rights Act for example, prohibits discrimination against minority communities. if there’s a neighborhood that is primarily black for example it can’t be divided too much so that it is harder to organize for representation
the district should also preserve the geographic Integrity of cities counties neighborhoods and communities of Interest
In California districts are supposed to be compact. if they’re not drawn so weirdly that one neighborhood is in a different District than one right next to it but then a farther one is in the first one’s District.
But people move. every 10 years the federal government does a Census count to track that.
in California bipartisan independent redistricting commissions are required to appoint a diverse group to look at the data and potential maps and listen to people so that they can come up with new District that follow all this criteria.
back in 2010 for example the city of San Diego added a 9th city council District
it is of combining the affluent area of Kensington with City Heights an Incredibly diverse Community with high rates of poverty
and it moved downtown from the district 2 representation to District 3 in created in urban Core in District 3 and a coastal neighborhoods district for district 2
this required a lot of new maps and discussion
this year as the new Census count comes to an end and Democrats continue to gain an advantage, redistricting is becoming less partisan. that does not mean though arguments about redistricting will stop.
There will be many conversations about how new boundaries for everything from school districts to city councils to Congress should better serve communities with common interests and backgrounds and improve representation in government because representation is the heart of our Republic and it starts with what specific area government leaders actually represent
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Cuando miras este imagen, ¿qué ves?
Un caballito de mar? Un fantasma? Un boomerang?
Este es el distrito congresional número 7 de Massachussetts. Y estos otros.. son otros pequeños monstruos. Perdón, distritos.
Los distritos congresionales son áreas geográficas representados por un miembro de congreso.
Gerrymandering ocurre cuando el partido político que controla el gobierno manipula los distritos para asegurar las reelecciones de candidatos que ellos quieren que gane.
Para lograr esto, crean un distrito que consista de una mayoría de votantes que probablemente votarán por su partido. También dividen poblaciones que votarían en su contra, lo cual resulta en esta forma de Estegosaurio.
Esta práctica, Gerrymandering, lleva el nombre de Elbridge Gerry, quien era un político y uno de los fundadores de Estados Unidos. Se pronuncia Gary.
Gary era miembro del Congreso Continental en 1775, y fue uno de los firmantes de la Declaración de Independencia. También estuvo muy involucrado en crear la constitución, pero no lo firmó porque con su ideología anti-federalist, estaba opuesto a un gobierno federal con mayor poder. Según Gary, la constitución no presentaba un balance correcto de poder. El gobierno federal tenía demasiado poder, pensaba.
Gary se unió al partido Demócrata-Republicano. Sí, en ese entonces había un partido con ese nombre. En 1810, Gary fue electo como gobernador de Massachusetts.
En estos años, Estados Unidos estaba a punto de entrar en guerra con Gran Bretaña. El partido de Gary creyó que era posible que los federalistas traicionaran la patria, y decidió manipular las elecciones para reemplazar todos los federalistas electos con un candidato del partido Demócrata-Republicano. Esto incluía manipular los distritos de Massachusetts. Los bordes originalmente coincidían con los condados, pero los cambiaron para beneficiar a su partido.
Un comentarista político dibujó una sátira política donde uno de los nuevos distritos creados por Gary, que parecía tener patitas, aparecía como una salamandra. “Es una gerry-mandra”, o gerrymander en inglés, dijeron.
El dibujo apareció en el diario local de Boston el 26 de Marzo de 1812. Desde entonces, Albert Garry sería conocido no como uno de los firmantes de la Declaración de Independencia, ni el arquitecto de la constitución, ni por ser el quinto Vicepresidente de los Estados Unidos. (Sí, también llegó a ser vicepresidente). Pero el legado de Garry terminó siendo la polémica práctica de distritos que lleva su nombre, aunque hoy en día lo pronunciamos como Jerrymandering, no Gerrymandering.
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when you look at this picture, what do you see?
disoriented seahorse a ghost woman, a boomerang
this is actually Massachusetts 7th congressional district and these are… some other creatures, I mean districts
congressional districts are Geographic voting areas represented by a single member of Congress
gerrymandering happens when a political party in-charge carefully slices off voting districts so that the representatives they want to win, win
They do this by drawing a district around the populations most likely to support them or splitting up populations less likely to support them making this outline of a Stegosaurus
the practice is named for Massachusetts politician and Founding Father you’ve likely never heard of Elbridge Gerry
yes it’s pronounced Gary
elected to the Continental Congress in 1775 Gary signed the Declaration of Independence
He was also very involved in shaping the Constitution but he didn’t sign that because as an anti-federalist he opposed a stronger federal government believing the Constitution got the balance of power all wrong
Gary thought the federal government had way too much of it.
Gary Eventually joined the democratic-republican party. yes that was a real thing.
in 1810 at age 65 Gary was elected governor of Massachusetts.
around this time the United States was edging toward war with Great Britain. Concerned that the Federalists might betray the country Gary’s party decided to find ways to replace every possible Federalist in office with a democratic-republican.
this included changing Massachusetts districts from reflecting county lines to ones benefiting the Democratic Republicans.
in the grand tradition of political satire an illustrator drew a picture of one of Gary’s new districts depicting it as a monster that supposedly looked like a salamander. no.. a gerrymander.
the drawing ran in the Boston Gazette on March 26th 1812. from that year onward Elbridge Garry would be known not for signing the Declaration of Independence or helping to frame the Constitution or for being the fifth Vice President of the United States. yeah he did that too. Gary would instead be known for the controversial redistricting practice that bears his name even though we now pronouncement gerrymandering
which is working out just fine and saving me a lot of money
and the camera quality could be just a bit better than this old Pixel 3a
huh yeah those food pics would benefit eh
and when you livestream while biking, you’ll feel less guilty about that $15 data charge
sure
also doesn’t it feel slightly destabilizing that all your 2FAs are linked to your work phone and the fact that there are some fringe accounts still linked to your inaccessible personal number that you won’t be able to reauth? Just imagine you lose your phone one day. Is everything gonna be recoverable?
actually i need to take time to look into that one day. Finalize moving some GoogleAuth accounts to Authy.. All these supposedly compromised passwords..
yeah how about the latest iPhone?
interesting
YouTube: hey did you know that buying a used Pixel 4 for $200 in 2021 is excellent value?
cuh dude I bought and sold the Pixel 4 last year because i was not going outside. Rebuying the same model is gonna feel so.. Weird…
(whispers) just get an iPhone 8 then
YouTube: on the other hand the OnePlus6T is much better battery-wise
(whispers) wireless.. Charging…
dude I’m like 99% sure I’m not gonna be touching a secondary phone 99% of the time.
bet that’s why it’s called a secondary phone
maybe my depressed brain just needs a bit of freshing up of things? Let’s install another launcher. Oh look I apparently bought the paid version of NovaLauncher in the past!
oh shiny
colorful wallpapers! New lockscreen! Remove icons of apps you don’t use everyday from the homescreen!
hmm i’m gonna add 1 more monitor
will probably wait for some sales that pulls prices down to <$70
currently the TV is plugged to the cmoputer, but i don't really use it while at the computer – I only use while sitting in the couch. so the actual number of screens at the desk is 5, not 6.
if I get a HDMI repeater to feed signal to both a monitor and TV at the same time, then I can 1 more monitor (6 is the limit due to GPU max supported monitors limit – RTX2070 supports 4, and GT710 supports 2)
while i'm at it i'll also do a “2 IN, 2 OUT” HDMI splitter so that I can bring the Switch dock back to desk
i lost 11 pounds since doing the calorie counting thing 5 weeks ago (half of which was due to post-vaccine fever) which is kinda crazy fast and nice
i was gonna write earlier “yeah despite losing weight my body doesn’t feel lighter or with more energy” and as I started writing it i feel less sure about that
so each time i cook something and keep 1/2 or 2/3 of it for eating later, i put it in the electric rice pot. i usually have 2 dishes (sometimes 3) stored in the pot. it keeps it hot-warm for days. i never really wash it, as i keep cycling between the old dishes and new adds.
every once in a while i manage to eat everything in it, and there’s a significant amount of meat juice and whatever water the veggies squeezed out while they were being kept hot in the pot at the bottom of the rice pot
I then just add a bit more water and cook rice with the juice mix
it comes out nice and salty and with meat smells
like this for example
the red there is probably tomato leftovers of some other dish prior
