last year in September i opened an IRA and investment account (Ameriprise) and bought index funds (CSIEX) with the money
then a month later, after I knew I had enough money, I doubled the amount – I put more money in
the index fund grew pretty well for a few months and then lost quite a lot of value with the Ukraine war (20%)
throughout the whole time I was looking at Mint and going: “huh I only see the amount I put in in September. Why is the October amount not shown?”

now I know why
I only transferred money to the financial institution, but I also had to buy more index fund with that money. It was just sitting there as “Cash/Sweep”
I thought the money I transfer from my bank would automatically buy more index funds smh
it was sitting there in my account for an entire year, not being invested :facepalm:

on the upshot though, if I had figured out to properly invested that cash last year, I would have lost twice the value I lost over the course of 2022
the cash stash didn’t lose value. it just got charged some small FTC fees each quarter
:yonghuh:

apparently I have to “place a trade” but the web interface is not showing CSIEX as a valid symbol :yonghuh:

i’m gonna ask the agent who opened the account last year how to do this thing :yonghuh:

> In a statement Friday, Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich said the “new ‘detailed’ inventory list only further proves that this unprecedented and unnecessary raid of President Trump’s home was not some surgical, confined search and retrieval,” characterizing the search as a “SMASH AND GRAB.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna46064

Lol they should be thankful that
1) no bomb was used to blow up any part of the building structure like they do in LA
2) No one in the household was shot to death

I got covid

partner progress:
8/13 afternoon: start to have body aches
8/14: body aches, some fever, throat pain. start isolation. rapid test positive
8/15: more throat pain, swallow pain, phlegm, no fever and no body ache
8/16: lose sense of smell
8/17: feeling better, walking outside.
8/18: start to spend time with me
~8/20: recover sense of smell
8/23: rapid test negative
8/25: start meeting some friends masked

8/15: friend positive
8/20: friend’s roommate positive
8/26: friend negative

my progress:
8/13: exposure
8/15: evening some itchy throat (ate a lot of icecream before this)
8/16: rapid test negative. some headache & tiredness, not feeling enough air when breathing in (as usual). armpit temp 98. coughing/itchy throat. 100.4 F degrees oral. ibuprofen. start isolation.
8/17: rapid test positive. 99 F degrees oral. some fever/headache. a bit more throat pain than yesterday, although it doesn’t hurt much when swalloing (and probably eating). throat feels very dry though, when i was poking nose for the rapid test, it triggered some dry coughing. started taking dayquil/nyquil. (dayquil liquid color was confusing: https://yongho.photos/6001/ )
8/18: got the canotify.ca.gov exposure smartphone alert. fever and pains gone. phlegm, nasal congestion and coughing
8/19: runny nose.
8/22: get back to working from home. had some trouble breathing with nose, feeling nauseated. took most of the day off.
8/23: rapid test positive. got back to working half a day from this point on. stopped taking nyquil/dayquil.
8/25: rapid test positive
8/26: rapid test negative
8/28: rapid test negative

I was reading Prop 28 opposition and saw that the LA Times editorial opposed it.

I’m sure they make a series of interesting points in their argument. But this one quoted line is a particularly bad take:

> What happens if the student population plummets in future years while the number of disabled elderly people grows?

Uh, then we change laws to reflect the changed reality. It’s as if people wanted to create brand-new laws in the 1910’s regarding car accidents and what happens if a car driver hits a person, etc, and people objecting to those laws from being made, saying “well we are all gonna be flying in spaceships in the future anyway. No need to regulate cars.”

> Am I still considered a dreamer even though I’m an old woman and all of my dreams have died ? :peepoHmm~1:

humans are peculiar organisms that live in the present but also in the future
if they lived in the present only, the realization that there is no food in front of them at that very moment would drive them anxious
because the future is part of them – knowledge of where you will eat your next meal, and the next day, and even the simplest future planning – it is that you are a dreamer

so your dreams are not yet dead 💀
your revised dreams just happen to better reflect the oppression of the working class under capitalism :yonghuh:

I crossed the street during Walker green light
Two cars turned in front of me
1. A car coming from the opposite direction, making a right turn
2. A car coming from my left, making a right turn
A third car coming behind me also tried to turn left ahead of me but I managed to walk ahead of it

a latino man who uses the N word, thinks racial justice is about “not offending people”, laughs at progressive politics, spreads right-wing hyperbole about crime stats in black communities in south chicago and gets annoyed at protests to no end
is saying
“i’m not gonna support abortion”
“you keep protesting needlessly in downtown chicago where there are no republicans and you will lose supporters”
as a threat
i fail to see what the threat consists of

hmm.. i don’t get the argument

also, the line “businesses don’t mind giving frequent flyer miles to their employees as it’s a tax-free benefit” makes little sense. whether or not the frequent flyer mile is taxed or not shouldn’t be too relevant when giving it to their employees. It’s not like it counts as a charitable donation where the company is getting deductions

I felt Chavo del ocho was such a sad show
It’s an empty world
With just 6 neighbors
Bickering in that little corner of the city
Which seems to be the only time-space in existence in that universe
I was 12 and I was watching it with my brother on weekdays 6pm waiting for parents to come back home and the show was making me feel empty inside

a lot of shows made me feel empty in those years
like gatchamen

I think questions like these and other “dumb” questions reflect how the human psychology works

a lot of peoples’ casual understanding on topics work by making associations of topics that the person considers to be similar/related
when it becomes their professional field and they need to draw logical inferences then the mind works different on that topic,
but even those engineering-oriented people do often default back into this “dumb” way of thinking for fields in which they don’t have a full picture/don’t understand well/don’t have all the information

i’ve spent almost all my life triyng to minimize this type of information friction for people who can’t be bothered to sit down and learnn about some aspect of life that is not a priority for them for one reason or another so this is is super familiar to me

idk if this is a good example to illustrate thiss, but
like the other day I discovered that “현미” (brown rice in korean language) and “brown rice” are the same thing
I discovered this after like 20+ days of hearing the two words, in very separate, isolated worlds. One is a Korean-speaking world where people discuss well-being and healthy eating, and the other is English-speaking Thai restaurants.
then yesterday I went to a Korean supermarket, and bought brown rice, and noticed that it says “현미” and “brown rice” in the same bag

i was like :aMindBlown:

> uhm. what do you need sponsors for? Like what do we do for them, and what do they do for us? I know this is a dumb question but I’m trying to figure out what to ask

I didn’t read your original post but from the responses it sounds like you are organizing a.. Computer Science Fair?
in an event like that, a sponsor would provide various kinds of material support, and usually get recognized for being a sponsor
being a sponsor of an event can be different things

• outright giving you money to pay for the costs of the event, or for the event’s beneficiacy (if you are trying to raise money for an issue, etc)
• having their rep with a booth passing out their own promo at your event site/answering questions
• bringing free stuff to the event for the event organizer or participants – for example cans of soda from their store, free tshirts (or maybe you’ll sell the tshirts to participants), etc

more organized events establish “Tiers” of Sponsorship Level, eg you give us $10,000 and then your company logo will be prominently displayed on the event entrance, but if you give us $2,000 then your logo will only be printed on our event pamphlet, etc
but if it’s a small event organized by one person i guess you can negotiate the sponsorship terms – what they will give you, and what how you will show your gratitude or promote them – individually
sometimes sponsors are lowkey and humble and don’t want to get public recognition.. and that s fine to

> In Korena language “black person” is “흑인” .. I think in korean it has a different context. Can you confirm yongho?

so
Koreans are so racist
they don’t realize that saying “black person”, “black-owned” is neutral – that it’s not racist.
because all their lives, they have never heard the word “black person” (흑인) in a non-racist context
it’s usually “blacks are violent” “blacks are on the rampage again after a black prostitute died during police action” “be careful in ktown, too many blacks there”
so if you say “oh yeah so silicon valley is hiring more black people” or something random like that they will automatically assume that you are trying to make a racist point – eg the subtext of what you said being “silicon valley is hiring underqualified blacks, these CEOs are so stupid and populist. they need to hire based on merits, not give handouts to the N humans” – that’s the subtext that will be assumed when you say it using the word “black”
so that’s why some people think that saying African American is more “PC” and say the pronunciation of “African America” out loud with Korean letters
yeah.. maybe in the 50’s bro

on the other hand, there is a separate korean word equivalent of the N word. It’s 깜둥이
I had a bit of a Korean moment a few months ago
when this guy was trying to tell parents that his friends’ is a black/korean couple, and their baby is black and korean
but in his limited korean language vocabulary, he couldn’t remember the word “black person” (흑인) – he could only remember the N word
because that’s the only word that all the Korean-speaking people around him ever said, I imagine
so he was trying to portray something positive about black people (that the baby was cute), but he was limited to the N word
Korean moment right there

so MetroLink sent this email today morning saying they are running their trains more frequently

this is the line that I cared about:
> Orange County Line: Two trains offer added weekday morning service.

so I went to the MetroLink website to look it up
their website crashed
:yikes:
after a few minutes, I was able to look it up
but…
this can’t be real
I don’t see more morning service
but I see them going crazy crazy crazy during afternoon rush hour

during the pandemic, they were running once an hour, or once every two hours

now they are running every 10 minutes or 15 minutes from 3pm until 6pm
that can’t be real
like only MTA high-density special transportation zone buses run that often during rush hour
why are trains running on that kind of schedule
i understand they got a lot of money through the Build Back Better economic stimulus package
but this…
I would look at this and assume they are trying to launder drug money
:pepecigarette:
or their website data entry intern did something very wrong

some of my amazon non-rush credits are to expire tomorrow
i was eyeing a book i saw someone recommend on twitter
it was listed at $10
i have $7.50 in credits
i was hoping some of the restraints would ship earlier and add to my credits
and i was browsing the book again today, and the moment i shifted to the paperback tab to see if they had used books, amazon lowered the price from $10 to $8
maybe it’s an algorithm to entice you with a discount if they know you are very interested in a kindle book
so got it for $0.50

Korea elected its first Incel President
there are so many hilarities with this outcome results
the Incel president won by a 0.8% difference
the number 3 candidate, the progressive candidate, got 2%

however, the Incel president likely got 1% more votes, which got lost because the former number 3 candidate withdrew last week and threw his support behind Incel, but the voters didn’t realize he withdrew so they still voted for him. That’s a whole ass 1% of the votes

now the guy who scored number 4 is something
I say the winner was the Korean Trump
but number 4 is the real Trump
Number 4 promises:

• dissolving congress by martial law
• purchasing russian territory and some nuclear reactors and weapons along with it
• free money for young people and seniors

that guy has been running on that platform for 20+ years now.

among other things
that meme candidate scored number four, with 0.8% of the votes, or 280,000 votes

> is it just the 20 yr olds being incels?

Yeah the incels got their candidate
They sided with the conservatives, super-rich multi real estate owners, corporations, homophobes, dictatorship supporters, etc, so that they can push back against the supposed “men-haters” and “solve the gender tensions” by “ensuring men are treated fairly at the same level as “females” ”

> bc the women can immediately get hired for jobs? and the dudes gotta do their service?

They have many grievances
“why does the man have to replace the water filter machines’ water bottle in our company office, and why don’t the women do that? So unfair”
This water filter machine

> lol. because its heavy

he got that last oomph from Ahn Chul Soo
Ahn Chul Soo was originally number 3 in support rate, but dropped out last week and threw his support behind the Conservatives
Ahn Chul Soo brought over his 5% of supporters
Ahn Chul Soo had so much support, that about 1% of the votes were votes cast mostly for Ahn Chul Soo, but those votes became invalid because he withdrew and is no longer a candidate

i’m not impressed by that tiktoker’s 2 second of “singing”

https://www.tiktok.com/@sweetfilipina/video/7069638517621640490?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1

i think that clip reflects the view of people without a sense of music that think being bold and showing character in their speaking/enunciation – which actually has more to do with acting, which of course comes in handy in a good musical performance – to be synonymous with singing “skill”

because they can’t break down the components of singing into its constituent elements

> Why is she so personal with these insults tho:kek~1:

pretty standard for koreans
they have a very, very narrow definition in all aspects of life (physical, mental, lifestyle, culture, income, thoughts) of what is considered the NORMAL range
the moment you deviate
they start asking
“why?”
“so short. did she grow up in a war torn country?”
“guy clothes? is she a feminist”

“get back to the pack with the rest of us”

if you look at Korean TV shows
the moment someone who deviates from the norm shows up on screen
it’s like everyone know what are the questions popping up in everyone’s head
“why does this guy not have a mother?”
“why are those two so dark when they are from the United States”
“that guy says he’s from California but he has an indian accent. I’m so confused”
so no one is asking
but they spend the next hour
just addressing those questions

“his parents immigrated from India in the 1980s, you see”
“ooooohhhh I seeeeee” (that explains everything)
“ohhh interestingggggg”
even TV programs directed to young people
it’s always the same

man i will forever be scarred with that day when my mexican twitch viewer asked me
“uh ok so you are protestant…”
“do you guys believe in God?”
“and Jesus?”

another thing that shocked me about that mexican twitch viewer is that he called himself a “catholic”, not “christian”
i thought labeling protestants as christians and Catholics as catholics was something that only Korean protestants engaged in, to push catholicism to the margins
i thought catholics in latin america wouold call themselves “christians”
and give some label to protesttants.. the usual one seems to be “evangelicals”
but why is that mexican catholic guy calling himself “catholic” instead of “christian”
and he got confused when I didn’t adopt that “christian” label, which I did not adopt out of respect to catholics

> that always confused me as well, cuz the catholic church was the og christian church in the west

yeah there’s that historical precedent too
but in latin america, catholicism is the mainstream religion
the “default” religion if you don’t have anything else going for you
so why would latin american catholics not lay claim to the “christian” label?