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?

> Do you guys speak in tongues?

Presbyterians generally tend to not be too hot into the whole miracles and speaking in tongues thing, although that varies from church to church
Pentecostal-aligned denominations are more into that
and Presbyterians stand diametrically on the opposite end of that emotional axis from Pentecostals
the running joke about Presbyterians is
“how many Presbyterians do you need to replace your light bulb?”
“not sure about that but they will be happy to get their building infrastructure committee involved, and form exploratory subcommittees, evaluation subcommittees, and many more as deemed needed to duly carry out the task of bulb replacement

dumbfucks at facebook strike again

all this “you must enable advanced protection” buzz in the email
when all they wanted you to do was to turn on 2FA
then I click through their “steps”, which notify me that I already have 2FA :facepalm:
whyyyyyy send the email thennnnn
thank you for making me waste 2 minutes facebook
I spent more time assessing whether the email itself was a phishing scheme, than going through facebook’s steps

so like i saw this on my youtube recomms and wondered for a second “is this possibly a legit self-critique? i wasn’t expecting any narrative like this to surface”

nope it was just one of them right wing channels

so i was looking up historic covid stat trends in Alameda County and LA County in preparation for my trip to Oakland next weekend, and took a look at Korea’s since last week my family was talking about a spike in Korea

woa Korea is having an unprecedented surge in February 2022
cases were 0 for all intents and purposes for the entire duration of the pandemic. Measly surges like “1,000 cases a day” in December 2020 were considered “emergency spikes”
And then by February 17, 2022 it climbed up to 110,000 cases a day
I remember family commenting “it’s high because we test so much”
that can’t be true.. Korea was notorious for testing a ton of people from very early in the pandemic.. if I remember correctly. In contrast, I never got a chance to see a test in LA until March 2021, even though I had been trying to get tested since Fall/Winter 2020.

S: Season 3 next year🙏🏼
C: of what
A: covid
A: 2020-2021 season 1 of covid, 2021-2022 season 2 of covid
J: they’re running out of source material

me: covid prequel :blush~1:
ooooh
so maybe it’s about time for a recap episode
all variants surge at once
“Do you remember Alpha?”
Smallpox: “wait for me guys”
Smallpox: “I just need to make it out of this vial.. just a little bit of air pressure change…”

I remember having this conversation with a colleague in March 2020
as we were on our last day in the office

“i think.. a lot of poor people will die.. leading to labor shortage so corporations won’t find us expendable”
and then:
“actually scratch that, it means a lot of poor people will end up with disabilities, more medical debt and other debt resulting out of losing jobs, so we will be even more desperate for poverty wages”

colleage:

“great”

i woke up at 3:15am with this random ass dream that i was giving a public statement at a LA county supervisors meeting in opposition to the agenda item. I don’t ever recall having dreams on such a nerdy topic. So i retold the dream and recorded myself doing it: https://recorder.google.com/share/914294f6-71f5-4aef-aad9-d7c53fcfdf85

then went back to sleep at 4am

Mmm what does this event entry mean on Google calendar :yikes: it’s not my birthday. I might have entered a fake day because i consider the birthday an element sometimes used to break 2FA. The calendar app is not letting me tap o nthe thing to see more detailed information.

Whose calendar is it anyway :yonghuh:

it does not appear on the desktop computer view of my work calendar, nor my personal calendar
so it must be.. that i have peoples’ gmail email address entered on my address book
and some of them entered their birthday and set the privacy setting of that info as public
and it shows up on my phone
but not the desktop browser view :yonghuh:
the only problem: i can’t tap or long press on this to see who it is
so other than knoiwing that their name starts with “Y”
this is kinda useless
i wonder if it’s a deprecated function that android developers forgot to finish erasing

i think most korean soup is kinda meh
korean broth
compared to thai/indian curry-themed things
i have had some of the soups originating from latin american countries.. and it was even more underwhelming
to which i think this pozole thing belongs
:yikes:
water… meat.. veggies.. heat…
some concentrates..

korean broth is like
“so we have developed this korean civilization for 5,000 years”
“and this is how much progress y’all made since the invention of fire?”
“y’all need more CAPITALISM”
“to accelerate the refinement of calorie consumption culture” :yonghuh:
“our ancestors would be disappoint”
“oh wait”

dude this hinge app
there are some aspects of its UX that are very polished
but its voicecall (and i think its videocall) capabilities are ass
i just had a 1 hour call with a match
hinge dropped our call like 5 times over 30 minutes
every time the call drops, i had no idea it happened, and either kept talking or remained in awkward silence trying to think what to bring up
and only when she calls me again to reconnect do i realize that the call got dropped
and when i tried to pick up the call it’s a whole another clusterfuck
hinge is shoving its survey down my throat
“how did your call go? would you like to learn more about her? thank you for providing your feedback”
while the hinge voice incoming call is still ringing
and somewhere in the notifications i think is also a message she sent saying “oh we got dropped”
amazing
and when i use my bluetooth headsets for a video call or voice call, the app ignores the bluetooth headset
seriously
is this 2008
how hard was it to implement bluetooth headset support

i’m streaming world of tanks nd my main GPU is going between 100% and 30%.. weird, never had this happen

I enabled Google chat in the Gmail app today
1. It seems they integrated back old Google Hangouts chat log, stretching back to 2013. However, not all of Google hangout chat log seems to be here. Just some of it.
2. So many spam messages in the 2016-2017 period backlog

3. There are some bizarre truncated exchanges and it’s unclear whether the exchange was incomplete or one sided like shown or whether the hangouts database transfer had tons of database corruptions :yonghuh:

Like this exchange with a current work colleague
Hmm is this when I was working on brushing up colleagues resume :monkahmm:

I give this scammer A for effort.

Sends three pages worth of Nigerian bank scheme, and then follows up by sending “please do you understand English?” In Korean language