I’m thinking of buying a small fridge and turn off the regular family sized fridge that came with the apt because it makes a lot of noise

Idk I need to think how much of the current fridge space I can optimize – for example if I’m going to have this bag of dumplings sit in the freezer for 2+ months, maybe I should just throw it away. Etc.

Maybe something like this 3cu one

I currently don’t use too much fridge space

As for the old fridge, just keep it there, powered off, use as storage cabinet
I’m also gonna measure the current fridge noise in decibels, maybe the difference in noise won’t be big

current noise level is 44db when it’s working. most mini fridges claim 37db

also i wonder is it making a lot of noise because i often forget to completely close shut the fridge door

> why did she censor the knife blade?

youtubers and streamers are not very informed on the legal side of things
rumors go around ssaying “oh hear hear, so and so got banned from X platform because they showed a knife on stream”
and viewers and commenters keep passing on the message because they think they are helping the youtuber
to the point it just becomes a “fact of life”
that’s probably why she blurred any knife
the funny thing is, I think it is highly likely that the original source of the “you can’t show weapon on stream/youtube” was probably some right wing weirdo who was angry that they or their favorite right wing streamer got banned, and tried to twist the ban into a “oh look youtube is so stupid the creator just showed a gun on stream and that was cause for a ban, so stupid”
when the cause of the ban was probabbly a bigger problem like espousing nazi viewws or something
butt they tried to attack youtube using that line of argument
and after a while, the whole fight and argument got lost
and only the random context-less “you can’t show weapons on stream” stayed as a groundless “truth”

someone do a linear regression of greek letter assignments to covid virus variants over time and carve a stone calendar where the last day is when the omega designation gets placed
then hide the calendar in a cave or something

> Can I join ICE if I have daca?

are you gonna post it on the facebook group?

“i wanna join ICE, and my brother says that i shoould be able to with my DACA. but I’m EWI, does that complicate things?”
“btw also i haven’t renewed it after trump promised to pass the dream act take care of us and cancel DACA in 2017″
“my friend who already joined ICE last year says that I should be able to apply from Ciudad de Mexico”
“how do I apply for CBP to subsidize my flight and lodging costs while the consulate is processing my paperwork? I’m low-income”

“prompt responses would be appreciated because I just landed in CDMX; meeting with my uncle who is hooking me up with notarios so it’s getting kinda busy”

“i packed some edibles along for the trip. what forms do i need to fill out to file this with customs? you know, to keep things documented”

“Alonso is also with me because family wanted to get all this taken care of and over with. Alonso is 14 years old, btw, so he needs to get back before classes start”
“Alonso says he has some headache. are there spots in the city where he could get vaccinated without an appointment? He almost didn’t notice the kitchen fire last night until the alarm went off”

“auntie says that I got a court summons in the mail at our home in America because of the store window that got broken because neighborhood bad hombres were having a fight with my friends.

i think this is the third one.

i don’t think my job interview and consular process would be done before the trial date though. maybe i can arrange to have ICE send a letter to the court requesting an extension?”

i sorted through some of the boxes and random shit i had left stored inside the closet
now i have a roadmap to get rid of shit in storage through 2022
this might be the biggest accomplishment of the day unfortunately

in this sense it’s nice to have a big apt, you can have projects on hold for months on end without them impacting any of your daily routines because there’s space to stow away so much stuff

i’m gonna go to the salvation army thrift store thursday to donate blankets and oversize clothes

i found that amtrak has a $7 cancellation fee
but if you reschedule the reservation, which is free,
then it’s considered to be a new reservation
and then it fits wtihin the time frame during which fee-free cancellation is allowed (not sure how long the time frame is)
and then you can cancel it for no fee
-_-

the implicit message i’m getting by the govt not going too gung ho on the booster is something like:
“guys, normally boosters (and this early) wouldn’t be something we even strongly recommend (seems a bit of an overkill) but because covid-19 is still a pandemic and there’s millions of people with the virus walking around,. we want to be extra cautious and that’s why we recommend the booster shot.

HOWEVER, our biggest concern is the 30% of the population that has not even taken the first dose, so we will be busy with that group for a good long while – in the meantime, please take your booster. mostly to keep yourself safe, and yeah it will also help the general public health.

now, get out of the way while i go to talk to some republicans”
that’s the message i’m reading from the govt… without actually knowing anything about what a booster is or what they do :kek~1:

I read about NFTs the other day and saw that it has no enforceability on digital item ownership (obviously, this is the internet after all, not Facebook)
So
NFT on digital items is just the good ole contract
With fancy tech slapped into the inventory system
:facepalm:
Why are we paying for an inventory system
Just sign a contract where I the buyer bought a digital item and they assure me that I am the sole owner.. boom paper NFT

#InventoryGang

You know, Korea is a very strange country
It’s one of the few countries where millionaires yell back at protestors “motherfucker do you pay taxes? Does your tax even count?” And then people online compare a millionaire 1:1 with a poor person and go “yeah he’s contributing to the economy alright”.

And a lot of people seem to think that rich people earn more because they deserve more, they spend more and keep the economy running, they invest in real estate and jack up land prices – so an all-around “good person”. (Until it’s a woman, and then she’s a braindead wasteful spender) A lot of people complain about high house costs but very few resent large property owners.

With a mentality like that it’s gonna make things just worse and harder for people to empathize with black peopl

at this 20-person work call yesterday, as an opening icebreaker, we were going around sharing what each person does for halloween
i was like “oh halloween is coming up soon, cool :9acosp_stormihuhwtf: ”

then that night in our family call my brother shared a vid of his son dressed up in hallooween costume
i was gonna say “oh they are practicing so soon?”
then i realized halloween was friday, not end of november

Preordered the Pixel 6 on October 19. Amazon indicates it’s shipping on 10/28, expecting delivery on Monday 11/1. I’ve been looking at the product page every day, seeing if the ship date moves (indicating backorders, which would mean that earlier orders ship first.. I wasn’t sure whether this would be the case)

| Thursday, October 28
| Package arrived at an Amazon facility.
| Baltimore, MARYLAND US

Oh wow I didn’t expect it to ship the same day as it’s released. This is pretty early, maybe I can get it over the weekend!

| Package arrived at an Amazon facility.
| Ontario, CA US

Same day arrival in CA! Nice!

*refreshing the tracking page every 4 hours at this point*

| Friday, October 29
| 4:21 PM
| Package arrived at an Amazon facility.
| Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA US
(delivery estimate changes to Sunday)

omg it’s happening! Maybe it will deliver on Saturday! Saturday delivery?

| 9:56 PM
| Package left an Amazon facility.
| Buena Park, CALIFORNIA US

Huh.. it went to Buena Park? Some items sometimes do this – they arrive in LA, then go to Buena Park, then it says “lost in transit or delayed beyond original timeline, contact us for a refund if you don’t receive the item by X day” (and then the item does or does not deliver with a 50% chance)

| Saturday, October 30
| 5:35 AM
| Package arrived at a carrier facility.
| Los Angeles, US

Oooh… is it gonna cut it in time to be on a USPS vehicle for Saturday delivery?

| 10:00 AM and no updates

Ah I think it missed the USPS window by an hour or two, and is now definitely slated for Sunday delivery.

I’ve never refreshed the delivery tracker this much in my life. And at the end of the day the phone is not such a big deal.. I’m probably just bored, although the current phone is slightly laggy.

Update: 11:00 AM

o0o

regarding squid games, i’m more concerned about the random “we have a just society here within the game. and you can’t break the rules of fairness” mini-arc. that random plot was unnecessary, was forced. and it didn’t get followed up on.

“fairness” is a big codeword among the right wing in korea after the 조국 corruption scandal of 2017 and the antifeminist discourse post-2015

we’ll have yet to see whether the director is a right wing incel in disguise a la attack on titan

Haha I dreamt that i was working with a team in a voter preferred language recognition project.. in a supermarket

> DerTora: Kid asked me what my korean name is 💀

Der = definite article in german language, male singular
tora = “tiger” in japanese
=> 그호 (that tiger) pronounced cuh hoe

> AlanJ: whats my korean name?

Anal= 💩
Jazeera =”the island” in arabic (traditionally refers to arabian peninsula)
=> 항도 (anal island) pronounced hang do

i understand why people would ask a lawyer to do their DACA app
as a non-expert, it’s hard to tell which things require expertise and which things don’t if you are not familiar with the field

imagine someone not trained in law doing like a unpaid wages lawsuit or idk.. whatever high level lawsuit
they would probably lose, and all their freinds would be like “you dummy, should have hired lawyer instead of cheapening out”
as someone not familar, it might be unclear whether their instinct of looking at the DACA app and thinking “doesn’t look too hard, maybe I can do it myself” actually is

a) a correct instinct (meaning: DACA is easy, just like doing your college app), or
b) a trap (meaning: DACA app might look easy but it’s a minefield full of invisible potential mistakes that can end up in your deportation)

because older immigrants think everything is easy
and think their only barrier is english
so they tell their children to do all kinds of shit, like filing taxes, submitting a govt project bid application, filing a C-corporation, who knows what else
those parents think DACA is easy, that you should do it yourself
and as a child who has seen your parents do many things themselves thinking it’s “easy” and fail and get scammed in the past
your gut instinct can be “uh my dad is saying this is easy… you know, maybe it’s not”
“my homie who didn’t go to college is saying this is easy… idk, should I trust their advice”
“this app looks simple. but is there anything in the process that I should watch out for that is not spelled out in the USCIS webpage?”

so if that “second guessing my instinct and my parents’ instincts” ends up being your primary driver,
then you will end up hiring an attorney to do DACA

for some other fields of life, this “better safe than sorry” attitude can be a lifesaver/headache-saver
you just happened to not be familiar enough with immigration to choose the cost-efficient path with DACA

===============
as for renewals:
if your attorney charged you $1,000 for a DACA initial
hopefully they will give you a big discount for the renewal. maybe like $200, idk
so now you are choosing between paying an expert $200 to deal with this and not having to deal with it yourself
and trying to figure out the app (which granted, looks much easier)
so eh, now we are at the “should I pay a CPA $100 to do my taxes as a W-2” level ¯_(ツ)_/¯

hmm so I wanted to open retirement savings this year

there are regular IRAs and Roth IRAs

• Korean financial advisor who I went to ask first about retirements: so you should get a Roth IRA, those don’t get taxed

• My latino financial advisor: dude that Korean advisor must have super rich clients who get income from renting out buildings they own. You don’t own any buildings right? So yeah for normal people who only make money from working, a regular IRA is better, because you get your taxes deducted now. Then when you retire you will have zero income, so it doesn’t matter if they try to tax you for your IRA income at that point.

• Internet: regular IRAs get taxed after you retire, Roth IRAs get taxed when you put the money into the Roth. So if you are gonna be making more money after retiring than at your current age, then Roth IRA is better, but if you are gonna be making less money after retiring, regular IRA is better (so agrees with my financial advisor)

• My CPA who is Korean: you are opening a regular IRA this year? Uh those don’t get tax deductions, Roth IRAs get tax deductions

Do these Koreans know something that my advisor doesn’t? Oh god are they doing some loophole or scamming the system

when i was a college student i saw those credit card ads posted on the college campus
and I thought that the APR was interest that had to be always paid as the cost of using a credit card
otherwise, why would they display the APR rate so prominently in the ads?
so I thought “so you spend $100 with your card and then afterwards pay with $112 out of your bank? thats.. unnecessary”
and never used a credit card until 9 years later

man i’ve been so out of habit of being outside
i’m like walking
and about to cross a street in a residential neighborhood
a car comes along
so I instinctively stop
and get distracted
thinking
in the meantime the car is completely stopped in front of me, waiting for me to cross
driver: “tf is wrong with this mfer he clearly intended to cross, and now he’s kinda looking into the horizon and not moving. should i just drive away?”
and like a good awkward 15 seconds later i’m like “oh”

> 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?

etc

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.