Watching an anime on Stremio, and the little “next episode” boxes that appear at the end of each episode are spoiling the next one every single time. Who the hell wrote these blurbs?

You’re gonna want something to occupy your mind during the long waits in the selection process, but I’ve heard that if you show up with a book there’s almost a 100% chance you’ll get dismissed.

im doin homework

i wanna get this shit done by tonight so I can spend all weekend riding my sidecar motorcycle, maybe finally get confident enough on it to put my dog in the sidecar and cruise by the beach which has been my dream for like the past two years

Basically the same. I can’t imagine using my real name on a website that I post on regularly, it just seems like such a terrible idea and I’ve seen so many people go down for shit they said years and years ago so I’m glad I never did it - the only one I have is a linkdn which I only look at when I’m updating my resume.

The average age of Ukrainian soldiers fighting Russia is 43-45. Ukraine is almost certainly the worst developed country to live in right now.

Plus, North Korea may be poor by western standards, but they have a lot of comforts that many third world countries lack, so even if you discount my example they’re still not the worst by a wide margin.

My point is that if you see people salute you and you salute them back, do it enough times and it will become a reflex. The response to Obama bowing to someone in a culture where bowing is totally normal was equally stupid, but it was conservatives doing it instead of liberals.

The 18% figure is a biased sample from an anti-DPRK NGO. More comprehensive research into North Korean defectors by Cho Cheon-hyeon for his book Defectors indicate that most North Korean defectors simply want to make money in China, with only about 40% of defectors wanting to go to South Korea.

So I did misremember, but my point still stands on the fact that most of them don’t want to defect to South Korea, even before taking into account that even at their 2009 peak defectors were a tiny fraction of a percent of North Korea’s population and the existence of them in no way implicates all of North Korean society in secretly wanting to escape.

the worse country in the world to live it

worst* in*

And I dunno about that. North Korea’s average soldier age isn’t forty-five.

Ukraine had an opportunity to keep the Donbas by implementing the Minsk Agreements. Zelensky literally ran on the promise of ending the war and implementing the agreements. This path was not chosen by Russia, it was chosen by the Ukrainians, who refused to reconcile with their Russian-speaking minority groups. With every passing day, the deal will only get worse for the Ukrainians, and the sooner they accept the better the deal they will get.

But instead America and Europe are ready to do whatever it takes to throw every single Ukrainian body directly into Russian (and North Korean) artillery.

What can “the west” really do to prevent or stop troops from NK being sent to the Ukraine front?

Stop sabotaging peace talks, pressure Ukraine to accept the terms as they exist now before they get worse, lift the sanctions on North Korea in order to incentivize them to integrate with the rest of the world, withdraw US military equipment from South Korea. Kim Jong Un is often presented in American news like a crazy person, but truthfully he (and the rest of the actors in the North Korean state) is a rational actor and the “hermit kingdom” is not an aspirational goal of the DPRK but a state of affairs that has been forced upon them by decades of sanctions and isolation - give them a reason to be neutral, and assurances that they won’t be stabbed in the back (as they have been in previous deals with Western countries), and there’s a good chance they’ll take it.

upgrade their lives to South Korean national

Considering that North Korean defectors are a heavily discriminated against minority in South Korea, this is unlikely to be an attractive offer.

Most of the ones that do end up regretting it /shrug

This is wrong - it’s not that they end up regretting it so much as most of them never want to go to South Korea in the first place.

It was a diplomatic meeting, what were they gonna do? Kidnap the president of the united states?

I knew some shit was going to happen that they weren’t telling us about. The idea that Assange was just gonna get to go home was too good to be true.

I hate this dunk because it’s clearly shown in the original video that the DPRK officer saluted Trump first. The president salutes like fifty Marines every single day, it’s not strange for him to reflexively salute someone else without thinking about it.

So this is sort of a continuation of the previous coup, rather than something totally new. Hopefully the army has been thoroughly purged by now, between the arrests of the previous coup participants and this follow up attempt.

walked dog, went to class, came home, walked dog again, made dinner, found out that hexbear went down at some point without me knowing

I have gathered a coven of witches and we are doing everything we can to ensure that Biden and Trump both catch COVID at the upcoming debate.

There’s a trump/biden debate happening tomorrow?

free space: they will both be high as shit

free space 2: each candidate’s supporters will claim their guy “won”, nobody will switch sides as a result of the show

actual prediction: this will be the least-watched televised debate in the modern era.

the engine’s running and the wheels are attached, these extra bolts probably aren’t important.