Usual suspects

South Korea is infamous for very high cost of living, especially considering the very low salaries.

You can check numbeo for more specific comparisons, but Seoul and Busan are only 20% and 30% cheaper in terms of cost of living compared to Atlanta GA, respectively. Not nearly enough to make up the salary difference.

The fact there there are migrant workers already tells you the situation. People’s behaviour generally follow economic incentives. There’s a reason why South Korea is struggling with emigration.

Because money, sadly.

An automotive factory worker averages around $25/hour in the US, or an annual salary of around 50K.

An automotive factory worker in South Korea averages around 17,000 KRW/hour, or an annual salary of around 36 mil KRW, which is roughly $12/hour or 25K annual.

No need for any new extensions. Just add a new uBlock filter for AI slop.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Date rapists in shambles

For context, these containers are really popular for storing drugs like GHB

Ben Garrison’s comic of Greta Thunberg getting spanked (spoiler for your protection):

Get diagnosed, and if applicable, treatment ASAP. In a very loose way, early intervention can “cure” ADHD.

Children’s brains have much higher levels of neuroplasticity, and can therefore “learn” and rewire their brains’ reward systems to be similar to those of neurotypicals. There is evidence that with early intervention and treatment, this is sufficient enough that children with ADHD can grow up into adults that are well functioning enough to no longer require as much treatment/medication, if at all.

If your online content is audio or video then you can replace the default subtitle track with nonsense. This is because AI scrapers generally only check the default subtitle track to understand audio or video.

The process would be more difficult with text or image content, but you can still apply the same principles.

Poisonining AI with “.ass” subtitles:

https://youtu.be/NEDFUjqA1s8

Someone (allegedly) fucked the principal’s dog

I don’t think the any interaction definition is too broad at all. Primitive forms of social media such as mailing lists and forum threads form are very similar in functionality to simply following hashtags, or I guess whatever the algorithms suggest.

The distinction using account based versus conversation/thread based is not too helpful, because the majority of users of modern social media don’t really use it to follow accounts, with the majority of their time is spent doomscrolling generic hashtags or algorithm recommendations.

The similarities are easier to see if you think of how people actually used these technologies in their daily lives. Pre Facebook, people would log in and refresh their Usenet, emails, and forums threads to keep in touch with friends and interests. Post Facebook, people would log in and refresh Facebook/Insta instead.

This is basically the central thesis of world famous economist Thomas Piketty.

Inequality inevitably worsens if the rate on capital exceeds the rate on labour. That is, when society rewards simply owning capital and wealth more than working.

Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist? Here Are the Biblical Predictions: - Benjamin L. Corey - https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Trump 79, Sparks Health Concerns With ‘Heaven’ Declaration

FTFY

Don’t even need to do that, their websites with recruitment information has such poor security that leaks happen all the time. Perhaps unsurprisingly, 2/3 of the Oath Keepers are former military and/or law enforcement officers. The leak obtained by DDOSecrets included membership ID, membership type, name, physical and email address, and join date.

Inside The Pro-Trump Militant Group The Oath Keepers - The Atlantic - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/right-wing-militias-civil-war/616473/

The database leak included such granular detail that economists have been able to study their firm-like behaviours, including running discount codes for memberships and promises of pre-order welcome packages that are never fulfilled.

Selling Violent Extremism - https://www.ucigcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2024_wp10_klinenberg_v2-FINAL.pdf

Usual suspects

It’s a crypto rag, so not at all

My pet peeve is people thinking they are being clever by complaining about the supposed incorrect usage of literally as figuratively.

People, including famous authors, have been literally (not hyperbole) using the word as an intensifier, and therefore, figuratively, since 1847, e.g. F Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, and William Thackeray.

Did we change the definition of ‘literally’? | Merriam-Webster - https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/misuse-of-literally

Ink tanks have a waste ink pad, which is essentially a sponge that soaks up ink, which may be replaceable depending on how shitty the manufacturer is.

Canon Megatanks don’t have a pad at all just dump the ink randomly, so you have to throw the printer out.

Epson’s Ecotank pads are replaceable, but have a DRM chip for a sponge (though quite cheap).

In a rare W for HP, their smart tanks have user replaceable pads (albeit labour intensive).

Print heads for ink tanks also tend to be fairly cheap, around $50 for a colour set. Issues with clogging etc are also overblown, with most modern models with auto clean cycles.

People love laser printers (and rightfully so compared to inkjets), but ink tanks fix most of the issues with inkjets.

Ink tanks are refilled with generic ink, as opposed to proprietary cartridges. They thus have vastly cheaper running costs, even more so than lasers, which still needs replacements for their drum units every few years.

Also, laser toner is literally fine microplastic powder, and printing works by depositing and “baking” this powder onto paper. Laser printers result in terrible indoor air quality without adequate ventilation.

Ali Spagnola topped this by making a giant balancing bird