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Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Megillah Gorilla posted:

So, the stimulus cheque was an actual physical cheque being sent out in the mail?

Couldn't the government just have done a direct deposit in peoples' bank accounts?

When I do my taxes, I have to tell my government about all my accounts. My tax refund goes straight into the one I specify.

Or am I expecting way too much from the US government?
I never owed them money before, nor was owed money by them. So they didn't have my bank account on file. If I had done either of those things, they would have had my details and sent me the money electronically. So, they sent a physical check to the apartment I lived in last year and I had to have a friend keep an eye on the mail box.

I had a real tax account fill out my return this year, so if there's another stimulus check, I'll get it electronically.

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Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
WTF?

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1281163759264960512

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
Bokbunja is by far the best mass market Korean alcoholic beverage.

If you really want to get ridiculously fancy and spend more than :10bux: then you can get 대나무주 from North Korea, but let's be real. No Korean is spending $40 on alcohol unless it's a western import.

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

DEEP STATE PLOT posted:

makgeolli is the best korean booze imo and i wish it was easier to find in the states

Makgeolli is trash. :colbert:

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Some Guy TT posted:

There's another brand that's only like two bucks but it only shows up in weird markets. No idea how the fancy red bottle people get away with charging seven. Single-handedly holding raspberry wine back from its rightful place alongside soju and beer as widely consumed staple alcohol.
They get away with it by putting it in a fancy red bottle. Duh. :colbert:

I've been here more than 10 years and I don't think I've come across this one. Do you have a picture of it?

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Some Guy TT posted:

I'm not surprised. I've been here ten years too and only ever seen it in exactly two markets. And I'm the kind of guy who goes out of his way to look for this kind of stuff.



The one in the picture is from one I currently live next to. The other one, which you almost certainly have better access to if you want to seek it out, is the underground supermarket at Dangsan Station, exit ten or eleven I think, can't quite remember.

I've seen this bottle, but never tried it. Don't live in Seoul.

Ever tried 대나무주? The stuff you can get at the DMZ border shops is insanely good.

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
Exit poll is surprisingly close. Dems down less than a point

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
At least 149 dead in a stampede in Itaewon during the Halloween party. :(

https://www.cnn.com/webview/asia/live-news/seoul-south-korea-halloween-deaths/index.html?iid=cnn-mobile-app

EDIT: Up to 151 dead now. 97 women and 54 men

https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20221030000006

Charlz Guybon fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Oct 30, 2022

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Kavros posted:


The videos of people trying to resuscitate victims and waiting for medical support is hard to see. So many people helping is good, but all of it is so senseless.

Yes, it's so hard to watch. :(

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Fanatic posted:


There are ways to prevent it with policed barriers restricting the amount of people entering the chokepoint, as well as making them entry and exit only so you don't have the opposing crowds snaking through each other. That's what the council and police do in my city during big events. Doesn't seem like they had any crowd control plan for this area at all unfortunately.
They had a lot of police in a different section of the city because they were anticipating protests. It doesn't seem they thought about the party in Itaewon at all.

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
Looks like the cops are investigating to see if they can identify people on the edges who were pushing and shoving. Guess if this actually happened and they are found they'd be on hook for manslaughter charges or something equivalent?

https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/yhkqto/skorean_police_to_investigate_and_arrest_people/

Very good interview by someone who was there

https://mothership.sg/2022/10/singaporean-eyewitness-itaewon-stampede-cpr/

Charlz Guybon fucked around with this message at 11:34 on Oct 31, 2022

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
Saw some truly disturbing videos of the Itaewon crush on reddit. Really regret seeing that before I went to bed. Like Junji Ito level poo poo. 😩

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
North launched missiles into the sea near Ulleungdo.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/evacuate-to-bunkers-seoul-issues-warning-as-n-korea-launches-missile-3481977

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
Yes, it's a disaster. Yoon's presidency is already in ruins.

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
Lol, the Jajangmyeon served at that restaurant serving as a front for CCP secret police is the most pathetic I've ever seen.

https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comm...nt=share_button

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Sucrose posted:

JFC North Korea is in even worse shape than I thought it was. Has anyone read this article? I knew it was bad, but I guess I didn’t realize just how bad:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/bskbb4rmae/inside-north-korea

The only other country I know of with conditions this bad is Somalia, maybe Yemen if conditions haven’t improved there since fighting has died down.

Also, I was ignorant to the fact that apparently most the men in the country work during the day in what is basically compulsory slave-labor, since they’re paid too minuscule of an amount to feed their families, and thus in most North Korean families the wife works as the main breadwinner in the informal market economy.

Yeah, it seems like this has the worst it's been since the famines of the 90s.

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
Been a lot of spree stabbings lately in Korea.

If gun control wasn't incredibly tight the bodies would be stacked up sky high

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240411006300315?section=national/politics

Not quite as desive as hoped, but still quite the whipping. 175 seats for Democrats, 12 for rebuilding Korea. Basically 192 anti-Yoon seats. Tantalizingly close to the 200 needed to be Veto proof.

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Tesseraction posted:

Given his general shittiness was there any one thing in particular that saw this defeat or was it just his overall demeanor?

And going forward will he really be able to do much? I admit I'm pretty bad with the day to day business of how the Korean parliament functions.
He vetoed a corruption investigation into his wife. The Incheon Halloween Crush happened under his watch. Cost of living is still high.

The democrats have had a large majority since the beginning of his term. He's just been vetoing their bills and that is going to continue. He'll have spent his whole term as a lame duck.

Charlz Guybon fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Apr 11, 2024

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Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
Oh yeah, there were big doctors strikes and resignations as well, I'm sure that hurt him.

https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240412050604

Hilariously, his plan to increase med-school enrollment is probably the only good proposal of his entire administration

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