I feel like MAJORS got really just predated upon by their company.
MINIMANI, AleXa, WekiMeki, Everglow, Dreamcatcher, Loossemble, ARTMS, H1-KEY, VIVIZ, Brave Girls, Chungha, BVNDIT, Chungha's MNH rookie hoobae that was in PD48, PD101's Stone Nayoung (made it into i.o.i btw), Kassy, Youra, Apink
there's so much and so much more.
I'm struggling to find words, but I still would like to first express my condemnation, alongside you, of this behaviour.
It looks like something akin to AP or IB psychology, or even an AA degree, rather a full fledged accreditation of a proper four-year or (even masters??!!??)
Like a high school course that is a transplant of a single (or two) semester(s) of a college course
WOAAAAHHHHH
"Hell Joseon" was the slang term for that I think.
As a PSA: There's a lot of reading on the topic, but I feel the topic of "perverse metrics" and "perverse incentives" apply here
A unspecific parable illustrates this:
On a ship, the captain hands out one silver for each rat caught, to control rats eating the stores of food and goods. At first it works, the rats are being brought in by the dozen, and rewards slow down. But suddenly, the rats are coming in the dozens again, and they're not stopping this time!
The food being transported in the cargo hold still sees gnaw marks, and some portions downright missing. What happened?
Some industrious sailors took to breeding rats to kill for bounty. That way they can fulfill the reward requirement very easily.
This is the issue of perverse metrics. If you only look at the numbers, an idol can get those numbers by pure skill and fan support alone, or by being run into the ground until ragged, until they burn out their life energy to make good charts. There's a cautionary tale in reading only into numbers.
This is more of a PSA to all of you who are really just looking to charts as indicators. (sorry superyeah, I hijacked your post!)
admiring Aespa's beauty in posters and photoshoots feels like chomping an amphet and riding the doctor prescribed dosage to then have a productive day.
ⓘ Important Context: I have ADHD. My medicine is not directly amphetamine, but for privacy and mostly safety (which is veiled speak for laziness) I won't share what, for now.
Some sort of draughtsman. I was devastated that those people don't really have these massive tables and veritable chest of tools to make the next mathematical, physical perfection (or failure)
I have no hand in this argument other than this observation:
It always comes down to the classic "idol company hostage situation" where if you boycott the company, the idols don't get paid, but if the idols get all sales otherwise, the boycott failed anyways.
I wonder if there is some sort of way to contribute 100% directly (not even majority split from sales) to idols and their groups.
Also: Disclaimer: I'm broke. so I can't buy albums for the foreseeable future (next few years) I can only give lip service online or full time stream and restream their songs for ad revenue.
This video by cold fusion really got me thinking; This seems that the true nature of this bill could have been a grab against the freedom of privacy. Whereas a y/n confirmation that would have sufficed most porn sites in the US, the Australian government seemed to be more inclined to scan faces, upload government documents, and have self-reporting hardware or other things.
Not to mention the swiss-cheesie-ness of a potential enforcement and the veritable cat and mouse game that ensues.
Stuff like chitchatter, telegram, hyphanet/freenet, onion browser, or simple VPNs already provide well and truly difficult nuts to crack already for traditional laws like that against CSAM or drug trades for those who are technically handy.
In Effect, Kian Brose, a Minecraft Server creator and modder highlights, in his video, several perceived consumer protection violations that Mojang had allegedly violated.
A blanket ban on "guns and weapons" quickly blew open a litany of actions that Mojang had potentially done such as hidden clauses, unilateral unnotified changes to EULA (which is a contract), which could give Mojang free will to axe anyone at will for no reason, or that these actions can allow them the future power to do so anyway.
It ties directly into other cases, such as Mojang's EULA forbidding gambling, but still doing it anyway, and how countless children became addicted. Another minor note hinted at anti-competitive practices that might have been executed by Mojang.
There is also mention of EU law protections, but how government offices tend to be weak-willed at complying with the regulations.
I have to ask you, the reader the question: Is this a dangerous precedent within Sweden (Mojang's home country), The EU, or the wider world? What do you think should happen? Even if you are or aren't a gamer, what are your opinions on this? Could this leak into the wider software industry as well?
Watch this here:
Hyeju???
looks more like a concert than a protest, at least they are having fun I guess?
Notably, they were, quote, "singing impeachment carols"
Imho she looks like one of those cliches where she's a dependable employee at a small company but when a larger company tries to mess with the smaller company, she reveals she's actually the head of a supermassive conglomerate, and just starts calling in financial meteor strikes against the bully company
Does the chrome dino count 
nah, though somewhere around my area they had some kinda leak? They we're warned about it and recommended to boil their water for awhile. Water advisory? something like that lol
also this reminds me of when I had an argument bc I always boil water in the microwave, not in a kettle (even tho we have one) called it the kettle crisis
As a physics major I don't understand the difference between the kettle and the microwave tbh. The microwave might be better, bc th kettle will build up that mineral crust over time.
IS IT???
Yuuuup I necro'd it LOL
I'm happy with it, but it doesn't align with my morals.
I personally think that tiktok is a social media like all others, and had found a widely successful niche (so much so that other platforms copied it) (potentially they copied it from vine, not sure never used vine) As such, I think it should only be banned if true genuine harm can be found and confirmed in a court of law with an accredited board of experts that have expertise and training in the area. Certainly, moderation and many other things should be improved but it's a choice that I'm not sure the government should, despite having the power to, intervene.
However when I used it, it was the closest I can get to an infodrug. felt like I needed it when on it, but never could get satisfied when I was on it. My wakeup call was when I spent the whole of daylight of a single day (roughly 14 hours) on it. literally went to bed at 12, pulled out tiktok, and when I looked up it was the afternoon the next day. I'm glad I don't continue to use it but that's me personally.
I don't get it
it's only an hour
imho 1 hr is worse than 12 hour jetlag.
because the difference between an hour in terms of sleeping time isn't really significant and it becomes hard to enforce for sleeping.
my guess is that he's waking up early with his home's timezone but sleeping with the local timezone, which on average, would literally give him one extra hour. The body isn't quite evolved for fast traveling, and is probably a little startled in terms of "equilibrium"
for 12 hour jetlag, it becomes pretty obvious - with wide margins - when is sleep and when is up, so the body gets with the program faster.
Mine is so bland, Taylor Swift and kpop
Mine's just....
Listening to songs is competetive ranked and I treated it as such
