I agree that authoritarian governments’ versions of events usually vary from misleading to downright false, but I used a direct quotation from the article linked in the post, so if you have issues with the veracity then take it up with the post author or Wikipedia editors.

I haven’t disputed the indiscriminate slaughter post-insurgency, or that there were some instances of it before the insurgency, it’s just that it wasn’t a direct causation, and if you have time in the title to specify cause and effect, then you should do the most direct cause and most direct effect, not the one which makes your favoured group look the most innocent.

Taken directly from the linked article:

A general strike was later organized by the Workers’ Party of South Korea (WPSK) from February to March 1948. The WPSK launched an insurgency in April 1948, attacking police and Northwest Youth League members stationed on Jeju who had been mobilized to suppress the protests by force.[1]: 166–167 [6] The First Republic of Korea under President Syngman Rhee escalated the suppression of the uprising from August 1948, declaring martial law in November and beginning an “eradication campaign” against rebel forces in the rural areas of Jeju in March 1949, defeating them within two months. This resulting campaign has led to the event being called the Jeju massacre.

The escalation by the government came in August, after the insurgency had been launched, and I don’t think it’s up for debate that after this point the government forces were slaughtering indiscriminately.

Thanks once again for proving my point that you’re being disingenuous, in this case by incorrectly representing the timeline, when once again the facts are on your side and you don’t need to make an unjustified slaughter of a country’s own people look any less justified.

I haven’t once defended Rhee Syngman, all I’ve done is say you make yourselves look untrustworthy and suspicious by misrepresenting the truth, even when you don’t need to.

“for the crime of organising a general strike”

It wasn’t for the general strike, it was following violence against the regime who tried to suppress the general strike.

Once again, the violence was completely excusable given the circumstances, but to say that the regime’s actions were even mostly due to a simple general strike is incredibly disingenuous.

I’m not looking to villify the workers, I’m saying that tankies have a long history of hiding parts of the truth that show any form of wrongdoing by leftists, even when that wrongdoing was excusable or necessary, and that doing that is worse for your image than accepting history as it happens.

You realise you’re not helping your image by attacking viewpoints I don’t even hold, right?

I responded to a comment asking why the post asking why details were omitted when the truth was on your side anyway, and you instantly take that as an attack on your beliefs, because posting the full truth or in any way acknowledging shortcomings of your comrades is actively discouraged, as you’re very kindly demonstrating for me.

For full clarity, the actions of the old RoK government were inexcusable. The actions of the protesters were excusable given the context, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t happen or that we can call them something they weren’t.

I’m not defending anyone, I’m saying that it’s unsurprising that the title is a part-truth given the instance.

It’s also unsurprising that you get attacked for pointing out that the victims weren’t entirely innocent: a general strike and a revolution are not the same, regardless of the cause, because the full, accurate, truth is discouraged here even when it paints the same picture you were originally trying to.

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They’re popular because they’re broadly appealing and inoffensive, so for people who are passionate about music they’re likely comparatively boring, whereas people who don’t really care about music aren’t going to go out of their way to support or defend them.

Very good point, but oxygen is very abundant and you’ll more than likely already have oxygen generators with a level of redundancy, or be in an atmosphere with oxygen.

Also for load balancing you could constantly be splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, then react them back into water when you need a large amount of energy at once as an alternative to electrical batteries which degrades less over time, if heat is all you want at least.

All I’m saying is there’s so many applications that we’re never going to get to a level of 0.

Nope.

I love induction hobs, electric cars & planes, xenon spacecraft and all that, but even if we get to interstellar travel via, there’s going to be a frontier where people are going to be using the lowest maintenance, easiest way to generate immediate heat, even if it’s from solar/fusion powered hydrogen or ethanol generators. It’s just a lot easier to store and release small but much larger than instantaneous generation amounts of energy as flammable substances than in batteries or pumped storage or whatever else.

Burning things for heat is never going away as long as humans are around, there’s always going to be someone “off-grid” which means you’re more than likely gonna be burning something for cooking and warmth (ie heat)

So for context, I’m an asexual guy who had one girl in his classes at high school & went to a 75% male university on a course that was 94% male…

Right after graduating I had the same issues you’re describing, just from “new experiences” more than anything, but when you go out into the world and start interacting with people you’ll be fine - it’s somewhat normal especially if you didn’t have a drive to seek out women previously or even just didn’t have the self confidence to

Also though, that sounds like a bit of a weird interaction as an introvert anyway, I don’t think I’d have been super comfortable either way as I’d be expecting to be robbed or scammed or something, but if someone is expressing interest in something you’re passionate about then they very clearly want to hear about it, so just say things about it even if it’s cringe or not perfect

Most likely a skiing/mountain biking/car/surfing/hiking/tragic boating accident would be my best guess, other than cancer… If you’re not suicidal, a risk taker or into extreme sports it’s most likely going to be cancer though

Threats to the US

A lapdog isn’t a threat except to reputation, even if they’re not on your side. Same reason North Korea isn’t on the list of threats.

Even if they have influence, it’s not exactly domestic policy, otherwise you’d have to add the IRA to the list also.

I did some experimenting - I can’t sleep above 67 at most, 65 comfortably.

Anything above 68 is too hot generally indoors and I begin to lose the ability to focus.

I don’t have AC but my house is from the 1860s when people had fires running pretty much nonstop so is designed to keep cool, so even when it’s 80+ outdoors the indoor temperature rarely goes above 70

The UK manufacturing sector for raw materials and basic products was on the way out anyway due to costs being so low in Asia, so it was more to be able to shut it down and save the government from needing to bail it out while also destroying labour unions while they were at it, hence why the advanced manufacturers (JCB, Rolls Royce, etc.) were largely unaffected

If it’s Hirevue, I stopped bothering after 5 or so, I’d never got through one and yet managed to get through every single HR phone screen etc.

It depends if it’s AI grading it or not I guess, as AI has no understanding of nuance so will just accept a very narrow range of similar candidates

On the /s, I somewhat unironically agree with that more than the case of just obtaining citizenship

woe is me, a news source that wants to remain independent of outside interests is taking steps to avoid having to get funded by big businesses or the government who’ll want to set an agenda…

I’d be more concerned about reading something free and not ad-supported (and like it or not, untargeted ads are next to worthless), as the money has to be coming from somewhere

Be generally aligned with the right

It’s gotta be authoritarian right though… I can’t see a pro-immigration, pro-choice, pro-gun, anti-tariff, anti-corruption (generally pro-freedom, that thing republicans pretend to like) libertarian getting anywhere with trump, it wouldn’t surprise me if a tankie got along better given they’re into most of the things trump likes

No - there’s fuses in the plugs themselves, the switch is largely for convenience and safety - if you want to unplug something broken and potentially live, it’s much safer to switch it off at the wall than risk a shock given the current limit is on the breaker is so high