op mentioned the context is situations where firearms are used. so pretty sure they meant useful as a self defense method and not useful as a way of exercise

I knew the artist VVG pretty personally

i eat cod

it does NOT heat the seafood hot enough to eat either. so this is actually very tragic.

on the anniversary of the day they got their asses handed to them by some bluecoats???

Point for vampires:

Not zombies

Are vampires

ok hold on like why is everyone obsessed with zombies like come on slow shambling flesh eaters really?? have you SEEN a vampire? they’re basically goth royalty with amazing cheekbones and they can turn into bats and compel you to do their chores ugh zombies are just like the participation trophy of the monster world and honestly vampires are the OG undead like have you read dracula that dude was basically a goth influencer setting trends for the afterlife and with the whole blood thing at least they have a semi-sophisticated diet unlike those braindead mcdonalds of the monster world like seriously gross and like super inconvenient plus vampires can like sparkle in the sunlight and have existential angst which is like the most relatable monster trait ever and zombies are just like mindless drones following the crowd

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they ain’t gonna stop their customers from paying them more money

I’ve worked extensively in SK marketing and analytics before, and for whatever reason Koreans by and large have accepted chaebols. most do not want them gone.

we used to have a saying at work that SK took all the worst parts of American capitalism and ran with it. the society is heavily encouraged to look up to chaebols as examples of success. Korea’s marketing heavily emphasizes materialism in an on the nose way. societal elitism in Korea is part of their culture and they make it known they’re better than you if they’re in a higher social position than you.

you can see the chaebol dream if you’ve ever consumed any Korean media before. the trope of meeting a random person who ends up being a down to earth chaebol is one of the most typical, overplayed story lines in kdramas ever. and even before that, the trope of running into a random person who ends up being some down to earth prince trying to escape royalty was super common. more people fantasize about that kind of stuff there than despise it.

all this to say the chaebols almost aren’t the problem. they’re practically a symptoms of a society who glamorizes them. it feels like how the US felt about the rich in the early 2000s.

it’s not a thing anymore. being a maps contributor in the past put you into a little club where you got rewards for reaching guide levels. they used to give away Google drive space , invites to socials, and the socks mentioned in this thread. unfortunately it went away since it’s not a novel feature where they need to drive people to be contribute.

like I said in other posts, your casted vote is anonymous but not your ballot packet. when you cast a vote into the system, it can’t be traced to you. so nobody can say I want a list of all the people who voted for Biden. but if you drop your ballot packet outside the polling location, polling officials can look you up on the voter poll registration book and identify that packet belongs to you. most places only anonymize your data when they separate the ballot from the envelope it’s enclosed in. usually before that, there is an id matched to your ballot packet to your voter registration. some counties vet ballots prior to separating ballots from packets. this is mostly done for checking intent and that there aren’t weird shit in there (a lot of people stuff gifts and stuff into their envelopes) before being sent off for tallying.

your votes are anonymous but your ballot packet is not. if you drop your ballot packet on the floor on the way to the ballot box, it can be traced to you simply by going to the voter registry where your ballot was issued or any other identifying info on the ballot envelope. however, once contents are opened and the ballot is separated from the packet, it is anonymous and your casted vote is anonymous and can’t be traced to you. but election workers can open it and put it aside if they open it and a bunch of confetti falls out or noticed that it’s not signed or whatever.

no, I worked in the US. they are only anonymous in the scanning and tally process. your counted vote cannot be tracked to you. many places, once the election worker opens your ballot and take the contents out, your vote is secured. others will make sure your ballot is valid and intent is made. there’s also a difference between tracking someone down because clear intent (i.e. not signing their ballot) vs completely fucking up and we just don’t count it. most cases we just don’t count it because there is no clear intent at all. laws and voting systems have also changed that made paper trails a bit more clear over the years because of that election.

edit: also, they generally don’t track anybody down unless there’s something like a recount or things are very close in the election where several votes make the difference. if we’re gonna be completely honest. write ins aren’t even counted /read at all unless there’s a close election where it can possibly make a difference mathematically. most just have a section “Write in” in their system but not what people wrote in.

most places have intent laws and it’s usually up to the county officials and secretary of states to enforce those laws. doesn’t mean it gets enforced fully or that parties won’t try their best to play things to their advantage on ballots by playing with rules or even ballot designs. however, I think any election official, politics aside, will investigate a person named Literally Anybody Else being elected by write in.

literally not how it works. most places require voter intent. meaning only votes people meant to cast count. if a voting official notices that a person named Literally Anybody Else won by a write in, they’d go through all the ballots and make sure the ballots literally say Literally Anybody Else written out validly like a name. those in who they aren’t sure of would require another election official to track down the voter and ask for their intent.

source: worked in the ballot counting process of a country. they literally have teams trying to decide shit like if you filled all bubble on scantrons, but circled one of the bubbles, does that count as intent? does it count as intent if they circle all the bubbles but not fill any of the scantrons bubbles? and yes, they count the votes even if they don’t follow scantron directions but clearly demonstrate intent. i.e drawing arrows with a thing saying “this one!” next to all the bubbles you want may count as intent.

there’s a bit more minutiae to it. doctors across the board there are concerned that they’re increasing intern Dr headcounts while having no solid plan to support that financially. while at the same time, care to patients in Korea (a place known for having advanced healthcare from elite doctors) is already declining due lack of funding. intern doctors across the world are already underpaid as a unit as a whole, so intern doctors would probably just rather see their pays increase than have headcount increases. and senior doctors would rather just see their interns have better lives. so I wouldn’t say the doctors are the bad guys necessarily either. they have legitimate concerns and government has been wagging them for years now too.

the Korean media has largely portrayed this as greed or that the medical students being salty they studied their asses off to get into med school, but that’s not the largest issue for the medical workers in korea (although it is also a part of it too). the general public would just love available, cheaper healthcare and increasing headcount sounds like the easiest way to do that (which it is), so the tune the media is putting out sounds pretty nice.

this system happens here in the US too. the US medical system does not churn out enough people for required positions, and interns here are getting destroyed as a result of policy. I’m almost positive if the US did something similar, US doctors would react the same way.

you’re wrong. Nolan inked a contract with Bruce Wayne for $12 million for rights to use him and his Batmobile in the movie.

my neighbor lit up a coyote one night who thought it was a home intruder. dude went on a justification spree on Facebook after the cops came. “it could’ve been someone coming to rape his daughter” he says. these people are insane.

as somebody who has worked a bit in nutrition, you’d be surprised how many people live off soda and McDonald’s sandwiches or ramen noodles. An overwhelming majority of people poop solid coal-like nuggets of shit every time they poop. they huff and puff to get that shit out. your question on why would you need to strain is probably only relatable by a small amount of people here.