South Korea really loves their drama, the previous President was under the spell of a cult leader and 300 people (mostly children) were likely intentionally drowned in a ferry "accident".
I downvoted you because you're spreading baseless conspiracy theory.
Few denies President Park was grossly incompetent in how she behaved during and after the Sewol ferry disaster. Also, the ferry was illegally and unsafely modified and then overloaded. It was a ticking time bomb: its sinking is a classic example of "everything that can go wrong went wrong."
But some people aren't satisfied with that, they think it's impossible that such a big ship would turn over by accident, so they need a villain with a human face. Ergo the conspiracy theory of somebody intentionally killing hundreds of people. And because nobody can explain why anybody would gain anything from such a heinous act, they invent a story of a human-sacrificing cult.
Imagine being a parent who just lost a child to something like that, and being told by people that there is a villain who murdered their child, and the only way to uncover the truth is to fight and protest on streets. For years. Forever. Until the "truth" is uncovered, which will never happen.
It's truly one of the most reprehensible mind viruses I've seen in Korea.
If the president has to directly address it, is it really baseless? It's not like they weren't under the spell of a cult leader... that is an acknowledged fact. No one should ever go full r-tard... or at least that's what tropic thunder taught us, it's hard to kinda walk back anything after you have. Believe what you want though... and ya it is sad that families suffered under a leader who had a cult leader as their lodestar. For Koreans it's tantamount to thinking the world is 115 years old.
There should be no "Fairness to Flock" they're building the panopticon.
Freethinking Americans should do what they can to dismantle this overreach, lobby their city leaders with their poor track record on security and thereby safety.
I've been in New Zealand for the last few weeks (actually posting this from a beachside campground) and holy smokes is the Delica a cool vehicle (previous model years... there isn't a 2020's mini here) I will say there there are a TON of cool small campers from japanese automakers I've seen on this trip. Protectionist measures like the chickentax really make it obvious that the US is propping up a bunch of terrible auto manufacturers and if it really allowed capitalism (actual competition) the US automotive industry would be fully cooked.
they had over 2M in revenue in 2024... then AI happened and it likely dried up, they staffed up during the boomtime and now are rightsizing based on the change of landscape.
It was remarkably easy to hack, the brilliant human Tod Kurt (todbot) did amazing work hacking them and documenting how to do it. Using his insights, I wrote a little bluetooth library/app for the Mac that would forward movement commands from a Wii remote to a hacked on bluetooth serial adapter connected to the Roomba...
WSJ even did a piece on it. https://archive.ph/A6aTlI
The day after Christmas I was front-page of Digg, Gizmodo, and Slashdot at the same time :-)
Daft Punk are totally of the smart sort to do this kind of easteregg. They're just a clever band, another fun Daft Punk easter egg, they were in a band with Phoenix called Darlin'.
(Daft Punk got their name from a review of the Darlin' record)
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