This imo is one of the most important points to understand about South Korea's low birth rate, which is really a global problem.

Fewer people are getting married and fewer babies are born, but the wedding industry is still growing and children's fashion industry is booming. How?

https://twitter.com/BluRoofPolitics/status/1656990495124631554

It's both symptom and cause. In contemporary society, marriage and childbirth are becoming luxury goods, not something that everyone does. It doesn't matter if the marriage and birth rate are falling, because the people who *can* get married and have children are spending a ton.

I grew up on the Shaq-Kobe Lakers I thought the good memories from the threepeat could never be supplanted. I loved the Kobe-Pau Lakers, but they weren't quite at the level of Shaq-Kobe Lakers.

So it means a lot when I say... this Lakers team has a chance to be better. What's not to love? AD just blows your mind with how good his defense is. 38 y.o. Bron in a nightly battle with his body. Random jackpot shotmaking form DLo, AR, Rui, Lonnie (!!). Everyone's basketball IQ is through the roof. Almost never a dumb play in an entire game.

If you asked me, "How are you," and I told you "Fine, thanks" rather than "I'm having an upset stomach because of some questionable sushi I had last night," am I lying?

https://twitter.com/_Silenus/status/1652364003950182401

Code switching isn't lying. It's adjusting behavior depending on the situation and the people involved. Often, it means staying on easy topics and giving easy answers that don't go beyond the listener is ready to hear. It's not hard to understand, as long as you've had to do it.

Look, the game here is super obvious. Yoon wanted to seem all tough to conservative voters, so he was pushing for South Korea’s nuclear armament. Then he had to sign the Washington Declaration that slapped down that ambition. Super embarrassing!

https://twitter.com/AskAKorean/status/1651955429570760704

So what does Yoon do? He tries to lie to the Korean public. "Look here - a US nuclear sub! We are nuclear-sharing!" Except it's an obvious lie and he's just hoping Americans won't catch on to what he's saying in Korean.

I'm still trying to find the right words to describe what a humiliating moment this was. Americans yukking up at this clip just have no idea the depth of insult many Koreans felt from this moment.

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1651650485680480264

Alright. I've had some time to process this and I'm ready to explain as best as I could.

This moment was so incredibly offensive, because there were so many layers of insults piled into a single moment. So let's work through them:

"You don't need to speak Korean to be an expert in nuclear weapons in the Korean Peninsula," said the DC Blob as they struggle to figure out if the South Korean president is being mistranslated or straight-on lying about Seoul's agreement with Washington as to South Korean nukes. Turns out it's kinda useful to speak Korean when your expertise supposedly involves Korea. Shocking, I know. I can barely believe it. You mean, dealing with a foreign country involves learning a foreign language? I'm so surprised. What a shock.

Final word on this:

The US legacy of the Cold War is beyond disgraceful, and only now we are coming to see how much cruelty and mass murder the US inflicted in a supposedly "free" part of the world.

https://twitter.com/AskAKorean/status/1642875055011971075

This is all in the name of "our bastard" logic - mass murder is fine, election rigging is fine, lifetime dictatorship is fine, as long as they are "our bastards." Syngman Rhee was just as murderous as Kim Il-sung, but the US supported his killing spree.

Today is the 75th anniversary of the most recognized date of Jeju Massacre, which is also known as the "April 3 Massacre."

But the name gives the mistaken impression that all the killing happened on a single day in 1948. In truth, it was a 7-year extermination campaign. On March 1, 1947, two years after Korea's independence, a rally happened in Jeju to commemorate the March 1 Movement. At the rally, a mounted police ran over a child with a horse, and tried to run. The crowd protested, and the police opened fire, killing six.

A thought on this 104th anniversary of the March 1 Movement,

You may be young now, but you will become old, just like every person before you did. You will reach an age where a new generation of people mostly know the world events of your time from history books. All the events you have felt with your body and mind will be reduced to dead letters from the bygone era. The new generation will forget that these were human events, with real suffering, real injustice, real pain - just as real as what they are experiencing in their lives.

Lessons from Physical 100:

- Crossfitters and climbers tend to win in this type of thing.

- Bodybuilders are totally useless.

- Professional athletes are better than the best "regular" people who seem amazing if they were your buddies. (e.g. the prison guard vs wrestler) - In a team setting, having good leadership, teamwork, strategy and execution allows you to overcome *almost* all physical shortcomings.

- In fact, the "All Star Team" will often lose because they don't spend enough time thinking about these things.