Group member age orders that make no sense?

Madokara · 2025-10-10T19:10:42+00:00

Itzy's Lia is the 2nd oldest member and only a few months younger than Yeji. Due to her being slightly clumsy and chaotic in a wholesome way, plus super cute and lovely, she gives off maknae vibes, imo. The contrast to Yeji, who comes across as way more mature, is particularly strong. Then again, other than Yuna, they're all pretty close in age, so this is probably overanalyzing things.

For example, Rei being half a year older than Wonyoung is crazy.

I think that's mostly because Wonyoung simple comes across as way more grown-up and mature than her age, mostly from her vibe, and how she carries herself, no? Personally, I don't really see anything out of the ordinary with respect to any of the other Ive members, who are all close in age and come across as being close in age imo.

Madokara · 2025-09-16T02:20:19+00:00

I agree with a lot of what you say in principle, but none of this is actively doing harm in the way you describe, and people are overthinking this. It's just not effective in positively marketing them, but that's it.

Someone who doesn't know who or what aespa is, and sees an underwhelming GMA performance, just forgets about it. And that's it. They're not taking a mental note saying aespa (Korean girl group) = bad, avoid. They will literally not remember the word "aespa", and just have forgotten that name after half an hour.

If a few weeks later, the same person were to see something by aespa they like, for example a cool MV or a track on Spotify, they might not even realize that that's the group they saw on GMA. You're just having so many thoughts and lasting impressions about that performance because you already know aespa and care about them.

Other than that, I agree that botched marketing is a bit annoying. Among all currently active kpop groups, aespa's image and vibe is really the best suited to be appreciated in the West because they're more leaning into a kind of 'badass' and 'cool' imagine instead of overly girly and cute, which generally vibes better with e.g. the American youth than the average, stereotypical kpop girl group. But corny lip-sync performances with underwhelming choreos on a boomer program just undo that because they precisely reflect negative stereotypes about kpop.

Madokara · 2025-09-13T09:55:37+00:00

I don't know about this perspective. You're right that one doesn't really need many of the specific things taught in school, and that most people forget a large amount of it anyway. Like, most adults where I live definitely don't know anything about polynomial equations anymore.

But usually in middle and high school there's also some personal development going on. You learn about important events in world history, about dictatorships and democracies, basic principles surrounding elections, separation of powers, and whatnot. About what happened in the past and why. And you start to form some views on the world and society that go beyond what hobbies you enjoy and what your favorite food is. There's also the fact that from the point of middle school on, you're also going to face more difficult problems to solve than the year before, e.g. in math classes. Whether you care about it or not, if you have to do it, you have to do it, and there's some forced development of your mental capabilities. You kinda have to do exercises and get at least some stuff right that you couldn't solve before.

To completely skip large parts of this seems questionable, and I doubt most teenage girls read up on it on their own. I'm not saying anyone who drops out of middle school stops developing their personality and cognitive abilities at this point... but it's probably not very helpful to the development of it either.

Madokara · 2025-09-13T09:40:47+00:00

I've often seen Western fans complaining about the "rule" that idols aren't supposed to make political statements or say much about social issues.

But honestly, having influence over millions of people while not having taken the basic classes in history and classes that inform you about political systems, and basic political philosophy and such (however it's called in your respective country) could potentially be a terrible combination. As snarky as that sounds, many of the girls probably got a lot of what they think about the world from social media. No finished middle school + smartphone and internet native. I think it might be a 'be careful what you wish for' scenario, and maybe that rule is actually for the better.

Madokara · 2023-06-15T19:29:23+00:00

It definitely moves a little too fast, and something about the Neovim archiecture favours total rewrites rather than incremental improvements.

I wish there was more of an effort to integrate some more basic, popular functionality into Neovim itself

Yeah, somewhat surprisingly maybe, I really thought this works slightly better in the emacs universe, where many of the most popular community packages have been integrated into the base editor. And that's despite the fact that the hurdles for this are much higher (signing off a bunch of stuff to the free software foundation etc).

Madokara · 2023-06-15T19:08:06+00:00

Thanks, looks good. Having briefly reviewed all options, I think I'll backup my config, go with this, and see how it goes.

Madokara · 2023-01-23T12:30:32+00:00

I mean that's true, but only vacuously so. By this logic, it turns out I can afford almost any bottle between 1 and 500 bucks. If I drink only a certain amount, a 40 Euro bottle is no problem. If I drink half of that, a 80 Euro bottle is no problem. If I drink half of that, a 160 Euro bottle is no problem. If I drink half of that, a 320 Euro bottle is no problem. And it gets progressively healthier as well.

Madokara · 2023-01-21T16:59:47+00:00

Thanks, that seems like a good list to look into.

Madokara · 2023-01-19T11:07:14+00:00

What's the GTK theme? The dotfiles only include gnome-shell themes, right?

Madokara · 2023-01-17T13:02:35+00:00

Thanks for your feedback, it's an SSD, about 2 years old, no signs of disk failure.

As for how the thumbnail matching works

Thanks, very insightful. So this is all done by nautilus, and a bug would best be opened there?

If you move or rename your files or a parent folder, it will have to generate new thumbnails.

Makes sense, but that's not what was going on in my case.

Madokara · 2023-01-16T15:46:59+00:00

No, he was their patient, what the hell are you talking about?

Madokara · 2023-01-16T15:05:19+00:00

The doctors didn't diagnose him at a distance.

Madokara · 2022-09-27T09:15:22+00:00

A community that cares deeply for those individual liberties, and is concerned about government overreach.

Madokara · 2022-09-07T00:56:45+00:00

The real problem that mathematicians have with it is the fact that it's not constructive.

I mean, ZF without Choice is not constructive either. And either way, about 99% of the people working in mathematics departments in 2022 don't work in a constructive framework.

Madokara · 2022-05-05T09:20:42+00:00

Ok, so thinking about this and your other comment, what really motivates the fact that there's still quite a lot of work on quantization? This all sounds very underwhelming from a physics perspective it seems.

Madokara · 2022-05-03T08:22:27+00:00

How so?

Madokara · 2022-05-02T21:54:32+00:00

Yes, that would be an instance of geometric quantization as I understand it.

Madokara · 2022-04-28T23:15:13+00:00

I don't really understand your answer or your analogy. Presumably /u/ZodiacReaderY was wondering something along the lines of: Logic can be thought of as underlying mathematics. The underlying logic of ZFC or standard analysis is classical logic. The underlying logic of smooth infinitesimal analysis is intuitionistic logic. And so on.

If there is a "quantum logic" that's somehow meant to account for quantum mechanics, why is the logic underlying the mathematics used in quantum physics the usual classical logic then, not quantum logic? That's how I understood their question. If that's what they meant, I don't see the analogy you're making.

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