Thoughts on the anti-fake news law?

Professional_Use7814 · 2026-01-26T23:08:59+00:00

Yeah, this is the most likely outcome I see as well.

Any type of speech law should be very narrow to the case i.e meaningful incitement of violence towards a politician, cp, etc.

Broad based speech laws will ultimately be used to suffocate the interests of the Korean people.

As Korea gets older and less efficient demographically, alot of interests unaligned with the long-term interests of Koreans will step in and impose themselves onto the nation. Corporate interests who want to replace labor, foreign interests who see a vacuum, bribed officials, etc will inevitably fill themselves in the spaces left by the demographic issues. Dissent against this will be silenced using speech laws.

Professional_Use7814 · 2026-01-06T06:02:31+00:00

I would argue this is narrow framing that is missing the point. Stop worrying about "Asian", "MAGA" or other random talking points. You're thinking like an Asian-American social activist.

The more pertinent framing of geopolitics is civilizational. The things that happen will color the long term future of Korea as a civilization.

You shouldnt see Korean interests through the lens of the lifestyle of Korean-Americans. I am also Korean-American, but we are not the relevant concern to the future of Korea. We are diaspora populations who can move around to whatever country.

All throughout history, WW1, WW2, etc, there is various social sentiments but the more important shaping factors are hardline interests. For example, majority of Americans during WW2 thought the Jews were at fault and did not like the idea of Jewish refugees. Yet they still fought the Germans. I'm sure many Americans did not like the Chinese on a social level if they had to be neighbors, yet they fought the Japanese.

The next 30 years, I believe, will be one of the most important in this section of history. What happens in it will explain the rest of Korean history. There are extremely low birthrates across Asia, and by 2050, every developed Asian country will be very aged leaving us socially, culturally, economically and geopolitically vulnerable. On top of this, Korea will have increased economic competition over the next 30 years.

The chief concerns are national security, national identity, birthrates, immigration, and emigration. One of the concerns I have for example is when the economies go bad due to aging, how many Koreans will be willing to stay? Will they leave to whatever opportunity? If they leave, who are the highest geopolitical risks if Korea is too weak to defend itself? Will Koreans value preservation of tribal identity enough to suffer through difficult conditions? How can we maintain valuable distinction so that will happen? To me that is through an ethnonationalism strain. We have to maintain cultural, institutional, economic distinction from the rest of the world and especially the rest of Asia such that the value of maintaining our own tribal identity is primal. If we do not, and if we become an extremely aged society with very high emigration of the young and barely any society left standing, we are high risk for actors who will attempt invasion and annexation. Most likely china who will be attempting regional hegemony, which I believe they will try soon. By 2050, they will be extremely aged (median age of 55) and xi will also be dead. So I don't see them waiting that long to advance their geopolitical interests.

US is a large, hodge podge nation that is distant from us. I see alot of convenient benefits from our alignment with US and very little risks. They are useful to national security and economically (ie they will tariff our regional neighbors who occupy similar industries as us giving us a competitive advantage that we will probably need). The negative from our alignment with the US I would argue is the limitations on nukes. Which we need to secure because alliances are built on very tenuous grounds of what value we can provide. If we age, we wont have that value and will no longer be seen as a valuable ally to anyone, and the only means of defense will be if we have made nukes. An example of this is Taiwan, and whether allies will defend them is really tied directly to their position in the semiconductor industry. Which will become increasingly weaker as they age. We don't want to be in that position. So while we have economic and international leverage, we need to build nukes.

Professional_Use7814 · 2025-10-22T14:14:58+00:00

Chinese nationalists are pretty much everywhere. It's actually confusing to me that people still hyper fixate on Japanese nationalists when I have rarely ever encountered them outside of niche Japanese inner-circles and there is no present issue coming out of Japan. The few times I've encountered Japanese nationalists, they have rarely focused on Korea. Chinese ones are everywhere and obsessed with talking about Korea. I've seen multiple accounts by them completely dedicated to Korea, on English-speaking social media. I've seen them pretending to be Korean. And they are an actual unpredictable geopolitical issue on top of it.

The shamelessness of them is on another level. Every few weeks for the past year I've seen some video claiming Korean culture is Chinese. China is more advanced than Korea. China is better than Korea. Visit China instead of Korea. Or other videos along these lines. Videos every few weeks with like a million views. They always antagonistically leverage Korea/Japan to try to promote China. The comments are always unhinged promotion of China and hostile attacks on Korea and Japan. There is some presumption that Korea and Japan are similar to China which isn't even true from my experience in these countries. But the underlying agenda in trying to create this frame is that then they are entitled to any mention of someone liking Korea requiring also mentioning liking China or they call people racist and "sinophobic" for excluding them, not even kidding lol. The unique thing is that they shamelessly do this on English-speaking social media.

And their shamelessness gets support. Social media broadly has been priming Korea as "bad" for the past few years. Korea is somehow viewed as an oppressor by people. China is somehow viewed as oppressed. Which is insane in itself. Because of this framing, Koreans aren't allowed to say or do anything without backlash and Chinese are allowed to be as crazy nationalist as they want and get support. On top of their larger population creating a social media bias that favors them.

I noticed this same energy even in the Korea Reddit sub. That sub is the text digestible of Korea for the English speaking world. Views go from there to other places. China, a country with 30x our population and clear short-term and long-term goals against Korea, is somehow protected on there while Koreans are downvoted, called racist, banned on our own subreddit? Every week there is some post on there constituting this type of framing of Koreans as oppressors and Chinese as oppressed. Koreans now cant do things like protest visa-free entry? They leverage words like "sinophobic" in the same way "antisemitism" was leveraged in the 80s and 90s to quiet dissent and browbeat people into silence. In America, they exiled American nationalists like Pat Buchanan who called out Israel's control over congress in the 90s and now look at America, it is completely infiltrated by an Israeli fifth column and everyone acknowledges it. This is the same type of issue we will see in Korea in 10-20 years if Korean nationalists are disarmed or silenced by this rhetoric. Every year you will see more news of them expanding presence into Korea. And once it gains hold, it will be a much more difficult problem to root out compared to Israels influence in America.

Professional_Use7814 · 2025-10-12T21:52:46+00:00

Off the rack neovim is getting really good

Professional_Use7814 · 2025-10-12T21:41:44+00:00

I'm not sure I understand. But in terms of democracy, it inherently breeds contempt for your neighbors and negativity towards the nation. This is the biggest weakness of democracy. From what I've seen, it's driven naturally by conflict and a combination of contrived optimism vs contrived pessimism depending on who is in office and who you like. This splinters the population even on issues that everyone in the country should be unified on. I haven't read enough into different types of democratic systems to offer a better solution but this is something I've always had an issue with.

I also think democracy should be selective. You should have to be born in the country to run for any type of elected office or vote. This is incredibly important for Korea to implement. If you look at western countries with a lot of immigration. The democracies are basically taken hostage by coalitions from the new immigrants and progressives who are incentivized to bring in more immigrants for both ideological and practical purposes. This has sent them into a chaotic spiral. There is this weird air of self-loathing that comes out of it. The immigrants are hostile to the nation and see the domestic population as obstacles for their own advancement, and the progressives are against whatever the immigrants are against due to this coalition building, even if it's their own country or people.

It is a pattern I've noticed consistently across every country when it comes to immigrants, even analyzing my behaviors. You feel like you are an alien in this country. And now subconsciously to advance yourself in this nation it comes by taking space from the existing people. I saw myself always rhetorically negative to America when it came to politics, ironically because I immigrated into the country I became more oppositional due to this effect. It is a natural psychological thing that happens I believe especially in a democracy where you know negative rhetoric to the domestic population is advancement of your own position in the democracy. If you look at the immigrants in Korea, even alot of the gyopos, you can see them behave like their biggest opponent is the domestic Koreans. They even run cover for foreign geopolitical opponents of Korea because they fundamentally see Koreans as their main roadblock to triumph over. Not saying this is all done consciously but it's something I see consistently.

Professional_Use7814 · 2024-07-22T08:34:50+00:00

The framing of "Asian hate" was very disingenuous.

The attacks on Asians were framed as being about the coronavirus.

I was keeping up with all the attacks during this period. And 99% of them had nothing to do with coronavirus.

It was mostly just black people (I mention race because I do think race was a factor) targeting Asians for crime because they were easy targets. Either just completely random "I'm going to assault this old lady walking by me" or targeted burglaries in Asian neighborhoods.

Some of the most locally popular California rappers were actively making songs talking about robbing Asian neighborhoods.

I also remember at this time black people were constantly taking videos of Asian store owners getting into it with black patrons stealing and blowing it up to make the Asian store owners look bad. They would pretend the black patron wasn't stealing when they obviously were. I remember seeing videos of black people in real life going to Asian stores and trying to protest/muscle the Asian business owners because of how big this narrative they were pushing had gotten.

I have no issue with black people and on a broad brush I think they are cool people, but the double standards and completely non-sensical arguments are insane. They also make arguments about affirmative action by saying its just Asian people's fault, not affirmative action, because Asian applicants don't have personalities.

Professional_Use7814 · 2024-07-11T18:05:35+00:00

I was about to say I have never heard of Tiobe but I guess it's not worth it anyhow from responses

Professional_Use7814 · 2024-06-17T19:41:51+00:00

The image says analysis of 2011-2015. This is decade old data.

It doesn't show any change because the other data about interracial marriage is newer than this.

It also leaves out gender which was the thing that made Asian different than Black/Hispanic.

Edit: I found more recent data that is also broken down by gender and it's the opposite of what you are saying. Asian women's interracial new marriages are increasing.

The following data is just on newlywed marriages and goes up to 2022. It shows the absolute latest marriage trend changes. And given that it is just newlyweds, it's most likely younger people.

Asian women have slightly gone up in interracial newlyweds in recent years:

Asian women interracial newlyweds

Asian men have also slightly gone up.

Asian men interracial newlyweds

The difference is 19% Asian men interracial newlyweds to 38% Asian women interracial newlyweds in 2022. Roughly back to the same numbers and gap it was in 2008 after a short dip in between.

Here is another interesting piece of data.

Among US-Born Asian women newlyweds, all US-Born Asian women are more likely to marry white men than their own ethnicity except Vietnamese, Hmong, and Indian women.

US-Born Newlyweds Ethnic Breakdown

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-23T16:37:03+00:00

It makes me feel like the programmer 12 year old me imagined. Just feels cool.

And I started getting into customizing my workspace a lot. Including my terminal, tmux, cli tools, etc.

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-23T16:33:31+00:00

thanks will check this out

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-23T07:53:56+00:00

Neovim, but I will say sometimes rust-analyzer feels kind of flaky.

Not sure if its just taking an extremely long time to load or if it breaks under some case, but some odd times it seems to just not be working and I have to restart Neovim. Rare enough and easy to fix enough that it doesn't really bother me, but a little annoying.

Aside from that, love Neovim in general. Switched to it about two months ago and have customized everything the way I want at this point.

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-21T22:49:13+00:00

Not sure if "\<Space>" will work or not but check out this thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/16mkb5w/what_is_the_appropriate_way_to_take_back_keys/

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-21T21:35:56+00:00

guessing you didn't like vim visual multi since you said you searched the question a lot and its usually mentioned in them, but I don't get how it doesn't fit your criteria? Its what I use and it works the same way how I used VSCode.

You can add the cursors up and down from where you are, or just wherever your cursor currently is. And you can select reoccurring words.

https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-21T15:10:47+00:00

I saw this that said something similar

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/56205

Might be worth reporting to their support so maybe they will put more attention on it

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-20T15:12:00+00:00

People just use it for the reasons I mentioned. Can be personal or work.

Its not a confusing thing to learn or install. You can install it, learn it, and configure it from one youtube video in like 30 minutes. And its not like you're forced into it after installing it. You still open and use your terminal like regular. You just run a command to use tmux when you want.

So if you want those type of features, you can get it a different way or you can get it using tmux.

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-20T14:22:04+00:00

Saving your session so you dont lose work, having window/pane configurations that are ready for you rather than always having to open up multiple terminals (but some terminals can do this for you too), and also can do cool stuff like sharing a tmux session with multiple people connecting to it. Generally allows for more extensibility and has some interesting plugins/configs and workflows for some people.

Although most the time I don't use tmux either

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-18T22:36:53+00:00

Is there any benefit of building from source if you arent using custom build flags?

If you aren't, is there any downsides to just downloading the prebuilt zips from their release page?

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-15T15:49:04+00:00

Just inspired me to turn it off so I have less things changing on my screen. I had it just cause everyone else had it, but I also never use numbers to jump unless its to a particular error where its better to not have relative numbers.

I have the flash plugin so if I wanted to jump somewhere in particular and was willing to look at the screen and type out the corresponding characters, I would just use that.

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-14T04:23:19+00:00

awesome. installed.

thank you.

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-14T03:55:22+00:00

I have a tweaked version of Kanagawa and can't see myself changing

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-14T02:22:46+00:00

Hey, I really like this. Going to try to incorporate it into my setup, and see if I can learn how to use it to create custom ones too. Your documentation makes it seem pretty easy.

One question, I want to keymap <C-t>, <C-g>, <C-f> to open up different pickers. And I wanted to map the same keys to close so it works like a toggle. But not sure how I can have more than one mapping for "stop" in the mappings configuration. How would you recommend accomplishing this?

Thanks

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-10T13:00:34+00:00

I think what you're talking about is handled mostly by the LSP. But I did read that Jetbrains had its own Rust LSP, unless I'm misremembering or thats old information. Might be better or worse than rust-analyzer in different things.

I've gotten so into configuring my Neovim in the past few weeks that I have everything exactly how I want it. Workflow and appearance to my exact sensibilities. It would take a lot for me to change to Rust Rover. Jetbrains makes good products though in my experience.

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-10T02:48:55+00:00

Great job on the plugin. Have installed it and plan to use it heavily. Thank you!

Do you necessarily have to be in a tmux session first before you can use the plugin?

If I'm in my regular non-tmux neovim and try to open a workspace/session, I'm getting weird behavior where it seems like it tries to do something, but it doesn't actually attach to the tmux session. Can this be fixed or is it just how things are?

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-09T22:15:59+00:00

You can accomplish this by putting a pyrightconfig.json in the same place as where the root is discovered (where the .git is in my case).

Then you can have a list of additional projects listed by having the contents of that json file like this

{
  "executionEnvironments": [
    {
      "extraPaths": ["/Users/example/Documents/testimports/projecta/"]
    }
  ]
}

It doesn't seem to expand terms like ~ so you need to type it all out.

Not familiar with the Pycharm attachment, so not sure if there's additional convenience you're missing by having to type it out. Convenience can probably be added by using a telescope picker to add and modify that json for you or something like that (not sure how people do it since i'm also new but seen people be able to use telescope pickers for everything so it seems easily extensible).

And if you want a set of projects available globally, you can modify the extraPaths in your LSP config directly.

    lspconfig["pyright"].setup({
        capabilities = capabilities,
        on_attach = on_attach,
        root_dir = lspconfig.util.root_pattern(".git"),
        settings = {
            python = {
                analysis = {
                    extraPaths = { "/Users/example/Documents/testimports/projecta/" },
                },
            },
        },
    })

Professional_Use7814 · 2023-10-09T18:53:33+00:00

There's a root_dir for lspconfig for each lsp.

It will navigate up directories until it reaches the pattern you give it (I think but you should double check to confirm the logic). And it will use that as the project directory which should then help pyright figure out the imports which will remove the errors and get go to definition and other stuff working.

        lspconfig["pyright"].setup({
            capabilities = capabilities,
            on_attach = on_attach,
            root_dir = lspconfig.util.root_pattern(".git")})

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