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Comment · 23 hours ago
My apologies if I jumped to conclusions. It's a sensitive night for me
Comment · 1 day ago
It seems part of your comment may be alluding to today, the anniversary of the Itaewon crowd crush.

I want to emphasize that Halloween was not commodified or appropriated to express dissent here. It was a very localized phenomenon primarily celebrated in the traditional "foreigner neighborhood" near the now mostly defunct yongsan army base.

The deaths were a failure of the government, on several levels, to control excessive crowding in alleyways. Our friends that died that day were not protesting, they were just out having fun

Comment · 6 days ago
It was added as context for why someone might be carrying a wooden plank at 2 in the morning and why police might be concerned. It is my understanding that Hackney has changed dramatically in the intervening years
Comment · 7 days ago
Actually it is. Around 2005 I was stopped by police at 2am in Hackney and told in no uncertain terms that it was illegal for me to be walking with a 2x4 in my hand
Comment · 1 month ago
It sounds like the ROI from the doctors standpoint is great, it's the insured that end up bearing the cost without receiving a corresponding increase in care
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
No, the area around it is being redeveloped with luxury apartment complexes
Comment · 1 month ago
I grew up equidistant from Philadelphia and New York. "The city" was exclusively used for New York regardless of the many cities between us
Comment · 2 months ago
Housing is incredibly expensive. Roughly half of Korea lives and works in the Seoul metro area. The average salary is roughly 40,000 USD and the average apartment (maybe 84 square meters) is over 1 million USD.

Government efforts to cool housing inflation have resulted in a 40 percent minimum down payment for a mortgage.

Housing in Seoul and much of Gyeonggi is a pipe dream for most

Comment · 3 months ago
Is your area already well mapped? I opened up the app to find more than 5000 tasks within a 20 minute walk of my place
Comment · 4 months ago
Can you provide these sources?
Comment · 4 months ago
I heard prompt engineer is the six figure job of the future
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
I would imagine that other powers of the world would support some kind of invasion if the strait were to remain closed for a long period of time

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