> DerTora: Kid asked me what my korean name is 💀
Der = definite article in german language, male singular
tora = “tiger” in japanese
=> 그호 (that tiger) pronounced cuh hoe
> AlanJ: whats my korean name?
Anal= 💩
Jazeera =”the island” in arabic (traditionally refers to arabian peninsula)
=> 항도 (anal island) pronounced hang do
i understand why people would ask a lawyer to do their DACA app
as a non-expert, it’s hard to tell which things require expertise and which things don’t if you are not familiar with the field
imagine someone not trained in law doing like a unpaid wages lawsuit or idk.. whatever high level lawsuit
they would probably lose, and all their freinds would be like “you dummy, should have hired lawyer instead of cheapening out”
as someone not familar, it might be unclear whether their instinct of looking at the DACA app and thinking “doesn’t look too hard, maybe I can do it myself” actually is
a) a correct instinct (meaning: DACA is easy, just like doing your college app), or
b) a trap (meaning: DACA app might look easy but it’s a minefield full of invisible potential mistakes that can end up in your deportation)
because older immigrants think everything is easy
and think their only barrier is english
so they tell their children to do all kinds of shit, like filing taxes, submitting a govt project bid application, filing a C-corporation, who knows what else
those parents think DACA is easy, that you should do it yourself
and as a child who has seen your parents do many things themselves thinking it’s “easy” and fail and get scammed in the past
your gut instinct can be “uh my dad is saying this is easy… you know, maybe it’s not”
“my homie who didn’t go to college is saying this is easy… idk, should I trust their advice”
“this app looks simple. but is there anything in the process that I should watch out for that is not spelled out in the USCIS webpage?”
so if that “second guessing my instinct and my parents’ instincts” ends up being your primary driver,
then you will end up hiring an attorney to do DACA
for some other fields of life, this “better safe than sorry” attitude can be a lifesaver/headache-saver
you just happened to not be familiar enough with immigration to choose the cost-efficient path with DACA
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as for renewals:
if your attorney charged you $1,000 for a DACA initial
hopefully they will give you a big discount for the renewal. maybe like $200, idk
so now you are choosing between paying an expert $200 to deal with this and not having to deal with it yourself
and trying to figure out the app (which granted, looks much easier)
so eh, now we are at the “should I pay a CPA $100 to do my taxes as a W-2” level ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
hmm so I wanted to open retirement savings this year
there are regular IRAs and Roth IRAs
Do these Koreans know something that my advisor doesn’t? Oh god are they doing some loophole or scamming the system
when i was a college student i saw those credit card ads posted on the college campus
and I thought that the APR was interest that had to be always paid as the cost of using a credit card
otherwise, why would they display the APR rate so prominently in the ads?
so I thought “so you spend $100 with your card and then afterwards pay with $112 out of your bank? thats.. unnecessary”
and never used a credit card until 9 years later
man i’ve been so out of habit of being outside
i’m like walking
and about to cross a street in a residential neighborhood
a car comes along
so I instinctively stop
and get distracted
thinking
in the meantime the car is completely stopped in front of me, waiting for me to cross
driver: “tf is wrong with this mfer he clearly intended to cross, and now he’s kinda looking into the horizon and not moving. should i just drive away?”
and like a good awkward 15 seconds later i’m like “oh”
> is using “oppa” if ur not korean okay?? like idk american australian etc.
i think this can be a more complex topic
you (and a lot on the internet) are approaching it as a “can a korean person say X word vs can a non-korean say X word” type frame.
which has its merits and probably happens to a certain extent
I’d invite people to consider the following issues as well:
A. to what extent is “oppa” romanticized outside of the korean-speaking-sphere and/or kpop fandom culture? Are people aware of how oppa is used in the language overall, or only narrowly aware of oppa in the domestic fandom culture?
B. do people use some words in isolation? for example “my oppa is so cute” as opposed to “우리 오빠 너무 귀엽다” and how do these interlanguage jargon mixings exacerbate any pre-existing tokenization of the language? Do they further A?
C. Are people aware of the tendency within the korean language to convert/linguistically imagine interpersonal relationships and hierarchies using the language of family and how oppa is part of this larger phenomenom?
etc
I decided to return the rowing machine after two weeks of back pain. I don’t have enough time left in my 3-month return period to verify whether the back pain started due to pulling something wrong while rowing or whether it was just the usual bad posture sitting at desk.
UPS was set to come pick it up yesterday. I stayed home all day, except for 1pm-2pm when I went to a chiropractor next door. I come back, and there’s a UPS “we missed you” sticker. Ok cool, they’ll be back tomorrow.
Today morning I went to the psychologist 8:30am-10:20am, and *just in case*, I pulled the boxed machine outside my door.
I come back and it’s gone with a “UPS picked up your package” sticker.
Two days in a row and they come exactly during the only 1-hour window I am away from home.
i bought the iPhone SE 2020 a week later but i returned it last week after learning that iOS cracks down real hard on Google Maps’ timeline feature to the point the app can barely track my movements during the day. looking at tips online on how to give maximum permissions to the Google Maps app was of no use. and I’m not about to leave behind a platform where I have already saved 12 years of location history and potential big data self-analysis
i bought the Pixel 4 in November 2019 through a Google Fi promotion for something like half off, and then sold it a few months later as I was rarely using it staying indoors
i still had a work-issued low-end/midrange smartphone (Pixel 3a)
it’s starting to feel kinda slow though
and as I start planning small trips I don’t want to be stranded mid-trip with a phone that is crashing while waiting for public transit, etc
I tried a refurb iPhone SE2 for $200 and a badly used Pixel 4 for $180 this summer. the iPhone SE was unusable (to me) for not allowing Google Location History to work reliably, and the used Pixel’s screen was terrible.. I could feel my fingers couldn’t slide across the screen due to the screen being.. scratchy. also Pixel 4 has terrible battery out of the box
I think I’ll either buy the Pixel 6 that gets announced tomorrow,
or if the used Pixel 5’s price range dips from the current $500 to something like $300 after tomorrow, maybe.. buy the 5
and then give back the work-issued phone to the work team pool (we have 40 phones being used in the team pool), but bring the new phone to the work phone plan
hmm i’m gonna add 1 more monitor
will probably wait for some sales that pulls prices down to <$70
currently the TV is plugged to the cmoputer, but i don't really use it while at the computer – I only use while sitting in the couch. so the actual number of screens at the desk is 5, not 6.
if I get a HDMI repeater to feed signal to both a monitor and TV at the same time, then I can 1 more monitor (6 is the limit due to GPU max supported monitors limit – RTX2070 supports 4, and GT710 supports 2)
while i'm at it i'll also do a “2 IN, 2 OUT” HDMI splitter so that I can bring the Switch dock back to desk
i lost 11 pounds since doing the calorie counting thing 5 weeks ago (half of which was due to post-vaccine fever) which is kinda crazy fast and nice
i was gonna write earlier “yeah despite losing weight my body doesn’t feel lighter or with more energy” and as I started writing it i feel less sure about that
:cuteturtleshrug:
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