You have probably (deservedly!) blocked me by now, but in case you have not, I apologize from my other comment. Apparently the standard you all have in the lemmy.ml memes community is different from other memes communities, so what looked to me like you were posting a meme that was completely inappropriate was a complete misunderstanding on my part. I have unsubscribed from this community to preclude the possibility of future misunderstandings.

Ah, I only just now noticed that this post was made in the lemmy.ml memes community, which is very different in the kinds of posts that it has than most communities that call themselves “memes” communities. Personally I think that you all have awful taste, but taste is subjective so I withdraw my objection that this particular meme is trash.

I was about to unsubscribe, but curiously I don’t seem to currently be subscribed to it, which is odd because it definitely appeared on my front page at one point; if that is because the admin kicked me out, then I would like to kindly thank them.

Just so you know, since you are apparently now going to start spamming the meme community with trash, you have become one of a select few on my block list.

And the whole of mathematics became classier as a result!

Fair enough.

Game support.

What game? I used to need to occasionally boot into Windows to play games, but it has been over a year since the last time I had to do this.

Ah, that was some clever wordplay, given that one of the definitions of capital is “of or pertaining to the head”!

most people only have empathy for their immediate family and friends. that’s normal.

Speak for yourself.

There are so many extraordinarily hard problems that need to be solved that I worry you are setting yourself up with false hope.

It does not have to be your cup of tea, but for the record, reading math does not require being smart so much as being patient.

They’re not assuming anything, they are doing calculus.

He sold his first software before it was even finished to his own unuversity.

What drives me crazy is when I hear this fact being cited as a positive thing that makes him a role model.

If it’s explicitly consensual then it’s not cheating because you are not breaking any understood rules of the relationship.

Generally when one refers to a country as being “occupied”, the implication is that the people there are poor off as a result, especially relative to a neighboring country whose land is presumably being considered occupied, which in this case is implicitly North Korea due to the history of how the two countries split. It is therefore not in bad faith to directly ask whether the people there are better or worse off as a result.

You also seem to be hyper-fixated on one possible meaning of prosperous, which is “wealth and GDP”, when there are lots of other means related to flourishing in general. The original commenter was perfectly free to provide an answer along the lines of, “North Korea is the more prosperous country because X.” where X is a list of ways in which the people there are flourishing, and this would have been a valid answer (if not necessarily a correct one).

Alternatively, if they think that South Korea is better off but this does not matter because it is still less ethical than North Korea, then they could have taken the opportunity to be up front about that.

So in short, this question could have been used in all sorts of ways to provide an answer that clarified the commenter’s position. It is a shame that we never heard from them exactly what their thoughts were.

If it makes you feel better, you are emphatically not my enemy. 😀

I didn’t say the people of South Korea are being subjugated.

Quote the comment that started all of this:

Is anyone really surprised one of the biggest companies in occupied korea would do this??

I acknowledge that this is not your comment, but you stepped in and answered a question directed at this person, so you should not act so surprised that you have become associated with their position, especially since you continue to work really hard to do everything except actually state your own opinion, except insofar that “everything is too complicated for anyone to have an opinion” counts as an opinion.

I will take from your attempt to throw a “Gotchya!” at me that you acknowledge that you are unwilling to state your own opinion on the matter.

If you don’t feel like stating your opinion on which country is better off and why, then you could just say that outright or say nothing. You really don’t have to go to all of this trouble to pontificate about how it is unreasonable to even consider the matter. 😜

Do I need to explain to you what that means, or do you have a clue about South Korean history and US foreign policy?

I appreciate you showing me how not to make a point in “a pointlessly hostile and asshole way”!

I appreciate your honesty in admitting that you consider human well-being to be irrelevant!