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Hello everyone! I am working on a story for The Guardian about how Chicagoans are preparing for the possible arrival of federal troops, following President Trump's statements on the matter. Right now, I'm looking for residents, community organizers, business owners, and other folks to talk to!
you can always point to your table if there seems to be confusion but I almost never have an issue
generally they know what you ordered or have a tab sitting there already and just ring you up there without you saying anything. I know that sounds crazy but it really works very smoothly
to be clear, google maps is better than nothing, it's just extremely limited compared to north america / europe
I'm a fan of copy-pasting the korean address of a place i'm trying to go to into naver maps, which will be able to display transit and walking directions and so on. if navigating by google maps you can still zoom into the map and look at the streets, it just won't display walking directions
two things I just remembered other Americans having trouble with * it is in fact actually true that tipping is not expected and is in some cases actively insulting * almost all restaurants, even the fancy tasting menu ones, are pay-at-the-counter after your meal. do not sit and wait for the bill
(I assume Google Maps still sucks though)
OMG! Thank you for the correction!
(You could always do a weird multi-app circumvention where you Google translate what you want into Korean and then paste it into naver but this is probably more effort than it's worth it on a long weekend. You just kind of have to accept Google is gonna be wack)
Oh, and two technology tips-- 1) Airtags don't work in Korea so don't freak out 2) Google Maps fucking sucks in Korea, especially for figuring out restaurant stuff. Naver Maps will tell you what's decent in your vicinity but even though it translates to English it won't let you do English search
skip the myeongdong night market and probably skip gwangjang market. namdaemun market is okay. Ikseon-dong Hanok Village is super cute with a billion lovely cafes. If you get a chance to try (artisanal) Korean liquor (makgeolli, cheongju, yakju, or soju) you should go for it.
if you or your wife has any remote interest in skincare, set aside a significant amount of space in your checked luggage and go into a shopping trance for about an hour at the myeongdong olive young. kind of a frenetic experience but one of my favorite things to do in korea
* anything that koreans call a "walk" is actually a hike. anything that koreans call a hike is actually a death defying vertical climb. it doesn't matter if the person who's describing it is like 70 years old. my people are freaks
oh, and this part depends on the weather, but the fall foliage should be looking really beautiful around the time you're visiting. I'd consider a "walk"* up namsan mountain if you're outdoorsy, but otherwise, yeouido hangang park (along the han river) is extremely scenic and lovely in fall
finally, if you ever see these stickers on the front of a restaurant (especially with the current year listed) it's gonna be fucking dope as all hell and you should definitely eat it.
saw a comment that you're looking to see historical sites. skip gyeongbok palace in favor of changdeok palace and look for an opportunity to do the secret garden tour. i generally think the pork bbq places are more consistently excellent rather than the beef bbq places. look for "jeju black pork"
TIRED: attacking the press WIRED: bribing the press, but inauspiciously
WHO DOES THAT??????????????
oh my god it WAS a reused envelope "Anticipating possible law enforcement investigations, THE CITY did not open the envelope or count the money inside."
exactly!!!
I'm so fixated on the mixed bills
"at least one $100 bill and several $20 bills" so I guess it could be like 200 or so. funny they didn't just take the money out and count it but maybe there was a legal issue. sorry I don't have any professional insight into that, since I have never dealt with the issue of BEING BRIBED WITH CASH
which like, I know this really isn't important, but who the hell puts mixed bills in a red envelope
and a bribe in a normal envelope and no additional packaging (food-related or otherwise) is also insane; but then you add the detail that it's $140 in cash. which is weirdly fucking small but then also it's IN MIXED BILLS?
I do enjoy that this story has like ten different constituent parts that are fucking insane on their own. like it would already be weird as shit to offer a reporter an open bag of chips as a "light snack"
I mean that's even funnier in the sense that winnie greco is apparently not in the habit of regularly putting money into red envelopes
she just wanted to feed a reporter. as a friend. is that so wrong?
I think the envelope wasn't used, it's just open in photos because the reporter opened it so that's one aspect of the story that's "normal"
listen, idk who's giving red envelopes to non-asian strangers but what do I know. asian america is not a monolith I guess
"I'm not perverted, I'm just Italian" < "I'm not corrupt, I'm just Chinese"
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
"Once dissent was squashed, TikTok no longer posed a threat." Good piece. I would add that TikTok now faces a ban at the flick of the President's pen... How could that not be affecting content moderation now? www.theverge.com/features/761...
The TikTok ban — passed with overwhelming bipartisan support — was motivated by fear that kids these days had the wrong opinions about Israel. With the physical crackdown on dissent, enforcing the sell-or-ban law app is no longer a priority. www.theverge.com/features/761...
A photograph cannot inspire an antiwar movement if the antiwar movement has been spirited away in the night to a facility in Louisiana. www.theverge.com/features/761...
watching the ccp do soft power is like watching a vegan cook foie gras
ccp has such a hilarious relationship to soft power. my jaw dropped when I found out they pulled yanxi palace off the air (i think for.... promoting female strife in the workplace...? or maybe that was the even more successful predecessor legend of zhen huan)
I don't think she was like, predestined to suck this bad tho. she took a very hard turn into [waves wildly] whatever that is
I actually do think HP is aesthetically reactionary but that it's also pretty separate from her whole deal now, which is like, whew, yikes
happy independence day!
yes. that part, I do know why it was funny tho
I don't know why it's so funny that sandwich guy was wearing a pink polo and bermuda shorts. I don't know why it's funny that he was wearing a different polo shirt when arrested. I don't know why I started laughing when the white house's own propaganda filmed him from the side showing his maxxed jaw
they get snapped in on-the-nose satirical pictures in front of this mural so often you’d think they were posing for them
and I'd agree that standard Korean blood sausage is more approachable for a squeamish baby / American palate. There's a bloodier variant that more closely resembles black pudding but it's less widely available despite being, in my opinion, more delicious.
Koreans also have a bloodier variant (name roughly translates to "blood blood sausage" I guess) which is closer to the consistency of black pudding, and it's much less common
yeah, black pudding is awesome.
I'm a big fan of trolling people with hongoe
Basic Korean blood sausage is way more approachable than black pudding but yeah I think blood sausage is not common in the US, but found almost everywhere else? Americans get squeamish when I mention the British kind, which is delicious imo
no, just a surprisingly non-basic choice for a tourist, let alone a famous tourist
which, incidentally, is one of Korea's most delicious foods, so good for her
I think this little piece of paparazzi gossip is going around only the Korean internet because no one has bothered to spell out in English that this is a picture of Charli XCX eating blood sausage soup m.cafe.daum.net/subdued20clu...
I'm only going to say this once: It is a very bad idea to ask 18-year-olds with assault rifles that have been put through ten weeks of a brainwashing regimen meant to control for the negative effects of giving 18-year-olds assault rifles to determine which civilian orders are right or wrong.
did she ever tell you how the accident happened? did you share a name with the person she was trying to add?
lmfao
what a joy and a delight
I do not think children with guns should be asked to determine what orders are legal or illegal
that's an amazing kind of drama and also sounds like it wasn't the result of a mis-add?
so did she add him as a "haha wouldn't it be funny if this actually worked" and didn't anticipate that the system would let it happen?
I think it is an extremely bad idea to encourage members of the military to disobey civilian orders.
was this a text message gc? was it just someone mistyping a phone number?
oh my god
"There has never been a higher risk that you will be placed in a situation in which you will be ordered to do things that will make you a villain. Not a villain by my standards. Not a villain by the standards of leftists or anti-imperialists ... A villain by your own standards"
did you ever figure out how the mistake happened? was this a new number you had gotten?
like, played along the entire time or played along by telling you you fucked up in the group chat?
... have any of you ever added a total rando to a group chat, whether in Signal or any other messaging app? i'm begging you to tell me. I really want to hear how that happened (and what went down after)
I'm spiraling imagining long term effects on american electoral politics
lmfao
WRITING? with your little FINGIES? sounds pretty effeminate to me
there are only three acceptably masculine activities. punching other men, having sex with other men, and podcasts
The DC sandwich guy has been charged with assault for shouting at a CBP officer, throwing a sub into his chest, and then running off. "I did it. I threw the sandwich," he said while he was being processed.
they fired people contributing to cancer research
passive income is for the passive sex
real men are providers. providers of taxes
you have the account balance of a true betw male. gonna need a murse for all that money 🙄
Low testosterone, low taxes.
the accumulation of capital implies a place, or rather, a home, in which to store it. fellas, do you really want to be a homemaker
I don't think hk mtr is all that great but to your rhetorical point, yeah, bart should be *embarassingly* better
this bothers me so much from a chauvinistic national pride perspective. US cities are *way* richer than all but a few foreign ones, but they don't look like the future because we prioritized boomer property values. the SF Bay Area should be a fucking marvel of the world, should eclipse Singapore.
thank you
i have been convinced this is literally one of the reasons why higher education is under attack
women be dodging taxes amirite
adi robertson, professional vibe-harsher
*pointing at Wall Street* pay pigs
[extremely on-mushrooms voice] hear me out. what if we destroy capitalism by feminizing having money
every single time
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
DC statehood was in sight in 2021, as I wrote at the time. It was explicitly discussed as a response to Trump's disregard for home rule www.businessinsider.com/capitol-viol...
Two things can be true: 1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; & 2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
holy shit
There’s been Rule 901 amendment proposals underway since… 2023 I think? Maybe sooner? Not to mention initiatives such as the C2PA, c2pa.org
“It doesn’t take much imagination to understand the kind of chaos this will unleash: in courts… Caught on camera keying the neighbor’s car? Just claim it was a deepfake.” @daniellecitron.bsky.social & Bobby Chesney wrote about the Liar’s Dividend in 2019, and I covered the courts aspect in 2020…
“That attack took out Al Jazeera’s entire Gaza City news crew. … It was a direct hit on a journalist tent. Journalists are civilians, and to kill them in war is a war crime,” CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social told @skynewsrss.bsky.social. Watch here⤵️ news.sky.com/video/commit... #NotATarget
Paul Dama's detention is devastating & unnecessary, and his absence is already felt in the #MA7. Whether welcoming neighbors to Suya Joint or helping folks with developmental disabilities lead healthy, dignified lives, his contributions to our community are immensely meaningful.
This is such an intense read about an adopted child who found his birth mother...and a complicated story behind his birth, and his father's identity.
not to brag but i think this is the best one yet
3/ That line in the Washington Post on "sketchy Senate disclosures" links to this: Headline: Trump’s D.C. U.S. Attorney Pick Appeared on Russian State Media Over 150 Times Subhed: Nominee Ed Martin did not initially disclose his RT and Sputnik appearances from 2016 to 2024 to the Senate.
there's a legit syphilis epidemic right now! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Ya know, I should’ve seen this coming after walking into one of those witchcraft shops last year to help a friend pick out a gift. We turned a corner after looking through the tarot decks and there was just a giant phrenology tapestry for sale alongside the astrology ones
(and hair powder served the same function as dry shampoo today — de-greasing the hair)
it's totally fine! it's basically what the better hair powders of the baroque period were made of!
the king is forcibly quartering soldiers in american cities and levying import taxes that nobody voted for. measles sweeps the nation. the hottest trend is the no poo lifestyle which you can achieve with finest grade of corn starch at home