The official line is that North Korea is thriving - it'd be political suicide for Kim Jong Un to accept help.
The comparison with the US isn't unwarranted. The respective propaganda machines are the reason both countries are the way they are.
When people are told daily how their country is the best in the world, the ruling class can get away with an awful lot.
It's 2025, and many places in the US don't even have clean tap water. People are being "disappeared" off the streets by government agencies. People are dying from easily-treatable diseases. The wealthy ruling class live lives of luxury, while poor people work multiple jobs and still exist below the poverty line.
So, with all that said, do you think Trump would accept a deal that would allow better living conditions for his people? I think we both know the answer.
I wish I could see the edit timestamps on Lemmy, because I'm sure that comment was different.
The stupid thing is, I'd originally written the comment with quotes to point it out, then chopped it back because I realised that I was massively overexplaining it. Those quotes would have been handy now!
I'll strike my comment out so it's not misleading, but I'll leave it up so this still makes sense.
The baby doesn't understand English (although they can recognise the rhythm and sounds of language).
The mother understands English
The baby experiences the same emotions as the mother.
In conclusion, read something that will make the mother relaxed and happy. If that happens to be The Cat In The Hat, then great. I read Don Quixote when my wife was pregnant with our first, our second got Moomin and Hairy Maclary (by virtue of being there when I read to the first).
The most important thing is to keep reading to them, every day, after they're born too. Buy tons of children's books (for your own sanity), do the voices and have fun with them.
You get paid for posting this kind of nonsense - in which case then I get it, everyone has to make a living.
Your brain is actually broken
A quick run through your recent posts have shown that you're actually the author of some of the worst posts I've come across on here, so kudos. But I'm afraid it's now a "no" from me, and I'll be blocking you from now on.
The one I encountered on Reddit (way back when) was more focused on occasions where slightly wonky translations led to funny results, rather than just making fun of bad translations, or the people who wrote them.
E.g.
The now-famous "Do Not Want" meme
The German translation section that included the Nazi flag instead of the current Germany one.
The utter nonsense written on a t-shirt I bought last time I was in Japan "Nither down on some it own american films the innocent sucker dupe speak to me blow-in baited onself because this way. Chiken just pain sent I hope come together up on the naked out-colling Rizy up road a little fat-man. BEAT SOMEWHERE"
It's like the posts showing unnecessary quotation marks on signs - it's not about making fun of the people who wrote the sign, it's funny because it now conveys something else.
E.g., a sign outside a farm offering Fresh brown "eggs" for sale.
I use ESUN PLA+ for printing minis and would recommend it to anyone.
For reference, the only filament I've used that came out nicer was SUNLU high-speed PLA, but would NOT recommend for minis (it can't cope with the constant retractions).
Oh, and also prime your models before painting them. I just use ordinary spray primer that you can get for dirt cheap - Tetrosyl Trade Spray / Hycote / Motip are all good brands. Just make sure you don't get gloss finish and you'll be fine!
They were doing so to find out which country you lived in, since you neglected to provide that information yourself.
I'm British, I charge my car at home, and on the few occasions I use public chargers, I interface with and pay for them through apps.
Knowing that you are from the US, though, means that YMMV. Your home electric supplies have significantly lower voltage than here in Europe, so home charging might be a less viable option.
They weren't being creepy, they were trying to give you a helpful answer.
What we have is an issue with terminology. The thing is, "white" only makes sense when specifically referring to human vision.
Our eyes have cells (cone cells) that are tuned to specific wavelengths in the EM spectrum. Three different wavelengths - one set of cone cells peak at 560nm that we see as Red, one at 530nm that we see as Green, and one at 420nm that we see as Blue.
"White" is just our interpretation of a strong signal in these three frequencies.
If, everything else being equal, our cones cells responded to higher wavelengths that our eyes can't currently see, then our "white" might easily be what we see as "red" now, because we'd be also seeing the infra-red that we're currently not.
The official line is that North Korea is thriving - it'd be political suicide for Kim Jong Un to accept help.
The comparison with the US isn't unwarranted. The respective propaganda machines are the reason both countries are the way they are.
When people are told daily how their country is the best in the world, the ruling class can get away with an awful lot.
It's 2025, and many places in the US don't even have clean tap water. People are being "disappeared" off the streets by government agencies. People are dying from easily-treatable diseases. The wealthy ruling class live lives of luxury, while poor people work multiple jobs and still exist below the poverty line.
So, with all that said, do you think Trump would accept a deal that would allow better living conditions for his people? I think we both know the answer.