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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Either that, or he’s worried about revealing knowledge he’s not supposed to have. North Korea heavily controls information that its citizens are allowed to have about places outside the country, because if people start to believe that life is better elsewhere, they’ll eventually revolt.

    So if he admitted to knowing more about South Korea than he is supposed to, and then word of that admission got back to his superiors or other government officials, they’d realize that he and likely his family must have somehow come upon restricted knowledge and start punishing them to try to find a source, if one even exists.


  • That being said, just because other laptops are cheaper doesn’t make them better. I care about minimizing e-waste, so I prefer to buy durable devices that last. For that reason, I bought a Macbook 12 years ago that still works fine, while a friend of mine is on his 4th laptop in half that time.

    It’s an illustration of the Sam Vimes “Boots Theory”. Not saying that buying overpriced Apple hardware is the way to go, but just that it’s important to look at more than whatever’s cheaper, since a lot of laptops that look like they have good hardware for the price are not meant to last more than a couple years.