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Oh weird. I don't think I'd ever heard that before. Wikipedia said it was a "somewhat common" practice in the south at the time.

That article was really worth reading. Thank you for posting it. I didn't know how much upheaval there has been surrounding endorsements in the field of journalism. It's crazy that we've gotten to the point where the owners of two major papers both got involved to stop an endorsement over the same election against the same candidate. The article mentions that people have been canceling their subscriptions in protest, but... it doesn't seem like enough.

But it's literally how it works in the USA with voting. It shouldn't, but it DOES.

Well, I had been happy with YouTube music for years, but I'm frustrated by this at the moment:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/songs-blocked-youtube-legal-dispute-sesac-1236017120/

Yeah, thank fuck he beat Trump or both Ukraine and Gaza would already be gone by now. I really wish he would stop selling weapons to Israel though.

From one of the cited articles in the study:

Despite the government's continued conciliation, the return of majors is still a long way off. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, only 879 (8.4%) of the 10,509 residents of 211 training hospitals actually went to work as of the 30th of last month. Based on 100 training hospitals, only 714 out of 9,992 people (7.1%) are working. "The Ministry of Health and Welfare recently sent an official letter to the heads of training hospitals across the country to meet with doctors to confirm their intention to return to the hospital and their future career," said Jeon, a controller. "If you look at the institutions that submitted related data, the response rate for returning majors is less than 10 percent."

Existing doctors see this as competition and a threat to their livelihood. They are already well paid in Korea, so it's just the doctors being greedy.

None of this is true.

There are a lot of problems in the Korean medical system. Here's a journal report discussing a few of the key points: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00766-9/fulltext

Here's a longer article going into detail why the residents are so upset.

Basically, there are a lot of problems with the South Korean healthcare system, leading to unsafe public health situations. Instead of actually trying to fix any of the problems, the government decided to significantly increase the number of residents each year (throw more people at the problems), criminally prosecute them for mistakes, and also tell them it might be illegal to quit, so they'll just take their whole medical license away. Like 90% quit and said they're not coming back. There was a suggestion that the government, instead of completely revoking resigning residents' medical licenses, may remove their ability to work in hospitals ever again, but allow them to work in rural clinics because they're already so understaffed and no one wants to live in the middle of nowhere for shit pay... unless the only other option is to find a new field of work and waste all those years of med school.

*Edited to add more context

There are three subreddits I miss after leaving reddit, and one of them is r/freefolk.

Brando Sando has answered the question a bunch of times, and said he's not interested at all. Also, GRRM previously said he would never allow it to be finished by anyone else. Who knows? Maybe the publisher will force it.

Those were a little too intense for me. The acting was phenomenal and the story drew me in, but it was too much tragedy porn for me. Daredevil was also pretty dark, but not like Jessica Jones and Luke Cage

I love the music for both and both games were part of my teen life, and I replayed Ocarina of Time a lot more... but I agree with FF7. Nobuo Uematsu is incomparable.