You are incredibly resistant to facts. That must be very difficult for you.

The reason so few North Koreans are abroad is because the sanctions initiated by the USA at the United Nations make it nearly impossible for a UN member state to allow a North Korean citizen to enter. Let’s take a closer look at these sanctions.

Although North Korea has normalized diplomatic relations with most countries around the world, the sanctions imposed by the USA make it so that no UN member state can allow North Koreans to enter their borders. This effectively bans North Koreans from traveling to most countries, which makes it very convenient for the West, which imposed the sanctions, to claim: "See? They can’t leave their country." It’s a clever trick, but it’s a lie.

Here is a list of US-initiated UN sanctions against North Korea, with explanations in parentheses, along with additional information on sanctions imposed by individual countries:

1. UN Resolution 1718 (2006): (Devastating broad sanctions that hit North Korea’s economy, blocked trade and travel for anyone who even "supports the sovereignty and military defense of North Korea").

2. UN Resolution 1874 (2009): (Expanded harsh economic sanctions on North Korea, including mandatory inspections of all North Korean cargo, further tightening the noose on the already struggling economy).

3. UN Resolution 2087 (2013): (General tightening of economic and financial restrictions, expanding the travel ban).

4. UN Resolution 2094 (2013): (Expanded strict financial sanctions, banning financial transfers to North Korea, and expanded existing travel bans to cover anyone "associated with the North Korean military or nuclear program").

5. UN Resolution 2270 (2016): (Sanctions specifically targeting vital sectors of North Korea’s economy, such as minerals, cutting off critical revenue sources, and again expanding travel restrictions).

6. UN Resolution 2232 (2016): (Additional significant restrictions on trade and financial operations).

7. UN Resolution 2371 (2017): (A further escalation of the economic war, this resolution virtually banned all exports from North Korea and included even broader and more vague restrictions targeting people connected with the North Korean government, which essentially includes everyone, including the military).

8. UN RESOLUTION 2375 (2017) (slashed North Korea’s oil imports and banned all textile exports, added more types of individuals to the travel ban list, extending the ban to anyone “supporting” the DPRK’s military or nuclear program, which again, is basically everyone lol)

9. UN RESOLUTION 2397 (2017) (sanctions expanded to a near-total embargo on oil supplies to the DPRK, extending the travel ban to include even more people and entities)

10. UN RESOLUTION 2407 (2018) (reaffirmed harsh sanctions, maintaining suffocating economic blockade and “panel” to oversee enforcement of sanctions)

The US-led UN Sanctions are comprehensive and extensive, but the citizens of the DPRK are subject to a ton of other active sanctions and travel bans imposed by individual countries and groups of countries, including—you guessed it—MORE US Sanctions!

The US has issued several Executive Orders targeting North Korea, including EO 13551 (2010), EO 13687 (2015), EO 13722 (2016), and EO 13810 (2017), which impose sweeping sanctions on North Korean people, entities, and sectors. US financial sanctions block, and can be used to seize the assets of any DPRK national, and prohibit any North Korean’s access to the U.S. financial system. There is a comprehensive and total trade embargo in place, and a total travel ban.

Not surprisingly, the EU, UK, Australia, New Zealand, have sanctions in place that are very similar to, and in many cases mirror the sanctions framework in the US. Japan has a total ban on trade and bans North Koreans from entering the country the same way South Korea does. In fact, Malaysia, Mexico, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, and New Zealand have strict entry bans in place today.

TLDR: It isn’t so much that the DPRK doesn’t let its citizens leave, but that the US and its “allies” don’t let the citizens of the DPRK in.

They are allowed to leave. But due to US sanctions, flights out of the DPRK aren't allowed to land in most airports around the world. So they can only really leave and go to Russia or China. Why do you think they can't leave?

Stringed instruments with a fingerboard require the player to develop the skill we call "intonation", unless the fingerboard has frets.

Brass instruments require the player to develop intonation via their embouchure. They literally buzz the notes with their lips.

Reed and woodwind instruments require embouchure but the embouchure stays consistent across notes (although some changes can bend, overblow, or change octaves). That said, the player can change the pitch a little with their voicing, but the real note changes are discrete valves (like keys on a piano).

It's not like before a.i. the US was held responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of children.

86 year old AND 2 subsequent generations of his bloodline - his daughter and his granddaughter

Imagine believing that having two parties is what makes a country a functional democracy

What helps is to recontextualize what you're seeing. It makes you feel less crazy and helps to give you a sense of your place.

The reality is that the US is not becoming like Nazi Germany, but rather that Germany became like the United States through the Nazi movement, and then that Nazi movement was integrated into the United States, and now the United States is advancing the thing we know of as "fascism" or maybe more specifically "EuroFascism" or "North Atlantic Fascism".

Racism as we know it today, is found all over the world. That's NOT because racism as we know it coemerges naturally everywhere but rather because racism as we know it was invented by the European civilization and then imposed on 80% of the world's population through imperial domination. This is important because it helps to understand what I mean when I say that Germany became like the United States.

Germany, like most Continental European countries, was not multicultural. The European nation states were generally monocultural and their techniques for survival involved the dominance of their one culture over another, often through the process of complete extermination or displacement. This expanded the boundaries of those states, but maintained them as a monoculture.

Settler colonialism started off this way - bring your culture and your people to a new land and begin the process of extermination and displacement until you have secured an outpost of your nation state in new territory. But this was incredibly inefficient, it turned out, and the Americas really showed that by being so goddamned big. A new way of colonial domination was invented in America and it drew on racial hierarchies articulated by European scientists to rationalize it. Did you know every single original medical university in the US had a huge role in the research and development of race science?

The integration of chattel slavery, reservation systems, child separation, cultural erasure, the creation of slave hierarchies where some slaves were masters over other slaves, the creation of inter-racial conflict between kidnapped and enslaved Africans and the indigenous... All of these advances were done here, in the Americas. The first gas chambers were invented by the French generals in Haiti, the same French generals that we look to as liberators and leftists in the US, because the Haitian slave revolt was so massive that the French needed efficient ways of killing large groups of them.

When you study the rise of the Third Reich and it's leaders and philosophers, you find that they studied the US to learn how the Germans could achieve what the US had achieved. The Germans wanted to stop with this idea of just Germans owning and dominating nearby lands - there weren't enough Germans! They needed to construct a cross-cultural race, the Aryan race, that could bind a disparate group of people together and build a greater violent force. Their intent was to invade the Slavic nations, invade Russia, and control all of the territory and resources there. To do this, though, they would need more than just extermination and displacement. They would need slave camps, reservations, they would need the Slavs to work and labor and toil but not revolt, they would need different groups to fight with each other, to fight for proximity to the Aryans for their own safety, they would need to advance the American system.

And they did. They made huge strides in developing what the Americans had made huge strides in developing from what the Americans had inherited from the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch. But, the Soviets won. The Soviets rallied every single ounce of self-preservation they could muster and they defeated the most powerful military ever fielded in Europe and marched all the way through Berlin.

And what happened. The Holy Roman Emperor - the Pope in the Vatican - to which we can trace the Doctrine of Discovery, the literal Pope started saving Nazis by getting them into monasteries and then relocating them to monasteries all around the world.

And the Americans helped. Truman oversaw the creation and execution of Operation Paperclip, which brought Nazis from all levels into the US and all over Americas. They were given money, property, jobs, security details, false identities, etc. And they were integrated into the US. The US put top Nazi officers in charge of NATO. The Allies put top Nazi politicians in charge of West Germany. It never ended.

The US isn't becoming like the Nazis. The US inherits the fascistic empires of Europe, it advances that fascism to its highest known height, and then the Nazis emerge and extend the US's program back into Europe, and then the Nazis are absorbed back into the US, and the US continues to develop the program, unhindered by any opponents, with a completely pacified and propagandized population.

When you realize this, you realize it's no longer as crazy making. You have always been surrounded by Nazis or latent Nazis. The signs have always been here. You have been raised in text books worshipping genociders, slavers, rapists, human traffickers, drug dealers, and yes, fascists. The entirety of your upbringing, education, and social structures all conspire to integrate and obscure these things, because they are complicit in it. And up until such time as you realize what's going on, you also are complicit in it

Now that you realize what's going on, now the job is to figure out what to do about it. How to be less complicit, how to stop it, or how to build the momentum that will eventually stop it.

Literally the only thing that matters is sales. Sales people make money regardless of whether the product is good or sometimes regardless of it even exists.

Programmers think the game is to make something good. It's not. It's telling people to pay you.

Spend all of your time talking to people about what problems they have and then ask them which problems cost them money or whether they would spend money to solve a problem.

Most of the time, if you tell people your idea, they will lie to you about the idea being good, but they will never spend money on it. So don't try to find the idea that people like. Find the problem that costs people money.

And that's how you make a business

Communism killed 100 million people.

Private property is required for freedom.

Markets are freedom.

Capitalism is free exchange.

Working the land gives you rights over it.

All of life is competition.

The weak die out and the strong survive.

Evolution is driven by the survival of the individual animals the are most fit for their environment.

The lymph system is not connected to the brain.

Black people have high pain tolerance.

Women have low pain tolerance.

Babies don't feel pain the way we do until they have sufficiently developed.

Human psychological development stops at 18 and after that it's all acquisition of skills and knowledge and the use of discipline and will power.

Fossilization destroys all soft tissue and no soft tissue can survive the process.

Race is genetic.

Everyone needs to do exercise with resistance (weights, bands, bodyweight). You will not get too muscular by accident. It will prevent aches and pains, it will prevent injuries, it will make it more likely you survive car accidents and false.

Everyone needs to floss, there are no exceptions.

Everyone needs time outside in nature. If you live in a city, get to a park every week, preferably every day. It changes our brain chemistry. We aren't organized to live in boxes all day.

Learn how to breathe. If you think that sounds silly, you're the example.

Learn to cook. When you can't contribute anything else, being able to contribute food is universally accepted

Totally valid. You're right. Under those conditions, voting will definitely work. But only if you shame people on the Internet to vote the correct way.