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My name is Jeena. I'm a software engineer, my email address is hello@jeena.net.

I live in South Korea, brew beer, dry meat, play metal and develop games and other software. I'm a hobby photographer and use Mastodon and Lemmy.

This website is divided in several parts:

There is the blog for longer essays, I post short notes which are kind of like tweets and I post photos, you can think of it like my private Instagram.

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It has been decades I went to the Mahr's brewery in Bamberg. But last week we were visiting my parents in Germany on their 70's birthday so we went there to have a pint of their U: https://www.mahrs.de/beer/?lang=en

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Just heard in a podcast that "Integration is not a one way street."

I'm a 3 times immigrant (Germany, Sweden, South Korea) and I never thought about that.

But it kind of makes sense that the society which does the integration also changes it's behavior, traditions, etc. to accommodate the newcomers.

And the success of integration is höger when both sides contribute. But somehow I swallowed the conservative view that it's it's up to the immigrant to do the integration job and if they don't they should go back, without ever questioning it.

My wife, first time voter

She was never allowed to vote before

Posted by Jeena

I was born in communist Poland, and I remember the sham of a voting process my parents had to go through. Basically, they had to go voting, but there was only one party to vote for, and if you didn't vote or made your vote invalid, you’d get into trouble. So once we moved to Germany, election da...

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