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  • Is the browsers website (not GitHub) 404-ing for anyone else?

  • Reach out to friends and fam! We do a family plan which I think comes out to $4-5 a month per account.

  • You can buy portable bidets! Been a game changer for travel

  • Jesus that's chilling...

  • There's no "requirement" to do anything.

    People fall in and out of the public eye. That's a fact.

    CCP can wait until someone falls out of the public eye to do something about an unwanted individual. That's a fact.

    Sure, if you think it's your responsibility to save any such unwanted individual, you can interpret what they said as "you need a lifetime commitment", but I don't think that's what they meant.

    It was an observation, not an accusation for a personal failing.

  • What the fuck.

  • I was tech support in college. I was handed a hard drive to wipe.

    Connect HDD to laptop, load up DBAN, select drive, kick it off. NBD.

    Oops, I selected the laptops os drive....

  • That's more of less what was being proposed

  • Thank you for taking the time to go in depth on your claim. Have a good day!

  • Is it safe to say that the intent behind your first post was that China has no reason to invade Taiwan in part due to American protections? I originally interpreted it as China has no reason to invade Taiwan, so we should spend less.

  • I didn't think about that - I can see Taiwans benefit as a bargaining chip.

  • I can't find a source that backs up your claim that the Navy can't blockade Taiwan, can you point it out?

  • Ultimately, if China truly has no incentive to invade Taiwan, why not just recognize it as a sovereign nation? They haven't, they likely won't, and that to me is enough evidence to show that there is reason to invade - we as armchair strategists simply don't know them.

    Does China benefit from the current arrangement in any way that would motivate them to keep the status quo?

  • China doesn't have the Navy to setup a blockade

    Do you have sources that backs up that claim? Just because they didn't do so in a sabre rattling exercise doesn't mean they can't. Afaik their navy is actually quite capable, and actually it's the largest in the world by number of vessels.

    As of 2024, the PLAN(PLA Navy) is the second-largest navy in the world by total displacement tonnage[18] — at 2 million tons in 2021, behind only the United States Navy (USN)[19] — and the largest navy globally by number of active sea-going ships (excluding coastal missile boats, gunboats and minesweepers)[20][21] with over 370 surface ships and submarines in service,[22] compared to approximately 292 ships and submarines in the USN.[23]

  • And even if you get a beach head there(on the West side), it's not Normandy, there's sheer fucking cliffs, and then MORE mountains.

    Idk much about Taiwanese coastline, but your wiki article states:

    The terrain in Taiwan is divided into two parts: the flat to gently rolling plains in the west, where 90% of the population lives, and the mostly rugged forest-covered mountains in the eastern two-thirds.

  • The only way I've made used tires work is to put in a lot more leg work - pick a part salvage lots would sell them for like $20-25 ea in the past, and you can pick some good ones with good tread.

    EDIT: just checked current prices, it looks like you can get a tire for $25, tire and a wheel would be about $40 ea. Putting a tire on a wheel without the right equipment is very difficult though, maybe some shops will do it for you as a service?

  • My repertoire includes the middle finger, peace sign, and finger guns.

    With that skillset, I'm ready to handle geopolitical diplomacy.

  • The middle finger is a common symbol, a static formation of the fingers that the algorithm can easily learn from many common examples of the same formation of fingers.

    There's a lot more diversity, nuance, and lack of structure that goes into how hands wrap around objects to hold them, what they do when idle, etc.