One of the many things I loved about Taiwan was that people leave the left side of the escalator free for those who want to walk up or down.
There's one single file line of people standing on the escalator. Even during the evening commute, there's a single file line snaking back down into the station. But then as you get close there's a much smaller line to the left moving much quicker of every who plans to walk up.
Plastic surgery is intended to make you look beautiful, not ugly. Are we in opposite world???
It's just meant to mark you as high status.
Being part of that elite group has social and material benefits, so there's plenty of reason for people employ these kind of identity markers. Elite groups often have onerous behavior or other requirements - body modification like plastic surgery is quite common. Cranial deformation, foot binding, etc.
“Sentencing Mr. Laube to additional incarceration would only increase the disparity between his punishment and the lack of punishment (and prosecution) members of far-left groups who have committed the same violent conduct received,” Carney [the judge!] wrote. The sentence: time served, 35 days, rather than the six months prosecutors had sought.
For punching a journalist on camera, having gone to the protest with the intention to commit violence as part of a right wing fight club.
This has nothing to do with the article nor with @someguy’s comment.
How do you mean?
They said that the world and the US are pretty fucked but at least you probably won't get kidnapped and imprisoned for speech, and I agreed and expanded that we tend to kidnap and imprison people for different things.
probably won’t be kidnapped and imprisoned for what we say
We do still kidnap and imprison people when they challenge the power or form of our state, it's just that
what we say in the west is generally less threatening to the power of our governments.
Let's not forget that the US locks up more citizens than any nation - including China with 4x the population - and spent a good part of this century kidnapping and torturing people all over the world.
This article doesn't make much sense to me, and the parts that do make sense don't seem very realistic.
By calling for conquest,
Xi has not called for the "conquest" of Taiwan, has he? Using that word would be a massive escalation that would be all over the news. I'm pretty sure "reunified" is the word they use.
Xi has made an enemy of the Taiwan’s tribes
Taiwan's indigenous population overwhelmingly support the KMT, for complex historical reasons. The KMT want closer ties with Beijing and are certainly favoured by Xi himself. I don't think it's fair to say that "Taiwan's tribes" are an enemy of Xi.
“The only possibility for Taiwan to truly achieve independence from China’s grasp is, in theory, only to first allow the Indigenous tribes of Taiwan to establish an independent nation named ‘Formosa,’” said Chuan-ju Cheng, an associate professor of Indigenous studies at the Taipei University of Education ... After that, “the Han people of Taiwan could join the new state,”
I don't see what incentive China has to buy this. Taiwan's too important for them to give up just because of a rebrand. And I can't see Taiwan's current leaders giving away power to a community that's less than 3% of the population - however just the cause may be. Also, that's not even the correct name of the university. It's National Taipei University of Education - I studied Mandarin there for a semester.
I'm not sure how 5 people working on a hydroelectric project in an allied nation are imperialists. China and Pakistan have been incredibly close partners since the 70s.
If 5 engineers from the US were killed in a bombing in Canada, it wouldn't be because they were American imperialists getting what they deserve.
Medicine existed in some form as long as humanity has
Probably longer. Most or all primates eat or rub plants with anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. Some monkeys, bears too I think. So medicine probably predates the emergence of homo.
A lot of archaeological dicks are apotropaic - they ward off evil. Some are for fertility of course. Today I feel like it's often seen as a minorly transgressive act, drawing something 'rude'. It's so fascinating that we keep doing the same thing and just change what we say it means.
There's a minor fortification somewhere, I think it was roman. Outside the walls they found a fawn skeleton, fully articulated, with no butchery marks and a broken leg that had healed a bit before death. Nearby is the fully articulated skeleton of a cat.
The thinking is that a soft hearted soldier, child or spouse found a fawn with a broken leg. They tried to nurse it back to health and when it died they buried it near their cat.
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Why spend 2% at offense when you can spend 3% at nothing of any use?