randint @ randint @lemm.ee

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I started writing out a timeline but I don't know what position you're asking from so I will say for the sake of brevity that the US kept the KMT from being run out of all of China [...] which make up its other value to the US besides geographical position.

Yes, I know about its not-so-glorious past and the White Terror. Thousands of innocent civilians were killed. It was terrible. However, I must respectfully disagree with you on the "puppet state" part. I don't think that Taiwan is a puppet state. The US sponsoring Taiwan is a thing of the past. Neither is a pathetic diplomatic position a good reason for being a puppet state.

Well yeah I guess, but really it's more about the policies they had been pushing domesticlly

A glorified puppet state? What do you mean?

Do you even know why the pro-independence party (DPP) lost so badly in the local election for mayors? Because the people were disappointed in what DPP had done with the economy, not because they didn't agree with the foreign policies DPP was pushing! (Please note that I'm not saying most people agree.) In local elections, people are going to choose whoever they believe would be the best for the city/county, not the one whose views on China they agree with.

Additionally, if you look at the latest opinion poll for the presidental election next year, you'd be surprised to find out that the candidate from the pro-independence party is leading.

Source: am Taiwanese

ps. you made a typo in your comment. it was the 2022 local election, not 2020.

We should give @RandAlThor@lemmy.ca benefit of the doubt. Sometimes when people view other's profile from another instance, the post history shows up empty.

Yes, the ADIZ includes part of China, but this article is mainly about jets crossing the median line of Taiwan Strait. Also I don't think Taiwan gets mad over any jets intruding the "overclaimed" part of the ADIZ.

I feel like I'm seeing you everywhere

I read your edit and I get it now. The power output of different chargers are not the same. My phone charger is 15 W, and my laptop charger 65 W (or maybe 45 W? I forgot). Charging my laptop with my phone charger does not work.

My laptop charges only over usb-c

Not just you. Also very choppy for me, both on the PWA and on the app from F-Droid.

Hi, I wanted to encourage you to learn to read and write Chinese. Don't push it off for later, go start looking for courses now! 我相信你可以的，加油。

It's often too expensive to support GDPR for Europeans and disable it for other people. Most services just support GDPR for everyone.

Ahh so that's what it means. I was trying to think of what sounds like "energy" and could also fit in this sentence.

Can anyone explain this pun? I don't get it.

There are several different ways of inputting Chinese, but generally they all map 2~6 keystrokes to one or multiple Chinese characters, and then the user chooses one. I'd imagine it wouldn't be much harder.

Woah woah hold up there. Why don't you just mute the keyword "reddit"?

Here is what the "rectangle" is supposed to look like:

It's the reverse, actually. Story writers modeled super villains after these people.

For your convenience,

U+3164 is ㅤ (unprintable), Hangul Filler, and U+537C is 卼, a Chinese character rarely ever used, meaning unsteady or dangerous.

Edit: I did not realize that U+537C may not be rendered on some devices without a CJK font installed. Here is what it's supposed to look like:

I think I comment quite a lot but rarely post. does that count as lurking?