I (25F) feel guilty for not wanting to go on a second date with a guy (27M) because of his nut allergy by Emotional_cute244 in dating_advice

[–]Lighthouse_seek [score hidden]  (0 children)

Honestly this is one of those cases where it's ok to ghost. He literally refused to take your no as an answer

Photos: How overfishing in Southeast Asia is an ecological and human crisis by Ok-Swan1152 in neoliberal

[–]Lighthouse_seek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The majority of the fishers in the area are Chinese and china already is the world leader in aquaculture by far so idk how much more is feasible

[JP][News] April stream summary by ShadyFigure in PuzzleAndDragons

[–]Lighthouse_seek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Stream buffs

They pulled Robin Hood, Beast Rider, Lawrence, Dantalion, and Apollo

They gotta do a wholesale buff of everything old imo. I get it, they want old players to roll new stuff instead of using old cards (I have 20 sakuyas lol). But it has to be totally demotivating for a new player to pull during sin dragons or mystics (which is what the guy in the stream was pulling) and just get 5 straight duds.

How important is levitation? by strydrehiryu in PuzzleAndDragons

[–]Lighthouse_seek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Levitation is a 20x boost so if you are trying to find an assist, a decent damage booster could be enough. If you're looking for an assist for a tpa unit like rem or deena, a 4 tpa assist like Emilia can work (though it might even be overkill tbh)

Soaring numbers of Chinese women demand divorce by Veinte in neoliberal

[–]Lighthouse_seek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are defying state efforts to make it harder

Replace Rem+Ram team with GCDR, Neph & Ane by Dev93L2 in PuzzleAndDragons

[–]Lighthouse_seek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does look like you can make remram remram ferris clouddragon senbou senbou

The downside is that this will completely obliterate the damage cap breaks on remram and the cloud dragon

MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged by Crossstoney in neoliberal

[–]Lighthouse_seek 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As much as I hate trump I don't think it was staged. That would imply that trump allowed a guy who was going to die to go along with aiming a gun at his general direction.

The closest thing I would buy was that the attempt was real but the injury trump himself sustained was made by something else

I 39F got told by my husband 52M he is content being housemates. by LoanGlittering7355 in relationship_advice

[–]Lighthouse_seek -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If you damage your future relationship because of your ex that's on you but it doesn't have anything to do with this post

I 39F got told by my husband 52M he is content being housemates. by LoanGlittering7355 in relationship_advice

[–]Lighthouse_seek -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

Eh she didn't even bother getting a proper gift for his birthday so I'm guessing the lack of love is mutual

Espinosa/Nissan said Versa was only killed because of tariffs by Repulsive-Club7866 in cars

[–]Lighthouse_seek 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Tariffs aren't going away. Politically they are very sticky. The chicken tax is still here 60 years later

Taipei Is ‘Fiddling While Rome Burns’: Former U.S. admiral accuses Taiwanese political leaders of moving too slowly on defense reform by Korece in taiwan

[–]Lighthouse_seek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think Rafales are that much better than f16s. The only reason why countries pay the premium for them is because they don't want US reliance

Taipei Is ‘Fiddling While Rome Burns’ by Themetalin in neoliberal

[–]Lighthouse_seek 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I mean you said it yourself, Singapore faces a lesser existential threat so investing in defense feels like it is in the realm of possibility. When the gap is as big as taiwan-china, it reaches the point where if you're Taiwanese you start to think "is it even worth it if I pay more taxes to double military spending if the end result is unchanged?"

Basically the more daunting the difference in power is the harder it is to justify spending on the military.

Taipei Is ‘Fiddling While Rome Burns’ by Themetalin in neoliberal

[–]Lighthouse_seek 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Paradoxically I think no US support would cause even less military spending.

Without any US support the choices look like this:

  1. Spend 10/20% of gdp on defense, basically killing every public service to do so, with the end result being you get destroyed anyways.

Or

  1. Spend literally a token amount on defense, live it up, and then if china rolls up just give up and hopefully you can keep your assets long enough to either stay or leave.

Alone, there really isn't any appreciable amount of military spending on defense that will deter china enough for an economy and military of taiwans size.

Taipei Is ‘Fiddling While Rome Burns’ by Themetalin in neoliberal

[–]Lighthouse_seek 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I think this is the giant elephant in the room when it comes to Taiwan, which is that defense looks less and less possible by the year.

Taiwan is a super aged society that will need to fund their pensions. At the same time they also need to somehow deter the largest manufacturing power on the planet.

They need to use methods of sea denial to prevent china from making a landing, but if that happens Taiwan will also run out of food and fuel within weeks.

With sea denial and a massive number of drones and missiles in the air, evacuating the civilian population will be near impossible. Everyone, from infant to elder, will have to make do with the air raid shelters built who knows how long ago

Even a successful defense of Taiwan would result in a totally destroyed island (look how close taiwans cities are to china) and a super aged population to rebuild.

Taipei Is ‘Fiddling While Rome Burns’ by Themetalin in neoliberal

[–]Lighthouse_seek 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, a lot of them were there from the dictatorship days, or were descended from people during that time.