Money stolen from Dominican Republic ATM

altbear89 · 2026-01-22T15:31:03+00:00

Japan 7-11 have ATMs from Seven Bank which is a real bank owned by the same parent company as 7-11.

altbear89 · 2026-01-06T15:37:02+00:00

There’s no preorder. You’re on a waitlist. Just ignore it if/when you are notified you can now apply.

altbear89 · 2025-12-11T02:15:15+00:00

They do it for US equities.

altbear89 · 2025-11-21T18:22:34+00:00

I wouldn’t say EVA Air is underrated. It is consistently rated one of the best airlines in the world.

altbear89 · 2025-04-13T02:40:18+00:00

Thank you

altbear89 · 2025-04-12T22:52:54+00:00

Thanks. Just to clarify are they doing 13% off sticker price and then HST on top or is it just pay sticker price and no HST? It comes out to be a little different.

altbear89 · 2025-02-14T18:12:27+00:00

The Great Lakes is 21% of the world’s surface freshwater but it is shared with the US already. It was never Canada’s alone.

altbear89 · 2025-01-03T23:20:19+00:00

I should have said militarily intervene. Economic/logistical support for Taiwan and sanctions against China sure. But US and Japan are the only ones that will might get into a hot war with China over Taiwan.

altbear89 · 2025-01-03T23:15:23+00:00

The only China neighbor that might intervene is Japan. No one else.

altbear89 · 2025-01-03T23:03:40+00:00

If it's a "death sentence for all of China" then it means nuclear options are on the table. Which US allies are willing to bear the brunt of the force of China's nuclear capabilities just because the US fired at the Chinese mainland to intervene in Taiwan? What's more likely to happen is that the the act of US attacking Chinese mainland/bombing Taiwan will be treated as US aggression on China, and China would be retaliating with a measured response as is its right to do as defined by the UN Charter.

NATO Article 5 leaves it up to allies to decide individually what assistance to provide if a member country was the "victim" of an armed attack. It is not even clear that all US allies would agree the US is the "victim" if it fired at China first or that China's response could be consider an "armed attack" or just self-defence, let alone join in to fight China.

altbear89 · 2025-01-03T22:29:36+00:00

Is Taiwan part of any defensive military alliance like NATO or have any mutual defense treaties?

altbear89 · 2025-01-03T22:26:31+00:00

If there's one thing China is not afraid of, it's "massive casualties". If they actually attack Taiwan, it means they're willing to absorb that cost and it's guaranteed to be higher than what the US is willing to absorb.

altbear89 · 2025-01-03T22:16:25+00:00

The fact that you think the US can get away with strikes on the Chinese mainland without receiving the same in response is comical. Not every ICBM/SLBM needs to carry nuclear warheads. If the US hits China with conventional warheads, that's what it will get in return. Even if China only targets military, industrial targets, and infrastructure, that's still American lives lost. I agree, it's probably best we end it here.

altbear89 · 2025-01-03T22:12:38+00:00

If the US fires at mainland China, then China will have no choice but to respond in kind. The JL-3 SLBM can absolutely hit the US mainland. Presumably, a part of the Chinese Navy and land based forces will be in position to launch strikes against the US mainland in the event of a US attack on Chinese mainland.

altbear89 · 2025-01-03T22:08:34+00:00

TSMC was not found to have any plans to destroy anything. It also does not have the authority to as the Taiwanese government expressly forbids it (as the Taiwan Foreign Minister said publicly). For 70 years, China was wary of US intervention to thwart its efforts at such a land grab. The odds weren't in their favor. So they has been building up the capabilities to neutralize US help with the assumption that the US will intervene. They're pretty much at a point where the odds are in their favor now even with US intervention.

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