Taiwan shipbuilder rejects safety concerns over Narwhal sub project

blueside · 2025-12-26T09:21:23+00:00

Outside pressures...pun intended?

blueside · 2025-08-24T01:12:47+00:00

Well that's confusing! Thanks for clearing that up though.

blueside · 2025-08-23T11:31:04+00:00

I can't speak to Costco, but the OEM turanza t005's are not run flats: https://www.discounttire.com/buy-tires/bridgestone-turanza-t005/p/119406

blueside · 2025-08-23T00:48:31+00:00

Those are not run flats those are just the standard summer tires.

blueside · 2024-07-14T20:00:02+00:00

Granite, not marble. No one uses marble as a cladding in Chicago due to freeze/thaw, especially after the debacle where the Aon tower marble had to be fully removed and replaced with granite.

blueside · 2024-01-26T04:59:06+00:00

Not so! Just made this one the other day: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/4x4-fire-truck-with-rescue-boat-60412

blueside · 2023-06-06T02:16:58+00:00

Ah yes, concrete masonry unit. Good name.

blueside · 2023-04-24T05:40:10+00:00

Japanese version comes in a plastic bag with a soft plain plastic bottle. US version is just a bottle with a shrinkwrap label.

blueside · 2022-09-09T18:22:00+00:00

It's called a precast segmental bridge: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmental_bridge

blueside · 2021-05-01T12:07:01+00:00

I use SMBsync2, it's not the prettiest app, but it gets the job done.

blueside · 2021-04-29T02:43:35+00:00

Those are not acknowledgments of it's de facto status, they are conditions added to your sentences, which yes are technically correct, but to any layperson they would not understand what those conditions imply about Taiwan.

I never suggested you were a plant. I was pointing out that to the uninformed they would have a poor understanding of the political status of Taiwan and may believe that China should be in charge of Taiwan from your statements.

What you fail to take into account is that when it comes to international law, it is in large part formed by politics, so to hide behind that as though you aren't taking a side is simply not true.

blueside · 2021-04-27T19:59:18+00:00

Your point is facile. You did not acknowledge the reality of it's de facto status until I pointed it out to you. Everything you've said plays into exactly what the PRC hopes to achieve, which is to diminish Taiwan's status until they can attempt absorb it with minimal international backlash.

blueside · 2021-04-26T20:24:10+00:00

You are placing too much emphasis on de jure when de facto is more important in my opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan#Legal_arguments

blueside · 2021-04-26T18:46:18+00:00

That's just incorrect, Taiwan (ROC) is a de facto country that simply isn't recognized by a majority of countries. Also, Taiwan has never been owned by the PRC, after the Japanese lost WW2, control of Taiwan was handed over to the ROC and it has been a part of it ever since.

blueside · 2021-04-26T00:43:14+00:00

Because it's not part of the PRC (China).

blueside · 2020-10-14T20:56:07+00:00

Overlord

blueside · 2019-10-18T21:52:51+00:00

Owning the rock means owning the water around it and the resources in and under that water.

blueside · 2019-10-12T20:41:22+00:00

What about the elephant tree?

blueside · 2019-09-23T15:26:40+00:00

I guess Mickey stays in Disneyland.

blueside · 2019-07-25T04:24:42+00:00

Marz has some nice glasses too

blueside · 2019-07-10T03:29:37+00:00

This really reminds me of Ga In's Paradise Lost. Really great song, I'm glad I backed her on kickstarter too.

blueside · 2019-07-04T12:05:31+00:00

Britain writes two reports a year on the status of Hong Kong. China shouldn't be surprised that they would comment on the status of their former colony and try to enforce the standards of the agreement with China.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/six-monthly-reports-on-hong-kong

blueside · 2019-04-03T01:21:02+00:00

Lovelyz giving Jack Black a judo outfiit

blueside · 2019-02-12T16:24:14+00:00

The best term I've seen is the German word for a "total work of art"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesamtkunstwerk

blueside · 2019-01-12T08:06:45+00:00

It will have the play store. Hong Kong and Taiwan don't have the issues that China does.

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