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Is it just the season or are there really so many more mainlanders in Hong Kong now?

"簡易"🫠

Got this 阿美 grammar. It is, of course, hell.

I wouldn't know aside from what seems to be the most obvious cause (treason?). But why the Himars are fine but missile defense is excused as too costly?

What's their reasoning for being against financing the T-Dome?

Nonsense. Played it extensively last year and it was very enjoyable. Apparently the most outdated part is the creativity in its world building, that doesn't seem to be part of Bethesda's formula anymore.

Good initiative, but the task is impossible.

Hualien's Dongdamen night market has many of its signs written in three indigenous languages.

Tässä tarinassa molemmat osapuolet voisivat näin akateemisesti sanottuna haistaa paska.

Yes.

Hot take: if your city is not walkable, it's not a city.

Mielikuvituksen puute on ollut kauan Suomen KV-ajattelun heikkous. Tämä pakkomielle "länsimaista/transatlanttista" kompleksia kohtaan on vissiin vaan pahentanut tätä ongelmaa.

Regarding Davos: Rutte's angle to the Greenland schism is a bit disturbing, and unreasonably submissive considering his role. Stubb's is consistent. Both are upholding the delusion Carney discussed. At some point we can't afford to pretend anymore, but apparently that time has yet to arrive.

Real life advice this one.

Chinese diplomatic approach has long been harmful for its soft power agenda, a phenomenon admitted by certain Chinese scholar(s) too as I remember. As always, foreign policy merely mirrors domestic politics.

oh shit it's Tangut

I agree. I think part of this delusion stems from pop-IR analysis and its overuse of geographical (e.g. supposed "geopolitical") theories, rather than understanding that the fundamental reasons for the war are within Russia. And no, we can't fix her.

Hyvin lohdullisesti selitetty tuo, että vastavalmistuneet eivät löydä töitä. Aina positiivinen merkki.

Wild how the country with the largest foreign affairs toolkit and power projection arsenal in the world could do so many things, and yet seems insistent on doing this thing in particular.

Of course, treaties are as reliable as the states that sign them. How are we to know what, according to Americans, counts as Russian aggression in the future? Or are the inevitable violations going to be obscured with propaganda and "who knows what happened"-narratives?

The third point in the plan is also rather strange: "It is expected that Russia will not invade neighbouring countries [...]" And if they do invade? Obviously this isn't presented in a particularly convincing way, so why mention it at all?

Regarding point 11 in this mafia-esque extortion - What the hell is this? It's not up to Americans and Russians to decide weather Ukraine is or isn't eligible for the EU membership. Neither is anything else EU-related.

It seems rather clear that the so-called peace plan was written for the sole purpose of being rejected.

Important topic. Though I'd like to emphasize that despite the standardization efforts for the Latin-based orthography, there's a variety of "unofficial" writing methods for these languages being used. I've even heard of someone still using Kanji. I think it's great, even if a bit impractical.

YouTube video by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies | Harvard University Critical Issues Confronting China Series (中國大問題) | Jeffrey Wasserstrom (華志堅) — October 1, 2025

Pretty good lecture by Jeffrey Wasserstrom on current developments in Hong Kong - "Hong Kong 2025: Competing Visions of a City’s Past, Present, and Future"
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Maybe, but at least it makes you an ally of the Finns.❤️

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Rough.

Dear god is this a mod or is it just how they look like in the remaster?

Wecembi, metembi - Jotain mantšujen šamanismista Pari sanaa mantšujen šamanismiperinteistä, koska miksipä ei.

Muutama sananen mantšujen šamanismiperinteistä.

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