Foreign Minister Wu attributes skepticism of US defense commitments to sustained PRC PsyOps. His analysis lines up with the period shown in the TPOF polling. Wu doesn't have to be wrong for TPOF (and IORG) to be correct. PsyOps shape sentiment, sew FUD, move opinion by ºs

McCarthy is quite dim or lying.

How much energy does the Sphere consume? How much did it need to be built?

An urgent need for school-based nutritional interventions to address adolescent obesity in Taiwan "...In 2020-2021, the rates of overweight and obesity were 29.9% for junior high school students and 27.7% for senior high school students...." wordpress.com/read/blogs/582…

Ke rehashes the same strategy which got him into the mayor's office. He panders to all sides, speaks in generalities about policy, and offers nothing innovative or inciteful in his analysis. He does not question any fundamentals, only re-casts the problems with him at the center.

Both surreal in its contemporaneousness and boringly depressing in its normalcy. What kind of world are we building?

They should have turned it into an arboretum. That would have been a fitting compromise for such a troubled and controversial project.

Maybe sterilize the people and leave the monkeys alone.

I disagree, quite thoroughly. This seems to place the origins of the current culture war over higher education at the hands of universities embracing a particular framework, when in fact what we are seeing is a symptom of a materialist and social shift. A thread: /1

Analysis of UK graduate wage stagnation and UK economic health, and revealing comparisons with US and EU. Sub-thread on comparative student debt loads.

Hee hee!!!

In response or maybe addition to this article from the BBC on the use of Taiwanese Mazu temples as tools to promote political annexation through cross strait exchange programs I’d like to offer another view. bbc.com/news/world-asi… 1/ 🧵

China deviates from a published flight plan and sends a rocket over Taiwan, and the Taiwan military detects the launch and sends out an alert message, and the KMT says it was a DPP stunt.

Vote counting procedure in Taiwan. I can't think of anything, a concept or procedure, whose operation and effectiveness do not fundamentally pivot on 'trust' –– trust that it will be done, trust by others to accept and support it, trust that it is done in good faith. Folks back

Imagine re-vamped urban spaces - Organized around pedestrian-only areas and parks - Connected by sidewalks and segregated bicycle lanes - Offering short-term on-street parking - Regulated by congestion-pricing schemes - Serviced by 'clean' vehicles for last-mile delivery

Drones hunt them one by one. As expected and predictable as the application of the technology is, it is still frightening and sobering to watch—fifteen seconds from the point of acquisition to death.

This Interview cuts through the BS and doggedly traps the govt spokesman in his own logical contradictions. Of course the govt knows how many people have died, but the chickenshit leadership cannot admit they do not care.

Sorry, but democracies do not work solely around such a calculus. They function, thrive, and grow in a culture strictly respectful of a process ensuring all voices are heard and considered. The KMT and allies work to undermine TW democratic self-rule, not strengthen it. Why is

Gotta say it's pretty encouraging that 40% of last year's total global growth of energy demand was provided by renewables (+nuclear) : 4.91 EJ out of 12.3 EJ total. And that's including the drag from hydro.