Those are steep prices for a pi and a domain

I think she was one of the few people to be exempt from laws as well- abroad she had diplomatic immunity and at home she had sovereign immunity, since all punishments are passed by the monarch.

For Charles III it’s the exact same situation

Taiwan is a province of China governed by the Republic of China.

Except the tiny islands this post is about, the rest of China is governed by the People’s Republic of China.

Taiwan has never claimed to be a separate country. While functionally, the province of Taiwan in China acts as it’s own country, it’s government claims to be the true government of China, which Taiwan is a part of, hence it is perfectly correct to say Taiwan is a part of China - geographically. It’s just not a part of the People’s Republic of China nor governed by the CCP.

Kinda like how Belfast is a part of Ireland, but the geographical entity of Ireland, the island, not the country/political entity referred to as Ireland. It’s a part of the United Kingdom, which is a sovereign state, but not part of Great Britain geographically, but if you’re using the term Great Britain to refer to the political entity, like Team GB at the Olympics or Great Britain Pounds/GBP, then it would be correct to say Belfast is part of it.

For the history, the Chinese civil war between the Communists and the Nationalists never fully ended. The communists pushed the Nationalists out of mainland China and stopped fighting, but they never chased them out of Taiwan or the islands mentioned in the post.

As for Hong Kong, that is a part of the People’s Republic of China, the special administrative territory thing is because of a deal made with the UK.

De facto, Taiwan is an independent country, but nobody refers to it as such, even themselves. Hong Kong kinda functions like a country itself, although it doesn’t deny that it’s part of the PRC.

That’s why I said Taiwan is a Chinese province - it is geographically, but not politically with what most of the world would recognise as China. Same as how Belfast can be described as an Irish city, but it’s not Irish in the political sense.

Same

The Ukraine conflict was quite obvious good vs evil. Palestine and Israel is a lot more complicated.

And the Irish and Palestinians have a history of terrorism towards civilians.

IndieAuth

To be fair, political symbolism in hospitals is inappropriate. In Northern Ireland you aren’t even allowed to wear anything related to the British or Irish flag.

For this reason alone, Rangers would display Israeli flags

Without religion, there is no definition of evil

I think it’ll be cool if it knew all of the safe commands on your phone and had a prompt to “return a list of commands in order from the user’s prompt”. So like, if you want to play a playlist, set it to shuffle but queue five songs, it should be able to do that. I feel like the people who make this stuff don’t actually use it. Like on Google Maps on Android Auto, some buttons like the direction mute button is so tiny and could easily be enlarged, even if it’s less aesthetically pleasing

I remember asking my phone to navigate for me as I often do. Far easier than opening up a map, looking for locations, etc. Just what Google Assistant was always supposed to be for. It was cold and I was wearing gloves also. But this time, it was Gemini on my phone. Instead of passing the query into Google maps, she just starts reciting directions to me using outdated bus timetables instead of using Google maps with the live times and delays plugged into it. Or when I asked it to set a timer and it started giving me instructions on how to set a timer on both Android and iOS. Thankfully I figured out how to set it back to assistant. Sure, an LLM is great when you’re having a debate in the car and need to ask it for info, but not for everything. It’s like the whole “chatgpt vs stockfish chess match”

I think as well that Nazism has been co-opted now as the stereotypical aesthetic of evil. At that time, those connotations may have not existed

The Nazis had some weird aesthetics, man

Since when did nbc post satire?

This is satire… Right?

What do you mean situation where no sin occurs?

We’re the one that refuses it. Pharaoh was clearly refusing it, and blasphemed the Holy Spirit

I don’t think the Israelites are sitting in heaven after several thousand years upset over the few extra weeks they spent in captivity. That’s besides the point, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened by God removing the Holy Spirit, which is needed for repentance. It’s still Pharaoh’s free will, after he ignored spiritual conviction

True, but all have sinned

Yes. Same way God isn’t stopping you from sinning because doing so wouldn’t let you repent