They’re just referring to the martial law and white terror period that existed on the island for almost 4 decades. But it’s been almost as long since than it lasted.
It’s a pretty important period for Taiwan, but interestingly enough this shows that the people of Taiwan today are less inclined to maintain that stance despite that history.
However I wager that’s likely due to a rejection of association with the PRC than an identification with being Taiwanese alone.
He’s resting like he’s paid rent.
What happens when they get waterlogged from rain, mouldy and warped?
Much of the timber is transported and sat in water to begin with. The weathering could cause warping and mold, etc, but a great deal of the timber industry at this time in this area was harvesting and processing old growth trees that were so compact that warping was minimal and any mold could just be wiped off. These planks were also not sitting in these stacks for long.
Did they ever have issues with termites?
Yes and no. Termites were there but not a consistent issue for making and shipping planks. Their habitats are destroyed in the sawmill process and these stacks were moving out and shipped out rapidly for termites to meaningfully colonize. It was easier to ignore and discard termite damaged wood as it was processed than anything.
What is the black abyss below him, is he on a stack of wood that is casting a shadow or has the ground texture.png not loaded in correctly?
I am willing to bet: dock and/or barge. So water, but its 1937 so lighting is not everywhere.
Being the early 1900’s, did workers smoking while stacking wood regularly cause fires?
Not really. It’s all so wet for a cigarette to cause a fire.
Now the sawmill had fuels that were flammable, but this isn’t like mattress foam warehousing. This is solid, fresh wood that isn’t going to ignite from a cigarette.
It seems inescapable that any mention of Piefed moderation provokes discussion of Lemmy politics. It was a pretty neutral portrayal of the threadiverse options and this kind of reinforces that assessment, quite frankly.
The 0.01 holds 1.77 trillion so the distribution is skewed. Furthermore there are likely many thousands of accounts in the ‘small’ amounts of tens of thousands, ostensibly for every member of an extended family in things like trust funds, etc.
That was Trump’s go-to his first term. Why not the second? These ghouls are lasting longer than ever.
It includes all land between the Euphrates and the Nile. Portions of Egypt and Saudi also in the crosshairs.
It’s a still frame from a video.
It was a neat Warcraft 3 custom map.
Then it got weird.
Best bang for their buck placating a large and influential political body.
They’re trying to save ICE for use during a Democratic administration. This is how Senate Democrats are calculating their politics. They’re approaching this from the angle that the current admin is ruining ICE.
Like, they fundamentally support Iran war and regime change, and only oppose that this guy is doing it so badly.
Uhm, it all comes back to the EO, which sums it up better than I could.
Places in Africa are finding out about this the hard way right now.
For the most part what’s happened is that China is not longer funding new and more Africa infrastructure. A lot of this is due to the infrastructure having now been built, and the economic benefits from said infrastructure being used to pay the loans back. As intended.
I also question if powering all of Cuba is really something even they could do in a span of weeks.
They utilize I think 20% solar currently, but the problem is also storage for nighttime power consumption. Even if they could generate 100% during the day they also need the infrastructure to store or generate for nighttime.
Septic people have fun with it where they can.
American English with a specialty in the dialect of American Regulatory Legalese.
Spanish, Arabic, and Irish I used to be able to read and write, but was always terrible at understanding any of them spoken.
I learned bits of German by proxy from having friends stationed at Heidelberg.
Neat! I am glad to have helped connect some dots! Your description fired some neurons and I had to think back to a Halloween party in maybe 1993 or so.
Shot in the dark here: “The Willies”. It’s kids telling horror stories and there’s one story about a bully killing monster “Bad Apples” is the story.
Really young Sean Astin.
Edit: found a trailer, excuse the youtube.
Out of curiosity, was the monster humanoid and it dragged a teacher into the ceiling?
The harbor/bay at the north of that circle is Aberdeen and Hoquiam. It used to be a larger city and a major port, but with Seattle’s development, the railroads from the east terminating at Puget Sound, and the boom of WW2 making the region a military base, it became overshadowed and neglected for the last 100 years.