He actually did, he just didn’t wait to hear back that it was a terrible idea.

Good background, thanks. Ya, catch 22 is a good way to put it… It makes it tough for other countries to recognize both PRC and ROC without offending PRC.

Triumphal arches go back to at least the Romans, so the one in Paris is nothing close to the original. It’s a copy, as well.

archive.is seems to be down right now.

The People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China are two different governments that both claim sovereignty over mainland China and Taiwan.

They both want to unite China, but only one of them is in the position to do it.

Internal to Taiwan, there are parties that support reunification and support independence (opposing views), but Taiwan has not yet reneged on its claim of mainland China.

It’s not a neighbouring country, it’s the same country. Ask Taiwan.

Sparkling special military operation.

You should be looking at the dictionary, not Wikipedia for the definition of war.

Anyway, it’s not like Trump obeys laws anyway, so what Congress authorizes or not will probably not even come into play.

War is determined by actions, not by Congress.

That being said, this isn’t war yet.

Occam’s razor.

Laws are made through a long process of consideration, debate, and revision. Govt institutions regulate and apply laws with extensive transparency and oversight. Its decentralised, cautious, and robust.

Congress has been ceding it’s power for a long time and it predates Trump by decades. Trump is just the first to take advantage of it in such a large scale.

Base 1 is the only universal counting system.

They are using base 1111 and base 1111111111. Instead of digits, you can represent numbers using rocks, if needed.

Or, more likely, Russia supports China’s annexation of Taiwan and China supports Russia’s annexation of Ukraine.

They passed the bill to release the files, stands to reason that the same people would vote for impeachment.

“Tensions”? Anything but war, i guess.

Not to discourage you, but Lemmy is pretty small compared to reddit. Developing a niche community at this point is pretty tough. It might be more productive to find a gaming community that you like and posting there instead.

Either way, good luck!

Any nation that wants to keep their sovereignty needs nukes. Agreements like the Budapest Memorandum were a mistake for some of the countries involved (Ukraine).

No wonder he has to check it twice.

Make pretzels.

Last time I played it, about ten years ago, I just ripped through it like it was nothing. I was about 30 then, so it’s not that impressive.

But I remember playing for the first time and throughout my entire childhood when you include the sequels. It was such a fun game. The Christmas we got it, my uncle got to Springyard zone on the first try (me and my brother could barely make it past Green Hill) and I remember being so excited to get as far as he did and then even farther.

Edit: Oh yeah, I think Star Light zone has the best music ever.