Is your friend a Cold-War era Romanian dictator?

Between that and how poor the search function is. “IT Support” shouldn’t be bringing up car mechanic jobs…

Yup. Between all the time checking for legitimacy and evaluating the company, it’s a huge pain in the ass to look for jobs all day…and even when you find one you enter the same information over and over because autofill from resume doesn’t work…

My parents discussed getting divorced if it would help with my eligibility for loans/assistance. We ultimately determined it wouldn’t be a net gain in enough ways to justify the negatives, but it is still fucked they seriously considered it as a viable option.

Never forget the way the human brain works, with the more common interpretation being: “it takes 7 instances of positive things to outweigh 1 negative.”

For my part I haven’t really noticed any difference, but I only infrequently comment!

Taiwan continues to keep the name because it mustn’t give China a cassus belli to invade. Essentially, by keeping their name, they show their support for a “one china policy” and keep the door open to peaceful reunification. If Taiwan decided to formally be a separate thing, the PRC would no longer be able to “peacefully reunify with a rebellious province,” and would be much likelier to invade.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-passport-idUSKBN25T0JA/

(I don’t care for Reuters, but the facts are easily verifiable elsewhere)

The PRC got pissy when Taiwan changed its passports to read “TAIWAN” in big letters and have “Republic of China” in small letters. What purpose would they have in being mad about a name change on a foreign nation’s passport (particularly as it de-emphasizes the “China” bit)?

Furthermore, if you look into history, Taiwan got rid of its claims to “all of China” decades ago

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2002/09/10/167505

…doesn’t China have a “no first strike” rule for their nuclear weapons? :P

As for not bullying China…maybe they should stop trying to bully their neighbors before asking to not be bullied lol

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Just a damned good show all around that showed younger me a lot of what makes compelling stories work.

Star Wars: Empire at War

Imagine what that game with stable multi-player and updated graphics could do with mods, especially after seeing stuff like Thrawn’s Revenge